# 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 incarnation was created from Calgary North East in the redistribution of 1963. The riding was abolished in 1971 when it became Calgary-McCall. The return of Calgary-East happened in the 1993 boundary redistribution when Calgary-Forest Lawn and half of Calgary-Millican were merged.
This riding covers the central north east portion of Calgary and contains the neighbourhoods of Vista Heights, Rundle, Marlborough and Mayland Heights.
Three MLAs have held this riding to date. The first Calgary East was represented by Social Credit MLA Albert Ludwig and the second Calgary-East solidly supported Progressive Conservative candidate Moe Amery, until the 2015 Alberta election when the riding was won by NDP candidate Robyn Luff.

## History

The original Calgary East electoral district was created in the 1963 boundary redistribution out of Calgary North East. It was abolished in 1971 and split between the new districts of Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Millican. The riding was re-created as Calgary-East in the 1993 boundary redistribution when most of Millican and Calgary-Forest Lawn were merged.
The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the eastern boundary extended east to 68 Street NE into land that was part of old Calgary-Montrose electoral district. The northern boundary cut off all land north of 16 Avenue NE and ceded it to Calgary-Cross. This change also resulted in East picking up some land that had been in old Calgary-North Hill.

### Boundary history

6 Calgary-East 2003 boundaries :
| Bordering districts ||||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Cross, Calgary-McCall | Calgary-Montrose | Calgary-Mountain View, Calgary-North Hill | Calgary-Fort |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act. ||||
| Starting at the intersection of 19 Street NE with 16 Avenue NE; then 1. east along 16 Avenue NE to Barlow Trail NE; 2. north along Barlow Trail NE to 32 Avenue NE; 3. east along 32 Avenue NE to 52 Street NE; 4. south along 52 Street NE to 8 Avenue SE; 5. west along 8 Avenue SE to 36 Street SE; 6. south along 36 Street SE to 26 Avenue SE; 7. west along 26 Avenue SE and its extension to the right bank of the Bow River; 8. northwest along the right bank of the Bow River to the Canadian Pacific Railway line; 9. north along the Canadian Pacific Railway line to the Light Rail Transit (LRT) line; 10. east along the LRT line to Deerfoot Trail NE; 11. north along Deerfoot Trail NE to 8 Avenue NE; 12. east along 8 Avenue NE to 19 Street NE; 13. north along 19 Street NE to the starting point. ||||
| Note: ||||
8 Calgary-East 2010 boundaries :
| Bordering districts ||||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Cross | Calgary-Green Way | Calgary-Klein and Calgary-Mountain View | Calgary-Fort |
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. ||||
| Note: ||||

### Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-East :
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| See Calgary North East 1959–1963 |||||
| 16th | 1963–1967 | Albert Ludwig | Social Credit |
| 17th | 1967–1971 | Albert Ludwig | Social Credit |
| See Calgary-McCall 1971–present and Calgary-Millican 1971–1993 |||||
| See Calgary-Forest Lawn and Calgary-Millican 1971–1993 |||||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | Moe Amery | Progressive Conservative |
| 24th | 1997–2001 | Moe Amery | Progressive Conservative |
| 25th | 2001–2004 | Moe Amery | Progressive Conservative |
| 26th | 2004–2008 | Moe Amery | Progressive Conservative |
| 27th | 2008–2012 | Moe Amery | Progressive Conservative |
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Moe Amery | Progressive Conservative |
| 29th | 2015–2018 | Robyn Luff | New Democratic |
| 29th | 2018–2019 | Robyn Luff | Independent |
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Peter Singh | United Conservative |
| 31st | 2023–present | Peter Singh | United Conservative |
The first electoral district of Calgary East was created in the boundary redistribution in 1963. The first and only member to represent the old district was Social Credit Member of the Legislative Assembly Albert Ludwig who had been the incumbent in the predecessor riding of Calgary North East.
The 1963 general election saw Ludwig win a super majority taking over 60% of the popular vote. He was re-elected again in the 1967 election winning just over half of the vote. He held the riding until was abolished in 1971.
The second Calgary-East was created in 1993 from a few different riding's. The election in 1993 saw Progressive Conservative candidate Moe Amery defeat former Calgary-Forest Lawn NDP incumbent Barry Pashak to pick up the new district. This was the third time these two candidates had run against each other.
Amery has since been returned to the district four more times.

