Yorkton (provincial electoral district)

Yorkton

Saskatchewan electoral district
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Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
MLA	Greg Ottenbreit Saskatchewan
District created	1905
First contested	1905
Last contested	2011
Demographics
Electors	10,961
Census divisions	Division 9
Census subdivisions	Yorkton

Yorkton is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. It has historically almost always voted for the governing party, selecting an opposition candidate only twice in its history (1938 & 1960).

The current boundaries of the constituency were set by the Representation Act, 2002 (Saskatchewan).

Founded as "York City" in 1882, Yorkton (pop. 15,038) became a city on February 1, 1928.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
22nd	1991–1995		Clay Serby	New Democrat
23rd	1995–1999
24th	1999–2003
25th	2003–2007
26th	2007–2011		Greg Ottenbreit	Saskatchewan Party
27th	2011–present

Election results (1991–present)

Saskatchewan General Election 2011, Yorkton electoral district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Saskatchewan	Greg Ottenbreit	5,446	72.45%	+12.99
	NDP	Chad Blenkin	1,932	25.70%	-11.82
	Green	Kathryn McDonald	139	1.85%	–
Total			7,517	100.00%

Saskatchewan General Election 2007, Yorkton electoral district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Saskatchewan	Greg Ottenbreit	5,005	59.46%	+18.29%
	NDP	Randy Goulden	3,158	37.52%	-13.72%
	Liberal	Joyce Landry	254	3.02%	-1.76%
Total			8,417	100.00%

Saskatchewan General Election 2003, Yorkton electoral district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Clay Serby	3,979	51.24%	+10.31%
	Saskatchewan	Randy Atkinson	3,197	41.17%	+4.46%
	Liberal	Charles Gunning	371	4.78%	-17.58%
	Western Independence	Bruce Ritter	218	2.81%	–
Total			7,765	100.00%

Saskatchewan General Election 1999, Yorkton electoral district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Clay Serby	2,874	40.93%	-8.64%
	Saskatchewan	Lorne Gogal	2,578	36.71%	–
	Liberal	Richard Yaholnitsky	1,570	22.36%	-16.19%
Total			7,022	100.00%

Saskatchewan General Election 1995, Yorkton electoral district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Clay Serby	3,588	49.57%	-9.41%
	Liberal	David Bucsis	2,791	38.55%	+19.76%
	Prog. Conservative	Howard W. Evans	860	11.88%	-10.35%
Total			7,239	100.00%

Saskatchewan General Election 1991, Yorkton electoral district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Clay Serby	4,897	58.98%	–
	Prog. Conservative	Brian Fromm	1,846	22.23%	–
	Liberal	Donna Taylor Yaholnitsky	1,560	18.79%	–
Total			8,303	100.00%

History

Members of the Legislative Assembly

	#	MLA	Served	Party
	1.	Thomas Henry Garry	1905–1929	Liberal
	2.	Alan Carl Stewart	1929–1934	Independent
	3.	Vincent Reynolds Smith	1934–1938	Liberal
	4.	Alan Carl Stewart	1938–1944	Unity
	5.	Arthur Percy Swallow	1944–1956	CCF
	6.	Frederick Neibrandt	1956–1960	CCF
	7.	Bernard David Gallagher	1960–1971	Liberal
	8.	Irving Wensley Carlson	1971–1975	NDP
	9.	Randall Neil Nelson	1975–1982	NDP
	10.	Lorne Aubrey McLaren	1982–1991	PC
	11.	Clay Serby	1991–2007	NDP
	12.	Greg Ottenbreit	2007–present	Saskatchewan Party

See also

• Yorkton – North-West Territories territorial electoral district
• Yorkton – Federal electoral district

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
• Elections Saskatchewan: Official Results of the 2007 Provincial Election By Electoral District
• Elections Saskatchewan: Official Results of the 2011 Provincial Election
• Saskatchewan Archives Board – Saskatchewan Election Results By Electoral Division