Bow Valley (provincial electoral district)
Bow Valley was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 1940, and again from 1971 to 1997.History
The Bow Valley electoral district was formed in 1913 from the Gleichen and Lethbridge District electoral districts. Bow Valley would be abolished prior to the 1940 Alberta general election, primarily forming Bow Valley-Empress electoral district, and a small portion added to Edson electoral district.
Bow Valley was revived in the 1970 electoral district re-distribution from the Bow Valley-Empress electoral district.
In the 1996 electoral district re-distribution, the Bow Valley electoral district was abolished and the territory was divided among Strathmore-Brooks, Drumheller-Chinook and Cypress-Medicine Hat electoral districts. The Electoral Boundaries Commission drafted the report with the intention of the Strathmore-Brooks electoral district retaining the name "Bow Valley".The 1926 Alberta general election would be the first held under single transferable vote in rural districts. Liberal leader Joseph Tweed Shaw would come second in the first count to United Farmers of Alberta candidate Ben S. Plumer. However, on the count of transferable votes Shaw would win the district by one vote.Election results
1913 by-election
1917 general election
1921 general election
1926 general election
1930 general election
1935 general election
1971 general election
1975 general election
1979 general election
1982 general election
1986 general election
1989 general election
1993 general election
