Riding profile

Calgary Shepard

Federal riding — AB · Urban · calgary

The question

Calgary Shepard: a safe seat for the Conservative Party?

Editorial read

Calgary Shepard, an urban riding in Alberta, elected a member with the Conservative Party in the previous cycle, with a 40-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Conservative Party ahead at 51% vote share, against 38% for the Liberal Party, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

Tom Kmiec

Sits with Conservative

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Conservative

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
12.8
P(close race)
1%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Conservative 51.2%
  • Liberal 38.4%
  • NDP 5.0%
  • Green 1.3%
  • PPC 1.0%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Conservative Liberal NDP Green
HereCalgary Shepard 51.2%38.4%5.0%1.3%
Provincial averageAlberta 44.0% +7.2 35.7% +2.7 7.2% −2.2 1.2%
National averageCanada 34.8% +16.4 41.9% −3.5 14.2% −9.2 2.1% −0.8

Provincial averages computed across the 343 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · FED 2025

Won by
Conservative
Margin
39.6 pts
Turnout
72.0%
Margin shift vs current projection
-26.8 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Tom Kmiec Elected Conservative 44,363 68.0 Parliamentarian
Gul Khan Liberal 18,421 28.2 Business Manager
Tory Tomblin NDP 1,780 2.7 Labour Relations Officer
Donald Legere PPC 383 0.6 Retired
Robert Frasch Green 302 0.5 Retired

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Anglophone 86.1%
  • Non-francophone (other) 13.9%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

Last model run
Cycle
fed_46