Cardston-Siksika
 Alberta electoral district |
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Cardston-Siksika within Alberta (2017 boundaries).
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
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| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 42,655 | ||
| Area (km²) | 15,773 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2.7 | ||
| Census divisions | 2, 3, 5 | ||
Cardston-Siksika is a future provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district will be 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 will be contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
Geography
The district is located in southern Alberta, stretching from Namaka (east of Calgary) to the border with Montana. It contains all of Vulcan County, a portion of Lethbridge County, and all of Cardston County, as well as the Treaty 7 reserves of the Kainai and Siksika nations. Only one road connects the northern portion of the district with its southern portion, the Highway 509 bridge over the Old Man River west of Lethbridge.
History
| Members for Cardston-Siksika | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Little Bow 1913–2019 and Cardston- Taber-Warner 1997–2019 |
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| 30th | 2019– | To be determined | ||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended reducing the number of districts in southern Alberta due to relatively slow population growth.[2] The creation of this riding stirred some controversy, as incumbent MLA for Little Bow Dave Schneider expressed unwillingness to visit the two reserves it would include, saying "these people don't traditionally vote". Schneider later apologized for his "choice of words".[3]
Electoral results
2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
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| Wildrose | 5,440 | 39.55 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,538 | 32.99 | ||
| New Democratic | 3,231 | 23.49 | ||
| Others | 545 | 3.96 | ||
| Alberta general election, 2019 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| New Democratic | ||||||||
| United Conservative | Dave Schneider[4] | |||||||
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| Rejected, spoiled and declined | ||||||||
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References
- ↑ Statistics Canada: 2016
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