Calgary Bowness was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1971.[1]

Calgary Bowness
Alberta electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
District created1957
District abolished1971
First contested1959
Last contested1967

District history

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Boundary history

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Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Bowness[4]
Assembly Years Member Party
See Calgary electoral district from 1921-1959
14th 1959-1963 Charles Johnston Social Credit
15th 1963-1967
16th 1967-1971 Len Werry Progressive Conservative
See Calgary-Foothills and Calgary-Bow 1971-present

1959 redistribution

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The Alberta government decided to return to using the first past the post system of voting from Single Transferable Vote for the 1959 general election. The province redistributed the Calgary and Edmonton super riding's and standardized the voting system across the province into single member districts.

Calgary Bowness was one of the six electoral districts created from the Calgary super riding that year. The others were Calgary Glenmore, Calgary Centre, Calgary West, Calgary North, Calgary North East, Calgary South East.

The district was named after the community of Bowness, and during its time encompassed the Northwestern part of the city.

Electoral history

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The district was first won easily by former Social Credit federal Member of Parliament Charles Johnston in 1959. He was re-elected for his second term in 1963 defeating future Calgary city Alderman Peter Petrasuk in a hotly contested race.

The last of the three elections held in the electoral district would see Len Werry pick up the district for the Progressive Conservatives in the 1967 election. Johnston went down to defeat by less than 400 votes. Johnston retired. He did not return to politics before his death in 1971.

In 1971 the Calgary Bowness electoral district was abolished and re-distributed between the Calgary-Bow and Calgary-Foothills electoral districts.

Election results

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1959

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1959 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Charles Edward Johnston 6,681 59.27%
Progressive Conservative Bruce Norris 3,194 28.34%
Liberal Evelyn Leew 1,018 9.03%
Co-operative Commonwealth Kay Halliday Grose 379 3.36%
Total 11,272
Rejected, spoiled and declined 35
Eligible electors / turnout 21,047 53.72%
Social Credit pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Bowness Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1963

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1963 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Charles Edward Johnston 5,355 52.17% -7.10%
Liberal Peter Petrasuk 2,456 23.93% 14.89%
Progressive Conservative Albert A. Frawley 1,719 16.75% -11.59%
New Democratic Everett C. Baldwin 735 7.16%
Total 10,265
Rejected, spoiled and declined 11
Eligible electors / turnout 19,675 52.23% -1.49%
Social Credit hold Swing -1.35%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Bowness Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1967

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1967 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Len F. Werry 6,828 40.00% 23.25%
Social Credit Charles Edward Johnston 6,461 37.85% -14.32%
New Democratic Evelyn Moore 1,905 11.16% 4.00%
Liberal John Donachie 1,876 10.99% -12.94%
Total 17,070
Rejected, spoiled and declined 100
Eligible electors / turnout 26,302 65.28% 13.05%
Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit Swing -13.05%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Bowness Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Election results for Calgary Bowness". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  2. ^ "41". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 1957. pp. 183–184.
  3. ^ "43". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 1961. pp. 223–224.
  4. ^ "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved May 20, 2009.

Further reading

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