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Richard "Rick" James Swenson (born 1952) is a provincial level politician from 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...

. He was a member of the Saskatchewan Legislature from 1985 to 1995, and is still active in provincial politics as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

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....

since 2006.

Swenson was elected to the Legislature in a by-election held in the Thunder Creek

Thunder Creek (electoral district)

Thunder Creek is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. Originally created for the 3rd Saskatchewan general election in 1912 and abolished in 1938, this constituency was reconstituted for the 18th Saskatchewan general election in 1975.Communities in...

electoral district on March 27, 1985. He was elected to replace former MLA Colin Thatcher

Colin Thatcher

Wilbert Colin Thatcher is a Canadian former politician convicted for the murder of his ex-wife, JoAnn Wilson.-Political life:Colin Thatcher is the son of Wilbert Ross Thatcher, premier of Saskatchewan from 1964 to 1971...

who was convicted of murdering his wife. In that by-election he won a hotly contested three way race defeating three other candidates with a plurality of 900 votes.

Swenson was re-elected just a little over a year later in the 1986 general election

Saskatchewan general election, 1986

The Saskatchewan general election of 1986 was the twenty-first provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on October 20, 1986, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan....

. He won that election by a much wider margin facing two of the three candidates that ran in the by-election. Swenson won his third term in the 1991 general election

Saskatchewan general election, 1991

The Saskatchewan general election of 1991 was the twenty-second provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on October 21, 1991, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan....

narrowly being returned to his seat. Swenson served as interim leader of the Progressive Conservatives from October 8, 1992 to November 24, 1994. He retired from his seat in 1995.

Swenson returned to provincial politics in 2006, becoming leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. He took over leadership of the party from Iris Dennis, who had served as leader since 1997. He ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Thunder Creek constituency in the 2007 general election

Saskatchewan general election, 2007

The 26th Saskatchewan general election was held on November 7, 2007; the writ was dropped on October 10, 2007. The election determined the composition of the 26th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan....

and placed fourth out of five candidates.

Electoral record

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| style="width: 130px" |Saskatchewan Party

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...

|Warren Michelson

Warren Michelson

Warren Michelson is a Canadian politician elected, to represent the electoral district of Moose Jaw North in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in the 2007 election. He is a member of the Saskatchewan Party...

|align="right"|4,474
|align="right"|59.09%
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|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...

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

|Richard Swenson

Richard Swenson

Richard "Rick" James Swenson is a provincial level politician from Saskatchewan, Canada. He was a member of the Saskatchewan Legislature from 1985 to 1995, and is still active in provincial politics as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan since 2006.Swenson was elected...

|align="right"|273
|align="right"|3.61%
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|Greens

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...

Saskatchewan Party

|Lyle Stewart
|align="right"|5,558
|align="right"|64.45%
|align="right"|+10.92

|NDP
|Larry Hall
|align="right"|1,997
|align="right"|23.16%
|align="right"|-7.65

|Liberal
|Rod Haugerud
|align="right"|590
|align="right"|6.84%
|align="right"|-6.84

|Prog. Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

|Richard Swenson

Richard Swenson

|align="right"|295
|align="right"|3.42%
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|Green

Green Party of Saskatchewan

Richard Swenson

|align="right"|2,929
|align="right"|42.61%
|align="right"|-10.91

|NDP
|Ron Bishoff
|align="right"|2,240
|align="right"|32.59%
|align="right"|+6.15

|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...

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...

Richard Swenson

|align="right"|3,773
|align="right"|53.52%
|align="right"|+11.03

|NDP
|Betty Payne
|align="right"|1,864
|align="right"|26.44%
|align="right"|-1.09

|Liberal
|Bill Johnstone
|align="right"|1,375
|align="right"|19.50%
|align="right"|-7.60

|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...

Richard Swenson

|align="right"|2,670
|align="right"|42.49%
|align="right"|-

|NDP
|Betty Payne
|align="right"|1,730
|align="right"|27.53%
|align="right"|-

|Liberal
|Bill Johnstone
|align="right"|1,703
|align="right"|27.10%
|align="right"|-

|Western Canada Concept

Western Canada Concept Party of Saskatchewan

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