Calgary-Cross

Calgary-Cross is a current provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Created in 1993, the district is 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.

Calgary-Cross

Alberta electoral district
Calgary-Cross within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Mickey Amery United Conservative
District created	1993
First contested	1993
Last contested	2023

The district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose, and present boundaries covers the neighbourhoods of Pineridge, Rundle, Marlborough,Marlborough Park and Monterey Park in northeast Calgary.^[1]

History

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary re-distribution from the electoral districts of Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose. The district is named after Alfred Ernest Cross (a member of Calgary's Big Four) who entered politics in 1898, and was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for East Calgary prior to the formation of Alberta.^[2]

The 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution saw all land east of 68 Street NE distributed to the new Calgary-Greenway electoral district. The west boundary was moved to Deerfoot Trail claiming land that used to be in McCall, Calgary-East and Calgary-North Hill. When created in 2010, the Calgary-Acadia electoral district would have a population of 46,102, which was 12.77 above the provincial average of 40,880.^[3]

The 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution saw Calgary-Cross gain the remainder of the Marlborough community from Calgary-East while moving the Abbeydale community to Calgary-East. The boundaries as adjusted would give the electoral district a population of 50,634 in 2017, 8% above the provincial average of 46,803.^[4]

Boundary history

4 Calgary-Cross 2003 boundaries[5]
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-McCall	Airdrie-Chestermere	Calgary-East and Calgary-McCall	Calgary-Montrose
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Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of 36 Street NE with McKnight Boulevard NE; then 1. east along McKnight Boulevard NE to the east Calgary city boundary (84 Street NE); 2. south along the city boundary to the easterly extension of 32 Avenue NE; 3. west along the extension and 32 Avenue NE to the northerly extension of the east boundary of Block 10, Plan 8411285 (Monterey Park Estates); 4. generally south, west and north along the block boundary and its northerly extension to 32 Avenue NE; 5. west along 32 Avenue NE to 68 Street NE; 6. south along 68 Street NE to 16 Avenue NE; 7. west along 16 Avenue NE to 52 Street NE; 8. north along 52 Street NE to 32 Avenue NE; 9. west along 32 Avenue NE to 36 Street NE; 10. north along 36 Street NE to the starting point.
Note:

6 Calgary-Cross 2010 boundaries[6]
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill and Calgary-McCall	Calgary-Greenway	Calgary-Klein and Calgary-Mountain View	Calgary-East
Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Cross[7]
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Calgary-McCall 1971-1993 and Calgary-Montrose 1986-1993
23rd	1993-1997		Yvonne Fritz	Progressive Conservative
24th	1997-2001
25th	2001-2004
26th	2004-2008
27th	2008–2012
28th	2012–2015
29th	2015–2019		Ricardo Miranda	New Democratic
30th	2019–2023		Mickey Amery	United Conservative
31st	2023–present

Calgary-Cross was created from the electoral districts of Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose in the 1993 boundary redistribution. Currently, the constituency is represented by Ricardo Miranda. The first representative was Progressive Conservative member Yvonne Fritz. Prior to representing Montrose she served as an Alderman for the city of Calgary representing the Ward 5 electoral district.

The 1993 election saw Fritz win with a large majority of votes. She sought a second term in 1997 and while her popularity declined she still won very easily over Liberal Keith Jones.

Jones and Fritz would face each other again in the 2001 general election. She would go on to win the district with the largest majority of her career while Jones saw his popular vote collapse. Fritz would win a fourth term in the 2004 general election, seeing almost half her vote disappear.

Fritz became a cabinet minister for the first time in 2004. She won re-election again in 2008.

Legislative election results

1993

v t e 1993 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	6,449	59.73%	–
	Liberal	Keith Hart	3,576	33.12%	–
	New Democratic	Vinay Dey	686	6.35%	–
	Natural Law	Neeraj Varma	86	0.80%	–
Total			10,797	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			31	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			21,346	50.73%	–
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Cross Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

v t e 1997 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	5,964	67.11%	7.38%
	Liberal	Keith Jones	2,456	27.64%	-5.48%
	Social Credit	Maurizio Terrigno	467	5.25%	–
Total			8,887	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			30	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			21,811	40.88%	-9.84%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		6.43%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Cross Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001

v t e 2001 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	6,816	74.96%	7.85%
	Liberal	Keith Jones	1,836	20.19%	-7.44%
	New Democratic	Ramiro Mora	441	4.85%	–
Total			9,093	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			85	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			21,920	41.87%	0.99%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		7.65%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Cross Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004

v t e 2004 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	3,770	57.71%	-17.25%
	Liberal	Raleigh Dehaney	1,453	22.24%	2.05%
	Alberta Alliance	Gordon Huth	646	9.89%	–
	New Democratic	Jeanie Keebler	393	6.02%	1.17%
	Green	Ryan Richardson	271	4.15%	–
Total			6,533	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			49	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			21,993	29.93%	-11.94%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-9.65%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Cross Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 9, 2020.

2008

v t e 2008 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	4,004	56.82%	-0.89%
	Liberal	Ron I. Reinhold	1,567	22.24%	0.00%
	Wildrose Alliance	Gordon Huth	605	8.59%	-1.30%
	New Democratic	Shelina N. Hassanali	476	6.75%	0.74%
	Green	Susan Stratton	395	5.61%	1.46%
Total			7,047	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			34	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			25,609	27.65%	-2.28%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-0.44%
Source(s) Source: "04 - Calgary-Cross, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2012

v t e 2012 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	5,357	44.65%	-12.17%
	Wildrose	Happy Mann	4,557	37.98%	29.40%
	Liberal	Narita Sherman	1,220	10.17%	-12.07%
	New Democratic	Reinaldo Contreras	604	5.03%	-1.72%
	Evergreen	Susan Stratton	260	2.17%	-3.42%
Total			11,998	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			116	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			27,680	43.76%	16.11%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-13.96%
Source(s) Source: "06 - Calgary-Cross, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015

v t e 2015 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Ricardo Miranda	4,602	36.13%	31.10%
	Progressive Conservative	Rick Hanson	4,501	35.34%	-9.31%
	Wildrose	Moiz Mahmood	2,060	16.17%	-21.81%
	Liberal	Manjot Singh Gill	1,194	9.38%	-0.79%
	Green	Peter Meic	236	1.85%	0.32%
	Independent	Katherine Le Rougetel †	143	1.12%	–
Total			12,736	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			98	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			31,535	40.70%	-3.07%
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-2.94%
Source(s) Source: "06 - Calgary-Cross, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. †Le Rougetel was a candidate of the unregistered Communist League. See Ryan Rumbolt, "Communist League candidate Katherine LeRougetel enters mayoral race", Calgary Herald, 5 March 2017, accessed 8 March 2017.

2015 Alberta general election redistributed results
Party		Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	5,256	36.78
	New Democratic	5,103	35.71
	Wildrose	2,902	20.31
	Liberal	783	5.48
	Green	130	0.91
	Others	116	0.81
Source(s) Source: Ridingbuilder

2019

Results by Polling Division

v t e 2019 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	United Conservative	Mickey Amery	8,907	54.26	+2.75†	$39,209
	New Democratic	Ricardo Miranda	6,135	37.38	+1.25	$54,925
	Alberta Party	Braham Luddu	962	5.86	–	$6,936
	Liberal	Naser Kukhun	410	2.50	-6.88	$4,299
Total			16,414	99.27	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			121	0.73	–
Turnout			16,535	53.61
Eligible voters			30,844
	United Conservative notional hold		Swing		-2.25
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta[8][9][10] Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000. †Comparison for UCP is to the combined Wildrose & PC redistributed vote in 2015

2023

v t e 2023 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Conservative	Mickey Amery	7,533	50.19	-4.07
	New Democratic	Gurinder Singh Gill	7,019	46.77	+9.39
	Green	Aman Sandhu	254	1.69	–
	Solidarity Movement	Kathryn Lapp	202	1.35	–
Total			15,008	99.14	–
Rejected and declined			130	0.86
Turnout			15,138	49.81
Eligible voters			30,393
	United Conservative hold		Swing		-6.73
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta[11]

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Cross[12]					Turnout 29.62%
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	% votes	% ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	3,088	16.47%	52.86%	1
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	2,530	13.50%	43.30%	2
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	2,379	12.69%	40.72%	5
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	1,834	9.78%	31.39%	6
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	1,826	9.74%	31.26%	3
	Independent	Link Byfield	1,649	8.80%	28.23%	4
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	1,427	7.61%	24.43%	8
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,405	7.49%	24.05%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,334	7.12%	22.84%	10
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	1,276	6.80%	21.84%	9
Total votes			18,748	100%
Total ballots			5,842	3.21 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined			673
21,993 eligible electors

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2012

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools[13]
Lester B. Pearson High School
Pineridge Community 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[14]
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Raleigh Dehaney	331	33.95%
	Progressive Conservative	Yvonne Fritz	272	27.90%
	New Democratic	Jeanie Keebler	238	24.41%
	Green	Ryan Richardson	81	8.31%
	Alberta Alliance	Gordon Huth	53	5.43%
Total			975	100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined			59

2012

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts

References

1. "Provincial Electoral Division of 5 Calgary Cross: Voting Area Map" (PDF). Elections Alberta.
2. Brennan, Brian (2001). Alberta Originals: Stories of Albertans Who Made a Difference. Fifth House. pp. 2. ISBN 1-894004-76-0.
3. 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). Edmonton, Alta: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9865367-1-7. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
4. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "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 978-1-988620-04-6. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
5. "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 7.
6. "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.
7. "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.
8. "05 - Calgary-Cross, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
9. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 19–22. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
10. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume III Election Finances (PDF) (Report). Vol. 3. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 68–82. ISBN 978-1-988620-13-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
11. "05 - Calgary-Cross". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
12. "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
13. "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
14. "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.

External links

• Elections Alberta
• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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