Constituency Profile: Saskatoon Northwest

Saskatoon Northwest constituency is outlined in red on the map above.

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Saskatoon Northwest was a new constituency created for the 1995 provincial election. That year Grant Whitmore was re-elected as a New Democrat MLA. Whitmore was first elected in 1991 in Biggar. but Whitmore was narrowly defeated in 1999 by Saskatchewan Liberal Leader Jim Melenchuk by just 127 votes. Melenchuk and the other Liberals went on to sign the disastrous Coalition Government deal with the NDP, and Melenchuk ended up becoming Minister of Finance in the Coalition Government. Liberals booted Melenchuk as Leader in 2001,and so he tried running for re-election in 2003 as a New Democrat but lost to Ted Merriman of the Saskatchewan Party by 270 votes. But Merriman did not run for re-election in 2007, and was replaced by the controversial Serge LeClerc. LeClerc resigned as MLA for Saskatoon Northwest following allegations made on a cassette that he was using cocaine. In the November 2010 by-election, Gord Wyant, a City Councillor, cruised to victory in the seat with 59 percent of the vote.

The races in Saskatoon Northwest were always close as long as the Liberals were a contender. But in the 2010 by-election, the Liberals collapsed to just 3 percent of the vote in that constituency. Wyant is running for re-election on November 7 in Saskatoon Northwest, as is Liberal candidate Eric Steiner. It is very likely that Wyant will win on Monday with over 60 percent of the vote.