Calgary Shepard
Federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada
Calgary Shepard is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.
Calgary Shepard was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015. It was created out of parts of the electoral districts of Calgary East and Calgary Southeast. The riding's name refers to Shepard, Alberta.
01Demographics
- According to the 2016 Canadian census
- Languages: (2016) 77.7% English, 3.6% Tagalog, 2.3% Spanish, 1.6% French, 1.4% Vietnamese, 1.1% Mandarin, 0.9% Cantonese, 0.8% Panjabi, 0.8% Russian, 0.8% Arabic, 0.8% Polish, 0.6% German, 0.6% Urdu, 0.5% Romanian
| Panethnic group |
2021 | 2016 | 2011 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |||||||||
| European | 107,835 | 66.17% | 105,145 | 71.68% | 84,770 | 77.32% | ||||||||
| Southeast Asian | 16,700 | 10.25% | 12,405 | 8.46% | 8,360 | 7.63% | ||||||||
| South Asian | 9,080 | 5.57% | 6,520 | 4.45% | 3,370 | 3.07% | ||||||||
| East Asian | 6,415 | 3.94% | 5,415 | 3.69% | 2,880 | 2.63% | ||||||||
| Indigenous | 6,270 | 3.85% | 5,210 | 3.55% | 3,635 | 3.32% | ||||||||
| African | 6,100 | 3.74% | 4,415 | 3.01% | 2,270 | 2.07% | ||||||||
| Latin American | 4,830 | 2.96% | 3,245 | 2.21% | 1,830 | 1.67% | ||||||||
| Middle Eastern | 3,160 | 1.94% | 2,250 | 1.53% | 1,220 | 1.11% | ||||||||
| Other/Multiracial | 2,560 | 1.57% | 2,070 | 1.41% | 1,295 | 1.18% | ||||||||
| Total responses | 162,965 | 99.71% | 146,680 | 99.43% | 109,630 | 99.33% | ||||||||
| Total population | 163,447 | 100% | 147,520 | 100% | 110,364 | 100% | ||||||||
| Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries. | ||||||||||||||
02Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calgary Shepard Riding created from Calgary East and Calgary Southeast |
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| 42nd | 2015-2019 | Tom Kmiec | Conservative | |
| 43rd | 2019-2021 | |||
| 44th | 2021-2025 | |||
| 45th | 2025, present | |||
03Election results
2023 representation order
| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tom Kmiec | 44,363 | 67.99 | +6.79 | $64,954.09 | |||
| Liberal | Gul Khan | 18,421 | 28.23 | +14.31 | $19,103.62 | |||
| New Democratic | Tory Tomblin | 1,780 | 2.73 | , 13.30 | $22.50 | |||
| People's | Donald Legere | 383 | 0.59 | , 5.14 | $140.32 | |||
| Green | Robert Frasch | 302 | 0.46 | , 1.24 | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 65,249 | 99.55 | , | $135,545.23 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 294 | 0.45 | , 0.11 | |||||
| Turnout | 65,543 | 71.97 | +7.96 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 91,069 | |||||||
| Conservative notional hold | Swing | , 3.76 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| 2021 federal election redistributed results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 30,941 | 61.20 | |
| New Democratic | 8,105 | 16.03 | |
| Liberal | 7,039 | 13.92 | |
| People's | 2,897 | 5.73 | |
| Green | 857 | 1.70 | |
| Others | 716 | 1.40 | |
2013 representation order
| 2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tom Kmiec | 44,411 | 60.37 | , 14.64 | $47,284.36 | |||
| New Democratic | Raj Jessel | 12,103 | 16.45 | +7.71 | none listed | |||
| Liberal | Cam Macdonald | 10,303 | 14.01 | +2.95 | $2,027.58 | |||
| People's | Ron Vaillant | 4,284 | 5.82 | +3.63 | $7,189.88 | |||
| Green | Evelyn Tanaka | 1,300 | 1.77 | , 1.23 | $3,056.27 | |||
| Maverick | Andrea Lee | 874 | 1.19 | , | $752.21 | |||
| Independent | Konstantine Muirhead | 228 | 0.31 | , | none listed | |||
| National Citizens Alliance | Jesse Halmo | 56 | 0.08 | , | $276.36 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 73,559 | 99.44 | , | $139,111.83 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 416 | 0.56 | +0.00 | |||||
| Turnout | 73,975 | 64.01 | , 5.74 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 115,565 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | , 11.18 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tom Kmiec | 58,614 | 75.01 | +9.14 | $42,824.82 | |||
| Liberal | Del Arnold | 8,644 | 11.06 | , 13.63 | $13,154.34 | |||
| New Democratic | David Brian Smith | 6,828 | 8.74 | +1.91 | none listed | |||
| Green | Evelyn Tanaka | 2,345 | 3.00 | +0.39 | $3,079.74 | |||
| People's | Kyle Scott | 1,709 | 2.19 | , | $24,324.77 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 78,140 | 99.44 | , | $132,659.53 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 441 | 0.56 | +0.25 | |||||
| Turnout | 78,581 | 69.75 | +1.89 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 112,660 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +11.39 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tom Kmiec | 43,706 | 65.87 | , 9.64 | $153,176.93 | |||
| Liberal | Jerome James | 16,379 | 24.69 | +17.50 | $7,037.44 | |||
| New Democratic | Dany Allard | 4,532 | 6.83 | , 4.30 | $10,097.24 | |||
| Green | Graham MacKenzie | 1,734 | 2.61 | , 2.95 | $1,050.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 66,351 | 99.69 | , | $241,369.87 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 208 | 0.31 | , | |||||
| Turnout | 66,559 | 67.86 | , | |||||
| Eligible voters | 98,085 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | , 13.57 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 29,904 | 75.52 | |
| New Democratic | 4,407 | 11.13 | |
| Liberal | 2,846 | 7.19 | |
| Green | 2,202 | 5.56 | |
| Others | 241 | 0.61 | |
Sources and credits
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