Riding profile

Ponoka--Didsbury

Federal riding — AB · Rural · ab rural

The question

Ponoka--Didsbury: a safe seat for the Conservative Party?

Editorial read

Ponoka--Didsbury, a rural riding in Alberta, elected a member with the Conservative Party in the previous cycle, with a 70-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Conservative Party ahead at 61% vote share, against 6% for the NDP, and the probability of a close race is negligible. Linguistic profile: 0% francophone, 97% anglophone.

Sitting member

Blaine Calkins

Sits with Conservative

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Conservative

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
54.4
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Conservative 60.9%
  • NDP 6.4%
  • Liberal 4.1%
  • PPC 2.3%
  • Green 0.8%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Conservative NDP Liberal PPC
HerePonoka--Didsbury 60.9%6.4%4.1%2.3%
Provincial averageAlberta 44.0% +16.8 7.2% −0.8 35.7% −31.6 1.3% +1.0
National averageCanada 34.8% +26.1 14.2% −7.8 41.9% −37.8 1.0% +1.3

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
70.4 pts
Turnout
75.1%
Margin shift vs current projection
-16.0 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Blaine Calkins Elected Conservative 56,106 81.8 Parliamentarian
Logan Hooley NDP 7,414 10.8 Student
Grant Abraham Other 2,129 3.1 Self-Employed
Zarnab Zafar Independent 1,641 2.4 Student
Larry Gratton PPC 1,289 1.9 Advanced Care Paramedic

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 0.2%
  • Anglophone 96.9%
  • Non-francophone (other) 2.9%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

Around the region

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Last model run
Cycle
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