Calgary Bowness

Calgary Bowness
Alberta electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created 1957
District abolished 1971
First contested 1959
Last contested 1967

Calgary Bowness is a defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta Canada. The district was named after the community of Bowness, and during its time encompassed the Northwestern part of the city. The riding was created in 1959. The riding was split into Calgary-Bow and Calgary-Foothills in 1971.

Calgary Bowness History

Boundary history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Bowness[3]
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.

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 would pickup the district for the Progressive Conservatives in the 1967 election. Johnston went down to defeat by less than 400 votes. Johnston would retire. He did not return to politics before his death in 1971.

Election results

1959 general election

1959 Alberta general election results[4] Turnout 53.72% Swing
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Party Personal
     Social Credit Charles Johnston 6,681 59.27% *
     Progressive Conservative Bruce Norris 3,194 28.34% *
     Liberal Evelyn Leew 1,018 9.03% *
     Co-operative Commonwealth Kay Grose 379 3.36% *
Total 11,272 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 35
21,047 Eligible Electors
     Social Credit pickup new district Swing N/A

1963 general election

1963 Alberta general election results[5] Turnout 52.23% Swing
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Party Personal
     Social Credit Charles Johnston 5,355 52.17% -7.10%
     Liberal Peter Petrasuk 2,456 23.93% 14.90% *
     Progressive Conservative Albert Frawley 1,719 16.74% -11.60% *
     NDP Everett Baldwin 735 7.16% 3.80%1 *
Total 10,265 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 11
19,675 Eligible Electors
     Social Credit hold Swing -14.55%
  1. Party percent change compared to the Cooperative Commonwealth 1959 results.

1967 general election

1967 Alberta general election results[6] Turnout 65.28% Swing
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Party Personal
     Progressive Conservative Len Werry 6,828 40.00% 23.26% *
     Social Credit Charles Johnston 6,461 37.85% -14.32%
     NDP Evelyn Moore 1,905 11.16% 3.83% *
     Liberal John Donachie 1,876 10.99% -12.94% *
Total 17,070 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 100
26,302 Eligible Electors
     Progressive Conservative pickup from Social Credit Swing 18.79%

References

  1. "41". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 1957. pp. 183–184.
  2. "43". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 1961. pp. 223–224.
  3. "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
  4. "Calgary-Bowness results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  5. "Calgary-Bowness results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  6. "Calgary-Bowness results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 2009-05-06.

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