Calgary Shepard
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Conservative | ||
| District created | 2013 | ||
| First contested | 2015 | ||
| Last contested | 2021 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2011)[1] | 110,296 | ||
| Electors (2019) | 111,936 | ||
| Area (km²)[2] | 186 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 593 | ||
| Census division | Division No. 6 | ||
| Census subdivision | Calgary (part) | ||
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Calgary Shepard is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.
Calgary Shepard was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.[3] It was created out of parts of the electoral districts of Calgary East and Calgary Southeast.[4] The riding's name refers to Shepard, Alberta.
Demographics
[edit]- According to the 2016 Canadian census
- Languages: (2016) 77.7% English, 3.6% Tagalog, 2.3% Spanish, 1.6% French, 1.4% Vietnamese, 1.1% Mandarin, 0.9% Cantonese, 0.8% Panjabi, 0.8% Russian, 0.8% Arabic, 0.8% Polish, 0.6% German, 0.6% Urdu, 0.5% Romanian[5]
| Panethnic group |
2021[6] | 2016[7] | 2011[8] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |||||||||
| European[a] | 107,835 | 66.17% | 105,145 | 71.68% | 84,770 | 77.32% | ||||||||
| Southeast Asian[b] | 16,700 | 10.25% | 12,405 | 8.46% | 8,360 | 7.63% | ||||||||
| South Asian | 9,080 | 5.57% | 6,520 | 4.45% | 3,370 | 3.07% | ||||||||
| East Asian[c] | 6,415 | 3.94% | 5,415 | 3.69% | 2,880 | 2.63% | ||||||||
| Indigenous | 6,270 | 3.85% | 5,210 | 3.55% | 3,635 | 3.32% | ||||||||
| African | 6,100 | 3.74% | 4,415 | 3.01% | 2,270 | 2.07% | ||||||||
| Latin American | 4,830 | 2.96% | 3,245 | 2.21% | 1,830 | 1.67% | ||||||||
| Middle Eastern[d] | 3,160 | 1.94% | 2,250 | 1.53% | 1,220 | 1.11% | ||||||||
| Other/Multiracial[e] | 2,560 | 1.57% | 2,070 | 1.41% | 1,295 | 1.18% | ||||||||
| Total responses | 162,965 | 99.71% | 146,680 | 99.43% | 109,630 | 99.33% | ||||||||
| Total population | 163,447 | 100% | 147,520 | 100% | 110,364 | 100% | ||||||||
| Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries. | ||||||||||||||
Members of Parliament
[edit]This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calgary Shepard Riding created from Calgary East and Calgary Southeast |
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| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Tom Kmiec | Conservative | |
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | |||
| 44th | 2021–2025 | |||
| 45th | 2025–present | |||
Election results
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Graph of election results in Calgary Shepard (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)
2023 representation order
[edit]| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tom Kmiec | 44,363 | 67.99 | +6.79 | $64,954.09 | |||
| Liberal | Gul Khan | 18,421 | 28.23 | +14.31 | $19,103.62 | |||
| New Democratic | Tory Tomblin | 1,780 | 2.73 | –13.30 | $22.50 | |||
| People's | Donald Legere | 383 | 0.59 | –5.14 | $140.32 | |||
| Green | Robert Frasch | 302 | 0.46 | –1.24 | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 65,249 | 99.55 | – | $135,545.23 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 294 | 0.45 | –0.11 | |||||
| Turnout | 65,543 | 71.97 | +7.96 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 91,069 | |||||||
| Conservative notional hold | Swing | –3.76 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9][10][11] | ||||||||
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[12] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 30,941 | 61.20 | |
| New Democratic | 8,105 | 16.03 | |
| Liberal | 7,039 | 13.92 | |
| People's | 2,897 | 5.73 | |
| Green | 857 | 1.70 | |
| Others | 716 | 1.40 | |
2013 representation order
[edit]| 2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tom Kmiec | 44,411 | 60.37 | –14.64 | $47,284.36 | |||
| New Democratic | Raj Jessel | 12,103 | 16.45 | +7.71 | none listed | |||
| Liberal | Cam Macdonald | 10,303 | 14.01 | +2.95 | $2,027.58 | |||
| People's | Ron Vaillant | 4,284 | 5.82 | +3.63 | $7,189.88 | |||
| Green | Evelyn Tanaka | 1,300 | 1.77 | –1.23 | $3,056.27 | |||
| Maverick | Andrea Lee | 874 | 1.19 | – | $752.21 | |||
| Independent | Konstantine Muirhead | 228 | 0.31 | – | none listed | |||
| National Citizens Alliance | Jesse Halmo | 56 | 0.08 | – | $276.36 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 73,559 | 99.44 | – | $139,111.83 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 416 | 0.56 | +0.00 | |||||
| Turnout | 73,975 | 64.01 | –5.74 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 115,565 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –11.18 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[13][14][15] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tom Kmiec | 58,614 | 75.01 | +9.14 | $42,824.82 | |||
| Liberal | Del Arnold | 8,644 | 11.06 | –13.63 | $13,154.34 | |||
