Meadow Lake is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. Incorporated as a city in 2009, Meadow Lake (pop. 5,045) is the largest centre in the constituency. The riding was last contested in the 2020 election, when incumbent Saskatchewan Party MLA Jeremy Harrison was re-elected.
Smaller communities in the riding include the villages of Green Lake, Loon Lake, Leoville, and Goodsoil; and the town of St. Walburg.
History
The riding was first contested in the 1934 general election. From the 1952 general election until the 1971 general election, Meadow Lake also included the remote far northwest corner of the province, including the northern villages of Île-à-la-Crosse and La Loche. About half of this northern area was transferred back to Athabasca prior to the 1971 election, and the remainder transferred 1975 general election, finalizing Meadow Lake's present northern boundary.
The most recent major boundary change took place before the 2003 general election, when the riding was shifted eastward to take in the northwestern third of the former Shellbrook-Spiritwood constituency, losing its western portion (including Pierceland and the border with Alberta) to Lloydminster. Aside from minor adjustments before the 2016 general election, the district's boundaries have remained largely the same since 2003.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
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! Legislature
! Years
! colspan="2" | Member
! Party
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|8th
|1934–1938
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |Donald MacDonald
| rowspan="2" |Saskatchewan Liberal Party
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|9th
|1939–1944
|-
|10th
|1944–1948
| |
|Herschel Lee Howell
|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
|-
|11th
|1949–1952
| |
|William Thorneycroft Lofts
|Saskatchewan Liberal Party
|-
|12th
|1953–1956
| |
|Hugh Clifford Dunfield
|Saskatchewan Liberal Party
|-
|13th
|1957–1960
| |
|Alphonse Peter Weber
|Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan
|-
|14th
|1961–1964
| |
|Martin Semchuk
|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
|-
|15th
|1965–1967
| rowspan="3" |
| rowspan="3" |Henry Ethelbert Coupland
| rowspan="3" |Saskatchewan Liberal Party
|-
|16th
|1968–1971
|-
|17th
|1971–1975
|-
|18th
|1975–1978
| |
|Gordon James McNeill
|New Democratic
|-
|19th
|1979–1982
| rowspan="3" |
| rowspan="3" |George Malcolm McLeod
| rowspan="3" |Progressive Conservative
|-
|20th
|1982–1986
|-
|21st
|1986–1991
|-
| bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 22nd
| 1991–1995
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |Maynard Sonntag
| rowspan="4" | New Democratic
|-
| bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 23rd
| 1995–1999
|-
| bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 24th
| 1999–2003
|-
| bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 25th
| 2003–2007
|-
| bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 26th
| 2007–2011
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" | Jeremy Harrison
| rowspan="4" | Saskatchewan Party
|-
| bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 27th
| 2011–2016
|-
| bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 28th
| 2016–2020
|-
| bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 29th
| 2020–present
|}
Election results
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|-
! colspan="4" | 2020 provincial election redistributed results
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! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="130px" colspan="2" | Party
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="30px" | %
|-
| |
| Saskatchewan ||align=right| 71.5
|-
| |
| New Democratic ||align=right| 25.8
|-
| |
| Green ||align=right| 2.7
|}
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History
Members of the Legislative Assembly
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! !! style="width: 25px"|# !! style="width: 170px"|MLA !! style="width: 80px"|Served !! style="width: 150px"|Party
| 1.
| Donald MacDonald
| 1934–1944
| Liberal
| 2.
| Herschel L. Howell
| 1944–1948
| CCF
| 3.
| Bill Lofts
| 1948–1952
| Liberal
| 4.
| H. Cliff Dunfield
| 1952–1956
| Liberal
| 5.
| A. Peter Weber
| 1956–1960
| Social Credit
| 6.
| Martin Semchuk
| 1960–1964
| CCF
| 7.
| Henry Coupland
| 1964–1975
| Liberal
| 8.
| Gordon McNeill
| 1975–1978
| NDP
| 9.
| George McLeod
| 1978–1991
| Prog. Conservative
| 10.
| Maynard Sonntag
| 1991–2007
| NDP
| 11.
| Jeremy Harrison
| 2007–present
| Saskatchewan Party
|}
See also
- List of Saskatchewan provincial electoral districts
- List of Saskatchewan general elections
- Canadian provincial electoral districts
References
External links
- Website of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
- Saskatchewan Archives Board – Saskatchewan Election Results By Electoral Division