While media coverage of federal elections has evolved over the years, some aspects of election reporting remain the same. One basic tenet that’s held true over decades is that people want to hear the results of an election as quickly as possible. They want to know who won where. If you look back to early editions of the Calgary Herald the day after an election, results dominated the newspapers’ pages. Read More
People used to go to great lengths to get their election news
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The night of the 1911 federal election, a party atmosphere was in full swing outside Herald offices. Many Calgarians were pleased to hear that Robert Borden’s Conservatives were bumping Wilfrid Laurier’s Liberals out of power. “The crowd started to sing patriotic songs, ceasing every few minutes to renew their cheering,” a front-page story said. “The vociferous demonstrations of delight by the crowd were never greater than when one after another, the bulletins told of the defeat of members of the Liberal cabinet . . . That they were to be eliminated from the house of commons appeared to be the source of great delight.”
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Here’s a look at the Herald’s front-page coverage of that evening and a few previous federal elections.
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