Banff-Kananaskis is a

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electoral district in

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. The district is 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 Alberta's Rocky Mountains and the adjacent foothills west of

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. Its largest communities are Banff and

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, and it contains the entirety of

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and

Kananaskis Country Kananaskis Country is a multi-use area west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the Rocky Mountain Foothills, foothills and front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The area is named for the Kananaskis River, which was named by John Palliser in 1858 after ...

, for which it is named. Stretching east to Calgary's border, some farming communities are also included, as well as the

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communities of the Tsuu T'ina Nation and the Îyârhe Nakoda's Stoney Reserves.

History

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended moving the city of Cochrane to the new riding of

Airdrie-Cochrane Airdrie-Cochrane is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was ...

, requiring a new name for

Banff-Cochrane Banff-Cochrane was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1940 to 1975, and again from 1979 to 2019. The Banff-Cochrane electoral district is home to ...

. The district gained small areas to the south and west from Airdrie,

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and Livingstone-Macleod, including the entirety of

. The Commission also decided to join the Stoney Reserves and Tsuu T'ina Reserve into the same district for representation purposes. In 2017, the Banff-Kananaskis electoral district had a population of 46,824, which was slightly above the provincial average of 46,803 for a provincial electoral district. In the

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candidate

Miranda Rosin Miranda Rosin (born ) is a Canadian politician in Alberta representing the electoral district of Banff-Kananaskis for the United Conservative Party. Political career Rosin was named the UCP's candidate for Banff-Kananaskis on November 1, 2018. ...

was elected with 51 per cent of the vote, defeating

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incumbent candidate

Cam Westhead Warren Cameron Westhead (born 1977) is a Canadian former politician and operating room nurse who served one term in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the electoral district of Banff-Cochrane Banff-Cochrane was a provincial ele ...

Geography

History

Electoral results

2010s

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