Calgary Centre was a provincial

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, mandated to return a single

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to the

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using the

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method of voting from 1959 to 1971.

History

The original

Centre Calgary Centre Calgary was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1913 to 1921. History The Centre ...

district was first created during a brief period when the

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riding was split three ways. The other two districts were

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and

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. The second incarnation was during the re-distribution of 1959 when

moved from

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First Past the Post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...

. 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 Calgary Victoria Park was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1967 to 1971. The riding exist ...

were split between

Calgary-Buffalo Calgary-Buffalo is a current provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of ...

Calgary-Mountain View Calgary-Mountain View is a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. The district was created in 1971 and ...

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, Calgary-Millican and Calgary-North Hill. The riding covered the

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1959 Redistribution

The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of

and

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marked the transition back to

. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton, elected members with

. 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.

and

were becoming too large to be a single riding. The other six ridings were

Calgary Bowness Calgary Bowness was a provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single Member of the Legislative Assembly, member to the Legislative Assembly of Albert ...

Calgary West Calgary West was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1953, and from 1979 to 2015. It was in the western part of the City of Calgary. The electoral district was ...

Calgary Glenmore Calgary-Glenmore, formally styled Calgary Glenmore from 1957 to 1971, is a provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single m ...

Calgary North East Calgary-North East (previously styled Calgary North East) is a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta. The riding has existed twice, having been contested in the 1959 and abolished soon after, becoming Calgary East. It was re-establis ...

, Calgary South East.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

Election results

1959 general election

1963 general election

1967 general election

References

External links

Elections AlbertaThe Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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