Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan (French Parti progressiste - conservateur de la Saskatchewan is a conservative political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Prior to 1942 it was called the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, its members are referred to as Tories. The party questioned twice the Prime Minister of Province, recently reduced to an insignificant splinter party from 1979 to 1992, but declined the mid-1990s and since then is no longer represented in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

History

The party was created in 1912 from the US-led Frederick Haultain Provincial Rights Party out. The best election result in the first half of the 20th century reached the Conservatives in 1929, when they won 63 seats of the Legislative Assembly 24 and came to a share of the vote of 36.44%. Although they had fewer seats than the Liberals, but they formed with the progressives and independents a coalition government. The Conservative Party Chairman James Thomas Milton Anderson became Prime Minister.

The Tories were suspected to work closely with the Ku Klux Klan and agitated against immigrants, Catholics and French Canadians. They banned the use of French as a language school and the display of religious symbols. Their inability to cope with the consequences of the world economic crisis and the Dust Bowl, led in 1934 to the deselection of all deputies. After the Tories were excluded for four decades from the provincial parliament. One of the hapless party chairman this era was John Diefenbaker, who later became Prime Minister of Canada.

No significant electoral success celebrated in the 1970s, the Tories only again. In 1978 she rose to become the second strongest force and 1982, Grant Devine, the party to a landslide victory; she won 55 of 62 seats and came to a share of the vote of 54.07 %. Four years later she captured the absolute majority of seats. High government debt and unpopular degradation of services, however, led in 1991 to defeat. In the following years, 12 deputies were accused of corruption and sentenced six of them, as they had fraudulently diverted donations to a bogus company.

The scandal destroyed the image of the party, which came to just five seats in the 1995 elections. Most of the members came 1997 on the newly-formed Saskatchewan Party. This meant that the Progressive Conservatives sank into utter insignificance. The party still has considerable assets that would but fall back with a resolution to the provincial government. To prevent this, it continues on a pro forma candidates who have no electoral chances.

Election results

Party chairman

P = Prime Minister

  • Wellington Willoughby (1912-1917)
  • Donald McLean (1917-1921)
  • James Thomas Milton Anderson (1924-1936) P
  • John Diefenbaker (1936-1940)
  • H. E. Keown (1940-1944)
  • Rupert Ramsay (1944-1949)
  • Alvin Hamilton (1949-1957)
  • Martin Pederson (1958-1968)
  • Ed wet earth (1970-1973)
  • Dick Collver (1973-1979)
  • Grant Devine (1979-1992) P
  • Richard Swenson (1992-1994)
  • Bill Boyd (1994-1997)
  • Iris Dennis (1997-2006)
  • Rick Swenson (since 2006)
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