## Legislative election results
### 1963

1963 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Social Credit | Albert W. Ludwig | 4,763 | 60.37% | – |
| | Progressive Conservative | Bill Duncan | 1,497 | 18.97% | – |
| | New Democratic | Dick Dunlop | 953 | 12.08% | – |
| | Liberal | Evelyn Leew | 677 | 8.58% | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 7,890 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 18 | – | – |
| Eligible electors / Turnout | Eligible electors / Turnout | Eligible electors / Turnout | 17,729 | 44.60% | – |
| | Social Credit pickup new district. | Social Credit pickup new district. | Social Credit pickup new district. | Social Credit pickup new district. | Social Credit pickup new district. | Social Credit pickup new district. | Social Credit pickup new district. |
| Source(s) Source: "Calgary-East Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||

### 1967

1967 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Social Credit | Albert W. Ludwig | 5,563 | 50.88% | -9.49% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Jim Crawford | 2,613 | 23.90% | 4.92% |
| | New Democratic | Kurt Gebauer | 1,955 | 17.88% | 5.80% |
| | Liberal | Sandy Skoryko | 803 | 7.34% | -1.24% |
| Total | Total | Total | 10,934 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 98 | – | – |
| Eligible electors / Turnout | Eligible electors / Turnout | Eligible electors / Turnout | 20,779 | 53.09% | 8.49% |
| | Social Credit hold | Social Credit hold | Swing | Swing | -7.21% |
| Source(s) Source: "Calgary-East Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||

