He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1937 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government.

He defeated incumbent Andrew Smeaton and two other candidates with a landslide majority to pick up the seat for his party.

On the same front page, the paper also broke the news that William Chant was to leave the Social Credit caucus.

[2] The newspaper had come under attack by Social Credit supporters, forcing the paper to issue a news story standing by its claims the next day.

[3] Seven days later, Wight made his formal announcement of resignation to the media on September 2, 1937, giving as his reason acceptance of a job as an engineer at a department store in Calgary.