Biggar (former provincial electoral district)
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Biggar is a former provincial electoral division 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 the province 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
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. This district was created before the 3rd Saskatchewan general election
Saskatchewan general election, 1912
The Saskatchewan general election of 1912 was the third provincial election in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on July 11, 1912 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. Premier Walter Scott led the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan to a third term in office with...

 in 1912. The riding was dissolved and combined with the Rosetown
Rosetown (provincial electoral district)
Rosetown was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, centered on the community of Rosetown....

 district to form Rosetown-Biggar before the 23rd Saskatchewan general election
Saskatchewan general election, 1995
The Saskatchewan general election of 1995 was the twenty-third provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on June 21, 1995 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan....

 in 1995. It was the constituency of Premier Woodrow S. Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party....

.

It is now part of the Biggar
Biggar (electoral district)
Biggar is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. This constituency, located in west central Saskatchewan, has an economy based primarily on mixed farming and alfalfa production, and oil production. Biggar is home to Prairie Malt Ltd. and is situated...

 provincial constituency.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

|MLA |Party
1. Charles Henry Cawthorpe 1912–1917 Liberal
2. George Hamilton Harris 1917–1921 Liberal
3. John Meikle 1921–1925 Progressive
Progressive Party of Saskatchewan
The Progressive Party of Saskatchewan was a provincial section of the Progressive Party of Canada and was active from the 1920s to the mid-1930s...


4. Robert Pelham Hassard 1925–1929 Liberal
5. William Willoughby Miller 1929–1934 Conservative
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....


6. Robert Pelham Hassard 1934–1938 Liberal
7. John Allan Young 1938–1944 CCF
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


8. Woodrow S. Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party....

1944–1971 CCF-NDP
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


9. Elwood L. Cowley 1971–1982 New Democrat
10. Harry Baker 1982–1991 Progressive Conservative
11. Grant Whitmore 1991–1995 New Democrat

Election results

|-

|style="width: 130px"|Liberal
|Charles Henry Cawthorpe
|align="right"|754
|align="right"|57.73%
|align="right"|–

|Conservative
|Lachlan MacDonald
|align="right"|552
|align="right"|42.27%
|align="right"|–
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|1,306
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|Liberal
|George Hamilton Harris
|align="right"|1,989
|align="right"|57.01%
|align="right"|-0.72

|Conservative
|William George Dunbar
|align="right"|1,500
|align="right"|42.99%
|align="right"|+0.72
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|3,489
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|Progressive
Progressive Party of Saskatchewan
The Progressive Party of Saskatchewan was a provincial section of the Progressive Party of Canada and was active from the 1920s to the mid-1930s...


|John Meikle
|align="right"|2,293
|align="right"|60.18%
|align="right"|–

|Liberal
|Lorne V. Locker
|align="right"|1,517
|align="right"|39.82%
|align="right"|-17.19
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|3,810
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|Liberal
|Robert Pelham Hassard
|align="right"|1,758
|align="right"|52.98%
|align="right"|+13.16

|Progressive
Progressive Party of Saskatchewan
The Progressive Party of Saskatchewan was a provincial section of the Progressive Party of Canada and was active from the 1920s to the mid-1930s...


|John Meikle
|align="right"|1,560
|align="right"|47.02%
|align="right"|-13.16
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|3,318
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|Conservative
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....


|William Willoughby Miller
|align="right"|2,733
|align="right"|51.67%
|align="right"|-

|Liberal
|Robert Pelham Hassard
|align="right"|2,014
|align="right"|38.08%
|align="right"|-14.90

|Progressive
Progressive Party of Saskatchewan
The Progressive Party of Saskatchewan was a provincial section of the Progressive Party of Canada and was active from the 1920s to the mid-1930s...


|George Robert Bickerton
|align="right"|542
|align="right"|10.25%
|align="right"|-36.77
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|5,289
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|Liberal
|Robert Pelham Hassard
|align="right"|2,287
|align="right"|40.64%
|align="right"|+2.56

|Farmer-Labour
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


|Warren Hart
|align="right"|2,044
|align="right"|36.33%
|align="right"|–

|Conservative
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....


|William Willoughby Miller
|align="right"|1,296
|align="right"|23.03%
|align="right"|-28.64
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|5,627
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|CCF
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


|John Allan Young
|align="right"|3,341
|align="right"|45.28%
|align="right"|+8.95

|Liberal
|Robert Pelham Hassard
|align="right"|3,196
|align="right"|43.32%
|align="right"|+2.68

|Social Credit
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....


|Henry A. Gardner
|align="right"|841
|align="right"|11.40%
|align="right"|–
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|7,378
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|CCF
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


|Woodrow S. Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party....


|align="right"|3,633
|align="right"|62.76%
|align="right"|+17.48

|Liberal
|Frank Freeman
|align="right"|2,156
|align="right"|37.24%
|align="right"|-6.08
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|5,789
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|CCF
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


|Woodrow S. Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party....


