Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

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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 :

choice seats
total
candidates
data
Weighted
seats
be right proportion of
1912 53 53 8th 36,848 41.98%
1917 59 53 7th 68,243 36.30%
1921 63 4th 2 7.133 3.94%
1925 63 18th 3 45,515 18.35%
1929 63 40 24 131,550 36.44%
1934 55 52 0 114.923 26.75%
1938 52 24 0 52,315 11.87%
1944 52 39 0 42,511 10.69%
1948 52 9 0 37,986 7.63%
1952 53 8th 0 10,648 1.97%
1956 53 9 0 10,921 1.98%
1960 54 55 0 94,737 13.95%
1964 59 42 1 126.028 18.90%
choice seats
total
candidates
data
Weighted
seats
be right proportion of
1967 59 41 0 41,583 9.78%
1971 60 16 0 9,659 2.13%
1975 61 61 7th 124,573 27.62%
1978 61 61 17th 181.045 38.08%
1982 64 64 55 289.311 54.07%
1986 64 64 38 244,382 44.61%
1991 66 66 10 137.994 25.54%
1995 58 58 5 73,269 17.92%
1999 57 14th 0 1,609 0.40%
2003 58 11 0 681 0.16%
2007 58 5 0 832 0.18%
2011 58 5 0 1,298 0.33%

Party leader

Surname Chair premier
Wellington Willoughby 1912-1917
Donald Maclean 1917-1921
James Thomas Milton Anderson 1924-1936 1929-1934
John Diefenbaker 1936-1940
HE Keown 1940-1944
Rupert Ramsay 1944-1949
Alvin Hamilton 1949-1957
Martin Pederson 1958-1968
Edward Nasserden 1970-1973
Dick Collver 1973-1979
Grant Devine 1979-1992 1982-1991
Richard Swenson 1992-1994
Bill Boyd 1994-1997
Iris Dennis 1997-2006
Richard Swenson 2006-2018
Ken Gray since 2018

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saskatchewan Tories in Fraud Scandal ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 21, 2016.
  2. ^ Elections in Saskatchewan - Elections Saskatchewan