Calgary-Shaw

Calgary-Shaw is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.

Calgary-Shaw

Alberta electoral district
Calgary-Shaw within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Rebecca Schulz United Conservative
District created	1986
First contested	1986
Last contested	2023

This urban riding was created from parts of Calgary-Fish Creek and Calgary-Glenmore in the 1986 boundary redistribution. It covers the central southern portion of city of Calgary, and has seen its borders change numerous times since it was created. The riding in its current boundaries contains the neighbourhoods of Shawnessy, Somerset, Silverado, Chaparral, Walden and Legacy.

The riding was named after former Liberal leader Joseph Tweed Shaw.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1986 boundary redistribution from the south end of Calgary-Glenmore and the west half of Calgary-Fish Creek. Over the years the riding boundaries have caused the riding to shift southward from its original boundaries.

The 2003 boundary redistribution caused the riding to be split east of the Bow River into the electoral district of Calgary-Hays.

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw all land south of Alberta Highway 22X move into the electoral district of Calgary-South East. The west boundaries with Calgary-Lougheed were altered in the northwest corner to gain land in the community of Millrise and the Shawnee Slopes golf course from Lougheed.

Boundary history

22 Calgary-Shaw 2003 boundaries^[1]
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-Fish Creek	Calgary-Hays	Calgary-Lougheed	Highwood and Foothills-Rocky View
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of Macleod Trail S with Fish Creek; then 1. southeast along Fish Creek to the right bank of the Bow River; 2. generally southeast along the right bank of the Bow River to the south Calgary city boundary; 3. west and north along the city boundary to 14 Street SW; 4. north along 14 Street SW and James McKevitt Road SW to Shawnessy Boulevard SW; 5. east along Shawnessy Boulevard SW to Macleod Trail S; 6. north along Macleod Trail S to the starting point.
Note:

24 Calgary-Shaw 2010 boundaries
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-Fish Creek	Calgary-Hays	Calgary-South East	Calgary-Lougheed
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
Note:

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Shaw^[2]
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See: Calgary-Fish Creek 1979-1986 and Calgary-Glenmore 1959-1986
21st	1986–1989		Jim Dinning	Progressive Conservative
22nd	1989–1993
23rd	1993–1997		Jon Havelock
24th	1997–2001
25th	2001–2004		Cindy Ady
26th	2004–2008
27th	2008–2012
28th	2012–2014		Jeff Wilson	Wildrose
	2014–2015			Progressive Conservative
29th	2015–2019		Graham Sucha	New Democratic
30th	2019–2023		Rebecca Schulz	United Conservative
31st	2023–

The electoral district was created in the 1986 boundary redistribution. The election that year saw Progressive Conservative candidate Jim Dinning win with a landslide majority. He ran for a second term in the 1989 general election and won a bigger popular vote but his percentage decreased.

The 1993 boundary redistribution changed the boundaries for Calgary-Shaw. Dinning ran in the new electoral district of Calgary-Lougheed for the 1993 election and won. The election in this district saw former Calgary alderman Jon Havelock run as the Progressive Conservative candidate and win a landslide. He won his second term in the 1997 general election with an even bigger landslide taking 78% of the popular vote. He retired from provincial office at dissolution of the legislature in 2001.

The 2001 general election saw Progressive Conservative candidate Cindy Ady win the largest majority in Alberta history. She became the first candidate to top 20,000 votes and took over 80%. She ran for a second term in office in the 2004 general election. She lost almost 14,000 voters from 2001 but still took the district with 63%.

Premier Ed Stelmach appointed Ady in 2007 to the cabinet with the junior portfolio of Associate Minister of Tourism Promotion. She was promoted to be a full minister in 2008. Ady was re-elected to her third term in the 2008 general election taking just over half the popular vote.

In the 2012 general election Jeff Wilson of the Wildrose Party was elected. In 2014 Jeff Wilson left the Wildrose Party and crossed the floor of the Alberta Legislature to sit with the Progressive Conservative Party.

In the 2015 general election Graham Sucha of the New Democratic Party was elected with 31% of the vote.

Legislative election results

Elections in the 1980s

1986 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Dinning	6,694	61.51%	–
	Liberal	Brendan Dunphy	2,727	25.06%	–
	New Democratic	Len Curle	1,166	10.71%	–
	Representative	Byron L. Chenger	295	2.71%	–
Total			10,882	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			23	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			24,442	44.62%	–
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Shaw Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Dinning	7,412	52.92%	-8.59%
	Liberal	Robert J. (Bob) Crump	4,865	34.74%	9.68%
	New Democratic	Gordon M. Christie	1,728	12.34%	1.62%
Total			14,005	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			29	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			28,037	50.06%	5.44%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-9.13%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Shaw Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Elections in the 1990s

