Crowfoot (electoral district)

Crowfoot
Alberta electoral district
	Crowfoot in relation to the other Alberta ridings (2003 boundaries)
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1966
District abolished	2013
First contested	1968
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	125,481
Electors (2011)	87,897
Area (km²)	42,810.46
Census division(s)	Division No. 5, Division No. 6, Division No. 7, Division No. 10
Census subdivision(s)	Rocky View County, Camrose, Mountain View County, Strathmore, Chestermere, Wheatland County, Drumheller, Camrose County, Stettler, Kneehill County

Crowfoot was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 2015.

It was located in the central part of the province, and is named in honour of Chief Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot First Nations in the 19th century.

Even by the standards of rural Alberta, Crowfoot was a strongly conservative riding. The major right-wing party of the day--Progressive Conservative (1968–1993), Reform (1993–2000), Canadian Alliance (2000–2003) and Conservative (after 2003)-- won every election in this riding, usually by some of the largest recorded margins in Canadian politics. As a measure of how conservative this riding is, Jack Horner, the riding's original member, crossed the floor to the Liberals in 1977, only to tumble to only 18 percent of the vote in 1979.

This electoral district was also home to the largest margin of victory in any federal riding in the 2004 and 2006 federal elections. Conservative candidate Kevin Sorenson won 37,649 votes, or 80.2% of the riding's total in 2004. This represented a difference of 34,034 votes, or 72.5%, from the candidate with the riding's second most votes, Liberal Adam Campbell who only received 3,615 votes, or 7.7% of the riding's votes. It was the riding with the highest Conservative vote in the 2004 and 2006 elections. In 2006, Sorenson increased his vote even further, to 43,009 votes, 82.5% of the total.

Geography

The district included the City of Camrose; the Town of Drumheller; the Municipal District of Acadia No. 34; Wheatland County; Kneehill County; Starland County; the County of Stettler No. 6; the County of Paintearth No. 18; Camrose County; and all of Alberta's three special areas (Nos. 2, 3 and 4).

History

This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Medicine Hat, Acadia, Bow River and Macleod ridings.

In 2003, parts of Wild Rose riding were added.

It was abolished in 2012. Most of the riding's eastern portion became Battle River—Crowfoot, with much of the western portion transferring to Bow River and Red Deer—Mountain View. Some outer western portions of the riding that had been annexed into Calgary joined Calgary Shepard and Calgary Forest Lawn.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Crowfoot Riding created from Medicine Hat, Acadia, Bow River and Macleod
28th	1968–1972	Jack Horner	Progressive Conservative
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1977
30th	1977–1979		Liberal
31st	1979–1980	Arnold Malone	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997	Jack Ramsay	Reform
36th	1997–2000		Reform
	2000–2000		Independent Canadian Alliance
	2000–2000		Independent
37th	2000–2003	Kevin Sorenson	Alliance
37th	2003–2004		Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
Riding dissolved into Battle River—Crowfoot, Bow River, Red Deer—Mountain View, Calgary Shepard and Calgary Forest Lawn

Election results

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Kevin Sorenson	44,115	83.99	+1.95	$33,424
	New Democratic	Ellen Parker	4,805	9.15	+1.25	$10,007
	Green	Konrad Schellenberg	1,711	3.26	-2.71	$0
	Liberal	Omar Harb	1,224	2.33	-1.76	$4,589
	Independent	John C. Turner	463	0.88	–	$2,667
	Christian Heritage	Gerard Groenedijk	204	0.39	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,522	100.00
Total rejected ballots			131	0.25	-0.02
Turnout			52,653	59.73	+5
Eligible voters			88,152	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Kevin Sorenson	39,342	82.04	-0.52	$63,199
	New Democratic	Ellen Parker	3,783	7.90	+0.50	$5,585
	Green	Kaitlin Kettenbach	2,875	5.97	+1.49
	Liberal	Sharon Howe	1,958	4.09	-1.47	$1,397
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,958	100.00	$106,273
Total rejected ballots			127	0.26	-0.01
Turnout			48,085	55	-10
	Conservative hold		Swing		-0.51

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Kevin Sorenson	43,210	82.56	+2.36
	New Democratic	Ellen Parker	3,875	7.40	+0.50
	Liberal	Adam Campbell	2,908	5.56	-2.14
	Green	Cameron Wigmore	2,347	4.48	+0.66
Total valid votes			52,340	100.00
Total rejected ballots			142	0.27	+0.07
Turnout			52,482	65	+3

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Kevin Sorenson	37,649	80.20	-4.51	$43,903
	Liberal	Adam Campbell	3,615	7.70	+1.51	$3,455
	New Democratic	Ellen Parker	3,241	6.90	+3.86	$2,514
	Green	Arnold Baker	1,795	3.82	–
	Marijuana	Max Leonard Cornelssen	639	1.36	–
Total valid votes			46,939	100.00
Total rejected ballots			89	0.19	-0.01
Turnout			47,028	62.36	-3.82

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance vote in 2000.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Kevin Sorenson	33,767	70.55	-0.44	$44,001
	Progressive Conservative	Verlyn Olson	6,778	14.16	-1.34	$18,591
	Liberal	Orest Werezak	2,964	6.19	-3.52	$2,938
	Independent	Jack Ramsay	2,668	5.57	–	$18,085
	New Democratic	Jay Russell	1,457	3.04	-0.75	$788
	Independent	Valerie Morrow	223	0.46	–	$7,959
Total valid votes			47,857	100.00
Total rejected ballots			117	0.20	0.00
Turnout			47,974	66.18	+2.12

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Jack Ramsay	30,589	70.99	+4.95	$48,007
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Marshall	6,679	15.50	-2.48	$18,052
	Liberal	Redford W. Peeples	4,185	9.71	-2.82	$5,178
	New Democratic	Bill Scotten	1,635	3.79	+1.39	$859
Total valid votes			43,088	100.00
Total rejected ballots			79	0.2
Turnout			43,167	64.06

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Jack Ramsay (politician)	23,550	66.04	+33.99
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Heidecker	6,411	17.98	-35.70
	Liberal	Darryl Sandford	4,468	12.53	+5.93
	New Democratic	Berend J. Wilting	857	2.40	-5.26
	Natural Law	Alan J. Livingston	260	0.73
	Independent	Anita Ashmore	113	0.32
Total valid votes			35,659	100.00

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arnold Malone	19,079	53.68	-24.15
	Reform	Jack Ramsay	11,392	32.05
	New Democratic	Fred Rappel	2,725	7.67	-1.67
	Liberal	Doug Moe	2,344	6.60	-0.76
Total valid votes			35,540	100.00

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arnold Malone	26,291	77.83	+1.22
	New Democratic	L. Gladys Creasy	3,153	9.33	+3.10
	Liberal	Vange MacNaughton	2,483	7.35	-8.18
	Confederation of Regions	Joe Domanski	1,559	4.62
	Social Credit	Arthur E. Robinson	294	0.87	-0.75
Total valid votes			33,780	100.00

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arnold Malone	23,491	76.61	-0.51
	Liberal	Jack Horner	4,761	15.53	-2.67
	New Democratic	Roger Milbrandt	1,912	6.24	+1.56
	Social Credit	Jim Green	498	1.62
Total valid votes			30,662	100.00

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arnold Malone	25,202	77.12	+1.62
	Liberal	Jack Horner	5,947	18.20	+3.65
	New Democratic	Roger Milbrandt	1,529	4.68	+0.20
Total valid votes			32,678	100.00

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Horner	18,048	75.51	-0.03
	Liberal	Ernest R. Patterson	3,477	14.55	+4.06
	Social Credit	Jim Green	1,307	5.47	-1.69
	New Democratic	Muriel McCreary	1,071	4.48	-2.34
Total valid votes			23,903	100.00

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Horner	18,667	75.54	+2.09
	Liberal	Andy McAlister	2,591	10.48	-10.80
	Social Credit	Jim Green	1,768	7.15
	New Democratic	Gloria Jean Ann Mcgowan	1,686	6.82	+1.55
Total valid votes			24,712	100.00

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Horner	16,508	73.45
	Liberal	Noel Sharp	4,783	21.28
	New Democratic	Stuart McCready	1,185	5.27
Total valid votes			22,476	100.00