The district was redrawn frequently over the years but had remained largely a thin slice in central Alberta.

On October 30, 1957 a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta.

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

[3] The Social Credit government in power at the time did not considered the results binding.

[6] Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the Plebiscite such as Ponoka were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones, business owners that wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a license.