Calgary Rocky Ridge (Alberta) 50/338

 Calgary Rocky Ridge (Alberta)

Today we're in Calgary Rocky Ridge!

Calgary Rocky Ridge has existed as a riding since the 2012 redistribution, created from Calgary-Nose Hill and Calgary West. The population of the riding was 131,823 in 2016, a 21% increase from the 2011 census (I can see why Alberta is probably getting at least three more ridings next time). The riding is named for the Rocky Ridge neighbourhood in the west of the riding.

Politically, it's Calgary in a nutshell. To be fair, the typical margin isn't as wide as the rest of the city/province. In 2019, the margin was 49.88%, which is only slightly higher than the Calgary average of 47.7%. In 2015, the margin was 28.74% and that can be seen in the one *gasp* polling division the Liberals won. The riding is currently held by Conservative MP Pat Kelly.

As we're winding down our time in Calgary, I want to discuss how the major parties do here. We'll start with the NDP: not well. The NDP increased their vote share in every Calgary riding in 2019, going from 7.2% to 10.04% average in the city. They have never won a seat, and their best performance by eye-balling the results is 2011, getting over 10% in each of the then eight ridings. They usually perform the best in Calgary Centre-North, but in 2011 Calgary Skyview snuck ahead with Gurinder Singh Gill netting 14.92% of the vote. In 2019, the riding was 13/34 in Alberta and 306/338 in Canada by margin.

Rating:

Name: 8.6/10 - Again, love the neighbourhood names, but Rocky Ridge had only about 8,000 residents at the last Census, so I would prefer Calgary Tuscany or Calgary Crowchild.

Shape: 5.6/10 - They tried, but I can't forgive that panhandle.

Individuality: 4.7/10 - This isn't too different from the rest of the Calgary ridings, maybe even a bit more Conservative than most of Northern Calgary.

Total: 18.9/30 (63%)

See you tomorrow in Calgary Shepard!