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Richard Stanley Gotfried (born September 18, 1958) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2019 Alberta General Election to the 30th Alberta Legislature, representing the electoral district of Calgary-Fish Creek for the United Conservative Party. He was re-elected to the riding with a voting plurality of 8,499, and has served the Fish Creek constituency as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since the 2015 Alberta General Election. Prior to 2015, his seat was held by Heather Forsyth, who had served as the Leader of the Opposition before retiring from politics after the 2015 election was called.
Electoral history
2019 General Election
United Conservative - Richard Gotfried, 15,975 - 61.5%
New Democratic - Rebecca Bounsall, 7,476 - 28.8%
Alberta Party - Robert Tremblay, 1,699 - 6.5%
Liberal - John Roggeveen, 359 - 1.4%
Green Party - Taylor Stasila, 231 - 0.9%
Alberta Independence Party - Tomas Manasek, 226 - 0.9%
[Source: Elections Alberta]
2015 General Election
| 2015 Alberta general election: Calgary-Fish Creek | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Richard Gotfried | 6,198 | 32.9 | |||||
| New Democratic | Jill Moreton | 6,069 | 32.2 | |||||
| Wildrose | Blaine Maller | 5,568 | 29.6 | |||||
| Alberta Party | Allison Wemyss | 850 | 4.5 | |||||
| Social Credit | Martin Owen | 148 | 0.8 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 18,833 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 69 | |||||||
| Turnout | 18,902 | 61.1 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 30,931 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Alberta | ||||||||
