Saskatchewan Liberal Party

Saskatchewan Liberal Party
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:

choice	seats total	candidates data	Weighted seats	be right	proportion of
1905	25th	25th	16	17,812	52.25%
1908	41	41	27	29,807	50.79%
1912	53	53	45	50.004	56.96%
1917	59	58	51	106,552	56.68%
1921	63	60	46	92,983	51.39%
1925	63	62	50	125,751	51.51%
1929	63	62	28	164,487	45.56%
1934	55	56	50	206.212	48.00%
1938	52	53	38	200,334	45.45%
1944	52	52	5	140.901	35.42%
1948	52	41	19th	152,400	30.60%
1952	53	53	11	211,882	39.27%
1956	53	52	14th	167,427	30.34%
1960	54	55	17th	221.932	32.67%

choice	seats total	candidates data	Weighted seats	be right	proportion of
1964	59	59	32	269,402	40.40%
1967	59	59	35	193,871	45.57%
1971	60	60	15th	193,864	42.82%
1975	61	61	15th	142,853	31.67%
1978	61	61	0	65,498	13.78%
1982	64	64	0	24.134	4.51%
1986	64	64	1	54,739	9.99%
1991	66	66	1	125,814	23.29%
1995	58	58	11	141,873	34.70%
1999	57	58	4th	81,694	20.15%
2003	58	58	0	60,601	14.18%
2007	58	58	0	42,585	9.40%
2011	58	9	0	2,200	0.55%

Party leader

Surname	Chair	premier
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

Web links

Progressive Conservative Association of Saskatchewan

Individual evidence

^ Elections in Saskatchewan - Elections Saskatchewan

[1] Elections in Saskatchewan - Elections Saskatchewan