Calgary-Falconridge is a

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. The district will be one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the

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using the

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method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.

Geography

The district is located in northeastern

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, containing the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn,

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, Castleridge, Falconridge,

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, and the eastern part of Taradale.

History

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended reorganizing the districts in northeast Calgary, abolishing

Calgary-Greenway Calgary-Greenway is a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-th ...

and shifting the other ridings eastward. Calgary-Falconridge took the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn and Temple from

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, Castleridge and Falconridge from

Calgary-McCall Calgary-Bhullar-McCall is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. It was created in 1971, and was named after Frederick McCall and the McCall Industrial Park. As of the 2010 redistricting, the industrial ...

, and Coral Springs and part of Taradale from Calgary-Greenway. This resulted in a district 13% above the average population, but the Commission justified this by pointing out that there were no plans to build new housing stock in this area.

Electoral results

References

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