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Moose Jaw Wakamow is an urban seat with a significant rural portion to it. The Moose Jaw portion of the riding includes everything south of Caribou Street. This constituency is universally acknowledged as an NDP stronghold, having only gone PC once 1982. The MLA for this constituency has been NDP Deputy Leader Deb Higgins since 1999. Higgins became a high profile cabinet minister in the Calvert Government, holding down the positions of Minister of Labour and Minister of Learning. In 2009, Higgins ran in the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race, and it was some of her support that put Dwain Lingenfelter over the top on the second ballot.
There are constituencies the Saskatchewan NDP will lose in the provincial election tomorrow, but Moose Jaw Wakamow is not going to be one of them. The reason for this is Higgins has built a strong rapport with her voters in what is already an NDP stronghold. Higgins is well liked among her constituents, and it is this and her many years of hard work as an MLA and Cabinet Minister that will get her re-elected in what most pundits expect will be a low-tide election for the Saskatcheawn New Democrats.
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