Calgary-Bhullar-McCall

In December 2021, a bill was passed renaming the constituency to Calgary-Bhullar-McCall in remembrance of late MLA Manmeet Bhullar.

The district includes the neighbourhoods of Castleridge, Falconridge, Martindale, Saddleridge, and Skyview Ranch, and is noted for its high levels of ethnic diversity.

[1] The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution and was formed out of the north half of Calgary East.

The first election held in the district that year returned former Calgary Alderman George Ho Lem who ran as a Social Credit candidate.

The 1975 election would see the riding change hands as Ho Lem would be defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Andrew Little in a landslide.

The election was another closely contested race with voters returning Progressive Conservative candidate Shiraz Shariff with a plurality of just over 43% of the vote.

He was nearly defeated by Liberal candidate Darshan Kang in the 2004 election when he lost nearly half of his popular vote from 2001.

The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority.