Battle River—Crowfoot was 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.

[4] Even by the standards of rural Alberta, Battle River—Crowfoot is a strongly conservative riding.

The riding and its predecessors have been represented by centre-right MPs for all but two years since 1935, and the major right-wing party of the day has usually won here in massive landslides.

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