Battlefords-Lloydminster
Doug Anghish, Independant
Larry Ingram, Liberal Party
Gerry Ritz, Conservative Party
Glenn Tait, New Democratic Party
Mikaela Tenkink, Green Party
Loses a modestly wide strip at the bottom to Cypress Hills—Grasslands containing Kindersley and two reserves. Takes in a tiny area on its east border south of centre from Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar to give it all of Red Pheasant 108 Reserve with virtually no voters transferred.
Electoral History
Battleford (Pop 4,065) came first and is the town, across the North Saskatchewan from North Battleford (13,888) the city. Housing is mainly middle class and an airport, Casino, Technical Institute, RCMP and Cree Warriors cemetaries and Fort Battleford National Historic Park. There is a Correctional Institute, meat packing and food processing.
Lloydminster (18,032 AB & 9,772 in SK) has Lakeland College; Husky Energy Heavy Oil Upgrader; an asphalt refinery; Tucker oil sands project; and a grain ethanol plant. Other firms: Universal LP compressors, Nelson prefab homes, ADM Agri-Industries processing the areas large crops of oil seeds and pulse crops. Kindersley (4,678) has wells and servicing, 10 oil company offices and Beline in farm chemicals.
Towns of 1,000 to 1,300 are Maidstone, Wilkie, Kerrobert and Unity-- supply centres to ranches with breeding operations in cattle, sheep and game. Other centres include Turtleford, Cut Knife, and Macklin. A fifth aboriginal, 12 reserves. There is the Baldwinton Hutterite colony.
SOURCE: Elections Canada
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