Bow River (electoral district)

Bow River

Alberta electoral district
Bow River in relation to other Alberta federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order.
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Martin Shields Conservative
District created	2013
First contested	2015
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016) [1]	115,022
Electors (2019)	78,944
Area (km²) [2]	24,036.47
Pop. density (per km²)	4.8
Census division(s)	Division No. 2, Division No. 5, Division No. 6
Census subdivision(s)	Brooks, Chestermere, Kneehill, Newell, Rocky View, Strathmore, Taber, Taber (MD), Vulcan, Wheatland

Bow River is a federal electoral district in southern Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1968, from 1979 to 1988 and since 2015.

This riding was first created in 1914 from Macleod riding. It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Calgary North, Crowfoot, Palliser and Rocky Mountain ridings.

It was re-created in 1976 from parts of Crowfoot, Lethbridge, Palliser and Rocky Mountain ridings. It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Calgary North, Calgary Northeast, Calgary West, Crowfoot, Lethbridge, Macleod, Red Deer and Wild Rose ridings.

It was re-created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015. ^[3] This newest iteration of the riding was created out of parts of Crowfoot (53%), Medicine Hat (37%) and Macleod (10%) ridings.

Demographics

Panethnic groups in Bow River (2011−2021)

Panethnic group	2021 [4]		2016 [5]		2011 [6]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
European [lower-alpha 1]	83,840	73.99%	85,535	78.35%	82,105	83.14%
Indigenous	7,545	6.66%	7,310	6.7%	5,935	6.01%
South Asian	6,360	5.61%	4,450	4.08%	2,520	2.55%
Southeast Asian [lower-alpha 2]	5,885	5.19%	4,550	4.17%	3,735	3.78%
African	4,345	3.83%	2,820	2.58%	1,405	1.42%
East Asian [lower-alpha 3]	1,685	1.49%	1,805	1.65%	1,450	1.47%
Latin American	1,550	1.37%	1,150	1.05%	630	0.64%
Middle Eastern [lower-alpha 4]	1,110	0.98%	950	0.87%	490	0.5%
Other/Multiracial [lower-alpha 5]	1,005	0.89%	605	0.55%	495	0.5%
Total responses	113,320	94.86%	109,170	94.91%	98,760	95.08%
Total population	119,458	100%	115,022	100%	103,871	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Bow River Riding created from Macleod
13th	1917–1921		Howard Hadden Halladay	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		Edward Joseph Garland	Progressive
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930			United Farmers of Alberta
17th	1930–1932 [nb 1]
	1932–1935			Co-operative Commonwealth
18th	1935–1940		Charles Edward Johnston	Social Credit
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Eldon Woolliams	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Calgary North, Crowfoot, Palliser and Rocky Mountain
Riding re-created from Crowfoot, Lethbridge, Palliser and Rocky Mountain
31st	1979–1980		Gordon Taylor	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
Riding dissolved into Calgary North, Calgary Northeast, Calgary West, Crowfoot, Lethbridge, Macleod, Red Deer and Wild Rose
Riding re-created from Crowfoot, Medicine Hat and Macleod
42nd	2015–2019		Martin Shields	Conservative
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Election results

2015–present

Graph of election results in Bow River (2013-) (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

A map showing the 2021 general election results by polling division in Bow River.

2021 federal election redistributed results [7]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	33,292	69.57
	People's	4,712	9.85
	New Democratic	4,484	9.37
	Liberal	3,763	7.86
	Green	2	0.00
	Others	1,604	3.35

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Martin Shields	35,676	69.8	-14.1	$58,577.57
	People's	Jonathan Bridges	5,108	10.0	+7.6	$1,097.41
	New Democratic	Michael MacLean	4,726	9.2	+3.6	$0.00
	Liberal	Getu Shawile	3,869	7.6	+1.8	$7,802.63
	Maverick	Orrin Bliss	1,368	2.7	–	$8,111.55
	Christian Heritage	Tom Lipp	391	0.8	-0.06	$9,741.82
Total valid votes/expense limit			51,138	100.0	–	$122,402.30
Total rejected ballots			300
Turnout			51,438	63.5
Eligible voters			81,042
	Conservative hold		Swing		-10.85
Source: Elections Canada [8]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Martin Shields	46,279	83.9	+6.48	$65,788.69
	Liberal	Margaret Rhemtulla	3,173	5.8	-7.88	none listed
	New Democratic	Lynn Macwilliam	3,086	5.6	+0.35	none listed
	People's	Tom Ikert	1,321	2.4	-	none listed
	Green	Hendrika Maria Tuithof de Jonge	826	1.5	-0.34	$0.00
	Christian Heritage	Tom Lipp	453	0.8	+0.24	$9,450.78
Total valid votes/expense limit			55,138	100.0
Total rejected ballots			234
Turnout			55,372	70.1
Eligible voters			78,944
	Conservative hold		Swing		+7.31
Source: Elections Canada [9] [10] [11]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Martin Shields	38,701	77.42	–5.97	$79,588.40
	Liberal	William MacDonald Alexander	6,840	13.68	+10.14	$2,815.97
	New Democratic	Lynn MacWilliam	2,622	5.25	–2.91	$1,102.35
	Green	Rita Ann Fromholt	919	1.84	–1.57	–
	Independent	Andrew Kucy	543	1.09	–	$7,287.85
	Christian Heritage	Frans VandeStroet	280	0.56	–	$883.46
	Democratic Advancement	Fahed Khalid	83	0.17	–	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			49,988	100.00		$229,883.88
Total rejected ballots			151	0.30	–
Turnout			50,139	66.72	–
Eligible voters			75,146
	Conservative hold		Swing		–8.06
Source: Elections Canada [12] [13]

