He continued to work seasonally in Alberta and study in Winnipeg until 1916 when he graduated with an honours Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.

[2] He taught three years in New Kiew, Alberta, then became principal of the Michael Hrushewsky Institute, a bursa for Ukrainian high school and university students in Edmonton.

[1] In 1926, Luchkovich was approached by a committee of leaders in the Ukrainian community to stand as the United Farmers of Alberta candidate in the district of Vegreville in that year's federal election.

Despite a limited campaign budget and religious and ethnic factionalism in the riding, he defeated Joseph McCallum, a former MLA for the area, by 700 votes,[3] thus becoming the first person of Ukrainian descent to be elected to the Parliament of Canada.

Parliamentary and media opinion was impressed by Luchkovich's speech and the episode marked the high point of anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, which then subsided.

[4] On May 8, 1931, Luchkovich gave a memorable speech criticizing the treatment of the Ukrainian minority by the Second Polish Republic and asking Canada to intervene.

He was named the sole delegate from the British Commonwealth to the International Inter-Parliamentary Union Congress in Bucharest and across Europe including the Ukrainian-majority areas of Rumania and Poland.

[1] He was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and ran under its banner in the 1935 election, but was defeated by Social Credit candidate William Hayhurst.