Electoral History
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Cardston-Taber-Warner | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Cardston-Chief Mountain 1993-1997 and Taber-Warner 1963-1997 |
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| 24th | 1997–2001 | Ron Hierath | Progressive Conservative | |
| 25th | 2001–2004 | Broyce Jacobs | ||
| 26th | 2004–2008 | Paul Hinman | Alberta Alliance | |
| 2008 | Wildrose Alliance | |||
| 27th | 2008–2012 | Broyce Jacobs | Progressive Conservative | |
| 28th | 2012-present | Gary Bikman | Wildrose | |
The first election held in 1997 saw Taber-Warner incumbent Ron Hierath run for his second term in office in the district. He ran against three other candidates taking 60% of the vote to pick up the new district for the Progressive Conservatives.
Hierath retired at dissolution in 2001. He was replaced by Progressive Conservative candidate Broyce Jacobs who the district easily over Alberta First Party leader John Reil who made a strong second place showing in the field of four candidates.
Jacobs stood for a second term in office in the 2004 general election but was defeated in a hotly contested race by Alberta Alliance candidate Paul Hinman. The Senate nominee election district results also favored the Alberta Alliance well with the three Alliance candidates finishing in the top four spots.
Hinman became leader of the Alberta Alliance in 2005. He would lead his party to a merger with the unregistered Wildrose Party headed by party President Link Byfield on January 19, 2008. However Hinman would be defeated by Jacobs in the 2008 election held just weeks after his party merger.
Jacobs would be forced into retirement in the run up to the 2012 election after he lost his party nomination meeting to Pat Shimbashi. The general election saw the Wildrose party reclaim the district with candidate Gary Bickman defeating Shimbashi by a wide margin to earn his first term in office.
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