It is a mixed urban and suburban constituency in Calgary – with a dense urban area close to the Bow River in the south and suburbs in the north of the riding, west of Deerfoot Trail and east of Nose Hill Park.
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He also ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta in the riding of Calgary Centre in the 1967 election but came up a very close second to Fred Colborne of the Alberta Social Credit Party.
In the 1993 federal election, he was elected as the Reform Party candidate in the riding of Calgary Centre.
His first political activity was in 1992, when he ran a Vote No campaign in the federal riding of Calgary Centre during the Charlottetown Accord constitutional referendum. He then became an area manager for the Reform candidate Jim Silye.
Soon after the announcement of Prentice's impending resignation, both Ric McIver and Barb Higgins – the second and third place mayoralty finishers in the 2010 municipal election in Calgary – expressed interest in running for the Conservative Party nomination in Calgary Centre-North.