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Calgary Southwest
Alberta electoral district
	Calgary Centre East Centre; North Northeast Southeast Southwest West Nose; Hill Calgary Southwest in relation to the other Calgary ridings
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1987
District abolished	2013
First contested	1988
Last contested	2011
Demographics
Population (2011)	136,011
Electors (2011)	93,707
Area (km²)	76.70
Census division(s)	Division No. 6
Census subdivision(s)	Calgary

Calgary Southwest was a federal 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 Stephen Harper represented the riding during his leadership.

History

The electoral district was created in 1987 from parts of the Bow River, Calgary West, Calgary East, Calgary South and a small piece of Calgary Centre ridings.

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
Calgary Southwest Riding created from Bow River, Calgary Centre, Calgary East, Calgary West and Calgary South
34th	1988–1993	Bobbie Sparrow	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Preston Manning	Reform
36th	1997–2000		Reform
36th	2000–2000		Alliance
37th	2000–2002
	2002–2003	Stephen Harper
	2003–2004		Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
Riding dissolved into Calgary Heritage and Calgary Midnapore

All three of the riding's 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 Opposition from 1997 to 2000. Its final MP in the Southwest configuration was Prime Minister Stephen Harper, an economist and a lecturer outside politics.^[3] 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.

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Harper	42,998	75.12	+2.16	$62,436
	New Democratic	Holly Heffernan	6,823	11.92	+4.16	$1,113
	Liberal	Marlene Lamontagne	4,121	7.20	−2.11	$14,171
	Green	Kelly Christie	2,991	5.23	−3.75	$4,879
	Independent	Larry R. Heather	303	0.53	+0.04	$495
Total valid votes			57,236	99.69
Total rejected ballots			177	0.31	−0.00
Turnout			57,413	60.42	+2.02
Eligible voters			95,026
	Conservative hold		Swing		-1.00
Note: Larry R. Heather's vote as an independent candidate is compared to his vote as a CHP candidate in 2008.

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Harper	38,545	72.96	+0.60	$61,102
	Liberal	Marlene Lamontagne	4,918	9.31	−2.10	$14,071
	Green	Kelly Christie	4,743	8.98	+1.30	$1,250
	New Democratic	Holly Heffernan	4,102	7.76	−0.30	$1,719
	Libertarian	Dennis Young	265	0.48		$398
	Christian Heritage	Larry R. Heather	256	0.48	−0.01	$1,746
Total valid votes/expense limit			52,832	99.69	–	$92,156
Total rejected ballots			164	0.31	+0.10
Turnout			52,996	58.39	-8.18
Eligible voters			52,996
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.35

Note: Change is compared to redistributed 2000 results. Conservative vote is compared to the combined Alliance and Progressive Conservative vote.

2000 federal election redistributed results^[4]
Party		Vote	%
	Canadian Alliance	31,756	64.96
	Progressive Conservative	7,936	16.23
	Liberal	7,290	14.91
	New Democratic	1,901	3.89

v t e Canadian federal by-election, May 13, 2002 Resignation of Preston Manning
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Stephen Harper	13,200	71.66	+6.84	$58,959.16
	New Democratic	Bill Phipps	3,813	20.70	+16.73	$34,789.77
	Green	James S. Kohut	660	3.58		$2,750.80
	Independent	Gordon Barrett	428	2.32		$3,329.34
	Christian Heritage	Ron Gray	320	1.74		$27,772.78
Total valid votes			18,421	99.47
Total rejected ballots			98	0.53	+0.23
Turnout			18,519	23.05	-39.89
Electors on the lists			80,360
	Alliance hold		Swing		-4.94

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

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Preston Manning	41,630	61.22	+47.80	$59,445
	Progressive Conservative	Bobbie Sparrow	12,642	18.59	-46.57	$61,978
	Liberal	Bill Richards	11,087	16.30	+4.77	$60,511
	New Democratic	Catherine Rose	1,099	1.62	-6.49	$4,791
	National	Lea Russell	910	1.34		$2,580
	Green	Sol Candel	301	0.44		$6,216
	Natural Law	Ida Bugmann	249	0.37		$0
	Independent	Miel S.R. Gabriel	57	0.08		$218
	Communist	Darrell Rankin	28	0.04		$1,422
Total valid votes			68,003	100.00
Rejected ballots			137
Turnout			68,140	70.81
Electors on lists			96,213
	Reform gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+47.19
Source:Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada.