Calgary-Cross

Calgary-Cross

Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Ricardo Miranda New Democratic
District created	1993
First contested	1993
Last contested	2015

Calgary-Cross is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. The district in its present boundaries covers the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn, Temple, Pineridge and Rundle in northeast Calgary.

The district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose. Electorally the riding has been a Progressive Conservative stronghold and has been represented since its creation by former Calgary Alderman Yvonne Fritz who has held a number of cabinet portfolios in the Alberta government.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the electoral districts of Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose.

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw all land east of 68 Street NE distributed to the new Calgary-Greenway electoral district. The west boundary was moved to Deerfoot Trail claiming land that used to be in McCall, Calgary-East and Calgary-North Hill.

Boundary history

4 Calgary-Cross 2003 Boundaries[1]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-McCall	Airdrie-Chestermere	Calgary-East and Calgary-McCall	Calgary-Montrose
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of 36 Street NE with McKnight Boulevard NE; then 1. east along McKnight Boulevard NE to the east Calgary city boundary (84 Street NE); 2. south along the city boundary to the easterly extension of 32 Avenue NE; 3. west along the extension and 32 Avenue NE to the northerly extension of the east boundary of Block 10, Plan 8411285 (Monterey Park Estates); 4. generally south, west and north along the block boundary and its northerly extension to 32 Avenue NE; 5. west along 32 Avenue NE to 68 Street NE; 6. south along 68 Street NE to 16 Avenue NE; 7. west along 16 Avenue NE to 52 Street NE; 8. north along 52 Street NE to 32 Avenue NE; 9. west along 32 Avenue NE to 36 Street NE; 10. north along 36 Street NE to the starting point.
Note:

6 Calgary-Cross 2010 Boundaries[2]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill and Calgary-McCall	Calgary-Greenway	Calgary-Klein and Calgary-Mountain View	Calgary-East
Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Cross[3]
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Calgary-McCall 1971-1993 and Calgary-Montrose 1986-1993
23rd	1993-1997		Yvonne Fritz	Progressive Conservative
24th	1997-2001
25th	2001-2004
26th	2004-2008
27th	2008–2012
28th	2012–2015
29th	2015–present		Ricardo Miranda	New Democratic

Calgary-Cross was created from the electoral districts of Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose in the 1993 boundary redistribution. Currently, the constituency is represented by Ricardo Miranda. The first representative was Progressive Conservative member Yvonne Fritz. Prior to representing Montrose she served as an Alderman for the city of Calgary representing the Ward 5 electoral district.

The 1993 election saw Fritz win with a large majority of votes. She sought a second term in 1997 and while her popularity declined she still won very easily over Liberal Keith Jones.

Jones and Fritz would face each other again in the 2001 general election. She would go on to win the district with the largest majority of her career while Jones saw his popular vote collapse. Fritz would win a fourth term in the 2004 general election, seeing almost half her vote disappear.

Fritz became a cabinet minister for the first time in 2004. She won re-election again in 2008.

Legislature results

1993 general election

1993 Alberta general election results[4]			Turnout 50.73%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	6,449	59.78%
	Liberal	Keith Hart	3,567	33.06%	*
	New Democratic	Vinay Dey	686	6.36%
	Natural Law	Neeraj Varma	86	0.80%	*
Total			10,788
Rejected, spoiled and declined			40
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,346	%

1997 general election

1997 Alberta general election results[5]			Turnout 40.88%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	5,964	67.11%	7.33%
	Liberal	Keith Jones	2,456	27.64%	-5.42%
	Social Credit	Maurizio Terrigno	467	5.25%
Total			8,887
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			30
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,811	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		6.38%

2001 general election

2001 Alberta general election results[6]			Turnout 41.87%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	6,816	74.96%	7.85%
	Liberal	Keith Jones	1,836	20.19%	-7.45%
	New Democratic	Ramiro Mora	441	4.85%
Total			9,093
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			85
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,920	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		7.65%

2004 general election

2004 Alberta general election results[7]			Turnout 29.93%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	3,770	57.71%	-17.25%
	Liberal	Raleigh Dehaney	1,453	22.24%	2.05%
	Alberta Alliance	Gordon Huth	646	9.89%
	New Democratic	Jeanie Keebler	393	6.02%	1.17%
	Green	Ryan Richardson	271	4.14%	*
Total			6,533
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			49
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,993	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-9.65%

2008 general election

2008 Alberta general election results[8]			Turnout 25.57%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	4,004	56.82%	-0.89%
	Liberal	Ron Reinhold	1,567	22.24%	0.00%
	Wildrose Alliance	Gordon Huth	605	8.59%	-1.30%
	New Democratic	Shelina Hassanali	476	6.75%	0.73%
	Green	Susan Stratton	395	5.60%	1.46%	*
Total			7,047
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			34
Eligible electors / Turnout			27,688	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-0.45%

2012 general election

Alberta general election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	4,950	44.50%
	Wildrose	Happy Mann	4,189	37.66%
	Liberal	Narita Sherman	1,155	10.38%
	New Democratic	Reinaldo Conterras	586	5.27%
	Evergreen	Susan Stratton	244	2.19%

2015 general election

Alberta general election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Ricardo Miranda	4,602	36.1%	+30.8%	$6,134
	Progressive Conservative	Rick Hanson	4,502	35.4%	-9.1%	$87,461
	Wildrose	Moiz Mahmood	2,062	16.2%	-21.5%	$11,536
	Liberal	Manjot Gill	1,191	9.4%	-1.0%	$17,458
	Green	Peter Meic	234	1.8%	-0.4%	$519
	Independent	Katherine Le Rougetel	143	1.1%	-	$831
Total valid votes

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Cross[9]					Turnout 29.62%
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	% Votes	% Ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	3,088	16.47%	52.86%	1
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	2,530	13.50%	43.30%	2
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	2,379	12.69%	40.72%	5
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	1,834	9.78%	31.39%	6
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	1,826	9.74%	31.26%	3
	Independent	Link Byfield	1,649	8.80%	28.23%	4
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	1,427	7.61%	24.43%	8
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,405	7.49%	24.05%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,334	7.12%	22.84%	10
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	1,276	6.80%	21.84%	9
Total Votes			18,748	100%
Total Ballots			5,842	3.21 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			673
21,993 Eligible Electors

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

Student Vote results

2004 election

Participating Schools[10]
Lester B. Pearson High School
Pineridge Community School

On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta Student Vote results[11]
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Raleigh Dehaney	331	33.95%
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	272	27.90%
	New Democratic	Jeanie Keebler	238	24.41%
	Green	Ryan Richardson	81	8.31%
	Alberta Alliance	Gordon Huth	53	5.43%
Total			975	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			59

References

1. "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 7.
2. "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.
3. "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
4. "Calgary-Cross results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
5. "1997 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
6. "Calgary-Cross Official Results 2001 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
7. "Calgary-Cross Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
8. The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 182–185.
9. "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
10. "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
11. "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-19.

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta