Calgary Bowness
 Alberta electoral district
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| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1957 |
| District abolished | 1971 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1967 |
Calgary Bowness is a defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta Canada. The district was named after the community of Bowness, and during its time encompassed the Northwestern part of the city. The riding was created in 1959. The riding was split into Calgary-Bow and Calgary-Foothills in 1971.
The Alberta government decided to return to using the first past the post system of voting from Single Transferable Vote for the 1959 general election. The province redistributed the Calgary and Edmonton super riding's and standardized the voting system across the province into single member districts.
Calgary Bowness was one of the six electoral districts created from the Calgary super riding that year. The others were Calgary Glenmore, Calgary Centre, Calgary West, Calgary North, Calgary North East, Calgary South East.
The district was first won easily by former Social Credit federal Member of Parliament Charles Johnston in 1959. He was re-elected for his second term in 1963 defeating future Calgary city Alderman Peter Petrasuk in a hotly contested race.
The last of the three elections held in the electoral district would see Len Werry would pickup the district for the Progressive Conservatives in the 1967 election. Johnston went down to defeat by less than 400 votes. Johnston would retire. He did not return to politics before his death in 1971.
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