Bow River (electoral district)

Bow River was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1968 and from 1979 to 1988.

This riding was created in 1914 from Macleod riding. It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Calgary North, Calgary South, Crowfoot, Medicine Hat, Palliser, Red Deer and Rocky Mountain ridings.

It was re-created in 1976 from parts of Lethbridge, Palliser and Rocky Mountain ridings. It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Beaver river, Calgary North, Calgary Northeast, Calgary Southeast, Calgary Southwest, Calgary West, Crowfoot, Lethbridge, Macleod, Red Deer and Wild Rose ridings.

Election results

Canadian federal election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	Edward Joseph Garland	11,527
	Conservative	William Rose Fulton	3,579
	Unknown	Herbert Adolph Wiertz	369

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	Edward Joseph Garland	3,773
	Liberal	Jesse Elmer Gouge	2,917
	Conservative	William James Douglass	2,075

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes
	United Farmers of Alberta	Edward Joseph Garland	5,144
	Conservative	Acle Carman Scratch	3,028

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes
	United Farmers of Alberta	Edward Joseph Garland	5,825
	Conservative	Dawson Graham	4,653

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	5,410
	Liberal	Austin Claypool	4,050
	National Government	M.E. Manning	3,248
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Aylmer Liesemer	2,197
	Communist	Lawrence Anderson	847

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	6,569
	Progressive Conservative	John Angus MacKinnon	3,917
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Herbert Coldwell	3,386
	Liberal	William George Southern	2,091
	Labor-Progressive	John Blair Brown	1,149

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	8,537
	Liberal	William Duncan MacDonald	4,449
	Progressive Conservative	Wilfred John Wilde	2,558
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Edwin Ellinson	1,530
	Labor-Progressive	Arthur Llewelyn Roberts	969

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	7,320
	Liberal	William Duncan MacDonald	4,698
	Progressive Conservative	Wilfred J. Wilde	2,698
	Labor-Progressive	Arthur Llewelyn Roberts	671

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	7,383
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	7,039
	Liberal	Arthur Cecil Bates	4,493

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	12,695
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	5,646
	Liberal	Francis John Robert Olson	1,772

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	10,733
	Social Credit	Francis J. Porter	6,844
	Liberal	Earl Hastings	3,944
	New Democratic	Gordon Bowers	1,629

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	11,461
	Social Credit	Francis J. Porter	7,460
	Liberal	Earl Hastings	4,589
	New Democratic	Walter W. Siewert	1,481

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	12,611
	Social Credit	Ron Allen	5,671
	Liberal	W. James Anderson	3,615
	New Democratic	Doug Murdoch	1,836

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Taylor	25,973
	Independent	Stanley Schumacher	8,378
	Liberal	Madeline J. Hombert	4,633
	New Democratic	Gale Burke	2,200

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Taylor	30,463
	Liberal	Neville Tilley	5,850
	New Democratic	David Radke	2,802
	Social Credit	Edward M. Kiddle	656

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Taylor	43,033
	New Democratic	William McCutcheon	5,258
	Liberal	B.C. Tanner	4,066
	Rhinoceros	Gordon D. Taylor	2,349
	Confederation of Regions	Dean Oseen	1,443
	Social Credit	Tom Erhart	326

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament