{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Richard Gotfried | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|9|18}} | birth_place = Calgary, Alberta | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Fish Creek | predecessor = Heather Forsyth | term_start = May 5, 2015 | term_end = May 29, 2023 | successor = Myles McDougall | party = United Conservative | occupation = Business Executive - Aviation/Construction | alma_mater = }} '''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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.ab.ca/voters/voterlink/|title=Election Results|website=Elections Alberta|language=en|access-date=2019-09-23|archive-date=2019-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327150528/https://www.elections.ab.ca/voters/voterlink/|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.
He retired at the 2023 Alberta general election.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alberta election 2023 results: Calgary-Fish Creek |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/9625347/alberta-election-2023-results-calgary-fish-creek/ |work=Global News |date=28 April 2023 |access-date=3 September 2025}}</ref>
Gotfried currently serves as the Chair of Alberta's Strategic Aviation Advisory Council. Previously, he served as the President of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region, and as a vice president at Calgary Economic Development.{{citation needed|date=September 2025}}
==Electoral history==
=== 2019 General Election === {{Alberta provincial election, 2019/Calgary-Fish Creek}}
=== 2015 General Election === {{Alberta provincial election, 2015/Calgary-Fish Creek}}
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