### 1993–present

vte1993 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Moe Amery | 5,503 | 54.48% | – |
| | New Democratic | Barry Pashak | 2,306 | 22.83% | – |
| | Liberal | Dale Muti | 1,689 | 16.72% | – |
| | Social Credit | Lera G. Shirley | 366 | 3.62% | – |
| | Independent | Alain Horchower | 237 | 2.35% | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 10,101 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 34 | – | – |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 20,638 | 49.11% | – |
| | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. |
| Source(s) Source: "Calgary-East Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||
vte1997 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Moe Amery | 4,857 | 60.19% | 5.71% |
| | Liberal | Kelly McDonnell | 1,990 | 24.66% | 7.94% |
| | Social Credit | Raymond (Chick) Hurst | 613 | 7.60% | 3.97% |
| | New Democratic | Marg Elliot | 609 | 7.55% | -15.28% |
| Total | Total | Total | 8,069 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 50 | 15 | 6 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 21,214 | 38.30% | -10.81% |
| | Progressive Conservative hold | Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | 1.94% |
| Source(s) Source: "Calgary-East Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (1997). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, November, 1996 general enumeration and Tuesday, March 11, 1997 general election Twenty-fourth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. pp. 100–101. |||||||
vte2001 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Moe Amery | 6,038 | 70.82% | 10.63% |
| | Liberal | Brendan Dunphy | 2,010 | 23.57% | -1.09% |
| | New Democratic | Giorgio Cattabeni | 328 | 3.85% | -3.70% |
| | Social Credit | Alan Schoonover | 109 | 1.28% | -6.32% |
| | Communist | Jason Devine | 41 | 0.48% | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 8,526 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 27 | 15 | 33 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 20,509 | 41.86% | 3.56% |
| | Progressive Conservative hold | Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | 5.86% |
| Source(s) Source: "Calgary-East Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2001). The report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2000 provincial confirmation process and Monday, March 12, 2001, Provincial General Election of the twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. pp. 72–73. |||||||
vte2004 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Moe Amery | 4,484 | 53.82% | -17.00% |
| | Liberal | Bill Harvey | 2,357 | 28.29% | 4.71% |
| | Alberta Alliance | Brad Berard | 606 | 7.27% | – |
| | New Democratic | Paul Vargis | 464 | 5.57% | 1.72% |
| | Green | Rick Michalenko | 365 | 4.38% | – |
| | Communist | Bonnie-Jean Collins | 56 | 0.67% | 0.19% |
| Total | Total | Total | 8,332 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 56 | 43 | 3 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 22,759 | 36.87% | -5.00% |
| | Progressive Conservative hold | Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | -10.86% |
| Source(s) Source: "Calgary-East Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 15, 2010. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2005). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Enumeration and General Election of the Twenty-sixth Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. pp. 100–103. |||||||
vte2008 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Moe Amery | 4,583 | 53.85% | 0.04% |
| | Liberal | Bill Harvey | 2,433 | 28.59% | 0.30% |
| | Wildrose Alliance | Mike McCracken | 681 | 8.00% | 0.73% |
| | New Democratic | Christopher Dovey | 425 | 4.99% | -0.57% |
| | Green | Ross Cameron | 333 | 3.91% | -0.47% |
| | Communist | Bonnie-Jean Collins | 55 | 0.65% | -0.03% |
| Total | Total | Total | 8,510 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 37 | 24 | 11 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 28,616 | 29.99% | – |
| | Progressive Conservative hold | Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | -0.13% |
| Source(s) Source: "06 - Calgary-East, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2008). The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-Seventh Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 190–193. Retrieved April 7, 2021. |||||||
vte2012 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Moe Amery | 5,924 | 45.57% | -8.29% |
| | Wildrose Alliance | Jasbir (Jesse) Minhas | 4,995 | 38.42% | 30.42% |
| | New Democratic | Robyn Luff | 1,136 | 8.74% | 3.74% |
| | Liberal | Ali Abdulbaki | 780 | 6.00% | -22.59% |
| | Communist | Bonnie Devine | 166 | 1.28% | 0.63% |
| Total | Total | Total | 13,001 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 143 | 42 | 29 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 30,196 | 43.62% | 11.27% |
| | Progressive Conservative hold | Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | -9.06% |
| Source(s) Source: "08 - Calgary-East, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2012). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2011 Provincial Enumeration and Monday, April 23, 2012 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 120–123. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021. |||||||
vte2015 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | New Democratic | Robyn Luff | 5,506 | 39.18% | 30.44% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Moe Amery | 3,971 | 28.26% | -17.31% |
| | Wildrose | Ali Waissi | 3,633 | 25.85% | -12.57% |
| | Liberal | Naser Al-Kukhun | 806 | 5.74% | -0.26% |
| | Communist | Bonnie Devine | 138 | 0.98% | -0.29% |
| Total | Total | Total | 14,054 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 61 | 40 | 32 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 34,585 | 40.91% | -2.72% |
| | New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | Swing | 1.89% |
| Source(s) Source: "08 - Calgary-East, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2016). 2015 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 116–120. |||||||
2015 Alberta general election redistributed results :
| Party | Party | Votes | % |
| | New Democratic | 5,177 | 40.49 |
| | Progressive Conservative | 3,573 | 27.95 |
| | Wildrose | 3,364 | 26.31 |
| | Liberal | 460 | 3.60 |
| | Alberta Party | 156 | 1.22 |
| | Communist | 55 | 0.43 |
| Source(s) Source: Ridingbuilder ||||
vte2019 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | United Conservative | Peter Singh | 7,520 | 49.72 | -4.54 | $33,681 |
| | New Democratic | Cesar Cala | 4,867 | 32.18 | -8.31 | $50,555 |
| | Alberta Party | Gar Gar | 1,879 | 12.42 | +11.20 | $16,933 |
| | Liberal | Michelle Robinson | 439 | 2.90 | -0.70 | $3,792 |
| | Green | William Carnegie | 351 | 2.32 | – | $3,515 |
| | Communist | Jonathan Trautman | 69 | 0.46 | +0.03 | $500 |
| Total | Total | Total | 15,125 | 99.12 | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 135 | 0.88 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 15,260 | 47.92 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 31,843 |
| | United Conservative notional hold | United Conservative notional hold | Swing | Swing | +1.89 |
| Source(s) Source: Elections AlbertaNote: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000. |||||||
vte2023 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | United Conservative | Peter Singh | 7,123 | 50.23 | +0.51 |
| | New Democratic | Rosman Valencia | 6,425 | 45.31 | +13.13 |
| | Green | Jayden Baldonado | 403 | 2.84 | +0.52 |
| | Solidarity Movement | Garry Dirk | 166 | 1.17 | – |
| | Communist | Jonathan Trautman | 64 | 0.45 | -0.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | 14,181 | 99.02 | – |
| Rejected and declined | Rejected and declined | Rejected and declined | 141 | 0.98 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 14,322 | 44.41 |
| Eligible electors | Eligible electors | Eligible electors | 32,250 |
| | United Conservative hold | United Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | -6.31 |
| Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta |||||||

