Little Bow

Alberta electoral district

2010 boundaries

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Legislative Assembly of Alberta

MLA

Dave Schneider
Wildrose

District created

1913

First contested

1913

Last contested

2015

Little Bow is a provincial electoral district in rural southern Alberta, Canada. The district, named after the Little Bow River, was created in 1913. It is mandated to return a representative to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Throughout its history, this district has been dominated by agricultural activities. Because the area is prone to summer time drought and frequent water rationing, agriculture has been limited to grain crops and cattle ranches. The recent BSE crisis, and the subsequent closure of the US border to Canadian cattle, has been a major election issue.

The district's major communities, Vulcan, Coalhurst, the Siksika Nation, Arrowwood, Picture Butte and Mossleigh provide service centres for area's agricultural and oil & gas industries.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1913 boundary redistribution from four different districts. It was primarily carved out of Lethbridge District and also took land from the eastern portion of High River, Claresholm and Nanton.

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the electoral district change only slightly as a portion of land was moved into the district from Highwood.^[1]

Boundary history

66 Little Bow 2003 Boundaries^[2]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Strathmore-Brooks	Cypress-Medicine Hat	Livingstone-Macleod and Highwood	Cardston-Taber-Warner, Lethbridge-East and Lethbridge-West

Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of the east boundary of Sec. 23 in Twp. 21, Rge. 26 W4 and the right bank of the Bow River; then 1. downstream along the right bank to the south boundary of the Siksika Indian Reserve No. 146 in Sec. 6, Twp. 22, Rge. 24 W4; 2. in a northeasterly, southeasterly and southerly direction along the Indian Reserve boundary to the right bank of the Bow River; 3. downstream along the right bank of the Bow River to the right bank of the Oldman River; 4. upstream along the right bank of the Oldman River to the east boundary of Rge. 19, Twp. 10 W4; 5. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 7 in Twp. 9, Rge. 18 W4; 6. east along the north boundary of the south half to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 7 in the Twp.; 7. south along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 7 and 6 to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 6 in the Twp.; 8. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 6 in the Twp.; 9. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 8; 10. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 32 in Twp. 8, Rge. 18 W4; 11. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 33 in the Twp.; 12. east along the north boundary of the south half of Secs. 33 and 34 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 34 in the Twp.; 13. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 27 in the Twp.; 14. east along the north boundary of Secs. 27 and 26 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 26 in the Twp.; 15. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 26 in the Twp.; 16. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 26 in the Twp.; 17. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 24 in the Twp.; 18. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 18 W4; 19. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 19 in Twp. 8, Rge. 17 W4; 20. east along the north boundary of the south half of Secs. 19 and 20 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 20 in the Twp.; 21. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 17 in the Twp.; 22. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 17 in the Twp.; 23. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 16 in the Twp.; 24. east along the north boundary of the south half to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 16 in the Twp.; 25. south along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 16 and 9 to the north boundary of Sec. 4 in the Twp.; 26. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 4 in the Twp.; 27. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 3 in the Twp.; 28. east along the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 3 to the east boundary of Sec. 3; 29. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 7; 30. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 34 in Twp. 7, Rge. 18 W4; 31. south along the east boundary of Secs. 34, 27 and 22 to the north boundary of Sec. 15 in the Twp.; 32. west along the north boundary of Secs. 15, 16, 17 and 18 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Secs. 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 in Twp. 7, Rge. 19 W4 to the east boundary of Sec. 18 in the Twp.; 33. south along the east boundary of Secs. 18, 7 and 6 in the Twp. to the north boundary of Twp. 6; 34. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 20 W4; 35. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 1 in Twp. 7, Rge. 20 W4; 36. west along the north boundary of Secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Sec. 1 in Twp. 7, Rge. 21 W4 to the east boundary of Sec. 11 in the Twp.; 37. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 11 in the Twp.; 38. west along the north boundary of Secs. 11, 10 and 9 in the Twp. to the right bank of Pothole Creek; 39. downstream along the right bank of Pothole Creek to the right bank of the St. Mary River; 40. downstream along the right bank of the St. Mary River to the right bank of the Oldman River; 41. upstream along the right bank (by-passing and excluding the City of Lethbridge) to the east boundary of Sec. 30 in Twp. 10, Rge. 24 W4; 42. north along the east boundary of Secs. 30 and 31 in the Twp. to the north boundary of Twp. 10; 43. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 5 in Twp. 11, Rge. 24 W4; 44. north along the east boundary of Secs. 5, 8 and 17 to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 17 in the Twp.; 45. west along the north boundary of the south half of Secs. 17 and 18 in the Twp. to the east boundary of Rge. 25 W4; 46. north along the east boundary to the right bank of the Little Bow River; 47. upstream along the right bank to the east boundary of Sec. 23 in Twp. 17, Rge. 27 W4; 48. north along the east boundary of Secs. 23, 26 and 35 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Secs. 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 35 in Twp. 18, Rge. 27 W4 to the north boundary of Twp. 18 (Highway 23); 49. east along the north boundary of Twp. 18 (Highway 23) to the east boundary of Sec. 2 in Twp. 19, Rge. 26 W4; 50. north along the east boundary of Secs. 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 35 in Twps. 19 and 20, Rge. 26 W4 and east boundary of Secs. 2, 11, 14 and 23 in Twp. 21, Rge. 26 W4 to the starting point.
Note:

70 Little Bow 2010 Boundaries^[3]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Chestermere-Rocky View and Strathmore-Brooks	Cypress-Medicine Hat and Strathmore-Brooks	Highwood and Livingstone-Macleod	Cardston-Taber-Warner, Lethbridge-East and Lethbridge-West

Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Little Bow
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Claresholm 1909-1913 High River 1905-1913, Lethbridge District 1909-1913 and Nanton 1909-1913
3rd	1913–1917		James McNaughton	Liberal
4th	1917–1921		James McNaughton	Liberal
5th	1921–1926		Oran McPherson	United Farmers
6th	1926–1930
7th	1930–1935
8th	1935–1940		Peter Dawson	Social Credit
9th	1940–1944
10th	1944–1948
11th	1948–1952
12th	1952–1955
13th	1955–1959
14th	1959–1963
14th	1963		Vacant
15th	1963–1967		Raymond Speaker	Social Credit
16th	1967–1971
17th	1971–1975
18th	1975–1979
19th	1979–1982
19th	1982			Independent
20th	1982–1985			Independent
	1985			Political Alternative
	1985-1986	Representative
21st	1986–1987	Representative
21st	1987-1989			Progressive Conservative
22nd	1989–1992			Progressive Conservative
	1992		Vacant
	1992-1993		Barry McFarland	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1993–1997
24th	1997–2001
25th	2001–2004
26th	2004–2008
27th	2008–2012
28th	2012–2014		Ian Donovan	Wildrose
28th	2014–2015		Ian Donovan	Progressive Conservative^[4]
29th	2015–present		Dave Schneider	Wildrose

The electoral district was created in 1913 in the controversial and scandal ridden redistricting that year. It was created from four different ridings which had a mixture of representation primarily Liberals as well as Independents and a Conservative.

Through the first 100 years in the history of this district, it has only been represented by five members of the Legislative Assembly. The recent history has shown voters in this riding tend to favour the candidate more than the party as shown by Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Raymond Speaker's lengthy term in office.

The first representative elected in 1913 was Liberal candidate James McNaughton He won re-election with a landslide majority in 1917. McNaughton would be defeated running for his third term in office by United Farmers candidate Oran McPherson.

McPherson became Speaker of the Legislature in 1922. He was re-elected to his second term in 1926 defeating McNaughton for the last time and acclaimed to his third term in 1930. Near the end of his third term McPherson went through a scandal-ridden divorce that made front page headlines. He lost favour with his constituents at a time when the United Farmers lost popularity due to the great depression and the John Edward Brownlee sex scandal.

Little Bow would change representatives in 1935. The electors went along with most of the province in returning a Social Credit candidate. Peter Dawson would easily defeat McPherson with a landslide majority as his party formed government. Dawson became the second speaker of the Assembly to represent the district in 1937.

Dawson would enjoy a long career in the Assembly easily winning re-election in 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1955 and 1959 without his popular support dropping below 50%. On March 24, 1963 McPherson would die from a heart attack. Little Bow would be left vacant until the 1963 general election held a few months later.

The 1963 election would return the third representative of the riding Social Credit candidate Raymond Speaker who won his first election easily with 64% of the popular vote. He would be re-elected to his second term with a landslide in 1967. After the election Premier Ernest Manning appointed Speaker to the provincial cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio. When Premier Harry Strom came to power in 1968 Speaker kept his seat this time becoming Minister of Social Development.

Speaker would win his third term in office in the 1971 election with a large majority. He would lose his cabinet post as his party was swept out of government. He would win re-election as a Social Credit MLA with large majorities in 1975 and 1979 despite the near total collapse of his party.

On October 5, 1982, Speaker who was acting as House leader of the Social Credit caucus had issues with Party leader Rod Sykes. He crossed the floor along with Walt Buck to sit as an Independent MLA. Speaker ran as an Independent candidate in 1982 and won holding his seat with just over 50% of the popular vote.

After the 1982 election Speaker and Buck tried to form the official opposition instead of the two man NDP caucus. The legislature denied them funding and they didn't get the same budget that the NDP had because they weren't a party. In 1984 they registered the Political Alternative Association with elections Alberta which they quickly renamed the Representative Party of Alberta. Speaker became leader of the party and lead it into the 1986 election.

The Representative party would hold its two seats with Speaker winning his seventh term in office. He would abandon the Representative Party to cross the floor to the Progressive Conservative caucus in 1987. Speaker ran for re-election as a Progressive Conservative candidate in 1989 and won his eighth term. He was re-appointed to cabinet by Premier Don Getty as Minister of Municipal Affairs after an 18-year absence.

Speaker vacated his seat in 1992 after being nominated by the Reform Party of Canada to run for a seat to the Canadian House of Commons. After Speaker left, a contentious and divided by-election took place. Progressive Conservative candidate Barry McFarland barely retained this seat for the party. The Liberals came very close to taking back Little Bow, with its best result in 70 years.

McFarland was re-elected five times since winning that 1992 by-election.

Legislature results

1913 general election

1913 Alberta general election results^[5]			Turnout 78.22%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Liberal	James McNaughton	721	52.02%	*
	Conservative	John MacDonald	339	24.46%	*
	Independent Conservative	F.A. Bryant	202	14.57%	*
	Socialist	Alfred Buddon	124	8.95%	*
Total			1,386
Rejected, spoiled and declined			Unknown
Eligible electors / Turnout			1,772	%
	Liberal pickup new district				Swing N/A

1917 general election

1917 Alberta general election results^[6]			Turnout 35.89%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Liberal	James McNaughton	808	77.39%	25.37%
	Socialist	Homer Thomas	236	22.61%	13.66%	*
Total			1,044
Rejected, spoiled and declined			0
Eligible electors / Turnout			2,909	%
	Liberal hold				Swing 19.52%

1921 general election

1921 Alberta general election results^[7]			Turnout 73.97%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	United Farmers	Oran McPherson	1,554	64.48%
	Liberal	James McNaughton	856	35.52%	-41.87%
Total			2,410
Rejected, spoiled and declined			0
Eligible electors / Turnout			3,258	%
	United Farmers gain from Liberal		Swing		53.18%

1926 general election

1926 Alberta general election results^[8]			Turnout 77.93%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	United Farmers	Oran McPherson	1,367	57.00%	-7.48%
	Liberal	James McNaughton	556	23.19%	-12.33%
	Conservative	P.M. Patterson	475	19.81%	*
Total			2,398
Rejected, spoiled and declined			123
Eligible electors / Turnout			3,235	%
	United Farmers hold		Swing		-9.91%

1930 general election

1930 Alberta general election results^[9]
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes
	United Farmers	Oran McPherson	Acclaimed

1935 general election

1935 Alberta general election results^[10]			Turnout 87.91%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Peter Dawson	2,322	66.34%
	United Farmers	Oran McPherson	704	20.11%	-36.89%
	Liberal	L.H. Stack	474	13.54%	-9.65%
Total			3,500
Rejected, spoiled and declined			113
Eligible electors / Turnout			4,110	%
	Social Credit pickup from United Farmers				Swing 51.62%

Results change compared to 1926 election

1940 general election

1940 Alberta general election results^[11]			Turnout 86.01%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Peter Dawson	2,162	51.53%	-14.81%
	Independent	E.H. Griffin	2,034	48.47%
Total			4,196
Rejected, spoiled and declined			146
Eligible electors / Turnout			5,048	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-31.64%

1944 general election

1944 Alberta general election results^[12]			Turnout 75.97%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Peter Dawson	1,958	55.14%	3.61%
	Independent	J.D. Hagerman	826	23.26%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Rudolph Kotkas	767	21.60%	*
Total			3,551
Rejected, spoiled and declined			18
Eligible electors / Turnout			4,674	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		13.44%

1948 general election

1948 Alberta general election results^[13]			Turnout 75.08%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Peter Dawson	1,865	55.08%	0.06%
	Independent	George Carson	1,086	32.07%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Griffin	435	12.85%	-8.75%	*
Total			3,386
Rejected, spoiled and declined			173
Eligible electors / Turnout			4,740	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		16.10%

1952 general election

1952 Alberta general election results^[14]			Turnout 70.99%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Peter Dawson	2,668	65.39%	10.31%
	Liberal	Maxwell Morrison	1,001	24.54%	*
	Co-operative Commonwealth	David Smith	411	10.07%	-2.78%	*
Total			4,080
Rejected, spoiled and declined			265
Eligible electors / Turnout			4,674	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		17.43%

1955 general election

1955 Alberta general election results^[15]			Turnout 75.24%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Peter Dawson	2,481	57.04%	-8.35%
	Liberal	Varno Westersund	1,359	31.24%	6.70%
	Progressive Conservative	Norman Scotney	510	11.72%
Total			4,350
Rejected, spoiled and declined			257
Eligible electors / Turnout			6,123	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-7.53%

1959 general election

1959 Alberta general election results^[16]			Turnout 75.24%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Peter Dawson	2,939	64.86%	7.82%
	Progressive Conservative	Bernard Tonken	989	21.83%	10.11%
	Liberal	Donald McNiven	603	13.31%	-17.93%
Total			4,531
Rejected, spoiled and declined			11
Eligible electors / Turnout			5,805	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		8.97%

1963 general election

1963 Alberta general election results^[17]			Turnout 69.72%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Raymond Speaker	3,368	64.01%	-0.85%
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Galbraith	1,245	23.66%	1.83%
	Liberal	Arthur Ulrich	649	12.33%	-0.98%
Total			5,262
Rejected, spoiled and declined			24
Eligible electors / Turnout			7,582	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-1.34%

1967 general election

1967 Alberta general election results^[18]			Turnout 66.54%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Raymond Speaker	3,367	68.48%	0.47%
	Independent	Arthur Ulrich	978	19.89%	*	7.56%
	New Democratic	John Head	572	11.63%
Total			4,917
Rejected, spoiled and declined			16
Eligible electors / Turnout			7,413	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		4.02%

1971 general election

1971 Alberta general election results^[19]			Turnout 78.84%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Raymond Speaker	3,400	58.53%	-9.95%
	Progressive Conservative	John Green	2,114	36.39%
	New Democratic	Edward Rodney	295	5.08%	-6.55%
Total			5,809
Rejected, spoiled and declined			11
Eligible electors / Turnout			7,382	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-23.17%

1975 general election

1975 Alberta general election results^[20]			Turnout 74.04%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Raymond Speaker	3,132	57.64%	-0.89%
	Progressive Conservative	George McMorris	2,019	37.15%	0.76%
	Liberal	Ben Loman	157	2.89%	*
	New Democratic	Wayne Doolittle	126	2.32%	-2.76%
Total			5,434
Rejected, spoiled and declined			11
Eligible electors / Turnout			7,354	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-0.83%

1979 general election

1979 Alberta general election results^[21]			Turnout 69.59%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Raymond Speaker	3,748	65.63%	7.99%
	Progressive Conservative	Richard Papworth	1,684	29.49%	-7.66%
	New Democratic	Beth Jantzie	236	4.13%	1.81%
	Liberal	John Fujimargari	43	0.75%	-2.14%
Total			5,711
Rejected, spoiled and declined			11
Eligible electors / Turnout			8,238	%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		7.83%

1982 general election

1982 Alberta general election results^[22]			Turnout 77.77%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Independent	Raymond Speaker	3,174	50.09%	*	-15.54%
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Wright	2,144	33.83%	4.34%
	Western Canada Concept	Wayne Lawlor	851	13.43%	*
	New Democratic	Beth Jantzie	168	2.65%	-1.48%
Total			5,711
Rejected, spoiled and declined			11
Eligible electors / Turnout			8,168	%
	Independent hold from floor crossing				Swing -9.94%

1986 general election

1986 Alberta general election results^[23]			Turnout 62.12%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Representative	Raymond Speaker	3,791	63.65%	13.56%
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Wright	1,805	30.31%	-3.52%
	Confederation of Regions	Dean Oseen	158	2.65%
	New Democratic	Christina Tomaschuk	137	2.30%	-0.35%
	Liberal	Ben Loman	65	1.09%	*
Total			5,956
Rejected, spoiled and declined			10
Eligible electors / Turnout			9,604	%
	Representative hold		Swing		8.54%

1989 general election

1989 Alberta general election results^[24]					Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Raymond Speaker	3,907	79.54%	49.23%	15.89%
	Liberal	Elzien Schopman	579	11.79%	10.70%
	New Democratic	Keith Ford	426	8.67%	6.37%
Total			4,912
Rejected, spoiled and declined			7
Eligible electors / Turnout			9,145	65.13%
Incumbent Raymond Speaker crossed the floor during the previous legislature.
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		29.97%

1992 by-election

Alberta provincial by-election, March 5, 1992
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Barry McFarland	1,966	35.20%	-44.34%
	Liberal	Donna Graham	1,704	30.51%	18.72%
	New Democratic	Ruth Scalplock	601	10.76%	2.09%
	Social Credit	Al Strom	521	9.33%
	Alliance	Larry Haller	399	7.14%
	Confederation of Regions	Dean Oseen	394	7.06%
Total			5,585
Rejected, spoiled and declined			18
Eligible electors / Turnout			9,158	%
Turnout			61.18%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-31.53%
By-election called due to the resignation of Raymond Speaker on January 3, 1992.
Source: "Little Bow by-election official results". Elections Alberta. March 5, 1992. Retrieved February 6, 2012.

1993 general election

1993 Alberta general election results^[25]			Turnout 66.30%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Barry McFarland	6,709	67.24%	32.04%
	Liberal	Donna Graham	2,886	28.93%	-1.58%
	New Democratic	Rod Lachmuth	382	3.83%	-6.93%
Total			9,977
Rejected, spoiled and declined			26
Eligible electors / Turnout			15,087	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		16.81%

1997 general election

1997 Alberta general election results^[26]			Turnout 54.34%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Barry McFarland	6,726	69.56%	2.32%
	Liberal	Alida Hess	2,075	21.46%	-4.47%
	New Democratic	Marko Hilgersom	868	8.98%	5.15%
Total			9,669
Rejected, spoiled and declined			26
Eligible electors / Turnout			17,896	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		3.40%

2001 general election

2001 Alberta general election results^[27]			Turnout 56.71%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Barry McFarland	6,881	64.80%	-4.76%
	Liberal	Arij Langstraat	2,534	23.86%	2.40%
	Independent	Jon Koch	885	8.33%
	New Democratic	Andrea Enes	319	3.01%	-5.97%
Total			10,619
Rejected, spoiled and declined			25
Eligible electors / Turnout			18,771	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-3.58%

2004 general election

Alberta general election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Barry McFarland	4,899	54.24%	−10.56%
	Liberal	Arij Langstraat	1,961	21.71%	−2.15%
	Alberta Alliance	Jay Phin	857	9.49%
	Social Credit	Brian Cook	554	6.13%
	Separation	Grant Shaw	433	4.79%
	New Democratic	Hugh Logie	328	3.64%	0.63%
Total			9,032
Rejected, spoiled and declined			67
Eligible electors / Turnout			19,835	45.87%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		−6.36%
Source: "Little Bow Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 7, 2012.

