Constituency Profile: Regina Coronation Park

Regina Coronation Park constituency is outlined in red on the map above.

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Regina Coronation Park is the seat in north Regina. Northgate Mall is the heart of the constituency. It ranges from working to middle class, with neatly maintained homes and quiet neighbourhoods.

There have been a variety of constituencies in north Regina since 1978, all with different and changing names. Regina Coronation Park. Regina Coronation Park first appeared on the Saskatchewan political landscape for 1995. The winning MLA that time, and in every election since up to 2007, was Kim Trew of the NDP. Trew was first elected as an MLA in 1986 in the old Regina North seat, after the PCs won it in 1982 from New Democrat Stan Oxelgren. The seat was vacant in 1986, after Jack Klein switched to Regina South and won there for the Tories. Trew won a five-way nomination in 1986 to become the NDP candidate, and he never faced any serious opposition for the remainder of his political career. However, the Sask Party is slowly closing the gap in the NDP in this seat. The Sask Party won 24 percent of the vote in Regina Coronation Park in 2003 and 32 percent in 2007, and actually won a poll for the first time, the one that includes Merlin Crescent.

After a political career that spans 25 years, Kim Trew has retired as an MLA (and a brief stint as Minister of Labour in 2001). After another 5-way donnybrook of a nomination battle, Jaime Garcia came out on top after the 3rd ballot, and is the new NDP standard bearer in the riding. Jaime has been campaigning hard for months and is doing lots of marketing leading up to the vote. But Mark Docherty of the Sask Party is no slouch either, the Sask Party has provincewide momentum. However, the NDP has a large base in Regina Coronration Park. There will be no Liberal candidate in the riding this time (the Liberals won 9 percent in Regina Coronation Park last time), which will automatically bring the Sask Party up to 41 percent in the seat, the SP may not be able to close the gap here before election day. Conventional wisdom favours the NDP to hold Regina Coronation Park, though the margin of victory may be a lot closer than anyone could have imagined previously.