Batoche (electoral district)

Batoche is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located in north central Saskatchewan and has an economy based primarily on mixed agriculture and farm implement manufacturing. Bourgault Industries in St. Brieux manufactures harrows, cultivators, ploughs. The Batoche area is where Louis Riel led his Metis people in an armed uprising against the Canadian government in 1885. Batoche National Historic Site is located in this constituency.

A former electoral district of the same name was in existence from 1905 until 1908.

The largest communities are Birch Hills, Wakaw and Cudworth with populations of 935, 884 and 766, respectively. Smaller centres in the riding include the villages of St. Brieux, St. Louis, Lake Lenore, Duck Lake, Weldon and Middle Lake; and the town of Kinistino.

History

This riding was created by the The Representation Act, 2002 (Saskatchewan). This constituency was a formed from parts of the Humboldt, Melfort-Tisdale, Prince Albert Carlton, Rosthern, Saskatchewan Rivers and Shellbrook-Spiritwood ridings.

Legislature	Years		Party
Batoche Riding created from Humboldt, Melfort-Tisdale, Prince Albert Carlton, Rosthern, Saskatchewan Rivers and Shellbrook-Spiritwood
25th	2003–2007	Delbert Kirsch	Saskatchewan
26th	2007–2011
27th	2011–2016
28th	2016–Present

Saskatchewan general election, 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Saskatchewan	Delbert Kirsch	4,471	64.75	-2.11
	New Democratic	Clay DeBray	2,114	30.61	+0.33
	Liberal	Graham Tweten	216	3.12	+3.12
	Green	B. Garneau I.	103	1.49	-1.40
Total valid votes			6,904	100.0
Eligible voters			–
	Saskatchewan hold		Swing		-
Source: Elections Saskatchewan^[1]^[2]

Saskatchewan general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Saskatchewan	Delbert Kirsch	4,650	66.86	+7.09
	New Democratic	Janice Benier	2,106	30.28	–3.86
	Green	Amber Jones	199	2.86	–
Total valid votes			6,955	100.0
	Saskatchewan hold		Swing		+5.48

Saskatchewan general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Saskatchewan	Delbert Kirsch	4,523	59.77	+15.87
	New Democratic	Don Hovdebo	2,583	34.14	–2.16
	Liberal	Bernie Yuzdepski	461	6.09	–10.91
Total valid votes			7,567	100.0
	Saskatchewan hold		Swing		+9.02

Saskatchewan general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Saskatchewan	Delbert Kirsch	3,349	43.90
	New Democratic	Ava Bear	2,769	36.30
	Liberal	Bill Yeaman	1,297	17.00
	Western Independence	Florent Rabut	138	1.81
	New Green	Gordon Robert Dumont	76	1.00
Total valid votes			7,629	100.0
	Saskatchewan pickup new district.

Saskatchewan provincial electoral districts

North	Athabasca Batoche Biggar-Sask Valley Canora-Pelly Carrot River Valley Cumberland Cut Knife-Turtleford Humboldt-Watrous Kelvington-Wadena Lloydminster Martensville-Warman Meadow Lake Melfort Prince Albert Carlton Prince Albert Northcote Rosthern-Shellbrook Saskatchewan Rivers The Battlefords

Saskatoon	Saskatoon Centre Saskatoon Churchill-Wildwood Saskatoon Eastview Saskatoon Fairview Saskatoon Meewasin Saskatoon Northwest Saskatoon Nutana Saskatoon Riversdale Saskatoon Silverspring-Sutherland Saskatoon Southeast Saskatoon Stonebridge-Dakota Saskatoon University Saskatoon Westview Saskatoon Willowgrove

Regina	Regina Coronation Park Regina Douglas Park Regina Elphinstone-Centre Regina Gardiner Park Regina Lakeview Regina Northeast Regina Pasqua Regina Rochdale Regina Rosemont Regina University Regina Walsh Acres Regina Wascana Plains

South	Arm River Cannington Cypress Hills Estevan Indian Head-Milestone Kindersley Last Mountain-Touchwood Lumsden-Morse Melville-Saltcoats Moose Jaw North Moose Jaw Wakamow Moosomin Rosetown-Elrose Swift Current Weyburn-Big Muddy Wood River Yorkton

See also: 2011 election 2016 election List of elections Politics of Saskatchewan

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