# Cardston-Siksika

Cardston-Siksika is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was 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 contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.

## Geography

The district is located in southern Alberta, stretching from Namaka (east of Calgary) to the border with Montana. It contains all of Vulcan County, the northern portions of Lethbridge County and MD of Taber which includes Vauxhall and Hays, and all of Cardston County, as well as the Treaty 7 reserves of the Kainai and Siksika nations.

## History

Members for Cardston-Siksika :
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| See Little Bow 1913–2019 and Cardston- Taber-Warner 1997–2019 |||||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Joseph Schow | United Conservative |
| 31st | 2023– | Joseph Schow | United Conservative |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended reducing the number of districts in southern Alberta due to relatively slow population growth. The creation of "Cardston/Siksika", was the final boundary change for the new riding. The first suggestion of the Boundary Commission was the "Taber/Vulcan" riding which extended from north of Vulcan to the Canada/U.S border, east to the Alberta/Saskatchewan border, north to Medicine Hat and west to the Bow River. Little Bow MLA Dave Schneider presented at all Boundary Commission meetings that Taber/Vulcan was much too large. The final review resulted in a change of the boundaries of the proposed riding to the present "Cardston/Siksika" riding.

## Electoral results
### 2023

vte2023 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | United Conservative | Joseph Schow | 10,550 | 74.12 | +0.57 |
| | New Democratic | Colleen Quintal | 2,527 | 17.75 | +1.75 |
| | Independent | Angela Tabak | 871 | 6.12 | – |
| | Alberta Independence | Terry Wolsey | 251 | 1.76 | – |
| | Solidarity Movement | Pär Wantenaar | 35 | 0.25 | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 14,234 | 99.55 | – |
| Rejected and declined | Rejected and declined | Rejected and declined | 64 | 0.45 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 14,298 | 55.10 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 25,951 |
| | United Conservative hold | United Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | -0.59 |
| Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta |||||||

### 2019

vte2019 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | United Conservative | Joseph Schow | 11,980 | 73.55 | 1.01 |
| | New Democratic | Kirby Smith | 2,606 | 16.00 | -7.49 |
| | Independent | Ian A. Donovan | 727 | 4.46 | – |
| | Alberta Party | Casey Douglass | 589 | 3.62 | – |
| | Freedom Conservative | Jerry Gautreau | 214 | 1.31 | – |
| | Liberal | Cathleen McFarland | 173 | 1.06 | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 16,289 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 23 | 62 | 8 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 25,050 | 65.15% | – |
| | United Conservative pickup new district. | United Conservative pickup new district. | United Conservative pickup new district. | United Conservative pickup new district. | United Conservative pickup new district. | United Conservative pickup new district. | United Conservative pickup new district. |
| Source(s) Source: "54 - Cardston-Siksika, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 232–236. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021. |||||||

### 2015

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election :
| Wildrose | 5,440 | 39.55 |
| Progressive Conservative | 4,538 | 32.99 |
| New Democratic | 3,231 | 23.49 |
| Others | 545 | 3.96 |