Airdrie-Cochrane (provincial electoral district)
{{Short description|Provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
{{for|the federal electoral district|Airdrie—Cochrane (federal electoral district)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=April 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox Canada electoral district
| name =Airdrie-Cochrane
| province =Alberta
| image =Airdrie-Cochrane 2017.svg
| caption =Airdrie-Cochrane within the Calgary Metropolitan Region (2017 boundaries).
| prov-rep = Peter Guthrie
| prov-rep-link =
| prov-rep-party = Independent
| prov-rep-party-link =
| prov-status =active
| prov-created =2017
| prov-abolished =
| prov-election-first =2019
| prov-election-last =2023
| demo-census-date = 2016
| demo-pop =51170
| demo-pop-ref =Statistics Canada: 2016
| demo-area =754
| demo-cd =6
}}
Airdrie-Cochrane is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is 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
History
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!colspan=5|Members for Airdrie-Cochrane |
| Assembly
!Years !colspan="2"|Member !Party |
|---|
| align="center" colspan=5|See Airdrie 2012-2019 and Banff-Cochrane 1979-2019 |
| 30th
|2019–2023 |rowspan=2 {{Canadian party colour|AB|UCP|background}}| |rowspan=2 |Peter Guthrie |rowspan=2 |United Conservative |
| 31st
|2023 |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing the three districts of Airdrie, Banff-Cochrane and Chestermere-Rocky View, completely reorganizing the ridings surrounding Calgary to reflect the rapid growth in the area, and creating Airdrie-Cochrane from parts of each.{{cite web |title=Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |url=https://www.elections.ab.ca/wp-content/uploads/abebc_2017_rpt_final.pdf |date=October 2017 |isbn=978-1-988620-04-6 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |author=Alberta. Electoral Boundaries Commission |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504135425/https://www.elections.ab.ca/wp-content/uploads/abebc_2017_rpt_final.pdf |url-status=live |pages=25–26}} In 2017, the Airdrie-Cochrane electoral district had a population of 51,170, which was 9 per cent above the provincial average of 46,803 for a provincial electoral district.{{cite web |title=Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |url=https://www.elections.ab.ca/wp-content/uploads/abebc_2017_rpt_final.pdf |date=October 2017 |isbn=978-1-988620-04-6 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |author=Alberta. Electoral Boundaries Commission |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504135425/https://www.elections.ab.ca/wp-content/uploads/abebc_2017_rpt_final.pdf |url-status=live |page=33}}
In the 2019 Alberta general election, United Conservative Party candidate Peter Guthrie was elected with 66 per cent of the vote, defeating New Democratic Party candidate Steve Durrell with 25 per cent of the vote, and three other candidates.{{cite report |author1=Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer |title=2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II |date=2019 |publisher=Elections Alberta |location=Edmonton, Alta. |isbn=978-1-988620-12-1 |url=https://www.elections.ab.ca/wp-content/uploads/Volume-2-2019-Provincial-General-Election-Report.pdf |access-date=April 7, 2021 |volume=2 |pages=184-191}}
Electoral results
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{{2023 Alberta general election/Airdrie-Cochrane}}
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{{2019 Alberta general election/Airdrie-Cochrane}}
=2015=
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!colspan="5" align=center|Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election {{CANelec|AB|Wildrose|7,044|36.54%}} {{CANelec|AB|PC|6,006|31.15%}} {{CANelec|AB|NDP|5,703|29.58%}} {{CANelec|AB|Others|527|2.73%}} |