Yorkton-Melville
Elaine Marie Hughes, Green Party
Brooke Taylor Malinoski, Liberal Party
Doug Ottenbreit, New Democratic Party
Cathay Wagantall, Conservative Party
In the northwest, the old Yorkton Melville gets a north-south block with centres along Highways 5 and 41 over to the South Saskatchewan from Saskatoon-Humboldt. Yorkton-Melville has an arrow-shaped incursion on its lower west border from Regina—Qu'Appelle narrowing to a point west of Melville. It is shaped by two roads with small centres on them and gives Qu'Appelle more voters. In its northeast corner, Yorkton-Melville projects into Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River taking its southeast corner and an area along Highway 9 expected to develop.
Electoral History
From two ridings in 1968. Yorkton: came from parts of Makenzie and Saltcoats in 1924. It elected Tory Gordon Clancy in 1958 and he won in 1963 and 1965. Melville: Part of Saltcoats and formed in 1924. It was won in 1940 by Liberal James Gardiner who served as agriculture minister and held the seat until he lost to Tory Jim Ormiston in 1958. The PC held the seat until it the 1966. Yorkton-Melville: Established for the 1968 election and held by the NDP’s Lorne Nystrom from then until 1993 when he ran third to Garry Breitkreuz of Reform, who held it under Alliance and finally as a Conservative up to 2015.
SOURCE: Elections Canada
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