1993 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jonathan Niles Havelock	9,328	62.38%	9.46%
	Liberal	Bill Walker	4,963	33.19%	-1.55%
	New Democratic	Jason Ness	526	3.52%	-8.82%
	Natural Law	Ken Nielsen	136	0.91%	–
Total			14,953	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			35	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			23,941	62.60%	12.55%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		5.50%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Shaw Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jonathan Niles Havelock	12,304	75.29%	12.91%
	Liberal	Sharon L. Howe	2,860	17.50%	-15.69%
	Social Credit	Michael Roth	624	3.82%	–
	New Democratic	Shawn Keown	485	2.97%	-0.55%
	Natural Law	Almas Walden	69	0.42%	-0.49%
Total			16,342	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			16	19	2
Eligible electors / turnout			33,108	49.41%	-13.19%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		14.30%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Shaw Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Elections in the 2000s

v t e 2001 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Cindy Ady	20,306	80.72%	5.43%
	Liberal	Jim McPherson	3,595	14.29%	-3.21%
	New Democratic	Ryan Falkenberg	729	2.90%	-0.07%
	Alberta First	Peter Singleton	222	0.88%	–
	Independent	Kevin Agar	153	0.61%	–
	Independent	Darren Popik	151	0.60%	–
Total			25,156	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			33	19	3
Eligible electors / turnout			49,366	51.03%	1.62%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		4.32%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Shaw Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

v t e 2004 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Cindy Ady	6,735	63.44%	-17.28%
	Liberal	John Roggeveen	2,410	22.70%	8.41%
	Alberta Alliance	Barry Chase	620	5.84%	–
	Green	Rick Papineau	381	3.59%	–
	New Democratic	Jarrett Young	300	2.83%	-0.07%
	Separation	Daniel W. Doherty	170	1.60%	–
Total			10,616	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			13	66	4
Eligible electors / turnout			26,408	40.26%	-10.77%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-12.84%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Shaw Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved April 11, 2010.

2008 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Cindy Ady	7,010	58.12%	-5.32%
	Liberal	John Roggeveen	2,958	24.53%	1.82%
	Wildrose	Richard P. Dur	1,268	10.51%	–
	Green	Jennifer Saunders	491	4.07%	0.48%
	New Democratic	Jenn Carlson	334	2.77%	-0.06%
Total			12,061	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			40	29	3
Eligible electors / turnout			30,409	39.80%	-0.46%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-3.57%
Source(s) Source: "22 - Calgary-Shaw, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Elections in the 2010s

v t e 2012 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Wildrose	Jeff Wilson	7,365	45.21%	34.70%
	Progressive Conservative	Farouk Adatia	6,864	42.13%	-15.99%
	Liberal	John Roggeveen	1,126	6.91%	-17.61%
	New Democratic	Ashley Fairall	599	3.68%	0.91%
	Alberta Party	Brandon Beasley	337	2.07%	–
Total			16,291	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			104	43	13
Eligible electors / turnout			30,185	54.36%	14.55%
	Wildrose gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-15.26%
Source(s) Source: "24 - Calgary-Shaw, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

v t e 2015 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Graham Sucha	5,449	31.27%	27.59%
	Progressive Conservative	Jeff Wilson	5,348	30.69%	-11.45%
	Wildrose	Brad Leishman	5,301	30.42%	-14.79%
	Liberal	Alexander Barrow	668	3.83%	-3.08%
	Alberta Party	Evert Smith	661	3.79%	1.72%
Total			17,427	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			64	22	11
Eligible electors / turnout			30,458	57.46%	3.10%
	New Democratic gain from Wildrose		Swing		-1.25%
Source(s) Source: "24 - Calgary-Shaw, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

v t e 2019 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Conservative	Rebecca Schulz	14,261	65.32%	4.21%
	New Democratic	Graham Sucha	5,594	25.62%	-5.65%
	Alberta Party	Bronson Ha	1,331	6.10%	2.30%
	Liberal	Vesna Samardzija	290	1.33%	-2.50%
	Green	John Daly	212	0.97%	–
	Alberta Independence	Jarek Bucholc	146	0.67%	–
Total			21,834	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			134	49	3
Eligible electors / turnout			32,198	68.24%	10.77%
	United Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		%
Source(s) Source: "23 - Calgary-Shaw, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2023

v t e 2023 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Conservative	Rebecca Schulz	13,970	56.34	-8.98
	New Democratic	David Cloutier	10,591	42.71	+17.09
	Solidarity Movement	Pietro Cervo	236	0.95	–
Total			24,797	99.19	–
Rejected and declined			203	0.81
Turnout			25,000	63.16
Eligible voters			39,581
	United Conservative hold		Swing		-13.03
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta^[3]

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Shaw^[4]					Turnout 39.74%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	% votes	% ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	5,115	17.89%	56.33%	1
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	4,132	14.45%	45.50%	2
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	4,098	14.33%	45.13%	5
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	3,293	11.52%	36.26%	3
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	3,015	10.54%	33.20%	6
	Independent	Link Byfield	2,282	7.98%	25.13%	4
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	1,839	6.43%	20.25%	8
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,686	5.90%	18.57%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,590	5.56%	17.51%	10
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	1,545	5.40%	17.01%	9
Total votes			28,595	100%
Total ballots			9,081	3.15 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined			1,519

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.

2012

Student vote results

Participating schools^[5]
Bishop OByrne High School
Centennial High 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 had 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 than where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results^[6]
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Cindy Ady	44	52.38%
	Green	Rick Papineau	16	19.05%
	Liberal	John Roggeveen	10	11.91%
	NDP	Jarrett Young	9	10.71%
	Alberta Alliance	Barry Chase	4	4.76%
	Separation	Daniel Doherty	1	1.19%
Total			84	100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined			2

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Farouk Adatia		%
	Wildrose	Jeff Wilson
	Liberal			%
	Alberta Party	Brandon Beasley
	NDP	Ashley Fairall		%
Total				100%

References

1. "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 14.
2. (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
3. "23 - Calgary-Shaw". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
4. (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
5. . Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
6. . Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2008.

External links

• Demographics for Calgary Shaw
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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