The United Farmers of Alberta passed legislation in 1924 that changed both Edmonton and Calgary to Single Transferable Vote multi-member districts.

Calgary's first STV election produced mixed representation with no party taking all the seats.

arriving at the final results in both cities would take days and was complicated in terms of counting the vote transfers.

However, Calgary's ballot in 1955 held only 23 names and the voter was under no dictate to rank all the candidates on the list.

In 1957 the Social Credit government passed legislation standardizing the electoral system to First Past the Post across the province.

The government passed a separate redistribution bill that divided Calgary and Edmonton into single member districts.

The Calgary electoral district was created when Alberta became a province independent of the Northwest Territories in 1905.

Richard Bennett the Conservative candidate and party leader was a well known lawyer and former Northwest Territories MLA.

William Henry Cushing the Liberal candidate had previously been a prominent Calgary municipal politician including serving as mayor.

The 1905 election was mired in controversy as election results see-sawed back and forth, claims of Conservative supporters being denied access to polling stations were made with supporters of Cushing having been found to run the polling stations.

The result in Calgary had been seen by the Conservatives as an embarrassing personal defeat for Bennett as the party got nearly shut out of office province wide.

William Cushing Minister of Public Works decided to run for a second term in office.

The Conservatives ran former party leader Richard Bennett who had previously contested the district in 1905.

Bennett was unanimously acclaimed at the party nominating convention held on March 1, 1909 despite not attending.

The results of the election showed a roughly even split between the Liberals and Conservatives, although with each voter casting up to two votes, the picture is far from clear.

The leading candidate of the Liberals and Conservatives took more votes than their running mates, so in the end one of each party took the seats.

In the end, Calgary elected a balanced and mixed crop of MLAs - two Conservatives, a Liberal, a DLP-er and an Independent-Labour man.

The Co-operative Commonwealth executive decided to support and endorse her election campaign but did not nominate her as a candidate for the organization.

This was the first election province wide since Single Transferable Vote was implemented in 1924 that First Past the Post was put to use.

During the campaign Premier Ernest Manning promised to promote Helman to Attorney General as soon as he was elected to the district.

Liberal candidate Reginald McCollough and Independent Cliff Harris who was running in the election to protest Alberta's liquor laws in force at the time.

The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.

Calgary voted overwhelmingly in favor of the plebiscite posting a super majority for the yes side.

[31] 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.