Bow River (electoral district)

Bow River is a federal electoral district in southern Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1968, from 1979 to 1988 and since 2015.

Bow River

Alberta electoral district
Bow River in relation to other Alberta federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order.
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Martin Shields Conservative
District created	2013
First contested	2015
Last contested	2019
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	115,022
Electors (2019)	78,944
Area (km²)[2]	24,036.47
Pop. density (per km²)	4.8
Census divisions	Division No. 2, Division No. 5, Division No. 6
Census subdivisions	Brooks, Chestermere, Kneehill, Newell, Rocky View, Strathmore, Taber, Taber (MD), Vulcan, Wheatland

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

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

It was re-created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.[3] This newest iteration of the riding was created out of parts of Crowfoot (53%), Medicine Hat (37%) and Macleod (10%) ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Bow River Riding created from Macleod
13th	1917–1921		Howard Hadden Halladay	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		Edward Joseph Garland	Progressive
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930			United Farmers of Alberta
17th	1930–1932[nb 1]
	1932–1935			Co-operative Commonwealth
18th	1935–1940		Charles Edward Johnston	Social Credit
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Eldon Woolliams	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Calgary North, Crowfoot, Palliser and Rocky Mountain
Riding re-created from Crowfoot, Lethbridge, Palliser and Rocky Mountain
31st	1979–1980		Gordon Taylor	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
Riding dissolved into Calgary North, Calgary Northeast, Calgary West, Crowfoot, Lethbridge, Macleod, Red Deer and Wild Rose
Riding re-created from Crowfoot, Medicine Hat and Macleod
42nd	2015–2019		Martin Shields	Conservative
43rd	2019–present

Election results

2015–present

Graph of election results in Bow River (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2019 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Martin Shields	46,279	83.9	+6.48
	Liberal	Margaret Rhemtulla	3,173	5.8	-7.88
	New Democratic	Lynn Macwilliam	3,086	5.6	+0.35
	People's	Tom Ikert	1,321	2.4	-
	Green	Hendrika Maria Tuithof de Jonge	826	1.5	-0.34
	Christian Heritage	Tom Lipp	453	0.8	+0.24
Total valid votes/Expense limit			55,138	100.0
Total rejected ballots			234
Turnout			55,372	70.1
Eligible voters			78,944
	Conservative hold		Swing		+7.31
Source: Elections Canada[4][5]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Martin Shields	38,701	77.42	–5.97	$79,588.40
	Liberal	William MacDonald Alexander	6,840	13.68	+10.14	$2,815.97
	New Democratic	Lynn MacWilliam	2,622	5.25	–2.91	$1,102.35
	Green	Rita Ann Fromholt	919	1.84	–1.57	–
	Independent	Andrew Kucy	543	1.09	–	$7,287.85
	Christian Heritage	Frans VandeStroet	280	0.56	–	$883.46
	Democratic Advancement	Fahed Khalid	83	0.17	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			49,988	100.00		$229,883.88
Total rejected ballots			151	0.30	–
Turnout			50,139	66.72	–
Eligible voters			75,146
	Conservative hold		Swing		–8.06
Source: Elections Canada[6][7]

2011 federal election redistributed results[8]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	30,412	83.39
	New Democratic	2,976	8.16
	Liberal	1,291	3.54
	Green	1,244	3.41
	Others	547	1.50

1979–1988

1984 Canadian federal election
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

1980 Canadian federal election
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

1979 Canadian federal election
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

1917–1968

1965 Canadian federal election
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

1963 Canadian federal election
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

1962 Canadian federal election
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

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

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

1953 Canadian federal election
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

1949 Canadian federal election
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

1945 Canadian federal election
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

1940 Canadian federal election
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

1935 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	7,529
	Conservative	Andrew Davison	3,091
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Edward Joseph Garland	2,315
	Liberal	Charles Ross Walrod	1,242

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

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

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

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

1917 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	Howard Hadden Halladay	3,757
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Jesse Elmer Gouge	2,996
	Nonpartisan League	Daniel Harcourt Galbraith	1,453
	Labour	John Reid	312

See also

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

Notes

1. Edward Joseph Garland was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth, which was founded on 1 August 1932

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2017
2. Statistics Canada: 2017
3. Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
4. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
5. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
6. "October 19, 2015 Election Results — Bow River (Validated results)". Elections Canada. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
7. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
8. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

External links

• Riding history for Bow River from the Library of Parliament