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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.




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Election results



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

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




See also


List of Canadian federal electoral districts
Historical federal electoral districts of Canada




References


"Crowfoot (electoral district) (Code 48010) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
Riding history for Crowfoot from the Library of Parliament
2011 results from Elections Canada
Expenditures - 2008
Expenditures - 2004
Expenditures - 2000
Expenditures - 1997




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External links


Elections Canada
Website of the Parliament of Canada

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• Crowfoot (electoral district)
• Crow foot
• Bow River (electoral district)
• Acadia (federal electoral district)
• Battle River—Crowfoot
• Battle River (electoral district)
• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Wild Rose (electoral district)
• List of Canadian electoral districts (1966–1976)
• Macleod (federal electoral district)