Calgary Centre was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1971.
The riding covered the Downtown Calgary.
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.
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
Election results
1959
1963
1967
See also
- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Canadian provincial electoral districts
References
Further reading
External links
- Elections Alberta
- The Legislative Assembly of Alberta