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{{Short description|Former federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox Canada electoral district
| province            = Alberta
| imagemap            = {{Calgary federal electoral districts map|Map=Calgary federal ridings - Southwest.svg}}
| caption             = '''Calgary Southwest''' in relation to the other Calgary ridings
| fed-status          = defunct
| fed-district-number = 
| fed-created         = 1987
| fed-abolished       = 2013
| fed-election-first  = 1988
| fed-election-last   = 2011
| fed-rep             = [[Stephen Harper]]
| fed-rep-party       = Conservative
| demo-pop-ref        = <ref>[[#2011fed|Statistics Canada]]: 2012</ref>
| demo-area-ref       = <ref>[[#2011fed|Statistics Canada]]: 2012</ref>
| demo-electors-ref   = 
| demo-census-date    = [[Canada 2011 Census|2011]]
| demo-pop            = 136011
| demo-electors       = 93707
| demo-electors-date  = 2011
| demo-area           = 76.70
| demo-cd             = [[Division No. 6, Alberta|Division No. 6]]
| demo-csd            = [[Calgary]]
}}

'''Calgary Southwest''' was a federal [[electoral district (Canada)|electoral district]] in [[Alberta]], Canada, that was represented in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] from 1988 to 2015. The district was in the southwest part of the city of [[Calgary]], south of [[Glenmore Trail]] and west of the [[Canadian Pacific Kansas City]] Railway line.

Former [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]] [[Stephen Harper]] represented the riding during his leadership.

==History==
The electoral district was created in 1987 from parts of the [[Bow River (electoral district)|Bow River]], [[Calgary West]], [[Calgary East]], [[Calgary South]], and a small piece of [[Calgary Centre]] [[electoral district (Canada)|ridings]].

The riding was abolished during the [[Canadian federal electoral redistribution, 2012]], 80% into [[Calgary Heritage]] and 20% into [[Calgary Midnapore]].

===Historical boundaries===

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| File: 198748007 Calgary Southwest (Sud-Ouest).svg
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===Members of Parliament===

This [[Electoral district (Canada)|riding]] has elected the following members of the [[House of Commons of Canada]]:

{{CanMP}}
{{CanMP nodata|Calgary Southwest<br>''Riding created from'' [[Bow River (electoral district)|Bow River]], [[Calgary Centre]], [[Calgary East]],<br>[[Calgary West]] ''and'' [[Calgary South]]}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 1988
| ToYr = 1993
| Assembly# = 34
| CanParty = PC
| RepName = Bobbie Sparrow
| RepTerms# = 1
| PartyTerms# = 1
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 1993
| ToYr = 1997
| Assembly# = 35
| CanParty = Reform
| RepName = Preston Manning
| RepTerms# = 4
| PartyTerms# = 2
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 1997
| ToYr = 2000
| Assembly# = 36
| #ByElections = 1
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 2000
| ToYr = 2000
| CanParty = Canadian Alliance
| PartyTerms# = 3
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 2000
| ToYr = 2002
| Assembly# = 37
| #ByElections = 2
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 2002
| ToYr = 2003
| RepName = Stephen Harper
| RepTerms# = 6
| PartyTerms# = 1
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 2003
| ToYr = 2004
| CanParty = Conservative
| PartyTerms# = 5
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 2004
| ToYr = 2006
| Assembly# = 38
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 2006
| ToYr = 2008
| Assembly# = 39
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 2008
| ToYr = 2011
| Assembly# = 40
}}
{{CanMP row
| FromYr = 2011
| ToYr = 2015
| Assembly# = 41
}}
{{CanMP nodata|''Riding dissolved into'' [[Calgary Heritage]] ''and'' [[Calgary Midnapore]]}}
{{CanMP end}}

===Members of Parliament===
All three of the riding's [[Member of Parliament|MPs]] were prominent: [[Bobbie Sparrow]] served in the cabinet led by [[Kim Campbell]], while [[Preston Manning]] was the leader of the [[Reform Party of Canada]] from 1987 and [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Leader of the Opposition]] from 1997 to 2000. Its final MP in the Southwest configuration was [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Stephen Harper]], an economist and a lecturer outside politics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/prime-minister-stephen-harper |title=Prime Minister Stephen Harper - Prime Minister of Canada |publisher=Government of Canada |access-date=July 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721054523/http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/prime-minister-stephen-harper |archive-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was elected to Calgary Southwest, shortly after becoming leader of the [[Canadian Alliance]] and thus leader of the Opposition, in a 2002 by-election occasioned by Manning's retirement. From 2003, Harper was the leader of the re-formed [[Conservative Party of Canada]], and from 2006, prime minister; he ceased to be both after the [[2015 Canadian federal election]].

==Election results==

{{2011 Canadian federal election/Calgary Southwest}}

{{2008 Canadian federal election/Calgary Southwest}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2006|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|[[Stephen Harper]]|41,549|72.36|+4.01 |$67,115}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Michael Swanson|6,553|11.41|-6.99 |$15,691}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Holly Heffernan|4,628|8.06| +2.48|$5,177}}
{{CANelec|CA|Green|Kim Warnke|4,407|7.68|+1.46 |$1,800}}
{{CANelec|CA|Christian Heritage|[[Larry Heather]]|279|0.49| +0.04|$1,370}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|57,416|99.79|&ndash;|&nbsp;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|120|0.21|-0.08|&ndash; }}
{{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|57,536|66.57|+2.08|&ndash; }}
{{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|86,426}}
{{Canadian election result/hold |CA|Conservative|+5.50}}
{{end}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2004|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|[[Stephen Harper]]|35,297|68.36|-12.84 |$62,955}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Avalon Roberts|9,501|18.40|+3.49|$55,529}}
{{CANelec|CA|Green|Darcy Kraus|3,210|6.22| |$521}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Daria Fox|2,884|5.59| +1.70|$3,648}}
{{CANelec|CA|Marijuana|Mark de Pelham|516|1.00|&ndash;|&nbsp; }}
{{CANelec|CA|Christian Heritage|[[Larry Heather]]|229|0.44|  |$1,630}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|51,637|99.71|&ndash;|&nbsp;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|149|0.29|&ndash;|&ndash;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|51,786|64.49|&nbsp;|&ndash;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|80,296}}
{{CANelec/nothold|CA|Conservative|-8.16}}{{end}}
''Note: Change is compared to redistributed 2000 results. Conservative vote is compared to the combined Alliance and Progressive Conservative vote.''

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="4" | [[2000 Canadian federal election|2000 federal election]] redistributed results<ref>[http://electionprediction.org/2004_fed/riding/48008-calgary-southwest.htm Election Prediction Project]</ref>
|-
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="130px" colspan="2" | Party
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | Vote
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="30px" | %
|-
| {{Canadian party colour|CA|Canadian Alliance|background}} | &nbsp;
| [[Canadian Alliance]] ||align=right| 31,756 ||align=right| 64.96
|-
| {{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}} | &nbsp;
| [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] ||align=right| 7,936 ||align=right| 16.23
|-
| {{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}} | &nbsp;
| [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] ||align=right| 7,290 ||align=right| 14.91
|-
| {{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|background}} | &nbsp;
| [[New Democratic Party|New Democratic]] ||align=right| 1,901 ||align=right| 3.89
|}

{{2002 Canadian federal by-elections/Calgary Southwest}}
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2000|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Canadian Alliance|[[Preston Manning]]|34,529|64.81| +6.81|$69,676}}
{{CANelec|CA|PC|Paul Monaghan|8,679|16.29| -1.61|$8,592}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Barry J. Rust|7,954|14.93| -5.24|$13,233}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Jennifer Stewart|2,113|3.97| +1.22|$720}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|53,275|99.70|&ndash;|&nbsp;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|158|0.30|+0.07|&ndash;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|53,433|62.93|-3.84|&ndash;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|84,905}}
{{CANelec/nothold|CA|Canadian Alliance|+4.22}}{{end}}

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

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1997|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Reform|[[Preston Manning]]|27,912|57.99| -3.23|$62,515}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Paul Drager|9,706|20.17| +3.86|$61,666}}
{{CANelec|CA|PC|[[Jan Brown]]|8,617|17.90| -0.69|$34,551}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Mara Vogel|1,322|2.75| +1.13|$1,064}}
{{CANelec|CA|Green|Sol Candel|310|0.64| +0.20|&nbsp; }}
{{CANelec|CA|Natural Law|Richard Shelford|175|0.36| -0.00|&nbsp; }}
{{CANelec|CA|Christian Heritage|[[Larry Heather]]|89|0.18|&ndash;|$176}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|48,131|99.78|&ndash;|&nbsp;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|107|0.22|&ndash;|&ndash;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|48,238|66.78|&nbsp;|&ndash;}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|72,239}}
{{CANelec/hold|CA|Reform|-3.54}}{{end}}
{{1993 Canadian federal election/Calgary Southwest}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1988|percent=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|PC|[[Bobbie Sparrow]]|40,397|65.16 }}
{{CANelec|CA|Reform|Janet Jessop|8,316|13.41 }}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Percy Baker|7,147|11.53 }}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Vera Vogel|5,024| 8.10}}
{{CANelec|CA|Independent|[[Larry R. Heather]]|669| 1.08}}
{{CANelec|CA|Rhinoceros (historical)|Johnny Barretto|372| 0.60}}
{{CANelec|CA|CoR|Bill Sinclair|68| 0.11}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|61,993|100.00}}
{{end}}

==See also==
* [[List of Canadian electoral districts]]
* [[Historical federal electoral districts of Canada]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
*{{SCref|unit=fed|name=2011fed|accessdate=2011-03-06|48008}}

==External links==
* {{CanRiding|ID=1392|name=Calgary Southwest}}
* [http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin2/summary_report.aspx Expenditures - 2008]
* [http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin/select_election.aspx?entity=1&lang=e Expenditures - 2004]
* [http://www.elections.ca/scripts/ecCandidates2/Default.asp?L=E&Page=SearchByEdResult&DB=AsSubmitted&EL=226&ST=ED&ID=48007 Expenditures - 2000]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060929195238/http://www.elections.ca/eccandidates/district.asp?ran=2008.092&objectType=district&action=provinces&ul=1&ElectionID=191 Expenditures - 1997]
* [http://www.elections.ca/ Elections Canada]
* Website of the [https://www.parl.ca/ Parliament of Canada]

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