| New Democratic | David Brian Smith | 6,828 | 8.74 | +1.91 | none listed | |||
| Green | Evelyn Tanaka | 2,345 | 3.00 | +0.39 | $3,079.74 | |||
| People's | Kyle Scott | 1,709 | 2.19 | – | $24,324.77 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 78,140 | 99.44 | – | $132,659.53 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 441 | 0.56 | +0.25 | |||||
| Turnout | 78,581 | 69.75 | +1.89 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 112,660 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +11.39 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[16][17][18] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tom Kmiec | 43,706 | 65.87 | –9.64 | $153,176.93 | |||
| Liberal | Jerome James | 16,379 | 24.69 | +17.50 | $7,037.44 | |||
| New Democratic | Dany Allard | 4,532 | 6.83 | –4.30 | $10,097.24 | |||
| Green | Graham MacKenzie | 1,734 | 2.61 | –2.95 | $1,050.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 66,351 | 99.69 | – | $241,369.87 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 208 | 0.31 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 66,559 | 67.86 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 98,085 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –13.57 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[19][20][21] | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[22] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 29,904 | 75.52 | |
| New Democratic | 4,407 | 11.13 | |
| Liberal | 2,846 | 7.19 | |
| Green | 2,202 | 5.56 | |
| Others | 241 | 0.61 | |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
- ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
- ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
- ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
- ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.
References
[edit]- ↑ Statistics Canada: 2011
- ↑ Statistics Canada: 2011
- ↑ Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
- ↑ Report – Alberta, archived from the original on August 24, 2021, retrieved July 2, 2013
- ↑ "Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 2016 Census - 100% Data". August 2, 2017.
- ↑ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ↑ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 27, 2021). "Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ↑ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (November 27, 2015). "NHS Profile". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ↑ Canada, Library of Parliament (2026). "Elections and Ridings: Calgary Shepard, Alberta (2025)". lop.parl.ca.
- ↑ "Forty-Fifth General Election 2025 — Poll-by-poll Results: Calgary Shepard". elections.ca. Elections Canada. 2025.
- ↑ Canada, Chief Electoral Officer (2025). "Candidate Campaign Returns, 2025 General Election: Part 3C – Summary of Electoral Campaign Expenses and Other Outflows – Election expenses subject to the limit – Total". elections.ca. Elections Canada.
Expenses are reported "as amended" where amendments have been filed; otherwise, they are reported "as submitted".
- ↑ "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
- ↑ Canada, Library of Parliament (2026). "Elections and Ridings: Calgary Shepard, Alberta (2021)". lop.parl.ca.
- ↑ "Forty-Fourth General Election 2021 — Poll-by-poll Results: Calgary Shepard". elections.ca. Elections Canada. 2021.
- ↑ Canada, Chief Electoral Officer (2021). "Candidate Campaign Returns, 2021 General Election: Part 3C – Summary of Electoral Campaign Expenses and Other Outflows – Election expenses subject to the limit – Total". elections.ca. Elections Canada.
Expenses are reported "as amended" where amendments have been filed; otherwise, they are reported "as submitted".
- ↑ Canada, Library of Parliament (2026). "Elections and Ridings: Calgary Shepard, Alberta (2019)". lop.parl.ca.
- ↑ "Forty-Third General Election 2019 — Poll-by-poll Results: Calgary Shepard". elections.ca. Elections Canada. 2019.
- ↑ Canada, Chief Electoral Officer (2019). "Candidate Campaign Returns, 2019 General Election: Part 3C – Summary of Electoral Campaign Expenses and Other Outflows – Election expenses subject to the limit – Total". elections.ca. Elections Canada.
Expenses are reported "as amended" where amendments have been filed; otherwise, they are reported "as submitted".
- ↑ Canada, Library of Parliament (2026). "Elections and Ridings: Calgary Shepard, Alberta (2015)". lop.parl.ca.
- ↑ "Forty-Second General Election 2015 — Poll-by-poll Results: Calgary Shepard". elections.ca. Elections Canada. 2015.
- ↑ Canada, Chief Electoral Officer (2015). "Candidate Campaign Returns, 2015 General Election: Part 4 – Campaign Financial Summary – Total election expenses subject to the limit". elections.ca. Elections Canada.
Expenses are reported "as amended" where amendments have been filed; otherwise, they are reported "as submitted".
- ↑ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
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