Carrot River Valley is a

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for the

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, Canada. Located in the east central area of Saskatchewan, this constituency was created by ''The Representation Act, 1994'' (Saskatchewan) out of the former district of

Kelsey-Tisdale Kelsey-Tisdale was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, encompassing the towns of Hudson Bay, Carrot River, and Tisdale. Created as "Tisdale-Kelsey" before the 17th Saskatchewan ...

and part of the riding of

Nipawin Nipawin () is a town in Saskatchewan, Canada, on the Saskatchewan River portion of Tobin Lake. The town lies between Codette Lake, created by the Francois-Finlay Dam (built in 1986) and Tobin Lake, created by the E.B. Campbell Dam built in ...

. The Carrot River flows through the riding. The riding was last contested in the 2020 general election, when incumbent

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MLA

Fred Bradshaw Fred Bradshaw is a Canadian politician. He was elected to represent the electoral district of Carrot River Valley in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in the 2007 election. Born in Arborfield, Saskatchewan, he is a member of the Saska ...

was re-elected. The largest population centers in the constituency are

(pop. 4,275), Tisdale (pop. 3,063),

Hudson Bay Hudson Bay ( crj, text=ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, translit=Wînipekw; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, translit=Kangiqsualuk ilua or iu, text=ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, translit=Tasiujarjuaq; french: b ...

(pop. 1,783), and Carrot River (pop. 1,017). Smaller communities in the riding include the villages of Codette,

Zenon Park Zenon Park ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Arborfield No. 456 and Census Division No. 14. Zenon Park is bilingual, using English and French. History In 1910, Fre ...

Aylsham Aylsham ( or ) is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Bure in north Norfolk, England, nearly north of Norwich. The river rises near Melton Constable, upstream from Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth and the North Sea, ...

, Mistatim, and Crooked River; and the town of

Arborfield Arborfield is a village on the A327 road in Berkshire about south-east of Reading, about west of Wokingham. It lies in the civil parish of Arborfield and Newland in the Borough of Wokingham, about west of its sister village of Arborfield C ...

History

The riding was first contested in the 1995 general election, when it returned NDP candidate

Andy Renaud Andrew L. J. Renaud (born December 27, 1946) was a Canadian politician. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as an NDP member for the constituency of Kelsey-Tisdale in 1991. He was re-elected to a second term in the constitu ...

. After the 1999 general election, the riding returned only Saskatchewan Party members until the present day.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Election results

2020 Saskatchewan general election

2016 Saskatchewan general election

2011 Saskatchewan general election

2007 Saskatchewan general election

2003 Saskatchewan general election

2003 Carrot River Valley by-election

1999 Saskatchewan general election

1995 Saskatchewan general election

References

External links

Website of the Legislative Assembly of SaskatchewanSaskatchewan Archives Board – Saskatchewan Election Results By Electoral District
{{SK-ED Saskatchewan provincial electoral districts