Saskatchewan Liberal Party
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Party leader | Darrin Lamoureux |
founding | 1905 |
Headquarters | Regina |
Alignment | liberalism |
Website | www.saskliberals.ca |
The Saskatchewan Liberal Party (French Parti libéral de la Saskatchewan ) is a liberal party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . It dominated provincial politics in the first half of the 20th century and provided the government several times, but with the exception of the 1960s, it was never able to build on earlier successes. She has not been represented in the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly since the 2003 election .
history
The party was founded in the same year as the province and dominated political events from the start. Until the mid-1940s, it provided five out of six prime ministers and was always the party with the most voters. At that time, it was located in the middle of the political spectrum and also targeted voters of non-British origin, including immigrants from Eastern Europe, Catholics and Francophones. The Liberals rejected nativist tendencies when the Ku Klux Klan briefly exerted a major influence in Saskatchewan in the late 1920s .
Dominance ended in 1944 when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) of Tommy Douglas, the first social democratic government in North America, came to power in Saskatchewan . The Liberals moved to the right politically and remained in opposition until 1964 when Ross Thatcher won the election. After the 1971 election defeat by the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (successor to the CCF), the Liberals remained the strongest opposition party until 1978 when they lost all seats and the progressive conservatives took their place.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the liberals were only able to benefit to a limited extent from the expense scandal of the progressive-conservative government, but then temporarily rose again in 1995 to become the strongest opposition force. In the 1999 elections, the Social Democrats narrowly missed an absolute majority and persuaded three Liberals to change parties. Internal disputes followed, which considerably weakened the Liberal Party. Since 2003 she has not been able to move into the provincial parliament, in 2011 she sank into complete insignificance.
Election results
Results of the legislative assembly elections:
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Party leader
Surname | Chair | premier |
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Thomas Walter Scott | 1905-1916 | 1905-1916 |
William Melville Martin | 1916-1922 | 1916-1922 |
Charles Avery Dunning | 1922-1926 | 1922-1926 |
James Garfield Gardiner | 1926-1935 | 1926-1929, 1934-1935 |
William John Patterson | 1935-1946 | 1935-1944 |
Walter Tucker | 1946-1954 | |
Alexander Hamilton McDonald | 1954-1959 | |
Ross Thatcher | 1959-1971 | 1964-1971 |
David Steuart | 1971-1976 | |
Edward Cyril Malone | 1976-1981 | |
Ralph Goodale | 1981-1988 | |
Lynda Haverstock | 1989-1995 | |
Ron Osika | 1996 (interim) | |
Jim Melenchuk | 1996-2001 | |
David Karwacki | 2001-2007 | |
Frank Proto | 2007–2009 (interim) | |
Ryan Bater | 2009–2012 | |
Greg Gallagher | 2012–2013 (interim) | |
Darrin Lamoureux | since 2013 |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Elections in Saskatchewan - Elections Saskatchewan