Calgary-Forest Lawn was a provincial

electoral district An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...

Calgary Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in C ...

Alberta Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...

, Canada, mandated to return a single

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to the

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using the

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method of voting from 1979 to 1993.

History

The Calgary-Forest Lawn electoral district was created in the 1979 electoral re-distribution from the southern end of the

Calgary-McCall Calgary-Bhullar-McCall is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. It was created in 1971, and was named after Frederick McCall and the McCall Industrial Park. As of the 2010 redistricting, the industria ...

electoral district. The riding was abolished in the 1993 electoral district re-distribution when it merged with part of

Calgary-Millican Calgary-Millican was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1971 to 1993. History The Calgary-M ...

to re-form

Calgary-East Calgary-East (formally styled Calgary East) is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Calgary-East has existed twice, the first incarnatio ...

. The riding was named after the Calgary community and former town of Forest Lawn.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

Election results

1979

1982

1986

1989

References

External links

Elections AlbertaThe Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Former provincial electoral districts of Alberta Politics of Calgary {{Canada-constituency-stub