|align="right"|3,695
|align="right"|55.30%
|align="right"|-7.46

|Liberal
|Andrew S. Shaw
|align="right"|2,987
|align="right"|44.70%
|align="right"|+7.46
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|6,682
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|CCF
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


|Woodrow S. Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party....


|align="right"|3,811
|align="right"|64.18%
|align="right"|+8.88

|Liberal
|Andrew S. Shaw
|align="right"|2,127
|align="right"|35.82%
|align="right"|-8.88
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|5,938
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|CCF
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


|Woodrow S. Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party....


|align="right"|3,182
|align="right"|56.10%
|align="right"|-8.08

|Liberal
|Frank Freeman
|align="right"|1,720
|align="right"|30.32%
|align="right"|-5.50

|Social Credit
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....


|Edward W. Maybuck
|align="right"|770
|align="right"|13.58%
|align="right"|-
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|5,672
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|CCF
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


|Woodrow S. Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party....


|align="right"|3,049
|align="right"|51.66%
|align="right"|-4.44

|Liberal
|Andrew D. Hutchison
|align="right"|1,932
|align="right"|32.74%
|align="right"|+2.42

|Prog. Conservative
|Jack Lehmond
|align="right"|663
|align="right"|11.23%
|align="right"|-

|Social Credit
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....


|Henry Neufeld
|align="right"|258
|align="right"|4.37%
|align="right"|-9.21
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|5,902
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|CCF
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s...


|Woodrow S. Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party....


|align="right"|2,875
|align="right"|48.02%
|align="right"|-3.64

|Liberal
|Benson M. Blacklock
|align="right"|1,992
|align="right"|33.27%
|align="right"|+0.53

|Prog. Conservative
|George Loucks
|align="right"|1,120
|align="right"|18.71%
|align="right"|+7.48
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|5,987
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|NDP
|Woodrow S. Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party....


|align="right"|2,916
|align="right"|50.09%
|align="right"|+2.07

|Liberal
|Elmer McNiven
|align="right"|1,571
|align="right"|26.99%
|align="right"|-6.28

|Prog. Conservative
|Peter Wiebe
|align="right"|1,334
|align="right"|22.92%
|align="right"|+4.21
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|5,821
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|NDP
|Elwood L. Cowley
|align="right"|3,599
|align="right"|61.96%
|align="right"|+11.87

|Liberal
|Jim Hill
|align="right"|2,210
|align="right"|38.04%
|align="right"|+11.05
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|5,809
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|NDP
|Elwood L. Cowley
|align="right"|3,223
|align="right"|48.47%
|align="right"|-13.49

|Prog. Conservative
|Ralph Young
|align="right"|1,906
|align="right"|28.67%
|align="right"|-

|Liberal
|Arthur Meister
|align="right"|1,520
|align="right"|22.86%
|align="right"|-15.18
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|6,649
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|NDP
|Elwood L. Cowley
|align="right"|4,787
|align="right"|55.61%
|align="right"|+7.14

|Prog. Conservative
|Roy Norris
|align="right"|3,270
|align="right"|37.98%
|align="right"|+9.31

|Liberal
|Lynn Tokle
|align="right"|552
|align="right"|6.41%
|align="right"|-16.45
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|8,609
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|Progressive Conservative
|Harry Baker
|align="right"|4,437
|align="right"|55.63%
|align="right"|+17.65

|style="width: 130px"|NDP
|Elwood L. Cowley
|align="right"|3,070
|align="right"|38.50%
|align="right"|-17.11

|style="width: 130px"|Western Canada Concept
Western Canada Concept Party of Saskatchewan
The Western Canada Concept Party of Saskatchewan was a provincial political party that was the Saskatchewan, Canada branch of the Western Canada Concept, a federal political party that advocated the separation of the four western provinces of Canada to form a new country.The party's zenith was the...


|Roland F. Chouinard
|align="right"|327
|align="right"|4.10%
|align="right"|-

|style="width: 130px"|Liberal
|Neil Vander Nagel
|align="right"|141
|align="right"|1.77%
|align="right"|-4.64
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|7,975
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|Progressive Conservative
|Harry Baker
|align="right"|3,882
|align="right"|50.26%
|align="right"|-5.37

|NDP
|Pat Trask
|align="right"|3,449
|align="right"|44.65%
|align="right"|+6.15

|Liberal
|Sharon Hamilton
|align="right"|393
|align="right"|5.09%
|align="right"|+3.32
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|7,724
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-

|style="width: 130px"|NDP
|Grant Whitmore
|align="right"|3,710
|align="right"|47.62%
|align="right"|+2.97

|Prog. Conservative
|Harry Baker
|align="right"|2,307
|align="right"|29.62%
|align="right"|-20.64

|Liberal
Saskatchewan Liberal Party
The Saskatchewan Liberal Party is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.-Early history :The party dominated Saskatchewan politics for the province's first forty years providing six of the first seven Premiers, and being in power for all but five of the years between the...


|Larry Toner
|align="right"|1,708
|align="right"|21.93%
|align="right"|+16.84

|Independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...


|Donald W. Kavanagh
|align="right"|65
|align="right"|0.83%
|align="right"|-
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|7,790
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|

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