2008 general election

2008 Alberta general election results^[28]			Turnout 40.09%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Barry McFarland	5,150	58.06%	3.82%
	Wildrose Alliance	Kevin Kinahan	2,051	23.12%	13.63%
	Liberal	Everett Tanis	1,080	12.18%	-9.53%
	New Democratic	Duane Petluk	322	3.63%	-0.01%
	Green	Marie Read	267	3.01%	*
Total			8,870
Rejected, spoiled and declined			32
Eligible electors / Turnout			22,204	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		8.73%

2012 general election

Alberta general election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Wildrose	Ian Donovan	6,756	54.18%
	Progressive Conservative	John Kolk	4,477	35.90%
	New Democratic	Bev Muendel-Atherstone	767	6.15%
	Liberal	Everett Tanis	470	3.77%

2015 general election

Alberta general election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Wildrose	David Schneider	4,803	35.4%
	Progressive Conservative	Ian Donovan	4,791	35.3%
	New Democratic	Bev Muendel-Atherstone	3,359	24.7%
	Liberal	Helen McMenamin	379	2.8%
	Social Credit	Caleb Van Der Weide	249	1.8%

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Little Bow^[29]					Turnout 45.49%
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	% Votes	% Ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	3,805	16.94%	51.29%	1
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	2,861	12.74%	38.56%	2
	Independent	Link Byfield	2,771	12.33%	37.35%	4
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	2,184	9.72%	29.44%	3
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	2,028	9.03%	27.34%	5
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	1,992	8.87%	26.85%	8
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	1,892	8.42%	25.50%	6
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,843	8.20%	24.84%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,648	7.34%	22.21%	10
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	1,442	6.41%	19.44%	9
Total Votes			22,466	100%
Total Ballots			7,419	3.03 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			2,712

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

Student Vote results

2004 election

Participating Schools^[30]
Calvin Christian School
Champion School
Coalhurst High School
Dorothy Danliesh Elementary School
Huntsville School
Lomond Colony School
Noble Central School
Picture Butte High School
R.I. Baker Middle School
St. Josephs' School

On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta Student Vote results^[31]
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Barry McFarland	396	41.12%
	Liberal	Arij Langstraat	176	18.28%
	New Democrat	Hugh Logie	114	11.84%
	Alberta Alliance	Jay Phin	106	11.01%
	Social Credit	Brian Cook	98	10.17%
	Separation	Grant Shaw	73	7.58%
Total			963	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			74

2012 election

2012 Alberta Student Vote results
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	John Kolk		%
	Wildrose	Ian Donovan
	Liberal	Everett Tanis		%
	NDP	Bev Muendel-Atherstone		%
Total			'	100%

Plebiscite results

1948 Electrification Plebiscite

District results from the first province wide plebiscite on electricity regulation.

Option A	Option B
Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being continued by the Power Companies?	Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being made a publicly owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission?
1,069 28.42%	2,716 71.76%
Province wide result: Option A passed.

1957 liquor plebiscite

Question A: Do you approve additional types of outlets for the sale of beer, wine and spirituous liquor subject to a local vote?
1957 Alberta liquor plebiscite results: Little Bow^[32]
	Ballot Choice	Votes	%
	Yes	1,584	51.50%
	No	1,492	48.50%
Total Votes		3,076	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined		1
5,715 Eligible Electors, Turnout 53.84%

On October 30, 1957 a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive debate in the Legislature. The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.^[33]

The plebiscite was conducted in two parts. Question A asked in all districts, asked the voters if the sale of liquor should be expanded in Alberta, while Question B asked in a handful of districts within the corporate limits of Calgary and Edmonton asked if men and woman were allowed to drink together in establishments.^[32]

