The Western Canada Concept Party of Saskatchewan was a provincial political party that was the

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...

, Canada branch of the

Western Canada Concept The Western Canada Concept was a Western Canada, Western Canadian federal political party founded in 1980 to promote the separation of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, and the Yukon and Northwest Territories ...

, a federal political party that advocated the separation of the four western provinces of Canada (

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, Saskatchewan, and

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) to form a new country. The party reached its peak during the 1982 provincial election, where the WCC won more votes than the

Saskatchewan Liberal Party The Saskatchewan Liberal Party is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The party was the provincial affiliate of the Liberal Party of Canada until 2009. It was previously one of the two largest parties in the provin ...

candidate in 23 of the province's 64 constituencies. In three ridings the WCC candidate captured more than 1,000 votes – in Moosomin, Souris-Cannington, and Shaunavon. Two disgruntled PC MLA's,

Lloyd Hampton Lloyd Edward Hampton (June 18, 1941 – 2011) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1982 to 1985, as a Progressive Conservative member for the constituency of Canora. He was briefly affiliated ...

and

Bill Sveinson William Martin Sveinson (July 7, 1946 – December 17, 2020) was a Canadian professional poker player and politician. Sveinson served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Saskatchewan. He was first elected under the Conservatives in ...

, later attempted to join the WCC, thus giving the party a presence in the Legislature. They were ultimately expelled from the WCC although the Legislature recognized them as WCC MLA's until the Legislature's dissolution. Hampton did not run again while Sveinson ran for a different party and finished a distant fourth.

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Elections Saskatchewan: Provincial Vote SummariesSaskatchewan Archives Board - Election Results By Electoral Division
Provincial political parties in Saskatchewan Defunct secessionist organizations in Canada Defunct political parties in Canada {{Saskatchewan-stub

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