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{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=April 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox Canada electoral district
| name                =Little Bow
| province            =Alberta
| image               =LittleBow in Alberta.jpg
| caption             =2010 boundaries
| prov-rep            =
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| prov-status         =defunct
| prov-created        =1913
| prov-abolished      =2019
| prov-created2       =
| prov-election-first =1913
| prov-election-last  =2015
}}
'''Little Bow''' 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 1913 to 2019. Throughout its history, this district has been dominated by agricultural activities. Because the area is prone to summer time drought and frequent water rationing, agriculture has been limited to grain crops and cattle ranches. The 2003 [[Bovine spongiform encephalopathy|BSE]] crisis, and the subsequent closure of the US border to Canadian cattle, became a major election issue.

The district's major communities, [[Vulcan, Alberta|Vulcan]], [[Coalhurst, Alberta|Coalhurst]], the [[Siksika Nation]], [[Arrowwood, Alberta|Arrowwood]], [[Picture Butte, Alberta|Picture Butte]] and [[Mossleigh, Alberta|Mossleigh]] provide service centres for area's agricultural and oil & gas industries.

==History==
The electoral district was created in the 1913 boundary redistribution from four different districts. It was primarily carved out of [[Lethbridge District]] and also took land from the eastern portion of [[High River (provincial electoral district)|High River]], [[Claresholm (provincial electoral district)|Claresholm]] and [[Nanton (provincial electoral district)|Nanton]].

From 1924 to 1956, the district used [[instant-runoff voting]] to elect its MLA.<ref>A Report on Alberta Elections, 1905-1982</ref>

The [[Alberta Electoral Boundary Re-distribution, 2010|2010 electoral boundary re-distribution]] saw the electoral district change only slightly as a portion of land was moved into the district from Highwood.<ref name="2010changes">{{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 Little Bow electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution, and portions of the district would form the [[Cardston-Siksika]] and [[Taber-Warner]] 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|Bordering districts
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!North
!East
!West
!South
|-
|[[Strathmore-Brooks]]
|[[Cypress-Medicine Hat]]
|[[Livingstone-Macleod]] and [[Highwood (electoral district)|Highwood]]
|[[Cardston-Taber-Warner]], [[Lethbridge-East]] and [[Lethbridge-West]]
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|colspan=2 align=center|
|colspan=2 align=center|[[File:Whereislittlebow.png]]
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!colspan=4|Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
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|colspan=4|Starting at the intersection of the east boundary of Sec. 23 in Twp. 21, Rge. 26 W4 and the right bank of the Bow River; then 1. downstream along the right bank to the south boundary of the Siksika Indian Reserve No. 146 in Sec. 6, Twp. 22, Rge. 24 W4; 2. in a northeasterly, southeasterly and southerly direction along the Indian Reserve boundary to the right bank of the Bow River; 3. downstream along the right bank of the Bow River to the right bank of the Oldman River; 4. upstream along the right bank of the Oldman River to the east boundary of Rge. 19, Twp. 10 W4; 5. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 7 in Twp. 9, Rge. 18 W4; 6. east along the north boundary of the south half to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 7 in the Twp.; 7. south along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 7 and 6 to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 6 in the Twp.; 8. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 6 in the Twp.; 9. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 8; 10. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 32 in Twp. 8, Rge. 18 W4; 11. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 33 in the Twp.; 12. east along the north boundary of the south half of Secs. 33 and 34 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 34 in the Twp.; 13. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 27 in the Twp.; 14. east along the north boundary of Secs. 27 and 26 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 26 in the Twp.; 15. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 26 in the Twp.; 16. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 26 in the Twp.; 17. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 24 in the Twp.; 18. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 18 W4; 19. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 19 in Twp. 8, Rge. 17 W4; 20. east along the north boundary of the south half of Secs. 19 and 20 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 20 in the Twp.; 21. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 17 in the Twp.; 22. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 17 in the Twp.; 23. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 16 in the Twp.; 24. east along the north boundary of the south half to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 16 in the Twp.; 25. south along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 16 and 9 to the north boundary of Sec. 4 in the Twp.; 26. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 4 in the Twp.; 27. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 3 in the Twp.; 28. east along the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 3 to the east boundary of Sec. 3; 29. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 7; 30. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 34 in Twp. 7, Rge. 18 W4; 31. south along the east boundary of Secs. 34, 27 and 22 to the north boundary of Sec. 15 in the Twp.; 32. west along the north boundary of Secs. 15, 16, 17 and 18 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Secs. 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 in Twp. 7, Rge. 19 W4 to the east boundary of Sec. 18 in the Twp.; 33. south along the east boundary of Secs. 18, 7 and 6 in the Twp. to the north boundary of Twp. 6; 34. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 20 W4; 35. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 1 in Twp. 7, Rge. 20 W4; 36. west along the north boundary of Secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Sec. 1 in Twp. 7, Rge. 21 W4 to the east boundary of Sec. 11 in the Twp.; 37. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 11 in the Twp.; 38. west along the north boundary of Secs. 11, 10 and 9 in the Twp. to the right bank of Pothole Creek; 39. downstream along the right bank of Pothole Creek to the right bank of the St. Mary River; 40. downstream along the right bank of the St. Mary River to the right bank of the Oldman River; 41. upstream along the right bank (by-passing and excluding the City of Lethbridge) to the east boundary of Sec. 30 in Twp. 10, Rge. 24 W4; 42. north along the east boundary of Secs. 30 and 31 in the Twp. to the north boundary of Twp. 10; 43. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 5 in Twp. 11, Rge. 24 W4; 44. north along the east boundary of Secs. 5, 8 and 17 to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 17 in the Twp.; 45. west along the north boundary of the south half of Secs. 17 and 18 in the Twp. to the east boundary of Rge. 25 W4; 46. north along the east boundary to the right bank of the Little Bow River; 47. upstream along the right bank to the east boundary of Sec. 23 in Twp. 17, Rge. 27 W4; 48. north along the east boundary of Secs. 23, 26 and 35 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Secs. 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 35 in Twp. 18, Rge. 27 W4 to the north boundary of Twp. 18 (Highway 23); 49. east along the north boundary of Twp. 18 (Highway 23) to the east boundary of Sec. 2 in Twp. 19, Rge. 26 W4; 50. north along the east boundary of Secs. 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 35 in Twps. 19 and 20, Rge. 26 W4 and east boundary of Secs. 2, 11, 14 and 23 in Twp. 21, Rge. 26 W4 to the starting point. 
|-
|colspan=4|'''Note:'''
|}

