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Originally Posted by eternallyme
Have the NDP ever won a federal or provincial seat in Calgary?
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Interestingly... kinda?
In the Alberta election of 1921, Alexander Ross (not to be confused with the fur trader) won the first seat in Calgary as an MLA for the Dominion Labor Party (the whole city was a single riding with two seats from 1905-1913 and then again from 1921-1959 with three seats -- it was done under a single transferable vote system). The second seat was won by an independent, and the third seat was won by Fred White. White held his seat from 1921-1934, under the banners of Dominion Labor and then Canadian Labor.
The Dominion Labor Party was later disbanded to make room for/merged into the CCF, which further down the road became the NDP.