Melfort-Tisdale (former provincial electoral district)

Melfort-Tisdale was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Created before the 12th Saskatchewan general election in 1952, this riding was split into the districts of Melfort-Kinistino and Kelsey-Tisdale before the 17th Saskatchewan general election in 1971.

It is now part of the constituencies of Melfort and Carrot River Valley.

Member of the Legislative Assembly

	#	MLA	Served	Party
	1.	Clarence Willis	1952 – 1967	CCF
	2.	Clarence Willis	1967 – 1971	New Democrat

Saskatchewan general election, 1952: Melfort-Tisdale electoral district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CCF	Clarence G. Willis	4,602	51.35%	–
	Liberal	John Egnatoff	3,254	36.31%	–
	Prog. Conservative	Fred G. Green	1,106	12.34%	–
Total			8,962	100.00%

Saskatchewan general election, 1956: Melfort-Tisdale electoral district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CCF	Clarence G. Willis	3,738	45.75%	-5.60
	Social Credit	James S. Reynolds	3,102	37.97%	–
	Liberal	Richard A. Clackson	1,330	16.28%	-20.03
Total			8,170	100.00%

Saskatchewan general election, 1960: Melfort-Tisdale electoral district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CCF	Clarence G. Willis	3,318	41.63%	-4.12
	Social Credit	Gerry Wilson	2,203	27.64%	-10.33
	Prog. Conservative	Ken Aseltine	1,264	15.85%	-
	Liberal	Gaston Alfred Jean Platana	1,186	14.88%	-1.40
Total			7,971	100.00%

Saskatchewan general election, 1964: Melfort-Tisdale electoral district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CCF	Clarence G. Willis	3,471	40.26%	-1.37
	Liberal	William E. Hurd	3,056	35.45%	+20.57
	Prog. Conservative	Ken Aseltine	2,094	24.29%	+8.44
Total			8,621	100.00%

Saskatchewan general election, 1967: Melfort-Tisdale electoral district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	NDP	Clarence G. Willis	4,133	50.94%	+10.68
	Liberal	Donald Lamb	3,650	44.98%	+9.53
	Social Credit	Orville Pederson	331	4.08%	-
Total			8,114	100.00%

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/17/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.