2011 federal election redistributed results [14]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	30,412	83.39
	New Democratic	2,976	8.16
	Liberal	1,291	3.54
	Green	1,244	3.41
	Others	547	1.50

1976–1987

Graph of election results in Bow River (1976-1987) (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Taylor	43,033	76.20	-0.40
	New Democratic	William McCutcheon	5,258	9.31	+2.26
	Liberal	B.C. Tanner	4,066	7.20	-7.51
	Rhinoceros	Gordon D. Taylor	2,349	4.16	–
	Confederation of Regions	Dean Oseen	1,443	2.56	–
	Social Credit	Tom Erhart	326	0.58	-1.07
Total valid votes			56,475	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Taylor	30,463	76.60	+13.53
	Liberal	Neville Tilley	5,850	14.71	+3.46
	New Democratic	David Radke	2,802	7.05	+1.70
	Social Credit	Edward M. Kiddle	656	1.65	–
Total valid votes			39,771	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Taylor	25,973	63.07
	Independent	Stanley Schumacher	8,378	20.34
	Liberal	Madeline J. Hombert	4,633	11.25
	New Democratic	Gale Burke	2,200	5.34

1917–1968

Graph of election results in Bow River (1914-1966) (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	12,611	53.14	+7.28
	Social Credit	Ron Allen	5,671	23.89	-5.96
	Liberal	W. James Anderson	3,615	15.23	-3.13
	New Democratic	Doug Murdoch	1,836	7.74	+1.81

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	11,461	45.86	-0.50
	Social Credit	Francis J. Porter	7,460	29.85	+0.29
	Liberal	Earl Hastings	4,589	18.36	+1.33
	New Democratic	Walter W. Siewert	1,481	5.93	-1.11

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	10,733	46.36	-16.76
	Social Credit	Francis J. Porter	6,844	29.56	+1.49
	Liberal	Earl Hastings	3,944	17.04	+8.23
	New Democratic	Gordon Bowers	1,629	7.04	–

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	12,695	63.12	+25.90
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	5,646	28.07	-10.96
	Liberal	Francis John Robert Olson	1,772	8.81	-14.94

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	7,383	39.03	-8.54
	Progressive Conservative	Eldon Woolliams	7,039	37.21	+19.68
	Liberal	Arthur Cecil Bates	4,493	23.75	-6.78

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	7,320	47.57	+0.26
	Liberal	William Duncan MacDonald	4,698	30.53	+5.87
	Progressive Conservative	Wilfred J. Wilde	2,698	17.53	+3.36
	Labor–Progressive	Arthur Llewelyn Roberts	671	4.36	-1.01

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	8,537	47.31	+8.93
	Liberal	William Duncan MacDonald	4,449	24.66	+12.44
	Progressive Conservative	Wilfred John Wilde	2,558	14.18	-8.71
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Edwin Ellinson	1,530	8.48	-11.31
	Labor–Progressive	Arthur Llewelyn Roberts	969	5.37	-1.34

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	6,569	38.39	+4.04
	Progressive Conservative	John Angus MacKinnon	3,917	22.89	+2.27
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Herbert Coldwell	3,386	19.79	+5.84
	Liberal	William George Southern	2,091	12.22	-13.49
	Labor–Progressive	John Blair Brown	1,149	6.71	+1.34

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	5,410	34.34	-18.76
	Liberal	Austin Claypool	4,050	25.71	+16.95
	National Government	M.E. Manning	3,248	20.62	-1.18
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Aylmer Liesemer	2,197	13.95	-2.38
	Communist	Lawrence Anderson	847	5.38	–

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Johnston	7,529	53.11	–
	Conservative	Andrew Davison	3,091	21.80	-22.60
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Edward Joseph Garland	2,315	16.33	-39.26
	Liberal	Charles Ross Walrod	1,242	8.76	–

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers of Alberta	Edward Joseph Garland	5,825	55.59	-7.35
	Conservative	Dawson Graham	4,653	44.41	+7.35

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers of Alberta	Edward Joseph Garland	5,144	62.95	+19.90
	Conservative	Acle Carman Scratch	3,028	37.05	+13.38

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Edward Joseph Garland	3,773	43.05	-31.44
	Liberal	Jesse Elmer Gouge	2,917	33.28	–
	Conservative	William James Douglass	2,075	23.67	+0.55

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Edward Joseph Garland	11,527	74.49	+57.43
	Conservative	William Rose Fulton	3,579	23.13	-20.98
	Unknown	Herbert Adolph Wiertz	369	2.38	–

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Government (Unionist)	Howard Hadden Halladay	3,757	44.11
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Jesse Elmer Gouge	2,996	35.17
	Nonpartisan League	Daniel Harcourt Galbraith	1,453	17.06
	Labour	John Reid	312	3.66

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

Notes

1. Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
2. Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
3. Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
4. Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
5. Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.

1. Edward Joseph Garland was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth, which was founded on 1 August 1932

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2017
2. Statistics Canada: 2017
3. Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
4. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
5. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 27, 2021). "Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
6. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (November 27, 2015). "NHS Profile". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
7. "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada . Retrieved April 9, 2024.
8. "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts".
9. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
10. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
11. "Candidate Campaign Returns". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
12. "October 19, 2015 Election Results — Bow River (Validated results)". Elections Canada. October 20, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
13. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
14. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

External links

• Riding history for Bow River from the Library of Parliament