Calgary-Montrose

Calgary Montrose was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1986 to 2012.

Calgary Montrose

Alberta electoral district
2004 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1986
District abolished	2012
First contested	1986
Last contested	2008

History

This urban district located in central east Calgary was created in the 1986 boundary re-distribution from Calgary-McCall. The district elected Progressive Conservative candidates for its entire history.

The district has seen its share of controversial elections in recent years. The last representative was Manmeet Bhullar, who won his first term in office in a controversial race over Independent Ron Leech in the 2008 general election. The previous representative was Hung Pham, who served from 1993 to 2004.

The Calgary-Montrose electoral district would be dissolved in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution and would be re-distributed into the Calgary-East, Calgary-Greenway and Calgary-Cross electoral districts.[1]

Boundary history

17 Calgary-Montrose 2003 Boundaries[2]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-McCall	Airdrie-Chestermere	Calgary-East	Calgary-Fort
riding map goes here		map in relation to other districts in Alberta goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of 68 Street NE with 32 Avenue NE; then 1. east along 32 Avenue NE to the west boundary of Block 10, Plan 8411285 (Monterey Park Estates); 2. generally south, east and north along the block boundary to 32 Avenue NE; 3. east along 32 Avenue NE and its easterly extension to the east Calgary city boundary; 4. south along the east city boundary to 17 Avenue SE; 5. west along 17 Avenue SE to 52 Street SE; 6. north along 52 Street SE to 16 Avenue NE; 7. east along 16 Avenue NE to 68 Street NE; 8. north along 68 Street NE to the starting point.
Note:

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Montrose[3]
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See: Calgary-McCall 1971-1986
21st	1986–1989		Rick Orman	Progressive Conservative
22nd	1989–1993
23rd	1993–1997		Hung Pham
24th	1997–2001
25th	2001–2004
26th	2004–2008
27th	2008–2012		Manmeet Bhullar

Electoral history

The electoral district was created in the 1986 boundary redistribution. The first election held that year saw Progressive Conservative candidate Rick Orman win a comfortable majority to pick up the seat for his party. He was easily re-elected in the 1989 general election with a larger majority. Orman retired from the legislature at dissolution in 1993.

The 1993 election saw Progressive Conservative candidate Hung Pham win a sizable majority to hold the seat for his party. He was re-elected three more times winning in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 general elections. He retired from the legislature in 2008 after a bitter fall out with the Progressive Conservatives.

The 2008 election saw Progressive Conservative candidate Manmeet Bhullar win a hotly contested race over Independent Ron Leech. The pair had been in a disputed nomination race before the general election with the PC constituency association choosing Leech and the party hand-choosing Bhullar as the representative. Leech would petition the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench to overturn the results of the election with allegations that Bhullar and his supporters spurring ineligible voters to cast ballots, interfering with and influencing ballots cast, and violating the secrecy of the voting process.[4]

Election results

1986 general election

1986 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Rick Orman	4,395	59.73%	–
	New Democratic	Frank Gereau	2,035	27.66%	–
	Liberal	Roly Thomas	710	9.65%	–
	Representative	Adrian C. Janssens	218	2.96%	–
Total			7,358	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			12	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			19,816	37.19%	–
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989 general election

1989 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Rick Orman	5,044	54.62%	-5.11%
	New Democratic	Frank Gereau	2,585	27.99%	0.34%
	Liberal	Jamil Farhat	1,605	17.38%	7.73%
Total			9,234	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			23	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,545	42.97%	5.77%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-2.72%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1993 general election

1993 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Hung Pham	4,866	48.14%	-6.49%
	Liberal	Keong Yap	2,592	25.64%	8.26%
	New Democratic	Jean Munn	1,970	19.49%	-8.51%
	Independent	Blaine Desjardine	613	6.06%	–
	Natural Law	Chris Delucé	68	0.67%	–
Total			10,109	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			27	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			20,569	49.28%	6.31%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-2.07%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997 general election

1997 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Hung Pham	4,556	58.70%	10.56%
	Liberal	Diane Danielson	2,576	33.19%	7.55%
	Social Credit	Christopher Dick	536	6.91%	–
	Natural Law	Neeraj Varma	94	1.21%	0.54%
Total			7,762	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			18	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			19,703	39.49%	-9.79%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		1.51%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001 general election

2001 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Hung Pham	6,329	70.60%	11.90%
	Liberal	Art Danielson	2,093	23.35%	-9.84%
	New Democratic	Robert Scobel	543	6.06%	–
Total			8,965	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			31	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,633	41.58%	2.10%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		10.87%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004 general election

2004 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Hung Pham	3,323	51.30%	-19.30%
	Liberal	Arthur Danielson	1,691	26.10%	2.76%
	Alberta Alliance	Cyril Collingwood	689	10.64%	–
	New Democratic	Jason Nishiyama	420	6.48%	0.43%
	Greens	Kevin Colton	355	5.48%	–
Total			6,478	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			31	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			22,001	29.59%	-12.00%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-11.03%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 2004 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2008 general election

2008 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Manmeet Bhullar	2,627	34.45%	-16.84%
	Independent	Ron Leech	2,010	26.36%	–
	Liberal	Michael Embaie	1,396	18.31%	-7.80%
	Wildrose Alliance	Said Abdulbaki	818	10.73%	0.09%
	New Democratic	Al Brown	512	6.71%	0.23%
	Green	Fred Clemens	262	3.44%	2.04%
Total			7,625	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			55	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			25,175	30.51%	0.92%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-8.55%
Source(s) Source: The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly (PDF). Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 234–237.

Senate election results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Montrose[5]					Turnout 29.39%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	% Votes	% Ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	2,587	15.71%	50.55%	1
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	2,198	13.35%	42.95%	2
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	2,032	12.34%	39.70%	5
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	1,712	10.40%	33.45%	6
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	1,529	9.29%	29.88%	3
	Independent	Link Byfield	1,435	8.72%	28.04%	4
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	1,306	7.93%	25.52%	8
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,280	7.77%	25.01%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,233	7.49%	24.09%	10
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	1,153	7.00%	22.53%	9
Total Votes			16,465	100%
Total Ballots			5,118	3.22 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			1,349

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

2004 Student Vote

Participating Schools[6]
St. Martha 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[7]
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Hung Pham	7	35.00%
	Green	Kevin Colton	6	30.00%
	Liberal	Arthur Danielson	5	25.00%
	Alberta Alliance	Cyril Collingwood	1	5.00%
	NDP	Jason Nishiyama	1	5.00%
Total			20	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			0

See also

• Alberta provincial electoral districts

References

1. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "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. ISBN 978-0-9865367-1-7. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
2. Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
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. D'Aliesio, Renata (July 26, 2008). "MLA's election opposed". Calgary Herald. Calgary Herald. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
5. "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
6. "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
7. "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved 2008-04-19.

Further reading

• Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved 25 May 2020.

External links

• Elections Alberta
• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta