Battle River—Crowfoot
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Battle River–Crowfoot in relation to other Alberta federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order. | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Conservative | ||
| District created | 2013 | ||
| First contested | 2015 | ||
| Last contested | 2021 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 107,979 | ||
| Electors (2019) | 81,123 | ||
| Area (km²)[2] | 51,977.75 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2.1 | ||
| Census division(s) | Division No. 5, Division No. 7, Division No. 10, Division No. 11 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Beaver, Camrose, Camrose County, Drumheller, Kneehill, Leduc, Stettler, Stettler No. 6, Wainwright, Wainwright No. 61 | ||
Battle River—Crowfoot is a federal electoral district in Alberta.
Battle River—Crowfoot was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.[3] It was created out of parts of the electoral districts of Crowfoot and Vegreville—Wainwright.[4]
Even by the standards of rural Alberta, Battle River—Crowfoot is a strongly conservative riding. The riding and its predecessors have been represented by centre-right MPs for all but two years since 1935, and the major right-wing party of the day has usually won here in massive landslides. Since the 1990s, the major right-wing party of the day has won by some of the largest margins ever recorded in Canadian politics, with other parties lucky to get 30 percent of the vote between them. Its first member, Kevin Sorenson, was first elected for Crowfoot in 2000 with 70 percent of the vote–the only time that he garnered less than 80 percent of the vote. The current MP, Damien Kurek, won in 2019 with more than 85% of the vote.
Demographics
| Panethnic group |
2021[5] | 2016[6] | 2011[7] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |||||||||
| European[a] | 89,370 | 88.3% | 94,130 | 91.22% | 94,595 | 93.96% | ||||||||
| Indigenous | 5,485 | 5.42% | 4,465 | 4.33% | 3,340 | 3.32% | ||||||||
| Southeast Asian[b] | 2,985 | 2.95% | 2,200 | 2.13% | 1,110 | 1.1% | ||||||||
| East Asian[c] | 865 | 0.85% | 575 | 0.56% | 455 | 0.45% | ||||||||
| South Asian | 825 | 0.82% | 665 | 0.64% | 225 | 0.22% | ||||||||
| African | 755 | 0.75% | 495 | 0.48% | 330 | 0.33% | ||||||||
| Latin American | 430 | 0.42% | 265 | 0.26% | 295 | 0.29% | ||||||||
| Middle Eastern[d] | 125 | 0.12% | 185 | 0.18% | 175 | 0.17% | ||||||||
| Other/Multiracial[e] | 365 | 0.36% | 210 | 0.2% | 145 | 0.14% | ||||||||
| Total responses | 101,210 | 93.73% | 103,185 | 93.61% | 100,675 | 93.97% | ||||||||
| Total population | 107,979 | 100% | 110,223 | 100% | 107,140 | 100% | ||||||||
| Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries. | ||||||||||||||
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle River—Crowfoot Riding created from Crowfoot and Vegreville—Wainwright |
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| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Kevin Sorenson | Conservative | |
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | Damien Kurek | ||
| 44th | 2021–present | |||
Election results
Graph of election results in Battle River—Crowfoot (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)
2023 representation order
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[8] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 42,531 | 71.38 | |
| New Democratic | 5,782 | 9.70 | |
| People's | 5,556 | 9.33 | |
| Liberal | 2,536 | 4.26 | |
| Green | 545 | 0.91 | |
| Others | 2,631 | 4.42 | |
2013 representation order
| 2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Damien Kurek | 41,819 | 71.3 | -14.2 | $82,245.43 | |||
| New Democratic | Tonya Ratushniak | 5,761 | 9.8 | +4.7 | $1,764.29 | |||
| People's | Dennis Trepanier | 5,440 | 9.3 | +6.7 | $1,916.25 | |||
| Liberal | Leah Diane McLeod | 2,515 | 4.3 | +0.2 | $0.00 | |||
| Maverick | Jeff Golka | 2,393 | 4.1 | – | $28,982.24 | |||
| Green | Daniel Brisbin | 554 | 0.9 | -1.8 | $234.04 | |||
| Veterans Coalition | John Irwin | 178 | 0.3 | — | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 58.660 | – | – | $135,622.71 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 260 | |||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Eligible voters | ||||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -9.45 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Damien Kurek | 53,309 | 85.5 | +4.59 | $61,063.42 | |||
| New Democratic | Natasha Fryzuk | 3,185 | 5.1 | -1.44 | $0.00 | |||
| Liberal | Dianne Clarke | 2,557 | 4.1 | -5.26 | none listed | |||
| Green | Geordie Nelson | 1,689 | 2.7 | -0.48 | $2,467.23 | |||
| People's | David A. Michaud | 1,620 | 2.6 | - | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 62,360 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 352 | |||||||
| Turnout | 62,712 | 77.3 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 81,123 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +3.02 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[10][11][12] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Kevin Sorenson | 47,552 | 80.91 | –2.18 | $39,101.55 | |||
| Liberal | Andy Kowalski | 5,505 | 9.37 | +7.21 | $1,133.54 | |||
| New Democratic | Katherine Swampy | 3,844 | 6.54 | –3.30 | $9,738.25 | |||
| Green | Gary Kelly | 1,868 | 3.18 | –0.72 | $419.14 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 58,769 | 100.00 | $264,066.87 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 160 | 0.27 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 58,929 | 73.02 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 80,698 | |||||||
| Conservative notional hold | Swing | –4.69 | ||||||
| This riding was created from parts of Crowfoot and Vegreville—Wainwright, both of which elected Conservative candidates in the 2011 election. Kevin Sorenson was the incumbent from Crowfoot. Changes are based on redistributed results. | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[13][14] | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[15] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 39,645 | 83.09 | |
| New Democratic | 4,694 | 9.84 | |
| Green | 1,859 | 3.90 | |
| Liberal | 1,028 | 2.15 | |
| Others | 487 | 1.02 | |
Towns / villages / cities in Battle River—Crowfoot
- Acadia Valley
- Alliance
- Amisk
- Bashaw
- Bawlf
- Big Valley
- Bittern Lake
- Botha
- Camrose
- Castor
- Cereal
- Chauvin
- Consort
- Coronation
- Czar
- Daysland
- Delia
- Drumheller
- Edberg
- Edgerton
- Empress
- Ferintosh
- Forestburg
- Gadsby
- Galahad
- Halkirk
- Hanna
- Hardisty
- Hay Lakes
- Heisler
- Holden
- Hughenden
- Irma
- Killam
- Lougheed
- Morrin
- Munson
- New Norway
- Oyen
- Provost
- Rosalind
- Round Hill
- Rumsey
- Ryley
- Sedgewick
- Stettler
- Strome
- Three Hills
- Tofield
- Trochu
- Veteran
- Viking
- Wainwright
- Youngstown
See also
Notes
- ^ Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
- ^ Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
- ^ Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
- ^ Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
- ^ Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.
References
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2017
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2017
- ^ Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
- ^ Report – Alberta
- ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 27, 2021). "Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (November 27, 2015). "NHS Profile". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ^ "Candidate Campaign Returns". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
- ^ "October 19, 2015 Election Results — Battle River—Crowfoot (Validated results)". Elections Canada. October 23, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
- ^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2015-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
