Calgary East

For the provincial electoral district, see Calgary-East.

Calgary East

Alberta electoral district
Calgary Centre East Centre North Northeast Southeast Southwest West Nose Hill
Calgary East in relation to the other Calgary ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Deepak Obhrai Conservative
District created	1997
First contested	1997
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	111,223
Electors (2011)	75,298
Area (km²)	113.34
Pop. density (per km²)	981.3
Census divisions	Division No. 6
Census subdivisions	Calgary

Calgary East is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1953, 1979 to 1988, and since 1997. It is a lower income urban riding in Calgary, with a sizable visible minority population.

History

This riding was originally created in 1924 from East Calgary riding.

It was abolished in 1952 when it was redistributed between Calgary North, Calgary South and Macleod ridings.

It was re-created in 1976 from parts of Calgary North, Calgary South and Palliser ridings.

It was again abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed between Calgary Centre, Calgary Northeast, Calgary Southeast, Crowfoot and Calgary Southwest ridings.

This electoral district was again created in 1996 from Calgary Centre, Calgary Northeast, Calgary Southeast, and Wild Rose ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
15th	1925–1926		Fred Davis	Conservative
16th	1926–1930		Herbert Bealey Adshead	Labour
17th	1930–1935		George Douglas Stanley	Conservative
18th	1935–1940		John Landeryou	Social Credit
19th	1940–1945		George Henry Ross	Liberal
20th	1945–1949		Douglas Harkness	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953
31st	1979–1980		John Kushner	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		Alex Kindy	Progressive Conservative
36th	1997–2000		Deepak Obhrai	Reform
	2000			Canadian Alliance
37th	2000–2003
	2003–2004			Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Current Member of Parliament

Its Member of Parliament is Deepak Obhrai, a former businessman. He was first elected in 1997. He was re-elected in 2000, 2004, and 2006. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He previously served as the Conservative critic for multiculturalism and was a member of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.

He is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Election results

Calgary East, 1997 - present

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Conservative	Deepak Obhrai	23,372	67.43	+0.96	$81,882
	New Democratic	Al Brown	4,894	14.12	+2.37
	Liberal	Josipa Petrunic	4,102	11.83	+1.68	$43,497
	Green	Scott Milton	2,047	5.91	-4.70	$3,246
	Communist	Jason Devine	246	0.71	-0.30	$502
Total valid votes/Expense limit			34,661	100.00
Total rejected ballots			186	0.53	–
Turnout			34,847	46.16	–
Eligible voters			75,496	–	–

Total number of votes:

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Conservative	Deepak Obhrai	21,311	66.47	-0.63	$77,330
	New Democratic	Ian Vaughan	3,768	11.75	+0.88	$831
	Green	Nathan Coates	3,403	10.61	+3.20	$2,722
	Liberal	Bernie Kennedy	3,255	10.15	-2.95	$6,934
	Communist	Jason Devine	323	1.01	+0.41	$417
Total valid votes/Expense limit			32,060	100.00	$83,826
Total rejected ballots			–	–
Turnout			–	–
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.8

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Conservative	Deepak Obhrai	26,766	67.10	+5.99	$79,928
	Liberal	Dobie To	5,410	13.56	-7.71
	New Democratic	Patrick Arnell	4,338	10.87	+1.01	$2,762
	Green	J. Mark Taylor	2,955	7.41	+0.36	$1,910
	Communist	Jason Devine	239	0.60	-0.08	$279
	Canadian Action	Ghazanfar Khan	183	0.46	–	$99
Total valid votes			39,890	100.00
Total rejected ballots			181	0.45
Turnout			40,071	50.45

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Conservative	Deepak Obhrai	21,897	61.11	-9.61	$55,864
	Liberal	James Maxim	7,621	21.27	+0.81	$50,725
	New Democratic	Elizabeth Thomas	3,535	9.86	+5.55	$5,211
	Green	Dean Kenneth Christie	2,529	7.05	–	$1,526
	Communist	Jason Devine	245	0.68	+0.14	$750
Total valid votes			35,827	100.00
Total rejected ballots			207	0.57
Turnout			36,034	47.79

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

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Alliance	Deepak Obhrai	18,141	54.25	+9.27	$50,082
	Liberal	Doug Perras	6,843	20.46	-2.34	$13,817
	Progressive Conservative	Roger Richard	5,510	16.47	-8.15	$26,576
	New Democratic	Kaie Jones	1,444	4.31	-2.18	$4,528
	Marijuana	Grant Adam Krieger	1,222	3.65	–	$1,331
	Communist	Jason Devine	152	0.54	–	$415
	Natural Law	Neeraj Varma	124	0.37	-0.73
Total valid votes			33,436	100.00
Total rejected ballots			118	0.35
Turnout			33,554	48.19

