Naresh Bhardwaj | |
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 Bhardwaj at the 2013 Tour of Alberta | |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Ellerslie | |
| In office March 3, 2008 – May 5, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Bharat Agnihotri |
| Succeeded by | Rod Loyola |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1959 (age 63–64)[1] |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
Nareshindra Bhardwaj (born 1959) is a Canadian politician, who was elected in the 2008 provincial election to represent the electoral district of Edmonton-Ellerslie in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservatives.[2] and was Associate Minister of Persons with Disabilities in the cabinet of Jim Prentice.
Bhardwaj ran 2012 provincial election as an incumbent PC candidate, winning a second term on April 23, 2012. He did not run in the 2015 general election.
He was made Associate Minister of Persons with disabilities in 2013.[3]
Bhardwaj has been accused of offering a $10,000 bribe to prevent other candidates from challenging him in an election. Rachel Notley, leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party, requested that Bhardwaj step down and submit to an investigation.[4] Although cleared by an internal PC party investigation, Bhardwaj remained the subject of a criminal investigation.[5] In March 2015 he withdrew his name as a candidate for the May 5, 2015 general election.[6]
| 2008 Alberta general election: Edmonton-Ellerslie | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Naresh Bhardwaj | 4,581 | 41.90% | 10.08% | ||||
| Liberal | Bharat Agnihotri | 3,592 | 32.86% | -0.94% | ||||
| New Democratic | Marilyn Assheton-Smith | 1,891 | 17.30% | -4.85% | ||||
| Wildrose Alliance | Krista Leddy | 471 | 4.31% | -5.59% | ||||
| Green | Paul J. Boos | 335 | 3.06% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Cheryl Ullah | 62 | 0.57% | -1.77% | ||||
| Total | 10,932 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 60 | 19 | 2 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 28,944 | 37.98% | -5.45% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | 3.54% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "30 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2008). The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-Seventh Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 290–293. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
| 2012 Alberta general election: Edmonton-Ellerslie | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Naresh Bhardwaj | 5,677 | 42.97% | 1.06% | ||||
| Wildrose Alliance | Jackie Lovely | 3,258 | 24.66% | 20.35% | ||||
| New Democratic | Rod Loyola | 2,114 | 16.00% | -1.30% | ||||
| Liberal | Jennifer Ketsa | 1,504 | 11.38% | -21.47% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Chinwe Okelu | 523 | 3.96% | – | ||||
| Independent | Athena Bernal-Born | 137 | 1.04% | – | ||||
| Total | 13,213 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 115 | 39 | 3 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 26,721 | 49.89% | 11.91% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 4.63% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "33 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2012). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2011 Provincial Enumeration and Monday, April 23, 2012 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
