Calgary West

For the provincial riding, see Calgary-West.

Calgary West was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1953, and from 1979 to 2015. It was in the western part of the City of Calgary.

Calgary West

Alberta electoral district
Calgary Centre East Centre North Northeast Southeast Southwest West Nose Hill Calgary West in relation to the other Calgary ridings
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1979
District abolished	2013
First contested	1979
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	149,593
Electors (2011)	101,673
Area (km²)	89.06
Census division(s)	Division No. 6
Census subdivision(s)	Calgary

The electoral district was originally created in 1914 from Calgary riding. It was abolished in 1952 with parts being transferred to Calgary North, Calgary South, Bow River and Red Deer ridings. It was re-created in 1976 from Calgary North, Calgary South, Calgary Centre, and Palliser ridings. It was abolished during the 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution into Calgary Signal Hill (58%), Calgary Rocky Ridge (25%), and Calgary Confederation (17%).

From 1993 to 1997, Calgary West was represented by Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. Harper represented the nearby riding of Calgary Southwest as leader of the Opposition (from 2002) and prime minister (from 2006).

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Calgary West Riding created from Calgary
13th	1917–1921		Thomas Tweedie	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		Joseph Tweed Shaw	Independent Labour
15th	1925–1926		R.B. Bennett	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1939
	1939–1940	Douglas Cunnington
19th	1940–1945		Manley Justin Edwards	Liberal
20th	1945–1949		Arthur LeRoy Smith	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1951
	1951–1953		Carl Nickle
Riding dissolved into Calgary North, Calgary South, Bow River and Red Deer
Riding re-created from Calgary North, Calgary South, Calgary Centre, and Palliser
31st	1979–1980		Jim Hawkes	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997		Stephen Harper	Reform
36th	1997–2000		Rob Anders
	2000–2000			Alliance
37th	2000–2003
	2003–2004			Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
Riding dissolved into Calgary Signal Hill, Calgary Rocky Ridge and Calgary Confederation

Election results

1979–2015

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rob Anders	39,996	62.20	+4.84	$83,426
	Liberal	Janice Kinch	11,379	17.68	-4.22	$33,609
	New Democratic	Shawna Knowles	6,666	10.36	+4.01
	Green	Anna Wagner	6,068	9.43	-1.72	$15,556
	Marxist–Leninist	André Vachon	233	0.36	+0.11
Total valid votes/Expense limit			64,346	100.00	–	$102,535
Total rejected ballots			338	0.52	+0.15
Turnout			64,684	63.01	+2.05
Eligible voters			102,657	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rob Anders	34,579	57.36	-1.35	$73,112
	Liberal	Jennifer Pollock	13,204	21.90	-0.22	$38,919
	Green	Randall Weeks	6,722	11.15	+0.88	$7,103
	New Democratic	Teale Phelps Bondaroff	3,832	6.35	-1.94	$7,402
	Independent	Kirk Schmidt	1,790	2.96	–	$15,857
	Marxist–Leninist	André Vachon	155	0.25	+0.06
Total valid votes/Expense limit			60,282	100.00	$96,909
Total rejected ballots			221	0.37	+0.08
Turnout			60,503	60.96	-8.98
	Conservative hold		Swing		-0.6

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rob Anders	38,020	58.71	+2.81	$47,434
	Liberal	Jennifer Pollock	14,328	22.12	-7.15	$61,930
	Green	Danielle Roberts	6,653	10.27	+2.65	$200
	New Democratic	Teale Phelps Bondaroff	5,370	8.29	+1.81	$2,960
	Canadian Action	Tim Cayzer	265	0.41	-0.15	$2,356
	Marxist–Leninist	André Vachon	125	0.19	+0.04	$16
Total valid votes			64,761	100.00
Total rejected ballots			191	0.29	-0.04
Turnout			64,952	69.94	+2.42

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rob Anders	31,322	55.90	-19.71	$66,962
	Liberal	Justin Thompson	16,402	29.27	+11.12	$37,297
	Green	Danielle Roberts	4,274	7.63	+5.24	$593
	New Democratic	Tim Patterson	3,632	6.48	+2.68	$2,317
	Canadian Action	James S. Kohut	315	0.56	–	$551
	Marxist–Leninist	André Vachon	87	0.16	–	$46
Total valid votes			56,032	100.00
Total rejected ballots			184	0.33	+0.13
Turnout			56,216	67.52	+5.65

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Rob Anders	33,222	54.04	+2.25	$54,150
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	13,259	21.57	+4.15	$26,369
	Liberal	Frank Bruseker	11,181	18.18	-7.05	$15,745
	New Democratic	Greg Klassen	2,350	3.82	+0.04	$1,540
	Green	Evan Osenton	1,456	2.36	+1.09	$1,069
Total valid votes			61,468	100.00
Total rejected ballots			122	0.20	-0.04
Turnout			61,590	61.87	-3.00

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Rob Anders	24,878	51.79	-0.32	$55,330
	Liberal	Dave Bronconnier	15,277	25.23	-1.44	$65,590
	Progressive Conservative	Sergei Scurfield	9,594	17.42	+1.70	$43,365
	New Democratic	Michael Kozakavich	2,105	3.78	+1.75	$1,506
	Green	Jack Locke	557	1.27	+0.68	$1,210
	Natural Law	Frank Haika	293	0.47	-0.37	$1,149
Total valid votes			52,704	100.00
Total rejected ballots			128	0.24
Turnout			52,832	64.87

