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Rosetown–Biggar (provincial Electoral District)
Rosetown-Delisle is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. The largest community is Rosetown. Smaller communities in the district include the towns of Outlook, Elrose, Kyle, Zealandia, Langham and Eston; and the villages of Dinsmore, Harris, Beechy, Lucky Lake, and Conquest. History This constituency was created for the 1975 election as Rosetown-Elrose from the districts of Rosetown and Elrose. The district was renamed Rosetown-Biggar before the 1995 general election, but the name was changed back to Rosetown-Elrose before the 2003 general election. Prior to the 2024 general election, the district was significantly reconfigured, losing a large area west of Rosetown and Elrose to Kindersley-Biggar and Cypress Hills, while taking in Delisle and adjacent areas of exurban Saskatoon from Biggar-Sask Valley. Accordingly, the riding was renamed Rosetown-Delisle. Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Reiter
James Reiter is a Canadian politician. He represents electoral district of Rosetown-Delisle in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan The Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan () is the legislative chamber of the Saskatchewan Legislature in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Bills passed by the assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan, in the ... as a member of the Saskatchewan Party. Reiter was first elected in the 2007 Saskatchewan general election, 2007 general election. On May 29, 2009, Reiter was appointed Executive Council of Saskatchewan, Minister of Highways & Infrastructure by Premier of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall. , - , New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan, NDP , Eric Anderson , align="right", 1,592 , align="right", 19.99% , align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 7,964 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", Cabinet positions References Honourable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Saskatchewan General Election
The 1975 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 11, 1975, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. Blakeney and the NDP were re-elected to a majority government. Both the New Democratic government of Premier Allan Blakeney and the opposition Liberal Party, led by David Steuart, dropped in support to the resurgent Progressive Conservative Party. The Tories, who were a minor force in the previous election, drew over a quarter of the 1975 electorate. Campaign One of the main issues of the campaign was natural resources management. At the onset of the campaign, Saskatchewan was facing court challenges and a capital strike from multinational resource extraction companies. The potash industry was opposed to the new provincial reserve tax that Blakeney's government had introduced on that mineral the previous year. The federal government under Pierre Trudeau supported the companies' court challenges, and announced in the November 1974 federal budge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Conservative Party Of Saskatchewan
The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan is a conservative political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Founded in 1905 by former Northwest Territories Premier Frederick Haultain, the party was first known as the Provincial Rights Party. In 1912, its name changed to the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, and in 1942 it adopted its current name. Members are commonly known as Tories. The party has formed government in Saskatchewan three times, first in a coalition government from 1929 to 1934, and then in consecutive majority governments from 1982 to 1991. The party was badly damaged by an expense fraud scandal in the 1990s. In 1997, the party went dormant when much of its membership migrated to the newly established Saskatchewan Party. Although the party has been active again since the 2007 provincial election, no PC candidates have been elected since 1995. History Early years (1905–1934) The party was founded in 1905. Saskatchewan joined Confederation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Bailey (politician)
Roy Hardeman Bailey (December 16, 1928 – December 13, 2018) was a Canadians, Canadian politician. Formerly a member of the Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan, Bailey joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan when the Social Credit and PC parties merged under the PC name in 1971. Bailey ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan leadership conventions, leadership of the Saskatchewan PC Party in 1973, placing second to Dick Collver. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in the 1975 Saskatchewan general election, 1975 provincial election as the Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly for Rosetown-Elrose (former electoral district), Rosetown-Elrose, and served until 1978. Bailey was a Board of education, school board trustee in the Borderland School Division (since consolidated into the Prairie South School Division) from 1984 to 1993. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th Saskatchewan Legislature
The 18th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was elected in the Saskatchewan general election held in June 1975. The assembly sat from November 12, 1975, to September 19, 1978. The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Allan Blakeney formed the government. The Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. For example, while the political systems ... led by David Steuart formed the official opposition. Edward Malone replaced Steuart as party leader in 1976. After the Progressive Conservative Party won two by-elections and convinced two Liberal members to defect in 1977, the Progressive Conservative Party led by Richard Lee Collver shared the role of official opposition with the Liberals. John Edward Brockelbank served as speaker for the assembly. Members of the Assembly The following members were elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggar-Sask Valley
Biggar-Sask Valley was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. It was created from parts of former Biggar, Martensville, Cut Knife-Turtleford, Batoche and Rosthern-Shellbrook ridings. It was first contested in the 2016 election. The riding was dissolved into Kindersley-Biggar, Rosthern-Shellbrook, Rosetown-Delisle, Martensville-Blairmore and Warman prior to the next general election. Members of the Legislative Assembly This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly: Election results See also * List of Saskatchewan provincial electoral districts * List of Saskatchewan general elections * Canadian provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts have boundaries that are non- coterminous with those of the federal electoral districts, except for districts in the province of Ontario, where districts in the Southern Ontario region are coter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskatoon
Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Highway, Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway, and has served as the cultural and economic hub of central Saskatchewan since its founding in 1882 as a Temperance movement, Temperance colony. With a Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census population of 266,141, Saskatoon is the List of cities in Saskatchewan, largest city in the province, and the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, 17th largest Census Metropolitan Area in Canada, with a 2021 census population of 317,480. Saskatoon is home to the University of Saskatchewan, the Meewasin Valley Authority—which protects the South Saskatchewan River and provides for the city's popular riverbank park spaces—and Wanuskewin Heritage Park, a National Historic Site of Canada and UNE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delisle, Saskatchewan
Delisle () is a town in south central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is southwest of Saskatoon beside Saskatchewan Highway 7, Highway 7. History The origins of the town go back to its original settlement on the Old Bone Trail. It derived its name from the DeLisle family. Lenora DeLisle and her four sons Amos, Fred, Ed and Eugene came from North Dakota, United States, in 1903 and homesteaded on the land south of the present-day townsite. With the coming of the Canadian Northern Railway's line from Saskatoon to Calgary in 1908 the settlement to the south moved to the new townsite. The town was named after the brothers on December 29, 1908. Delisle was named a town in 1913. Demographics In the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Delisle had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Sights A cenotaph stands in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cypress Hills (electoral District)
Cypress Hills is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. Located in the extreme southwest corner of the province, this constituency was formed by the ''Representation Act, 1994'' (Saskatchewan) through combining the districts of Shaunavon, Maple Creek, and portions of Swift Current. The district has an economy based on agriculture, cattle ranching and major oil and gas production. The constituency also contains the Great Sand Hills in its northern areas and Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. A near-complete ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' skeleton – one of only 12 in the world – was found near the town of Eastend. The largest communities include Maple Creek and Shaunavon with populations of 2,270 and 1,775 respectively. Smaller centers in the district include the towns of Gull Lake, Leader, Cabri, Eastend and Burstall; and the villages of Frontier, Fox Valley, Tompkins, Alsask, Abbey, Webb and Consul. An electoral district i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kindersley-Biggar
Kindersley-Biggar is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. Created for the 9th Saskatchewan general election as Kerrobert-Kindersley, this constituency was renamed Kindersley for the 18th Saskatchewan general election in 1975 and Kindersley-Biggar for the 2024 general election. The largest centre in the riding is the town of Kindersley (pop. 4,571). Other communities in the district include the towns of Kerrobert, Macklin, Eatonia, and Luseland; and the villages of Denzil, Marengo, Coleville, Tramping Lake, and Major. For the 2024 election, the riding gained significant territory from Rosetown-Elrose and Biggar-Sask Valley centred around the town of Biggar, Saskatchewan, Biggar, and lost a small area south of Kindersley Kindersley is a town surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290 in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located along Highway 7, a primary highway linking Calgary, Alberta and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30th Saskatchewan General Election
The 2024 Saskatchewan general election was held on October 28, 2024, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The incumbent Saskatchewan Party government, led by Premier Scott Moe since 2018, sought re-election to a fifth consecutive term. The Saskatchewan Party's primary opponent, the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Carla Beck, sought to lead the NDP to its first government since 2007. This was the first general election to feature the Saskatchewan United Party (SUP). The Saskatchewan Party won enough seats to form its fifth consecutive majority government, claiming the majority of rural ridings. Its majority was reduced from eleven seats to three by a resurgent NDP—which achieved its best electoral performance since 2007 by taking every seat in Regina and all but one in Saskatoon. The SUP lost its only seat, which had been held by party founder Nadine Wilson. The results underscored the urban–rural divide between the two parties' co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Saskatchewan General Election
The 2003 Saskatchewan general election was held on November 5, 2003, to elect the 58 members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (MLAs). The election was called on October 8 by Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Lynda Haverstock, on the advice of Premier Lorne Calvert. Campaign Going into the election, the popularity of the New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan (NDP) had declined because of several controversies. Voters in this agrarian province were disgruntled because of a mediocre harvest, a disastrous summer for cattle producers — the American border had been closed to Canadian beef due to fears of mad cow disease; and the actions of a member of the NDP Cabinet who was found to have misled the people of the province on the nature of the Saskatchewan Potato Utility Development Company ("SPUDCO") — a publicly owned potato company that was inappropriately characterized as a public-private partnership that went bust in 2000. New Liberal leader David Karwacki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