Province wide Question A of the plebiscite passed in 33 of the 50 districts while Question B passed in all five districts. Little Bow just barely voted in favour of the proposal with both sides polling a strong vote. Voter turnout in the district was one of the best in the province, significantly above the province wide average of 46%.^[32]

Official district returns were released to the public on December 31, 1957.^[32] The Social Credit government in power at the time did not considered the results binding.^[34] However the results of the vote led the government to repeal all existing liquor legislation and introduce an entirely new Liquor Act.^[35]

Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the Plebiscite were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones, business owners that wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a license.^[36]

1967 Daylight Saving Plebiscite

District data from the 1967 Daylight Saving Plebiscite

Do you favour province-wide daylight saving time?
For	Against
1,365 27.98%	3,185 72.01%
Province wide result: Failed

1971 Daylight Saving Plebiscite

District data from the 1971 Daylight Saving Plebiscite

Do you favour province-wide daylight saving time?
For	Against
2,306 40.17%	3,434 59.83%
Province wide result: Passed

References

↑ "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. June 2010. p. 21. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. pp. 57–59.
↑ "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.
↑ "Wildrose MLAs leave party to join PCs". Global Edmonton. November 24, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1913 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1917 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1921 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1926 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1930 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1935 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1940 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1944 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1948 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1952 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1955 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1971 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1975 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1979 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1982 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
↑ "1997 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
↑ "Little Bow Official Results 2001 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
↑ The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 476–481.
↑ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. March 1, 2010.
↑ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
↑ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
1 2 3 4 Alberta Gazette 53 (December 31 ed.). Government of Alberta. 1957. pp. 2,247–2,249.
↑ "Albertans Vote 2 to 1 For More Liquor Outlets". Vol L No 273 (The Lethbridge Herald). October 31, 1957. pp. 1–2.
↑ "No Sudden Change In Alberta Drinking Habits Is Seen". Vol L No 267 (The Lethbridge Herald). October 24, 1957. p. 1.
↑ "Entirely New Act On Liquor". Vol LI No 72 (The Lethbridge Herald). March 5, 1958. p. 1.
↑ "Bill 81". Alberta Bills 12th Legislature 1st Session. Government of Alberta. 1958. p. 40.

External links

Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Current Alberta provincial electoral districts

North	Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock Bonnyville-Cold Lake Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo Fort McMurray-Conklin Grande Prairie-Smoky Grande Prairie-Wapiti Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills Lesser Slave Lake Peace River Spruce Grove-St. Albert

Edmonton	Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview Edmonton-Calder Edmonton-Castle Downs Edmonton-Centre Edmonton-Decore Edmonton-Ellerslie Edmonton-Glenora Edmonton-Gold Bar Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood Edmonton-Manning Edmonton-McClung Edmonton-Meadowlark Edmonton-Mill Creek Edmonton-Mill Woods Edmonton-Riverview Edmonton-Rutherford Edmonton-South West Edmonton-Strathcona Edmonton-Whitemud St. Albert Sherwood Park

Central	Battle River-Wainwright Drayton Valley-Devon Drumheller-Stettler Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Lacombe-Ponoka Leduc-Beaumont Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Red Deer-North Red Deer-South Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre Stony Plain Strathcona-Sherwood Park Vermilion-Lloydminster West Yellowhead Wetaskiwin-Camrose Whitecourt-Ste. Anne

Calgary	Calgary-Acadia Calgary-Bow Calgary-Buffalo Calgary-Cross Calgary-Currie Calgary-East Calgary-Elbow Calgary-Fish Creek Calgary-Foothills Calgary-Fort Calgary-Glenmore Calgary-Greenway Calgary-Hawkwood Calgary-Hays Calgary-Klein Calgary-Lougheed Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill Calgary-McCall Calgary-Mountain View Calgary-North West Calgary-Northern Hills Calgary-Shaw Calgary-South East Calgary-Varsity Calgary-West

South	Airdrie Banff-Cochrane Cardston-Taber-Warner Chestermere-Rocky View Cypress-Medicine Hat Highwood Lethbridge-East Lethbridge-West Little Bow Livingstone-Macleod Medicine Hat Strathmore-Brooks

See also: Politics of Alberta List of Alberta general elections 2015 election

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