# Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill

Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill 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 2012 to 2019.

## History

The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created when Calgary-Mackay and Calgary-Nose Hill were merged along with a large chunk of Calgary-McCall.
The Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution into Calgary-Beddington and Calgary-North electoral districts ahead of the 2019 Alberta general election.

### Boundary history

19 Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill 2010 boundaries :
| Bordering districts ||||
| North | East | West | South |
| Chestermere-Rocky View | Calgary-McCall | Calgary-Foothills and Calgary-Northern Hills | Calgary-Cross, Calgary-Klein and Calgary-Varsity |
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act ||||

### Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill :
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| See Calgary-Mackay 2004–2012 Calgary-McCall 1971–2012 Calgary-Nose Hill 2004–2012 |||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Neil Brown | Progressive Conservative |
| 29th | 2015–2017 | Karen McPherson | New Democratic |
| 29th | 2017 | Karen McPherson | Independent |
| 29th | 2017–2019 | Karen McPherson | Alberta Party |
| See Calgary-Beddington and Calgary-North 2019– |||||
The antecedent electoral districts that comprise Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill generally returned Progressive Conservative candidates for many years. Progressive Conservative MLA Neil Brown was the first elected member for the electoral district in 2012. Neil Brown would be defeated by New Democratic MLA Karen McPherson in 2015. McPherson would leave the NDP caucus in 2017 and join the Alberta Party a week later.

## Legislative election results
### 2012

vte2012 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Neil Brown | 6,604 | 46.47% | – |
| | Wildrose | Roy M. Alexander | 5,455 | 38.39% | – |
| | Liberal | Don Thompson | 1,105 | 7.78% | – |
| | New Democratic | Anne Wilson | 840 | 5.91% | – |
| | Alberta Party | Jason Webster | 207 | 1.46% | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 14,211 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 69 | – | – |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 29,193 | 48.92% | – |
| | 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: "19 - Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||

### 2015

vte2015 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | New Democratic | Karen McPherson | 6,177 | 36.86% | 30.94% |
| | Wildrose | Kathy Macdonald | 4,914 | 29.32% | -9.07% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Neil Brown | 4,585 | 27.36% | -19.11% |
| | Liberal | Prab Lashar | 768 | 4.58% | -3.19% |
| | Green | Sandy Kevin Aberdeen | 316 | 1.89% | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 16,760 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 91 | – | – |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 34,487 | 48.86% | -0.05% |
| | New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | Swing | -0.27% |
| Source(s) Source: "19 - Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill Official Results 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||

## Student vote results
### 2012

2012 Alberta student vote results :
| Affiliation | Affiliation | Candidate | % |
| | Progressive Conservative | Neil Brown | % |
| | Wildrose | Roy Alexander |
| | Liberal | Don Thompson | % |
| | Alberta Party | Jason Webster |
| | NDP | Anne Wilson | % |
| | Social Credit | | % |
| Total | Total | Total | 100% |