## Senate nominee election results
### 2004

| 2004 Senate Nominee Election results: Calgary-East | 2004 Senate Nominee Election results: Calgary-East | 2004 Senate Nominee Election results: Calgary-East | 2004 Senate Nominee Election results: Calgary-East | 2004 Senate Nominee Election results: Calgary-East | Turnout 37.08% | Turnout 37.08% |
| | Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank |
| | Progressive Conservative | Bert Brown | 3,691 | 17.09% | 50.54% | 1 |
| | Progressive Conservative | Jim Silye | 2,862 | 13.25% | 39.19% | 5 |
| | Progressive Conservative | Betty Unger | 2,840 | 13.15% | 38.89% | 2 |
| | Progressive Conservative | Cliff Breitkreuz | 2,333 | 10.80% | 31.95% | 3 |
| | Progressive Conservative | David Usherwood | 2,074 | 9.61% | 28.40% | 6 |
| | Independent | Link Byfield | 1,870 | 8.66% | 25.61% | 4 |
| | Alberta Alliance | Vance Gough | 1,533 | 7.10% | 20.99% | 8 |
| | Alberta Alliance | Michael Roth | 1,497 | 6.93% | 20.50% | 7 |
| | Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 1,453 | 6.73% | 19.90% | 9 |
| | Alberta Alliance | Gary Horan | 1,441 | 6.68% | 19.73% | 10 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 21,594 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Total ballots | Total ballots | Total ballots | 7,303 | 2.96 votes per ballot | 2.96 votes per ballot | 2.96 votes per ballot |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 1,136 | 1,136 | 1,136 | 1,136 |
| 22,759 eligible electors |||||||
Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

## Student vote results
### 2004

* Participating schools
* Bob Edwards Junior High School
* Chris Akkerman Elementary
* Dr. Gordon Higgins Junior High School
* Sir Wilfrid Laurier School
On November 19, 2004, a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.
2004 Alberta student vote results :
| | Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Progressive Conservative | Moe Amery | 252 | 35.49% |
| | Liberal | Bill Harvey | 161 | 22.68% |
| | New Democratic | Paul Vargis | 140 | 19.72% |
| | Green | Rich Michelenko | 99 | 13.94% |
| | Communist | Bonnie Devine | 30 | 4.23% |
| | Alberta Alliance | Brad Berard | 28 | 3.94% |
| Total | Total | Total | 710 | 100% |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 28 | 28 |

### 2012

2012 Alberta student vote results :
| | Affiliation | Candidate | % |
| | Progressive Conservative | Moe Amery | % |
| | Wildrose | Jesse Minhas |
| | Liberal | Ali Abdulbaki | % |
| | New Democratic | Robyn Luff | % |
| | Social Credit | | % |
| Total | Total | Total | 100% |