Calgary Centre (provincial electoral district)

For the provincial electoral district 1913-1921, see Centre Calgary. For the federal electoral district, see Calgary Centre.

Calgary Centre was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada.

The district has existed in two incarnations the first from 1913 to 1917 and the second from 1959 to 1967.

This district was first created during a brief period when the Calgary riding was split three ways. The other two districts were Calgary South and Calgary North.

The second incarnation was during the redistribution of 1959 when Alberta moved from Single Transferable Vote to First Past the Post.

The riding was last used in 1967 when this and Calgary Victoria Park were split between Calgary-Buffalo, Calgary-Mountain View, Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Millican and Calgary-North Hill

The riding covered the Downtown core.

1959 Redistribution

The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton marked the transition back to First Past the Post. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton, elected members with Single Transferable Vote. The rest of the province had an option of how to count ballots to elect members in single seat ridings.

The redistribution created seven ridings in Calgary, two of those still exist today. Calgary and Edmonton were becoming too large to be a single riding.

The other six ridings were Calgary Bowness, Calgary West, Calgary Glenmore, Calgary North, Calgary North East, Calgary South East.

Results 1913 to 1917 and 1959 to 1967

1959 - 1967

1967 Results					1963 Results					1959 Results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Social Credit	Fred Colborne	3,873	40.85%		Social Credit	Fred Colborne	4,395	61.63%		Social Credit	Fred Colborne	4,824	54.89%
	Progressive Conservative	Chuck Cook	3,359	35.43%		Liberal	E. Virgil Anderson	1,878	26.34%		Progressive Conservative	Runo Berglund	2,642	30.06%
	Liberal	John Starchuk	1,275	13.45%		N.D.P.	Melba Cochlan	757	10.62%		Liberal	Gordon Arnell	1,154	13.13%
	N.D.P.	Margaret Hanley	973	10.27%		Communist	Dave Raichman	101	1.41%		N.D.P.	Grant McHardy	349	1.92%

External links

The Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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