Calgary-Hawkwood
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 2010 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
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| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
Calgary-Hawkwood is a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system.
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from parts of Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-North West and a small portion of Calgary-Varsity
Boundary history
| 15 Calgary-Hawkwood 2010 Boundaries | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Foothills | Calgary-Varsity | Calgary-North West | Calgary-Bow |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
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Electoral history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Hawkwood | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Bow 1971-2012, Calgary-Foothills 1971-2012, Calgary-North West 1986-2012 and Calgary-Varsity 1993-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Jason Luan | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–present | Michael Connolly | New Democratic | |
The antecedent electoral districts that comprise Calgary-Hawkwood have been returning mainly Progressive Conservative and the occasional Liberal candidates to office since the 1970s. Varsity has returned a Liberal candidate since 2004 and North West returned a Liberal candidate from 1989 to 1997.
Legislature results
2012 general election
| Alberta general election, 2012 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jason Luan | 9,097 | 47.10 | |||||
| Wildrose | David Yager | 7,030 | 36.40 | |||||
| Liberal | Maria Davis | 1,632 | 8.45 | |||||
| New Democratic | Collin Anderson | 911 | 4.72 | |||||
| Alberta Party | Kevin Woron | 242 | 1.25 | |||||
| Evergreen | Janet Keeping | 199 | 1.03 | |||||
| Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 103 | 0.53 | |||||
| Independent | Ed Torrance | 99 | 0.51 | |||||
2015 general election
| Alberta general election, 2015 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| New Democratic | Michael Connolly | 7,441 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jason Luan | 6,373 | ||||||
| Wildrose | Jae Shim | 4,450 | ||||||
| Alberta Party | Beth Barberree | 931 | ||||||
| Liberal | Harbaksh Sekhon | 736 | ||||||
| Green | Polly Knowlton Cockett | 456 | ||||||
| Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 89 | ||||||
Student vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jason Luan | 186 | 43.36% | |
| Wildrose | David Yager | 129 | 30.00% | |
| Liberal | Maria Davis | 53 | 12.44% | |
| Alberta Party | Kevin Woron | 16 | 3.72% | |
| NDP | Collin Anderson | 15 | 3.49% | |
| Independent | Ed Torrance | 9 | 2.09% | |
| Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 3 | 0.70% | |
| Total | 430 | 100% | ||