Yorkton—Melville

Yorkton—Melville
Saskatchewan electoral district
	Yorkton—Melville in relation to other Saskatchewan federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order.
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Cathay Wagantall; Conservative
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District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	71,270
Electors (2015)	53,446
Area (km²)	43,272
Pop. density (per km²)	1.6
Census subdivision(s)	Yorkton, Melville, Esterhazy, Canora, Tisdale, Hudson Bay

Yorkton—Melville is a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.

30.2% of the population are of Ukrainian ethnic origin, the highest such percentage in Canada.^[3]

Geography

The district is in east-central Saskatchewan.

History

The electoral district was created in 1966 from Yorkton, Melville and Mackenzie ridings.

In the 2006 election, the Yorkton—Melville constituency had the highest percentage of eligible voters over the age of 65, and highest average age of all 308 federal ridings.

This riding lost a fraction of territory to Regina—Qu'Appelle and gained territory from Saskatoon—Humboldt and a fraction from Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Yorkton—Melville Riding created from Yorkton, Melville and Mackenzie
28th	1968–1972	Lorne Nystrom	New Democratic
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997	Garry Breitkreuz	Reform
36th	1997–2000		Reform
36th	2000–2000		Alliance
37th	2000–2003		Alliance
37th	2003–2004		Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–present	Cathay Wagantall

Election results

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cathay Wagantall	21,683	59.22	-9.66	$57,632.77
	New Democratic	Doug Ottenbreit	7,396	20.20	-1.76	$21,043.83
	Liberal	Brooke Taylor Malinoski	6,504	17.76	+11.15	$3,627.04
	Green	Elaine Marie Hughes	1,030	2.81	+0.43	$130.31
Total valid votes/Expense limit			36,613	100.0		$229,969.51
Total rejected ballots			95	–	–
Turnout			36,708	68.36	+4.96
Eligible voters			53,694
Source: Elections Canada^[4]^[5]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[6]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	23,607	68.88
	New Democratic	7,526	21.96
	Liberal	2,266	6.61
	Green	817	2.38
	Independent	58	0.17

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Garry Breitkreuz	21,906	68.9	+0.9	$68,801
	New Democratic	Doug Ottenbreit	6,931	21.8	+1.0	$13,345
	Liberal	Kash Andreychuk	2,167	6.8	+1.4	$40,387
	Green	Elaine Hughes	774	2.4	-3.3	$540
Total valid votes/Expense limit			31,778	100.0		$92,190
Total rejected ballots			90	0.3	-0.1
Turnout			31,868	63.4	+6
Eligible voters			50,254	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Garry Breitkreuz	19,824	68.0	+4.6	$65,139
	New Democratic	Doug Ottenbreit	6,076	20.8	+2.0	$12,454
	Green	Jen Antony	1,664	5.7	+2.9	$3,767
	Liberal	Bryan H. Bell	1,578	5.4	-8.5	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			29,142	100.0		$89,452
Total rejected ballots			107	0.4	+0.2
Turnout			29,249	57	-7

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Garry Breitkreuz	20,736	63.5	+0.6	$55,627
	New Democratic	Jason Dennison	6,165	18.9	+4.1	$19,488
	Liberal	Mervin Cushman	4,558	14.0	-0.8	$18,223
	Green	Keith Neu	923	2.8	+1.2	$641
	Independent	Carl Barabonoff	287	0.9	–	$739
Total valid votes			32,669	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			80	0.2	-0.1
Turnout			32,749	64.3	+4.1

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Garry Breitkreuz	19,940	62.9	-5.0	$61,866
	New Democratic	Don Olson	5,890	18.6	+2.8	$18,736
	Liberal	Ted Quewezance	4,697	14.8	-1.4	$32,905
	Green	Ralph Pilchner	630	1.98	+2.0	–
	Independent	David Sawkiw	524	1.7	–	$6,330
Total valid votes			31,681	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			113	0.4	0.0
Turnout			31,794	60.2	-3.4

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Garry Breitkreuz*	19,978	63.0	+12.9	$52,574
	Liberal	Ken Pilon	5,153	16.2	-2.6	$24,027
	New Democratic	Peter Champagne	5,007	15.8	-9.2	$9,235
	Progressive Conservative	Brent Haas	1,583	5.0	-1.1	$543
Total valid votes			31,721	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			103	0.3	0.0
Turnout			31,824	63.6	-3.3

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Garry Breitkreuz*	17,216	50.1	+17.4	$53,836
	New Democratic	Evan Carlson	8,583	25.0	-4.4	$43,899
	Liberal	Lloyd Sandercock	6,481	18.9	-10.6	$39,999
	Progressive Conservative	Ivan Daunt	2,101	6.1	-2.6	$6,357
Total valid votes			34,381	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			116	0.3
Turnout			34,497	66.9

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Garry Breitkreuz	10,605	32.7	–
	Liberal	Jim Walters	9,531	29.4	+15.8
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom*	9,487	29.2	-21.9
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Reitenbach	2,825	8.7	-25.9
Total valid votes			32,448	100.0

* Denotes incumbent.

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom*	18,523	51.1	-0.2
	Progressive Conservative	Virginia Battiste	12,543	34.6	+1.2
	Liberal	J. Robert Autumn	5,149	14.2	+0.1
Total valid votes			36,215	100.0

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom*	18,116	51.3	+5.6
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Wasylysen	11,800	33.4	-3.9
	Liberal	Arliss Dellow	4,996	14.1	-2.8
	Confederation of Regions	Bill Kruczko	400	1.1	–
Total valid votes			35,312	100.0

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom*	15,240	45.7	-1.8
	Progressive Conservative	Ben Hudye	12,450	37.3	+4.9
	Liberal	Gordon Hollinger	5,664	17.0	+1.3
Total valid votes			33,354	100.0

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom	16,677	47.5	+1.9
	Progressive Conservative	John Miller	11,381	32.4	+10.7
	Liberal	Phil Kotyk	5,501	15.7	-15.4
	Independent	Ben Hudye	1,566	4.5	–
Total valid votes			35,125	100.0

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom	14,586	45.6	-2.1
	Liberal	Stan Kyba	9,946	31.1	+2.5
	Progressive Conservative	Marvin Wentzell	6,963	21.8	-0.7
	Social Credit	Harry Hoedel	338	1.1	-0.2
	Communist	George Shlakoff	179	0.6	–
Total valid votes			32,012	100.0

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom	15,998	47.7	+8.8
	Liberal	Stephanie Potoski	9,574	28.5	-1.1
	Progressive Conservative	Don Armour	7,542	22.5	-9.0
	Social Credit	Harry Hoedel	425	1.3	–
Total valid votes			33,539	100.0

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom	13,212	38.9
	Progressive Conservative	James N. Ormiston	10,699	31.5
	Liberal	Peter J. Konkin	10,068	29.6
Total valid votes			33,979	100.0

References

"Yorkton—Melville (Code 47014) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
Riding history for Yorkton—Melville (1966– ) from the Library of Parliament
Expenditures - 2008
Expenditures - 2004
Expenditures - 2000
Expenditures - 1997

Notes

[1] Statistics Canada: 2012

[2] Statistics Canada: 2012

[3] "2Profile of Ethnic Origin and Visible Minorities for Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 2006 Census". 2.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2012-12-02.

[4] Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Yorkton—Melville, 30 September 2015

[5] Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates

[6] Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

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