Colleen Young is a
Canadian
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provincial politician, who currently serves as the Member of the
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
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for the district of
Lloydminster
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. She was first elected in a
by-election
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on November 14, 2014.
["Sask. Party's Colleen Young wins Lloydminster byelection"]
CBC News
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, November 14, 2014. She is a member of the
Saskatchewan Party
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caucus.
[ She was re-elected in the 2016 general election.][
Prior to her election to the legislature, Young was chair of the Lloydminster Public School Board, and served on the senate of the ]University of Saskatchewan
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Electoral history
2016 Saskatchewan general election
2014 Lloydminster provincial by-election
References
Living people
People from Lloydminster
Saskatchewan Party MLAs
Women MLAs in Saskatchewan
21st-century Canadian politicians
21st-century Canadian women politicians
Saskatchewan school board members
Year of birth missing (living people)
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