Athabasca (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)

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Athabasca is a provincial

Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second-largest country by area. There are ten provinces and three territories...

electoral district

Electoral district

An electoral district is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body...

for the Legislative Assembly

Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

The 25th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was in power from 2003 until November 20, 2007. It was controlled by the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party under premier Lorne Calvert.-Members:-By-elections:...

of Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, Canada

Canada

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. It is located in the extreme northwest corner of the province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

. The major industries are tourism, mineral extraction, forestry, commercial fishing and trapping. The Cluff Lake uranium mine is located in this constituency, as well as the Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park and the Clearwater River Provincial Park. The major communities are La Loche, Île-à-la-Crosse and Buffalo Narrows

Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan

Buffalo Narrows is a northern village in Northern Saskatchewan. Buffalo Narrows was founded in the early 20th century as a trapping, mink ranching and fishing settlement by Scandinavian traders. It is now a community of about 1300 people. Tourism and resource extraction are its main economic...

with populations of 2,136, 1,268 and 1,137 respectively.

There is also a former provincial electoral district

Athabasca (former Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)

Athabasca was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. This constituency was created before the 1908 general election and was dissolved before the 1917 general election...

of the same name that existed from 1908 until 1917.

Member of the Legislative Assembly

In 1998 Buckley Belanger was elected, winning by 159 votes. Belanger left the Liberals, putting his seat on the line to run as a New Democrat. In the by-election, he defeated the Liberal candidate by 2,050 votes (94% of the popular vote), the second-largest majority in the history of the province.

	\|MLA	\|Party	1.	Deakin Alexander Hall Deakin Hall Deakin Hall may refer to:Deakin Hall Deakin Hall, a residence hall at Monash University, Clayton campus....	1934–1938	Liberal	2.	A. Jules Marion	1938–1941	Liberal	3.	Hubert Staines	1941–1944	Liberal	4.	Louis Marcien Marion	1944–1948	Liberal	4.	Louis Marcien Marion	1948–1952	Independent	5.	James Ripley	1952–1956	Liberal	6.	John James Harrop	1956–1960	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	7.	Allan Ray Guy	1960–1975	Liberal	8.	Frederick John Thompson	1975–1995	New Democratic Party	9.	Buckley Belanger Buckley Belanger Buckley Harold Belanger is a Canadian provincial politician. He is currently the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the constituency of Athabasca....	1995–1998	Liberal	9.	Buckley Belanger Buckley Belanger Buckley Harold Belanger is a Canadian provincial politician. He is currently the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the constituency of Athabasca....	1998 - Current	New Democratic Party

Election results

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|style="width: 150px"|Liberal
|Deakin Alexander Hall

Deakin Hall

Deakin Hall may refer to:*Deakin Hall *Deakin Hall, a residence hall at Monash University, Clayton campus....

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan is a right-of-centre political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Prior to 1942, it was known as the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan. Members are commonly known as Tories....

Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan

The Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan was a political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan that promoted social credit economic theories from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s....

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan

The Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan was a political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan that promoted social credit economic theories from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s....

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Aboriginal People's Party

The Aboriginal People's Party was a political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan that nominated 10 candidates in the 1982 elections for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan....

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Buckley Belanger

Buckley Harold Belanger is a Canadian provincial politician. He is currently the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the constituency of Athabasca....

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Buckley Belanger

Saskatchewan Party

The Saskatchewan Party is a conservative liberal political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The party was established in 1997 by a coalition of former provincial Progressive Conservative and Liberal party members and supporters who sought to remove the Saskatchewan New Democratic...

Buckley Belanger

Saskatchewan Party

Buckley Belanger

|align="right"|2,407
|align="right"|69.99
|align="right"|-14.39

|Saskatchewan Party

Saskatchewan Party

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Buckley Belanger

|align="right"|1,885
|align="right"|59.41
|align="right"|-10.58

|Saskatchewan Party

Saskatchewan Party

Green Party of Saskatchewan

The Green Party of Saskatchewan is a left-leaning Green political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.It was founded in 1998 as the New Green Alliance by environmental and social justice activists frustrated by the social democratic Saskatchewan New Democratic Party's move to the right...

Buckley Belanger

Saskatchewan Party

Green Party of Saskatchewan

External links

Website of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

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