Yorkton (provincial electoral district)

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, 2012 (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		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	2011–2016
28th	2016–present

Saskatchewan general election, 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Saskatchewan	Greg Ottenbreit	4,585	72.55	+0.10
	New Democratic	Greg Olson	1,432	22.66	-3.04
	Liberal	Aaron Sinclair	184	2.91	+2.91
	Green	Chad Gregoire	118	1.86	+0.01
Total valid votes			6,319	100.0
Eligible voters			–
Source: Elections Saskatchewan^[1]^[2]

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	-13.7
	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

#	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

Saskatchewan provincial electoral districts

North	Athabasca Batoche Biggar-Sask Valley Canora-Pelly Carrot River Valley Cumberland Cut Knife-Turtleford Humboldt-Watrous Kelvington-Wadena Lloydminster Martensville-Warman Meadow Lake Melfort Prince Albert Carlton Prince Albert Northcote Rosthern-Shellbrook Saskatchewan Rivers The Battlefords

Saskatoon	Saskatoon Centre Saskatoon Churchill-Wildwood Saskatoon Eastview Saskatoon Fairview Saskatoon Meewasin Saskatoon Northwest Saskatoon Nutana Saskatoon Riversdale Saskatoon Silverspring-Sutherland Saskatoon Southeast Saskatoon Stonebridge-Dakota Saskatoon University Saskatoon Westview Saskatoon Willowgrove

Regina	Regina Coronation Park Regina Douglas Park Regina Elphinstone-Centre Regina Gardiner Park Regina Lakeview Regina Northeast Regina Pasqua Regina Rochdale Regina Rosemont Regina University Regina Walsh Acres Regina Wascana Plains

South	Arm River Cannington Cypress Hills Estevan Indian Head-Milestone Kindersley Last Mountain-Touchwood Lumsden-Morse Melville-Saltcoats Moose Jaw North Moose Jaw Wakamow Moosomin Rosetown-Elrose Swift Current Weyburn-Big Muddy Wood River Yorkton

See also: 2011 election 2016 election List of elections Politics of Saskatchewan

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