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!colspan=4|70 Little Bow 2010 boundaries<ref name="2010bound">{{cite web|title=Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act|publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta|year=2010|url=https://www.assembly.ab.ca/ISYS/LADDAR_files/docs/bills/bill/legislature_27/session_3/20100204_bill-028.pdf}}</ref>
|-
!colspan=4|Bordering districts
|-
!North
!East
!West
!South
|-
|[[Chestermere-Rocky View]] and [[Strathmore-Brooks]]
|[[Cypress-Medicine Hat]] and Strathmore-Brooks
|[[Highwood (electoral district)|Highwood]] and [[Livingstone-Macleod]]
|[[Cardston-Taber-Warner]], [[Lethbridge-East]] and [[Lethbridge-West]]
|-
|align=center|[[File:LittleBow electoral district 2010.jpg|200px]]
|align=center|[[File:LittleBow in Calgary.jpg|200px]]
|align=center|[[File:LittleBow in Lethbridge.jpg|200px]]
|align=center|[[File:LittleBow in Alberta.jpg|200px]]
|-
|colspan=4|'''Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution'''
|}

===Representation history===
{| class="wikitable collapsible" align=right
!colspan=6|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Little Bow
|-
!Assembly
!Years
!colspan="2"|Member
!Party
|-
|align="center" colspan=5|''See [[High River (provincial electoral district)|High River]] 1905–1913, [[Claresholm (provincial electoral district)|Claresholm]],<br />[[Lethbridge District]], and [[Nanton (provincial electoral district)|Nanton]] 1909–1913''
|-
|[[3rd Alberta Legislative Assembly|3rd]]
|1913–1917
|rowspan=2 {{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|background}}|
|rowspan=2|[[James McNaughton (politician)|James McNaughton]]
|rowspan=2|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|-
|[[4th Alberta Legislative Assembly|4th]]
|1917–1921
|-
|[[5th Alberta Legislative Assembly|5th]]
|1921–1926
|rowspan=3 {{Canadian party colour|AB|United Farmers|background}}|
|rowspan=3|[[Oran McPherson]]
|rowspan=3|[[United Farmers of Alberta|United Farmers]]
|-
|[[6th Alberta Legislative Assembly|6th]]
|1926–1930
|-
|[[7th Alberta Legislative Assembly|7th]]
||1930–1935
|-
||[[8th Alberta Legislative Assembly|8th]]
|1935–1940
|rowspan=7 {{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|rowspan=7|[[Peter Dawson (politician)|Peter Dawson]]
|rowspan=7|[[Alberta Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|-
|[[9th Alberta Legislative Assembly|9th]]
|1940–1944
|-
|[[10th Alberta Legislative Assembly|10th]]
|1944–1948
|-
|[[11th Alberta Legislative Assembly|11th]]
|1948–1952
|-
|[[12th Alberta Legislative Assembly|12th]]
|1952–1955
|-
|[[13th Alberta Legislative Assembly|13th]]
|1955–1959
|-
|rowspan=2|[[14th Alberta Legislative Assembly|14th]]
|1959–1963
|-
|1963
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Vacant|background}}|
|colspan=2|Vacant
|-
|[[15th Alberta Legislative Assembly|15th]]
|1963–1967
|rowspan=5 {{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|rowspan=12|[[Raymond Speaker]]
|rowspan=5|Social Credit
|-
|[[16th Alberta Legislative Assembly|16th]]
|1967–1971
|-
|[[17th Alberta Legislative Assembly|17th]]
|1971–1975
|-
|[[18th Alberta Legislative Assembly|18th]]
|1975–1979
|-
|rowspan=2|[[19th Alberta Legislative Assembly|19th]]
|1979–1982
|-
|1982
|rowspan=2 {{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|background}}|
|rowspan=2|Independent
|-
|rowspan=3|[[20th Alberta Legislative Assembly|20th]]
|1982–1985
|-
|1985
|rowspan=3 {{Canadian party_colour|AB|Representative|background}}|
|[[Representative Party of Alberta|Political Alternative]]
|-
|1985-1986
|rowspan=2|Representative
|-
|rowspan=2|[[21st Alberta Legislative Assembly|21st]]
|1986–1987
|-
|1987-1989
|rowspan=2 {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|rowspan=2|[[Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta|Progressive Conservative]]
|-
|rowspan=3|[[22nd Alberta Legislative Assembly|22nd]]
|1989–1992
|-
|1992
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Vacant|background}}|
|colspan=2|Vacant
|-
|1992-1993
|rowspan=6 {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|rowspan=6|[[Barry McFarland]]
|rowspan=6|Progressive Conservative
|-
|[[23rd Alberta Legislative Assembly|23rd]]
|1993–1997
|-
|[[24th Alberta Legislative Assembly|24th]]
|1997–2001
|-
|[[25th Alberta Legislative Assembly|25th]]
|2001–2004
|-
|[[26th Alberta Legislative Assembly|26th]]
|2004–2008
|-
|[[27th Alberta Legislative Assembly|27th]]
|2008–2012
|-
|rowspan=2|[[28th Alberta Legislative Assembly|28th]]
|2012–2014
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Wildrose|background}}|
|rowspan=2|[[Ian Donovan]]
|[[Wildrose Party|Wildrose]]
|-
|2014–2015
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Progressive Conservative<ref>{{cite web|title=Wildrose MLAs leave party to join PCs|url=http://globalnews.ca/news/1689194/wildrose-mlas-leave-party-to-join-pcs/|publisher=[[CITV-DT|Global Edmonton]]|access-date=November 24, 2014|date=November 24, 2014}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|[[29th Alberta Legislative Assembly|29th]]
|2015–2017
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Wildrose|background}}|
|rowspan=2|[[Dave Schneider (politician)|Dave Schneider]]
|[[Wildrose Party|Wildrose]]
|-
|2017–2019
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|UCP|background}}|
|[[United Conservative Party|United Conservative]]
|-
|align="center" colspan=5|''See [[Cardston-Siksika]] and [[Taber-Warner]] 2019–''
|}

The electoral district was created in 1913 in the controversial and scandal ridden redistricting that year. It was created from four different ridings which had a mixture of representation primarily Liberals as well as Independents and a Conservative.

Through the first 100 years in the history of this district, it was only represented by five members of the Legislative Assembly. Historically, voters in this riding tended to favour the candidate more than the party, as shown by [[Member of the Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) Raymond Speaker's lengthy term in office.

The first representative elected in 1913 was [[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]] candidate [[James McNaughton (politician)|James McNaughton]]. He won re-election with a landslide majority in 1917. McNaughton would be defeated running for his third term in office by [[United Farmers of Alberta]] candidate [[Oran McPherson]].

McPherson became Speaker of the Legislature in 1922. He was re-elected to his second term in 1926 defeating McNaughton for the last time and acclaimed to his third term in 1930. Near the end of his third term McPherson went through a scandal-ridden divorce that made front-page headlines. He lost favour with his constituents at a time when the United Farmers lost popularity due to the great depression and the [[John Edward Brownlee sex scandal]].

Little Bow would change representatives in 1935. The electors went along with most of the province in returning a Social Credit candidate. [[Peter Dawson (politician)|Peter Dawson]] would easily defeat McPherson with a landslide majority as his party formed government. Dawson became the second speaker of the Assembly to represent the district in 1937.

Dawson would enjoy a long career in the Assembly easily winning re-election in 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1955 and 1959 without his popular support dropping below 50%. On March 24, 1963, McPherson would die from a heart attack. Little Bow would be left vacant until the 1963 general election held a few months later.

The 1963 election saw Social Credit candidate Raymond Speaker win his first election easily with 64% of the popular vote. He would be re-elected to his second term with a landslide in 1967. After the election Premier [[Ernest Manning]] appointed Speaker to the provincial cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio. When Premier [[Harry Strom]] came to power in 1968, Speaker remained in cabinet, this time becoming Minister of Social Development.

Speaker would win his third term in office in the 1971 election with a large majority. He would lose his cabinet post as his party was swept out of government. He would win re-election as a Social Credit MLA with large majorities in 1975 and 1979 despite the near total collapse of his party.

On October 5, 1982, Speaker, who was acting as parliamentary leader of the Social Credit caucus, had issues with Party leader [[Rod Sykes]]. After a motion to disband the moribund party failed, Speaker and [[Walt Buck]] resigned from Social Credit to run as independents in the 1982 election.  He retained his seat with just over 50% of the popular vote.

After the 1982 election, Speaker and Buck tried to form the official opposition instead of the two man NDP caucus. The legislature denied them funding and they didn't get the same budget that the NDP had because they weren't a party. In 1984 they registered the Political Alternative Association with Elections Alberta, which they quickly renamed the [[Representative Party of Alberta]]. Speaker became leader of the party and led it into the 1986 election.

The Representative Party would hold its two seats with Speaker winning his seventh term in office. He would abandon the Representative Party to cross the floor to the [[Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta|Progressive Conservative]] caucus in 1987. Speaker ran for re-election as a Progressive Conservative candidate in 1989 and won his eighth term. He was re-appointed to cabinet by Premier [[Don Getty]] as Minister of Municipal Affairs after an 18-year absence.

Speaker vacated his seat in 1992 after being nominated by the [[Reform Party of Canada]] to run for a seat to the [[House of Commons of Canada]]. After Speaker left, a contentious and divided by-election took place. [[Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta|Progressive Conservative]] candidate [[Barry McFarland]] barely retained this seat for the party. The Liberals came very close to taking back Little Bow, with its best result in 70 years.

McFarland was re-elected five times without serious difficulty. He retired in 2012, and [[Wildrose Party|Wildrose]] candidate [[Ian Donovan]] took the seat.  Donovan crossed the floor to the Tories in 2014. He was narrowly defeated in his bid for a second term by his replacement as Wildrose candidate, [[Dave Schneider (politician)|Dave Schneider]]. It was the first time in the riding's history that its member had not been returned for a second term.  Because of the Electoral Boundary changes as of the 2019 election, Schneider became the last Member of the Legislative Assembly to represent the Little Bow riding.

==Legislative election results==

===1913===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1913/Little Bow}}

===1917===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1917/Little Bow}}

===1921===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1921/Little Bow}}

===1926===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1926/Little Bow}}

===1930===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1930/Little Bow}}

===1935===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1935/Little Bow}}

===1940===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1940/Little Bow}}

===1944===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1944/Little Bow}}

===1948===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1948/Little Bow}}

===1952===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1952/Little Bow}}

===1955===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1955/Little Bow}}

===1959===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1959/Little Bow}}

===1963===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1963/Little Bow}}

===1967===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1967/Little Bow}}

===1971===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1971/Little Bow}}

===1975===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1975/Little Bow}}

===1979===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1979/Little Bow}}

===1982===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1982/Little Bow}}

===1986===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1986/Little Bow}}

===1989===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1989/Little Bow}}

===1992 by-election===
{{Alberta provincial by-election, March 5, 1992/Little Bow}}

