Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan
Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan | |
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Party leader | Richard Swenson |
founding | 1912 |
Headquarters | Moose Jaw |
Alignment | conservatism |
Website | www.pcsask.ca |
The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan (French Parti progressiste-conservateur de la Saskatchewan ) is a conservative political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . Before 1942 it was called the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan and its members are known as the Tories . The party twice appointed the provincial prime minister, most recently from 1982 to 1991, but sank to an insignificant splinter party in the mid-1990s and has not been represented in the Saskatchewan legislative assembly since then .
history
The party emerged in 1912 from the Provincial Rights Party led by Frederick Haultain . The Conservatives achieved their best election result in the first half of the 20th century in 1929, when they won 24 of 63 seats in the Legislative Assembly and got 36.44% of the vote. Although they had fewer seats than the Liberals , they formed a coalition government with the Progressives and Independents. The conservative party chairman James Thomas Milton Anderson became prime minister.
The Tories were suspected of working closely with the Ku Klux Klan and were incited against immigrants, Catholics and French Canadians . They banned the use of French as a school language and the display of religious symbols. Their inability to cope with the aftermath of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl led to all MPs being voted out of office in 1934. Thereafter, the Tories were excluded from the provincial parliament for four decades. One of the hapless party leaders of the era was John Diefenbaker , who later became Prime Minister of Canada.
The Tories were only able to celebrate noteworthy electoral successes again in the 1970s. In 1978 they rose to become the second strongest force, and in 1982 Grant Devine led the party to an overwhelming election victory. It won 55 out of 62 seats and got 54.07% of the vote. Even four years later, it won an absolute majority of the seats. However, high national debt and the unpopular cuts in services resulted in a defeat in 1991. In the years that followed, twelve MPs were charged with corruption and six of them were convicted of fraudulently diverting donations to a front company.
The scandal destroyed the image of the party, which only had five seats in the 1995 elections. Most of the members joined the newly formed Saskatchewan Party in 1997 . This led the progressive conservatives to sink into complete insignificance. The party still has substantial assets, but if dissolved, these would revert to the provincial government. To prevent this from happening, it continues to nominate pro forma candidates who have no chance of being elected.
Election results
Results of the legislative assembly elections :
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See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Saskatchewan Tories in Fraud Scandal ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 21, 2016.
- ^ Elections in Saskatchewan - Elections Saskatchewan