Calgary Midnapore is a federal

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, Canada, that has been represented in the

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since 2015. It has been represented by

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since she won the 2017 by-election. Calgary Midnapore 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

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, which was held in October 2015. It was created mostly out of the former seat of

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, with smaller portions coming from

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and

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. It is named for the

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neighbourhood. While Calgary has long tilted rightward, Calgary Midnapore is located in a particularly conservative area of Calgary. Counting its time as Calgary Southeast, it has always been held by a member of the major right-wing party of the day, often by large margins. After neighbouring

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(the former Calgary Southwest), it is the second-safest Conservative riding in Calgary.

Boundaries

Consisting of that part of the City of Calgary described as follows: commencing at the intersection of Macleod Trail S with Glenmore Trail SE (Highway No. 8); thence generally easterly along Glenmore Trail SE (Highway No. 8) to the left bank of the Bow River; thence generally southerly along said bank, including all islands adjacent to the river bank, to the southerly limit of said city; thence southerly, westerly and generally northwesterly along the southerly and westerly limits of said city to Spruce Meadows Way SW; thence northerly along said way and northerly and easterly along James McKevitt Road SW to Macleod Trail S; thence generally northerly along said trail to the point of commencement.

Demographics

In 2013, a total of 111,227 persons lived in the riding's boundaries. Of these, 86,000 spoke English as their "mother tongue" and 1,650 claimed French as their native language. Of the more than 20,000 who spoke English as a second language, or not at all, the next largest group was the over 2,600 who spoke

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(Filipino).[Statistics Canada. 2012. Calgary Midnapore, Alberta (Code 48008) and Alberta (Code 48) (table). Census Profile. 2011 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-316-XWE. Ottawa. Released October 24, 2012. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E (accessed August 3, 2015). Statistics Canada website] The number of residents who spoke English as their first official Canadian language was 107,320, and 1,580 spoke French as their primary official language.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the

Election results

2023 representation order

2013 representation order

Notes

References

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