Airdrie-Cochrane
Airdrie-Cochrane is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Airdrie-Cochrane within the Calgary Metropolitan Region (2017 boundaries). | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Last contested | 2023 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 51,170 | ||
| Area (km²) | 754 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 67.9 | ||
| Census division(s) | 6 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Airdrie, Cochrane | ||
Geography
The district is located northwest of Calgary, containing the City of Cochrane, the part of Airdrie west of 8 St SW and south of 1 Ave NW, and the rural area lying between the two communities. It borders Calgary's northern edge between the Bow River and Highway 2.
History
| Members for Airdrie-Cochrane | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Airdrie 2012-2019 and Banff-Cochrane 1979-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Peter Guthrie | United Conservative | |
| 31st | 2023– | |||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing the three districts of Airdrie, Banff-Cochrane and Chestermere-Rocky View, completely reorganizing the ridings surrounding Calgary to reflect the rapid growth in the area, and creating Airdrie-Cochrane from parts of each.[2] In 2017, the Airdrie-Cochrane electoral district had a population of 51,170, which was 9 per cent above the provincial average of 46,803 for a provincial electoral district.[3]
In the 2019 Alberta general election, United Conservative Party candidate Peter Guthrie was elected with 66 per cent of the vote, defeating New Democratic Party candidate Steve Durrell with 25 per cent of the vote, and three other candidates.[4]
Electoral results
2023 general election
| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Peter Guthrie | 18,074 | 60.10 | -5.89 | ||||
| New Democratic | Shaun Fluker | 11,223 | 37.32 | +12.08 | ||||
| Green | Michelle Overwater Giles | 393 | 1.31 | – | ||||
| Solidarity Movement | Michael Andrusco | 199 | 0.66 | – | ||||
| Wildrose Loyalty Coalition | Ron Voss | 183 | 0.61 | – | ||||
| Total | 30,072 | 99.30 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 213 | 0.70 | ||||||
| Turnout | 30,285 | 66.37 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 45,633 | |||||||
| United Conservative hold | Swing | -8.98 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[5] | ||||||||
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| United Conservative | Peter Guthrie | 18,777 | 65.99% | -1.70% | $57,030 | |||
| New Democratic | Steve Durrell | 7,183 | 25.24% | -4.34% | $12,497 | |||
| Alberta Party | Vern Raincock | 1,818 | 6.39% | – | $785 | |||
| Alberta Independence | Danielle Cameron | 345 | 1.21% | – | $1,640 | |||
| Freedom Conservative | Matthew Joseph Morrisey | 331 | 1.16% | – | $2,025 | |||
| Total | 28,454 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 87 | 62 | 13 | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 38,568 | 74.04% | – | |||||
| United Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta [6][7][8] Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000. | ||||||||
2015 general election
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildrose | 7,044 | 36.54% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 6,006 | 31.15% | ||
| New Democratic | 5,703 | 29.58% | ||
| Others | 527 | 2.73% | ||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- Alberta. Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-1-988620-04-6. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 4, 2021. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
- Alberta. Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-988620-04-6. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 4, 2021. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
- Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 184–191. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- "47 - Airdrie-Cochrane". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
- "47 - Airdrie-Cochrane, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 184–191. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume III Election Finances (PDF) (Report). Vol. 3. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 68–82. ISBN 978-1-988620-13-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.