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Stephen Harper	30,139	52.11	+35.53
	Liberal	Karen Gainer	15,423	26.67	+14.10
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Hawkes	9,090	15.72	-42.80
	New Democratic	Rudy Rogers	1,175	2.03	-9.58
	National	Kathleen McNeil	1,067	1.84
	Natural Law	Frank Haika	483	0.84
	Green	Don Francis	343	0.59
	Christian Heritage	Larry Heather	116	0.20
Total valid votes			57,836	100.00

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Hawkes	32,025	58.52	-16.19
	Reform	Steve Harper	9,074	16.58
	Liberal	John Phillips	6,880	12.57	+1.14
	New Democratic	Richard D. Vanderberg	6,355	11.61	+0.86
	Libertarian	David Faren	225	0.41	-0.05
	Confederation of Regions	Brent Morin	170	0.31	-0.73
Total valid votes			54,729	100.00

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Hawkes	37,565	74.70	+8.85
	Liberal	Bill Code	5,749	11.43	-11.65
	New Democratic	Ed Smith	5,409	10.76	+3.08
	Green	Martin--John McDonald	605	1.20
	Confederation of Regions	Cliff Ginn	523	1.04
	Libertarian	Frank Ceri	233	0.46
	Social Credit	Doug Williams	201	0.40	-0.33
Total valid votes			50,285	100.00

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Hawkes	26,639	65.85	+0.47
	Liberal	Jerry Arshinoff	9,339	23.09	-1.63
	New Democratic	Bob Ritchie	3,107	7.68	-0.80
	Rhinoceros	Anthony G. Petti	1,027	2.54
	Social Credit	Ada Major	294	0.73	-0.45
	Marxist–Leninist	John Musgrave	45	0.11
Total valid votes			40,451	100.00

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Hawkes	28,474	65.39
	Liberal	Doug Lauchlan	10,762	24.71
	New Democratic	Jack Peters	3,694	8.48
	Social Credit	Dennis Shupe	512	1.18
	Communist	Joan Jenkins	104
Total valid votes			43,546	100.00

1951 by-election

Canadian federal by-election, 10 December 1951
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
On Mr. Smith's resignation, 5 July 1951
	Progressive Conservative	Carl Olof Nickle	10,686	47.29	+4.63
	Liberal	Frank Gordon Buchanan	6,424	28.43	-3.66
	Social Credit	Arthur Dixon	5,489	24.29	-0.97
Total valid votes			22,599	100.00

1917–1949

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arthur LeRoy Smith	11,457	42.65	+4.21
	Liberal	Charles Curtice Matthews	8,619	32.09	+10.38
	Social Credit	Arthur J. Dixon	6,785	25.26	+4.61
Total valid votes			26,861	100.00

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arthur LeRoy Smith	8,872	38.44	+1.57
	Liberal	Charles Curtice Matthews	5,011	21.71	-13.12
	Social Credit	Andrew Henry Jukes	4,766	20.65	-0.36
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ken Simpson Tory	3,641	15.77	+8.48
	Labor–Progressive	Duncan Archibald Mackenzie	791	3.43
Total valid votes			23,081	100.00

Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election. Social Credit vote is compared to New Democracy vote in 1940 election.

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Manley Justin Edwards	7,299	36.87	+25.17
	National Government	Douglas Cunnington	6,896	34.83	-15.52
	New Democracy	Rose Wilkinson	4,159	21.01	-10.93
	Co-operative Commonwealth	J. Albert Johnson	1,444	7.29	+3.53
Total valid votes			19,798	100.00

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election. New Democracy vote is compared to Social Credit vote in 1935 election.

By-election on 18 September 1939 On Richard Bennett's resignation, 28 January 1939
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Douglas Cunnington	acclaimed

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Bennett	9,172	50.35	-19.87
	Social Credit	Robert Lincoln Reid	5,817	31.93
	Liberal	Peter Laurence Hyde	2,130	11.69	-18.08
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Henry Magee Horricks	686	3.77
	Reconstruction	Charles Thomas Galbraith	411	2.26
Total valid votes			18,216	100.00

Canadian federal by-election, 25 August 1930
Party	Candidate	Votes
On acceptance by the Hon. Richard Bennett of an office of emolument under the Crown, 7 July 1930
	Conservative	Richard Bennett	acclaimed

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Bennett	13,883	70.22	+12.30
	Liberal	Colin Campbell McLaurin	5,887	29.78	-12.30
Total valid votes			19,770	100.00

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Bennett	8,951	57.92	-5.01
	Liberal	Harry William Lunney	6,502	42.08
Total valid votes			15,453	100.00

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Bennett	10,256	62.94	+17.19
	Labour	Joseph Tweed Shaw	6,040	37.06	-8.78
Total valid votes			16,296	100.00

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Tweed Shaw	7,369	45.85
	Conservative	Richard Bennett	7,353	45.75	-27.49
	Liberal	Edward Faustinus Ryan	1,351	8.41	-18.36
Total valid votes			16,073	100.00

Note: Conservative vote is compared to Unionist vote in 1917 election.

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Government (Unionist)	Thomas Tweedie	10,986	73.24
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	John Alfred Irvine	4,015	26.76
Total valid votes			15,001	100.00

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References

• "Calgary West (Code 48009) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 6 March 2011.

External links

• Riding history for Calgary West (1914–1952) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for Calgary West (1976–present) from the Library of Parliament
• Expenditures – 2008
• Expenditures – 2004
• Expenditures – 2000
• Expenditures – 1997
• Elections Canada