===1993===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1993/Little Bow}}

===1997===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1997/Little Bow}}

===2001===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2001/Little Bow}}

===2004===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2004/Little Bow}}

===2008===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2008/Little Bow}}

===2012===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2012/Little Bow}}

===2015===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2015/Little Bow}}

==Senate nominee election results==

===2004===
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="5" align=center|'''[[2004 Alberta Senate nominee election|2004 Senate nominee election results]]: Little Bow'''<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 |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 45.49%'''
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|'''Affiliation'''
|'''Candidate'''
|'''Votes'''
|'''% votes'''
|'''% ballots'''
|'''Rank'''
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Bert Brown]]|3,805|16.94%|51.29%|1}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Betty Unger]]|2,861|12.74%|38.56%|2}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Link Byfield]]
|2,771
|12.33%
|37.35%
|4
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Cliff Breitkreuz]]|2,184|9.72%|29.44%|3}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Jim Silye]]|2,028|9.03%|27.34%|5}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Vance Gough
|1,992
|8.87%
|26.85%
|8
{{CANelec|AB|PC|David Usherwood|1,892|8.42%|25.50%|6}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Michael Roth
|1,843
|8.20%
|24.84%
|7
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Gary Horan
|1,648
|7.34%
|22.21%
|10
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Tom Sindlinger]]
|1,442
|6.41%
|19.44%
|9
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Total votes'''
|'''22,466'''
|colspan="3"|'''100%'''
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Total ballots'''
|'''7,419'''
|colspan="3"|'''3.03 votes per ballot'''
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan="4"|'''2,712'''
|}''Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot''

==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>
|-
|Calvin Christian School
|-
|Champion School
|-
|Coalhurst High School
|-
|Dorothy Danliesh Elementary School
|-
|Huntsville School
|-
|Lomond Colony School
|-
|Noble Central School
|-
|Picture Butte High School
|-
|R.I. Baker Middle School
|-
|St. Josephs' School
|}
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 then 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/20071006095842/http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Candidate.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2007 }}</ref>
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|'''Affiliation'''
|'''Candidate'''
|'''Votes'''
|'''%'''
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Barry McFarland]]|396|41.12%}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|row}}
|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Arij Langstraat
|176
|18.28%
{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|row}}
|[[Alberta New Democratic Party|New Democrat]]
|Hugh Logie
|114
|11.84%
{{CANelec|AB|Alliance|Jay Phin|106|11.01%}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|row}}
|[[Alberta Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|Brian Cook
|98
|10.17%
{{CANelec|AB|Separation|Grant Shaw|73|7.58%}}
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Total'''
|'''963'''
|'''100%'''
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan="2"|'''74'''
|}

===2012===
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="5" align=center|'''2012 Alberta student vote results'''
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|'''Affiliation'''
|'''Candidate'''
|'''Votes'''
|'''%'''
{{CANelec|AB|PC|John Kolk||%}}
{{CANelec|AB|Wildrose|[[Ian Donovan]]}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|row}}
|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Everett Tanis
|
|%
{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|row}}
|[[Alberta New Democratic Party|NDP]]
|Bev Muendel-Atherstone
|
|%
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Total'''
| 
|'''100%'''
|}

==Plebiscite results==

===1948 electrification plebiscite===
District results from the first province wide plebiscite on electricity regulation.
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse"
|- bgcolor="darkgray"
!|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?
|-
!|1,069  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  28.42%
!|2,716  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  71.76%
|-
!colspan="2"|Province wide result: Option A passed.
|}

===1957 liquor plebiscite===
{| class="wikitable" align=right
|colspan=4 align=center|'''[[1957 Alberta liquor plebiscite]] results: Little Bow'''<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
|1,584
|51.50%
|-
|bgcolor=red|
|No
|1,492
|48.50%
|-
|align=right colspan=2|'''Total Votes'''
|'''3,076'''
|'''100%'''
|-
|align=right colspan=2|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan=2|'''1'''
|-
!colspan=4|5,715 Eligible Electors, Turnout 53.84%
|}
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 woman were allowed to drink together in establishments.<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. Little Bow just barely voted in favour of the proposal with both sides polling a strong vote. Voter turnout in the district was one of the best in the province, significantly above the province wide average of 46%.<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 considered 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, 1958|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 that wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a license.<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"|'''1,365&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;27.98%'''
|align="center"|'''3,185&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;72.01%'''
|-
|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"|'''2,306&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;40.17%'''
|align="center"|'''3,434&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;59.83%'''
|-
|align="center" colspan="2"|'''Province wide result: Passed'''
|}

== 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]

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