Crowfoot was a federal electoral district in

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, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 2015. It was located in the central part of the province, and is named in honour of

Chief Crowfoot Crowfoot (1830 – 25 April 1890) or Isapo-Muxika ( bla, Issapóómahksika, italics=yes; syllabics: ) was a chief of the Siksika First Nation. His parents, (Packs a Knife) and (Attacked Towards Home), were Kainai. He was five years old when ...

, leader of the Blackfoot First Nations in the 19th century. Even by the standards of rural Alberta, Crowfoot was a strongly conservative riding. The major right-wing party of the day-- Progressive Conservative (1968-1993),

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(1993-2000),

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(2000-2003) and

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(after 2003)-- won every election in this riding, usually by some of the largest recorded margins in Canadian politics. As a measure of how conservative this riding is, Jack Horner, the riding's original member, crossed the floor to the Liberals in 1977, only to tumble to only 18 percent of the vote in

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. This electoral district was also home to the largest margin of victory in any federal riding in the 2004 and 2006 federal elections. Conservative candidate

Kevin Sorenson Kevin A. Sorenson (born November 3, 1958) is a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Battle River-Crowfoot (known as Crowfoot from 2000 to 2015) in the House of Commons of Canada from 2000 to 2019, first as a member of the Canad ...

won 37,649 votes, or 80.2% of the riding's total in 2004. This represented a difference of 34,034 votes, or 72.5%, from the candidate with the riding's second most votes,

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Adam Campbell who only received 3,615 votes, or 7.7% of the riding's votes. It was the riding with the highest Conservative vote in the 2004 and 2006 elections. In 2006, Sorenson increased his vote even further, to 43,009 votes, 82.5% of the total.

Geography

The district included the City of Camrose; the Town of

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; the

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; Wheatland County;

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;

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; the County of Stettler No. 6; the

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;

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; and all of Alberta's three special areas (Nos. 2, 3 and 4).

History

This riding was created in 1966 from parts of

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and

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ridings. In 2003, parts of Wild Rose riding were added. It was abolished in 2012. Most of the riding's eastern portion became

Battle River—Crowfoot Battle River—Crowfoot is a federal electoral district in Alberta. Battle River—Crowfoot was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon ...

, with much of the western portion transferring to Bow River and

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. Some outer western portions of the riding that had been annexed into Calgary joined

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and

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Members of Parliament

Election results

''Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance vote in 2000.'' ''Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997.''

References

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2011 results from Elections Canada

Expenditures - 2008

Expenditures - 2004

Expenditures - 2000

Expenditures - 1997

Notes

External links

Elections Canada
*Website of th
Parliament of Canada
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