Summary: This is a new riding, east of Calgary. There is no incumbent running here, so voters will send a new MP to Ottawa.
Boundaries: This new riding was created by combining pieces of the ridings of Crowfoot, Medicine Hat, and Macleod. Communities in this riding include Strathmore, Bassano, Brooks, Vulcan, Vauxhall and Taber.
Last Election: If this riding existed in 2011, the Conservatives would have earned 83.4 per cent of the vote, followed by the NDP with 8.2 per cent.
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History: This area has elected MP’s from the political right with large majorities for decades.
Candidates
Conservative: Martin Shields
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NDP: Lynn MacWilliam, Bassano councillor
Liberal: William Alexander, political science student, University of Calgary
Green: Marsha vandenEnden, Senior Biologist, Aquality Environmental Consulting Ltd.
Independent: Andrew Kucy
Democratic Advancement Party of Canada: Fahed Khalid
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