The voters of Glenmore re-elected Dickie as a Progressive Conservative in the 1971 election as that party won its first term in Government under Peter Lougheed.

He retired in 1975 and was replaced by Hugh Planche who won some of the biggest majorities in his three terms representing Calgary-Glenmore.

He then moved on to be the Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations, then Attorney General and finally Deputy Premier.

On September 14, 2009, the district would provide its first surprise result since the 1960s by electing Wildrose Alliance candidate Paul Hinman in a hotly contested race.

In the 2012 Alberta general election Hinman lost his seat to Progressive Conservative Linda Johnson, despite Wildrose making gains elsewhere in the province.

In 2015, Johnson and NDP candidate Anam Kazim won exactly the same number of votes in the initial count.

Elections Alberta confirmed in a recount that Kazim defeated Johnson by a razor-thin margin, taking Calgary-Glenmore for the NDP.

The only person to run for the Progressive Conservative nomination was Calgary Ward 13 Alderman Diane Colley-Urquhart.

[15][16] The nomination for the provincial Liberal party which had previously held the riding and had finished second in every year since 1982 was hotly contested.

The first candidate to announce his intention to run for the Alberta Liberal Party nomination was former Ontario NDP MPP George Dadamo.

He had previously run as a Social Credit candidate in Calgary-Buffalo in 2008 The election was a major test for all the political parties.

The Progressive Conservatives popularity was tested for the first time after winning their massive majority under Premier Ed Stelmach in the 2008 general election.

The Wildrose Alliance would test their viability as a party in being able to attract enough votes in an urban riding to elect a candidate.

The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority.