Calgary Centre (provincial electoral district)
{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
{{for multi|the provincial electoral district 1913-1921|Centre Calgary|the federal electoral district|Calgary Centre}}
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| province =Alberta
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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.{{cite web |title=Election results for Calgary Centre. |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Calgary-Centre|website=abheritage.ca. |publisher=Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=8 June 2020 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208183724/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Calgary-Centre|archive-date=December 8, 2010 |location=Wayback Machine}}
History
The original Centre Calgary 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 re-distribution of 1959 when Alberta moved from Single Transferable Vote to First Past the Post.
The riding was last contested in the 1967 Alberta general election, after which the Alberta Legislature passed the 1970 An Act to amend The Election Act and The Legislative Assembly Act to redraw provincial electoral districts. Calgary Centre and Calgary Victoria Park were split between Calgary-Buffalo, Calgary-Mountain View, Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Millican and Calgary-North Hill.{{Cite canlaw|short title= The Election Act |abbr =RSA |year =1970 |chapter =117 |link =http://canlii.ca/t/53rn7 |linkloc =|wikilink =|type =|amended1 =|amended2=|amended3 =|amended4 =|amended5 =|regtitle =|regnumber =}}
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)=
{{AbMLA/top|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Centre}}
{{AbMLA/change|See Calgary electoral district from 1921-1959}}
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| FromYr = 1959
| ToYr = 1963
| Assembly# = 14
| AbParty = Social Credit
| RepName = Frederick C. Colborne
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| PartyTerms# = 3
| RepTerms# = 3
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{{AbMLA/row
| FromYr = 1963
| ToYr = 1967
| Assembly# = 15
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{{AbMLA/row
| FromYr = 1967
| ToYr = 1971
| Assembly# = 16
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}}
{{AbMLA/change|See Calgary-West electoral district from 1971-Present,
Calgary-Millican electoral district from 1971-1993
and Calgary-Buffalo electoral district from 1971-Present}}
{{AbMLA/end}}
Election results
=1959=
{{1959 Alberta general election/Calgary Centre}}
=1963=
{{1963 Alberta general election/Calgary Centre}}
=1967=
{{1967 Alberta general election/Calgary Centre}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |author1=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer |author2=Legislative Assembly Office |author2-link=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |author-link1=Elections Alberta |title=A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005 |date=2006 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |series=The Centennial Series |location=Edmonton, AB |isbn=0-9689217-8-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/centennialseries04perr/mode/2up |access-date=25 May 2020}}
External links
- [http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/ Elections Alberta]
- [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/ The Legislative Assembly of Alberta]
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{{Coord |51.048|N|114.072|W|display=title}}