Calgary Bowness

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

Calgary Bowness History

Boundary history

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

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

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

1959 general election

1959 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Social CreditCharles Edward Johnston6,68159.27%
Progressive ConservativeBruce Norris3,19428.34%
LiberalEvelyn Leew1,0189.03%
Co-operative CommonwealthKay Halliday Grose3793.36%
Total 11,272
Rejected, spoiled and declined 35
Eligible electors / turnout 21,04753.72%
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 general election

1963 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Social CreditCharles Edward Johnston5,35552.17%-7.10%
LiberalPeter Petrasuk2,45623.93%14.89%
Progressive ConservativeAlbert A. Frawley1,71916.75%-11.59%
New DemocraticEverett C. Baldwin7357.16%
Total 10,265
Rejected, spoiled and declined 11
Eligible electors / turnout 19,67552.23%-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 general election

1967 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Progressive ConservativeLen F. Werry6,82840.00%23.25%
Social CreditCharles Edward Johnston6,46137.85%-14.32%
New DemocraticEvelyn Moore1,90511.16%4.00%
LiberalJohn Donachie1,87610.99%-12.94%
Total 17,070
Rejected, spoiled and declined 100
Eligible electors / turnout 26,30265.28%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

References

  1. "Election results for Calgary Bowness". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved 8 June 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 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2009-05-20.

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