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{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=April 2025}}
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{{Infobox Canada electoral district
| name                = Banff-Cochrane
| province            = Alberta
| image               = BanffCochrane in Alberta.jpg
| caption             = 2010 boundaries
| prov-rep            = 
| prov-rep-link       = 
| prov-rep-party      = 
| prov-status         = defunct
| prov-created        = 1940
| prov-abolished      = 1975
| prov-created2       = 1979
| prov-abolished2     = 2019
| prov-election-first = 1940
| prov-election-last  = 2015
}}
'''Banff-Cochrane''' 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 Alberta]] from 1940 to 1975, and again from 1979 to 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election results for Banff-Cochrane. |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Banff-Cochrane |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=Banff-Cochrane |archive-date=December 8, 2010 |location=Wayback Machine}}</ref> The Banff-Cochrane electoral district is home to the town of [[Banff, Alberta|Banff]] and the popular tourist destination [[Banff National Park]], environmental issues tend to dominate here.

The cost of living is significantly high especially in [[Canmore, Alberta|Canmore]] where there is a struggle to fill low wage service sector jobs, due to the high cost of living. Bears and wildlife encounters are also common in this riding, requiring extra attention to waste disposal. The area has many ski resorts and a number of ranchers and farmers make their home in the Alberta Foothills.

The riding was first created in 1940 out of the north half of the old [[Rocky Mountain (provincial electoral district)|Rocky Mountain]] riding, and the [[Cochrane (provincial electoral district)|Cochrane]] riding. From 1975 to 1979 the riding was renamed [[Banff (provincial electoral district)|Banff]] but was later reversed.

==History==
The electoral district has existed twice. The first iteration was created in the 1940 boundary re-distribution from the electoral districts of [[Cochrane (provincial electoral district)|Cochrane]] and [[Rocky Mountain (provincial electoral district)|Rocky Mountain]]. From 1940 to 1956, the district used [[instant-runoff voting]] to elect its MLA.<ref>A Report on Alberta Elections, 1905-1982</ref>

In 1975 the riding name was changed to Banff and it was set back to Banff-Cochrane in the 1977 re-distribution.

The [[2010 Alberta electoral redistribution|2010 electoral boundary re-distribution]] saw Banff-Cochrane gain the land south of [[Cochrane, Alberta|Cochrane]] that was in the old [[Foothills-Rocky View]] electoral district.<ref name="changes">{{cite book|title=Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |url=http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/egovdocs/2010/alch/9780986536717.pdf |isbn=978-0-9865367-1-7 |date=June 2010 |access-date=May 29, 2020 |author=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission |publisher=[[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]]}}</ref>

The Banff-Cochrane electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution, and portions of the district would form the newly created [[Banff-Kananaskis]] and [[Airdrie-Cochrane (provincial electoral district)|Airdrie-Cochrane]] electoral districts.<ref name="2017boundarychanges">{{cite book|title=Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |url=http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/egovdocs/2017/alch/224424.pdf |date=October 2017 |isbn=978-1-988620-04-6 |access-date=May 29, 2020 |author=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission |publisher=[[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]]}}</ref>

===Boundary history===
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!colspan=4|45 Banff-Cochrane 2003 boundaries<ref name="2003bound">{{Cite canlaw
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!colspan=4|Bordering districts
|-
!North
!East
!West
!South
|-
|[[Rocky Mountain House (electoral district)|Rocky Mountain House]]
|[[Foothills-Rocky View]], [[Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills]], [[Highwood (electoral district)|Highwood]]
|none
|[[Livingstone-Macleod]]
|-
|colspan=2 align=center|''riding map goes here''
|colspan=2 align=center|''map in relation to other districts in Alberta goes here''
|-
!colspan=4|Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
|-
|colspan=4|Starting at the intersection of the east boundary of Rge. 19 W5 and the east boundary of Banff National Park; then 1. in a generally southeasterly direction along the park boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 30; 2. east along the north boundary of the Twp. to the east boundary of Rge. 8 W5; 3. north along the east boundary of Rge. 8 W5 to the intersection with the right bank of the Red Deer River; 4. downstream along the right bank to the north boundary of Twp. 31; 5. east along the north boundary of the Twp. to the east boundary of Sec. 33 in Twp. 31, Rge. 6 W5; 6. south along the east boundary of Secs. 33, 28, 21 and 16 to the north boundary of Sec. 10 in the Twp.; 7. east along the north boundary of Secs. 10, 11 and 12 in the Twp. to the east boundary of Rge. 6; 8. south along the east boundary of Rge. 6 to the north boundary of Twp. 29, Rge. 6 W5; 9. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 34; 10. south along the east boundary of Secs. 34 and 27 to the north boundary of Sec. 23 in the Twp.; 11. east along the north boundary of Sec. 23 to the east boundary of Sec. 23; 12. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 24 in the Twp.; 13. east along the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 24 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 24; 14. south along the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 24 to the north boundary of Sec. 13; 15. east along the north boundary of Sec. 13 to the east boundary of Rge. 6 W5; 16. south along the east boundary of Rge. 6 to the north boundary of Sec. 12, Twp. 27, Rge. 6 W5; 17. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 11; 18. south along the east boundary of Secs. 11 and 2 in Twp. 27 and the east boundary of Secs. 35, 26, and 23 in Twp. 26 to the west shore of the Ghost Lake Reservoir; 19. south along the west shore to the north boundary of Sec. 12 in the Twp.; 20. east along the north boundary of Sec. 12 to the southeast shore of the Ghost Lake Reservoir and the northeast boundary of the Stoney Indian Reserve No. 142, 143 and 144; 21. generally east and south along the Stoney Indian Reserve No. 142, 143 and 144 to the west town boundary of Cochrane (at the east boundary of Sec. 8 in Twp. 26, Rge. 4 W5); 22. north along the east boundary of Sec. 8 to the north boundary of Sec. 9; 23. east along the north boundary of Secs. 9, 10, 11 and 12 to the east boundary of Rge. 4 W5; 24. south along the east boundary of Rge. 4 W5 to the east town boundary of Cochrane; 25. south, west and north along the Cochrane town boundary to the east boundary of the Stoney Indian Reserve No. 142, 143 and 144; 26. westerly along the boundary of the Stoney Indian Reserve No. 142, 143 and 144 to the intersection with the east boundary of Rge. 6 W5; 27. south along the east boundary of Rge. 6 to the north boundary of Twp. 23 and the intersection with the east boundary of the Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve; 28. south and east along the east boundary of the Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve to the north boundary of Sec. 14 in Twp. 15, Rge. 3 W5 (Highway 532); 29. southwesterly along the boundary of the Cataract Creek Snow Vehicle Forest Land Use Zone described in Order In Council 998/79 to the east boundary of Rge. 6 W5; 30. south along the east boundary of Rge. 6 W5 to the north boundary of Twp. 13; 31. west along the north boundary of Twp. 13 to the Alberta-British Columbia boundary; 32. northwesterly along the boundary to its intersection with the north boundary of Twp. 32; 33. northeast along a projected line to the starting point.
|-
|colspan=4|'''Note:'''
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!colspan=4|49 Banff-Cochrane 2010 boundaries
|-
!colspan=4|Bordering districts
|-
!North
!East
!West
!South
|-
|[[Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre]]
|[[Airdrie (provincial electoral district)|Airdrie]], [[Chestermere-Rocky View]], [[Livingstone-Macleod]] and [[Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills]]
|[[British Columbia]] boundary
|[[Livingstone-Macleod]]
|-
|colspan=2 align=center|[[File:BanffCochrane electoral district 2010.jpg|200px]]
|colspan=2 align=center|[[File:BanffCochrane in Alberta.jpg|200px]]
|-
!colspan=4|Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
|-
|colspan=4|
|-
|colspan=4|'''Note:'''
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible" align=right
!colspan=5|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Banff-Cochrane<ref name="memberslist">{{cite web|title=Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905–2006 |url=https://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |access-date=February 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf |archive-date=September 30, 2007 }}</ref>
|-
!Assembly
!Years
!colspan=2|Member
!|Party
|-
|colspan=5 align="center"|''See [[Cochrane (provincial electoral district)|Cochrane]] 1909–1940 and [[Rocky Mountain (provincial electoral district)|Rocky Mountain]] 1909–1940''
|-
|[[9th Alberta Legislative Assembly|9th]]
|1940–1944
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|background}}|
|[[Frank Laut]]
|Independent
|-
|rowspan=2|[[10th Alberta Legislative Assembly|10th]]
|1944–1946
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|rowspan=3|[[Arthur Wray]]
|[[Alberta Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|-
|1946–1948
|rowspan=2 {{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|background}}|
|rowspan=2|Independent<br />Social Credit
|-
|[[11th Alberta Legislative Assembly|11th]]
|1948–1952
|-
|[[12th Alberta Legislative Assembly|12th]]
|1952–1955
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|[[Lee Leavitt]]
|Social Credit
|-
|[[13th Alberta Legislative Assembly|13th]]
|1955–1959
|rowspan=3 {{Canadian party colour|AB|Coalition|background}}|
|rowspan=3|[[Frank Gainer]]
|rowspan=3|Coalition
|-
|[[14th Alberta Legislative Assembly|14th]]
|1959–1963
|-
|[[15th Alberta Legislative Assembly|15th]]
|1963–1967
|-
|rowspan=2|[[16th Alberta Legislative Assembly|16th]]
|1967–1971
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|background}}|
|rowspan=3|[[Clarence Copithorne]]
|Independent
|-
|1971
|rowspan=2 {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|rowspan=2|[[Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta|Progressive<br />Conservative]]
|-
|[[17th Alberta Legislative Assembly|17th]]
|1971–1975
|-
|colspan=5 align="center"|''See [[Banff (provincial electoral district)|Banff]] 1975–1979''
|-
|[[19th Alberta Legislative Assembly|19th]]
|1979–1982
|rowspan=10 {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|rowspan=3|[[Greg Stevens (Alberta politician)|Greg Stevens]]
|rowspan=10|Progressive<br />Conservative
|-
|[[20th Alberta Legislative Assembly|20th]]
|1982–1986
|-
|[[21st Alberta Legislative Assembly|21st]]
|1986–1989
|-
|[[22nd Alberta Legislative Assembly|22nd]]
|1989–1993
|rowspan=2|[[Brian Evans (politician)|Brian Evans]]
|-
|[[23rd Alberta Legislative Assembly|23rd]]
|1993–1997
|-
|[[24th Alberta Legislative Assembly|24th]]
|1997–2001
|rowspan=4|[[Janis Tarchuk]]
|-
|[[25th Alberta Legislative Assembly|25th]]
|2001–2004
|-
|[[26th Alberta Legislative Assembly|26th]]
|2004–2008
|-
|[[27th Alberta Legislative Assembly|27th]]
|2008–2012
|-
|[[28th Alberta Legislative Assembly|28th]]
|2012–2015
|[[Ron Casey (Canadian politician)|Ron Casey]]
|-
|[[29th Alberta Legislative Assembly|29th]]
|2015–2019
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|background}}|
|[[Cam Westhead]]
|[[Alberta New Democratic Party|New Democratic]]
|-
|colspan=5 align="center"|''See [[Banff-Kananaskis]] and [[Airdrie-Cochrane (provincial electoral district)|Airdrie-Cochrane]] 2019–''
|}

===Electoral history===
The electoral district was created in the 1940 boundary redistribution primarily from the ridings of Cochrane and Rocky Mountain. The first representative to win the district was Independent candidate Frant Laut who defeated former Cochrane Social Credit incumbent [[William Robert King|William King]] in a hotly contested race.

Laut was defeated running for a second term in the 1944 general election by Social Credit candidate Arthur Wray. Two years into his term Wray was suspended by the Social Credit caucus on February 20, 1946 for criticizing the Alberta government after requests to the Public Works department to remove snow from Cochrane roads was ignored.<ref name="bumsrush">{{cite news|title=Given Bum's Rush|publisher= The Lethbridge Herald|date=February 20, 1944|page=3|work=Vol. XXXIX No. 59}}</ref> The situation came to a head a year later when the Social Credit members passed a motion in the legislature to force Wray to move his desk to the opposition side of the house. His stand against cabinet won praise from his constituents in Cochrane.

The 1948 election would see a hotly contested battle as King and Laut attempt to regain their seat. Wray hung on to a second term in vote transfers. Wray would run for a third term in the 1952 election but would be defeated finishing a distant third by Social Credit candidate Lee Leavitt.

Leavitt was defeated by Frank Gainer who was one of two joint nominee's by the Progressive Conservative and Liberal parties in the 1955 election. He ran with the Coalition banner and sat in the legislature with it. Gainer won re-election in a hotly contested race in 1959. Pundits at the time figured he would be chosen to lead the four opposition members of different stripes with his Coalition banner, however no one was picked. He won a third term in 1963 before retiring in 1967.

The wide open race in 1967 saw Independent candidate [[Clarence Copithorne]] defeat Social Credit candidate [[Roy Wilson (Canadian politician)|Roy Wilson]] to win the district. Copithorne joined the Progressive Conservative caucus on April 15, 1971. He stood for reelection as a Progressive Conservative a few months later winning a strong plurality. He retired from provincial politics at dissolution in 1975.

In 1975 the riding name was changed to Banff before being changed back in 1979. Progressive Conservative candidate Greg Stevens held the district for three terms before retiring in 1993. He was replaced by Brian Evans for two terms. Janis Tarchuck was elected in 2001 and served until 2012 when she was replaced by Ron Casey. Ron Casey would be defeated by NDP member Cameron Westhead in the 2015 general election.

==Legislative election results==

===1940===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1940/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1944===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1944/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1948===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1948/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1952===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1952/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1955===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1955/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1959===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1959/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1963===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1963/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1967===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1967/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1971===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1971/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1979===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1979/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1982===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1982/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1986===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1986/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1989===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1989/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1993===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1993/Banff-Cochrane}}

===1997===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1997/Banff-Cochrane}}

===2001===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2001/Banff-Cochrane}}

===2004===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2004/Banff-Cochrane}}

===2008===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2008/Banff-Cochrane}}

===2012===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2012/Banff-Cochrane}}

===2015===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2015/Banff-Cochrane}}

==Senate nominee election results==

===2004===
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan=5 align=center|'''[[2004 Alberta Senate nominee election|2004 Senate nominee election results]]: Banff-Cochrane'''<ref name="senresults2004">{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/files/Reports/SN_snetabulation.pdf |title=Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results |publisher=Elections Alberta |access-date=March 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704143923/http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/files/Reports/SN_snetabulation.pdf |archive-date=July 4, 2009 }}</ref>
| colspan=2|'''Turnout 38.05%'''
|-
| colspan=2| '''Affiliation'''
|'''Candidate'''
|'''Votes'''
|'''% votes'''
|'''% ballots'''
|'''Rank'''
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Bert Brown]]|3,183|16.46%|50.60%|1}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Betty Unger]]|2,745|14.20%|43.63%|2}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Jim Silye]]|2,360|12.21%|37.51%|5}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|David Usherwood|2,232|11.54%|35.48%|6}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Link Byfield]]
|2,094
|10.83%
|33.29%
|4
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Cliff Breitkreuz]]|1,853|9.58%|29.46%|3}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Tom Sindlinger]]
|1,588
|8.21%
|25.24%
|9
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Michael Roth
|1,130
|5.84%
|17.96%
|7
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Vance Gough
|1,109
|5.74%
|17.62%
|8
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Gary Horan
|1,041
|5.39%
|16.55%
|10
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Total votes'''
|'''19,335'''
|colspan=3|'''100%'''
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Total ballots'''
|'''6,291'''
|colspan=3|'''3.07 votes per ballot'''
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan=4|'''1,826'''
|}
''Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.''

==Plebiscite district results==

===1948 electrification plebiscite===
District data for the [[1948 Alberta general election#Electrification plebiscite|1948 electrification plebiscite]]
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse"
|- bgcolor="CCCCCC"
!|Option A
!|Option B
|-
|Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being continued by the Power Companies?
|Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being made a publicly owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission?
|-
!|2,624  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  64.31%
!|1,456  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  35.69%
|-
!colspan=2|Province wide result: Option A passed.
|}

===1957 liquor plebiscite===
{| class="wikitable" align=right
|colspan=4 align=center|'''[[1957 Alberta liquor plebiscite]] results: Banff-Cochrane'''<ref name="57pleb">{{cite book|title=Alberta Gazette|edition=December 31|pages=2,247–2,249|publisher=Government of Alberta|year=1957|volume=53}}</ref>
|-
!colspan=4|Question A: Do you approve additional types of outlets for the<br /> sale of beer, wine and spirituous liquor subject to a local vote?
|-
!style="width: 20px;"|
!Ballot choice
!Votes
!%
|-
|bgcolor=green|
|Yes
|2,324
|78.33%
|-
|bgcolor=red|
|No
|643
|21.67%
|-
|align=right colspan=2|'''Total votes'''
|'''2,967'''
|'''100%'''
|-
|align=right colspan=2|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan=2|'''37'''
|-
!colspan=4|6,237 eligible electors, turnout 48.16%
|-
!colspan=4|Question B1: Should mixed drinking be allowed<br />in beer parlours in Calgary and the surrounding areas?
|-
!
!Ballot choice
!Votes
!%
|-
|bgcolor=green|
|Yes
|115
|87.12%
|-
|bgcolor=red|
|No
|17
|12.88%
|-
|align=right colspan=2|'''Total votes'''
|'''132'''
|'''100%'''
|-
|align=right colspan=2|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan=2|'''0'''
|-
!colspan=4|242 eligible electors, turnout 54.55%
|}
On October 30, 1957 a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in [[Alberta]]. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive debate in the legislature. The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.<ref name="vote">{{cite news|title=Albertans Vote 2 to 1 For More Liquor Outlets|publisher=The Lethbridge Herald|date=October 31, 1957|pages=1–2|work=Vol L No 273}}</ref>

The plebiscite was conducted in two parts. Question A, asked in all districts, asked the voters if the sale of liquor should be expanded in Alberta, while Question B, asked in a handful of districts within the corporate limits of Calgary and Edmonton, asked if men and women should be allowed to drink together in establishments.<ref name="57pleb"/> Question B was slightly modified depending on which city the voters were in.<ref name="57pleb"/>

Province wide Question A of the plebiscite passed in 33 of the 50 districts while Question B passed in all five districts. Banff-Cochrane voted overwhelmingly in favor of the plebiscite. The district recorded a slightly above average voter turnout, a few points above the province wide 46% average.<ref name="57pleb"/> The landslide in favour of Question A was attributed to recognition of the tourist industry in Banff and the national parks.

Banff-Cochrane also voted on question B1 with a number of residents lying inside the electoral district within the corporate limits of Calgary. Residents voted for mixed drinking with a super majority. Turnout for question B was also quite high.<ref name="57pleb"/>

Official district returns were released to the public on December 31, 1957.<ref name="57pleb"/> The Social Credit government in power at the time did not consider the results binding.<ref name="binding">{{cite news|title=No Sudden Change In Alberta Drinking Habits Is Seen|publisher=The Lethbridge Herald|date=October 24, 1957|page=1|work=Vol L No 267}}</ref> However the results of the vote led the government to repeal all existing liquor legislation and introduce an entirely new ''Liquor Act''.<ref name="aftermath">{{cite news|title=Entirely New Act On Liquor|publisher=The Lethbridge Herald|date=March 5, 1968|page=1|work=Vol LI No 72}}</ref>

Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the plebiscite were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones. Business owners who wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a licence.<ref name="57liqact">{{cite book|title=Alberta Bills 12th Legislature 1st Session|publisher=Government of Alberta|chapter=Bill 81|page=40|year=1958}}</ref>

===Daylight saving plebiscites===

====1967====
District data from the [[1967 Alberta general election#Daylight saving time plebiscite|1967 daylight saving plebiscite]]
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse"
|colspan=4|Do you favour province-wide daylight saving time?
|- bgcolor="CCCCCC"
|align="center"|'''For'''
|align="center"|'''Against'''
|-
|align="center"|'''2,323&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;48.17%'''
|align="center"|'''2,499&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;51.82%'''
|-
|align="center" colspan=2|'''Province wide result: Failed'''
|}

====1971====
District data from the [[1971 Alberta general election#Daylight saving time plebiscite|1971 daylight saving plebiscite]]
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse"
|colspan=4|Do you favour province-wide daylight saving time?
|- bgcolor="CCCCCC"
|align="center"|'''For'''
|align="center"|'''Against'''
|-
|align="center"|'''4,034&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;59.46%'''
|align="center"|'''2,750&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;40.54%'''
|-
|align="center" colspan=2|'''Province wide result: Passed'''
|}

==Student vote results==

===2004===
{| class="wikitable" align=right
!Participating schools<ref name="school">{{cite web|url=http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Schools.htm |title=School by School results |publisher=Student Vote Canada |access-date=2008-04-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005211819/http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Schools.htm |archive-date=October 5, 2007 }}</ref>
|-
|Holy Spirit Catholic School
|-
|Lawerence Grassi Middle School
|-
|Mitford Middle School
|-
|Our Lady of the Snows
|}
On November 19, 2004 a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.

{| class="wikitable"
| colspan=5 align="center"|'''2004 Alberta student vote results'''<ref name="stu2004">{{cite web|url=http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Candidate.htm |title=Riding by Riding Results – the Candidates |publisher=Student Vote Canada |access-date=2008-04-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213075623/http://studentvote.ca/admin/election/Candidate.htm/ |archive-date=February 13, 2012 }}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2| '''Affiliation'''
|'''Candidate'''
|'''Votes'''
|'''%'''
{{CANelec|AB|Green|Chris Foote|107|26.42%}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Janis Tarchuk]]|102|25.19%}}
{{CANelec|AB|Liberal|Ian McDougall|93|22.96%}}
{{CANelec|AB|Alliance|Bob Argent|54|13.33%}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Melissa Cambridge|49|12.10%}}
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Total'''
|'''405'''
|'''100%'''
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan=2|'''16'''
|}

===2012===
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan=5 align=center|'''2012 Alberta student vote results'''
|-
|colspan=2| '''Affiliation'''
|'''Candidate'''
{{CANelec|AB|PC|Ron Casey}}
{{CANelec|AB|Liberal|Pete Helfrich<ref name="cochraneeagle.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.cochraneeagle.com/2012/02/provincial-liberals-choose-banff-cochrane-candidate/ |title=Provincial liberals choose Banff-Cochrane candidate |date=February 1, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Pete Helfrich for Banff-Cochrane">{{cite web |url=http://www.electpete.ca |title=Pete Helfrich for Banff-Cochrane |date=February 4, 2012}}</ref> }}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Jamie Kleinsteuber}}
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of Alberta provincial electoral districts]]
* [[Canadian provincial electoral districts]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==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]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061005003652/http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/maps/nb/45_a1.pdf Current Riding Map Banff-Cochrane]
*[http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/ Alberta Heritage] - election results 1905 – 2001 and riding distribution data
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120305031433/http://www.electpete.ca/ Pete Helfrich for Banff-Cochrane]

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[[Category:Banff, Alberta]]
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