Cardston-Siksika

{{Short description|Provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}

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| name =Cardston-Siksika

| province =Alberta

| image =Cardston-Siksika 2017.svg

| caption =Cardston-Siksika within Alberta (2017 boundaries).

| prov-rep = Joseph Schow

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| prov-rep-party = UCP

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| prov-status =active

| prov-created =2017

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| prov-election-first =2019

| prov-election-last =2023

| demo-census-date = 2016

| demo-pop =42655

| demo-pop-ref =Statistics Canada: 2016

| demo-area =15773

| demo-cd =2, 3, 5

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}}

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

class="wikitable" align=right !colspan=5\|Members for Cardston-Siksika
Assembly !Years !colspan="2"\|Member !Party
align="center" colspan=5\|See Little Bow 1913–2019 and Cardston- Taber-Warner 1997–2019
30th \|2019–2023 \|rowspan=2 {{Canadian party colour\|AB\|UCP\|background}}\| \|rowspan=2 \|Joseph Schow \|rowspan=2 \|United Conservative
31st \|2023–

class="wikitable" align=right

!colspan=5|Members for Cardston-Siksika

Assembly

!Years

!colspan="2"|Member

!Party

align="center" colspan=5|See Little Bow 1913–2019 and Cardston-
Taber-Warner 1997–2019

30th

|2019–2023

|rowspan=2 {{Canadian party colour|AB|UCP|background}}|

|rowspan=2 |Joseph Schow

|rowspan=2 |United Conservative

31st

|2023–

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.{{Cite web|url=http://abebc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/EBC%20Final%20Report%202017%20NoMaps.pdf|title=Final Report|date=2017-10-01|website=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission|page=42|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071255/http://abebc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/EBC%20Final%20Report%202017%20NoMaps.pdf|archive-date=2018-01-24|url-status=dead}} 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.