The 1975 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 11, 1975, to elect members of the

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. Blakeney and the NDP were re-elected to a majority government. Both the New Democratic government of

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Allan Blakeney and the opposition

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, led by David Steuart, dropped in support to the resurgent Progressive Conservative Party. The Tories, who were a minor force in the previous election, drew over a quarter of the 1975 electorate.

Campaign

One of the main issues of the campaign was

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s management. At the onset of the campaign, Saskatchewan was facing court challenges and a

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from multinational resource extraction companies. The

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industry was opposed to the new provincial reserve tax that Blakeney's government had introduced on that mineral the previous year. The federal government under

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supported the companies' court challenges, and announced in the November 1974 federal budget that it would end the deduction of provincial royalties from federal tax. Under these circumstances, the opposition Liberal and PC parties proposed lower natural resource

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s to ease the companies' concerns and bring investments back to the province. They were fiercely opposed to

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in the extraction and refinement of natural resources. On the other hand, Blakeney's NDP ran on the slogan ''New Deal '75''. The platform promised to increase royalties, and more direct government participation in the natural resources sector, especially for the development and exploration of

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and

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; and

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s like potash.

Results

Percentages

Ranking

Riding results

Names in bold represent cabinet ministers and the Speaker. ''Party leaders'' are ''italicized''. The symbol " ** " indicates MLAs who are not running again.

Northwest Saskatchewan

Northeast Saskatchewan

, - , style="width: 130px", Prog. Conservative , Norm Wipf , align="right", 3,022 , align="right", 39.84% , align="right", +21.37 , NDP , Jerome Hammersmith , align="right", 2,773 , align="right", 36.55% , align="right", +1.14 , Liberal , Alexandre Joseph Baribeau , align="right", 1,791 , align="right", 23.61% , align="right", -22.51 , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 7,586 !align="right", 100.00 !align="right",

West Central Saskatchewan

East Central Saskatchewan

, - , style="width: 130px", NDP , Norm Lusney , align="right", 3,724 , align="right", 48.29% , align="right", -1.97 , Prog. Conservative , Barrie Johnson , align="right", 2,314 , align="right", 30.00% , align="right", +13.54 , Liberal , Donn Walsh , align="right", 1,674 , align="right", 21.71% , align="right", -10.50 , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 7,712 !align="right", 100.00 !align="right",

Southwest Saskatchewan

Southeast Saskatchewan

Saskatoon

, - , style="width: 130px", Prog. Conservative , Bill Lane , align="right", 3,962 , align="right", 38.68% , align="right", +18.57 , Liberal , Gerry Fraser , align="right", 3,423 , align="right", 33.42% , align="right", -10.51 , NDP , Anne Boulton , align="right", 2,829 , align="right", 27.61% , align="right", -8.35 ,

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, Alexander Vasey Barker , align="right", 30 , align="right", 0.29% , align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 10,244 !align="right", 100.00 !align="right",

Regina

References

Saskatchewan Archives Board - Election Results By Electoral DivisionElections Saskatchewan: Provincial Vote Summaries