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to Reform vote in 1997.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Reform	Deepak Obhrai	13,348	44.98	–	$47,624
	Progressive Conservative	Roger Richard	7,306	24.62	-34.23	$40,312
	Liberal	Nagah Hage	6,766	22.80	-0.77	$20,633
	New Democratic	Kaie Jones	1,926	6.49	-7.19	$6,993
	Natural Law	Santo Esposito	329	1.10	–
Total valid votes			29,675	100.00
Total rejected ballots			175	0.59
Turnout			29,850	47.88

Calgary East, 1979 - 1988

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Alex Kindy	36,825	58.85	+6.02
	Liberal	Rod Sykes	14,749	23.57	-3.13
	New Democratic	Barry Pashak	8,558	13.68	+3.40
	Independent	Dave G. Wereschuk	993	1.59
	Confederation of Regions	Nora Galenzoski	658	1.05
	Social Credit	Jim Othen	343	0.55	-0.42
	Libertarian	Wayne Kollinger	324	0.52
	Communist	Bruce Potter	122	0.19	+0.06
Total valid votes			62,572	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	John Kushner	23,073	52.84	-8.05
	Liberal	Albert Ludwig	11,662	26.71	+3.02
	New Democratic	Barry Pashak	4,490	10.28	-0.84
	Independent	Jim C. Young	3,271	7.49
	Rhinoceros	Philip J. Pazdor	638	1.46
	Social Credit	Jim Othen	422	0.97	-0.76
	Communist	Bruce Potter	58	0.13	-0.01
	Marxist–Leninist	Peggy Askin	55	0.13	+0.01
Total valid votes			43,669	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	John Kushner	28,320	60.88
	Liberal	Albert Ludwig	11,019	23.69
	New Democratic	Barry Pashak	5,172	11.12
	Independent	George Barber	1,080	2.32
	Social Credit	Ted Hammond	805	1.73
	Communist	Bruce Potter	65	0.14
	Marxist–Leninist	Peggy Askin	54	0.12
Total valid votes			46,515	100.00

Calgary East, 1925 - 1952

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Harkness	9,641	35.87	+4.35
	Liberal	Donald Hugh Mackay	8,555	31.83	+12.55
	Social Credit	Clifford Norman Clarke	5,597	20.83	-2.83
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Warwick Freeman Kelloway	3,083	11.47	-11.35
Total valid votes			26,876	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Harkness	7,799	31.52	+7.91
	Social Credit	Clifford Menzies Willmott	5,854	23.66	-1.58
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Peter Newton Russell Morrison	5,646	22.82	-0.79
	Liberal	George Henry Ross	4,771	19.28	-8.25
	Labor–Progressive	Lionel Frank Edwards	672	2.72
Total valid votes			24,742	100.00

Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to National Government vote in 1940.

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	George Henry Ross	5,815	27.54	+13.21
	Social Credit	John Landeryou	5,330	25.24	-21.34
	National Government	Hugh Farthing	4,987	23.61	-9.80
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Warwick Freeman Kelloway	4,986	23.61	+17.94
Total valid votes			21,118	100.00

Note: National Government vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1940.

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Social Credit	John Landeryou	8,376	46.58
	Conservative	George Douglas Stanley	6,009	33.42	-31.98
	Liberal	Joseph Tweed Shaw	2,576	14.33
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Edith Patterson	1,020	5.67
Total valid votes			17,981	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Conservative	George Douglas Stanley	11,344	65.40	+22.64
	Labour	Herbert Bealey Adshead	6,002	34.60	-21.28
Total valid votes			17,346	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Labour	Herbert Bealey Adshead	6,707	55.88	+24.41
	Conservative	Fred Davis	5,132	42.76	-4.40
	Independent	William Edward Wood Guy	163	1.36
Total valid votes			12,002	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Fred Davis	5,560	47.16
	Labour	William Irvine	3,710	31.47
	Liberal	William McCartney Davidson	2,519	21.37
Total valid votes			11,789	100.00

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Alberta federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

References

• "(Code 48002) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-06. 
• Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1924 - 1952)
• Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1976-1987)
• Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1996-present)
• Expenditures - 2008
• Expenditures - 2004
• Expenditures - 2000
• Expenditures - 1997
• Elections Canada
• Website of the Parliament of Canada

Notes