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Riding Profile:
This northwest Calgary riding is bordered to the west by the city limits, on the north by Country Hills Boulevard, on the east by Sarcee Trail and on the south by the Bow River, Scurfield Drive and Crowchild Trail. In the 2004 redistribution this riding lost voters to Calgary-Foothills and Calgary-Bow.

Professional services and retail are the biggest employers in Calgary North West, where the average household earns $88,238 a year. Just under eight per cent of residents are considered low income. More than 23 per cent of people here are immigrants, while 45 per cent were born in Alberta. About 69 per cent of residents hold post-secondary degrees.

Political History:
Calgary North West's incumbent, Minister of Revenue Greg Melchin, won by a landslide in 2001, beating Liberal challenger Paul Allard by more than 10,000 votes. Melchin won his seat four years earlier in a 2,000-vote victory over then-two-term incumbent Liberal Frank Bruseker - one of the few non-Conservatives to hold a Calgary seat in the past decade. Bruseker had won in 1989 by narrowly unseating the PC's Stan Cassin. Conservative Sheila Embury occupied this seat from 1979-86.

In 2001, voter turnout was 55.3 per cent.