Biggar (electoral district)

Infobox Canadian provincial riding
name = Biggar
province = Saskatchewan
legislature = Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan


member-type = Member of the
Legislative Assembly
party-colour = Saskatchewan Party
member = Randy Weekes
member-party = Saskatchewan Party
census-date = 2001
pop = 16,500
election-date = 2003
electors = 12,029
area =
popdens =
created = 2002
cdivision =
muns =

Biggar is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located in west central Saskatchewan, has an economy based primarily on mixed farming and alfalfa production, and oil production. Biggar is home to Prairie Malt Ltd. (the first malt plant in Saskatchewan) and is situated in the heart of Canada's prime barley-growing region. The Miller Western Palo Salt Mine is located 27 km West of Biggar. The 25 staff members produce sodium sulfate for shipping throughout Canada and the central United States. The major communities are Biggar (2,243), Wilkie (1,282) and Langham (1,145).

History

Riding

The riding was originally created for the 1912 general election and was abolished following the 1991 general election. [ [http://www.saskarchives.com/web/seld/2-13.pdf Microsoft Word - Elections - Results by Electoral Division.doc ] ] Woodrow Stanley Lloyd of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (later the CCF-NDP) represented the riding from 1944 until 1971 and as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1961 to 1964.

This riding was re-created by the "Representation Act, 2002" (Saskatchewan). It is made up of areas of the Redberry Lake, Rosetown-Biggar, Battlefords-Cutknife and Kindersley ridings. Both the riding of Redberry Lake and the riding of Rosetown Biggar were new ridings created by the "Representation Act, 1994" (Saskatchewan).

Member of the Legislative Assembly

Prior to the 1999 Saskatchewan general election, when the Saskatchewan Party made inroads, people in this area of the province generally elected NDP and PC MLAs.

* Previous MLAs:
** Redberry Lake: Randy Weekes, Saskatchewan Party
** Rosetown-Biggar: Elwin Hermanson, Saskatchewan Party
** Battlefords-Cutknife: Wally Lorenz, Saskatchewan Party
** Kindersley: Jason Dearborn, Saskatchewan Party

Election Results

-
style="width: 130px" |Saskatchewan Party
Randy Weekes
align="right"|3,899
align="right"|53.57%
align="right"
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NDP
Lee W. Pearce
align="right"|2,628
align="right"|36.11%
align="right"
Liberal
Steven Dribnenki
align="right"|751
align="right"|10.32%
align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|7,278!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"

References

External links

* [http://www.legassembly.sk.ca/ Website of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan]

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