Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Battlefords—Lloydminster — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Battlefords—Lloydminster was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Gerry Ritz, the Conservative candidate, won the riding with 20,547 votes (61.0% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Glenn Tait (NDP-New Democratic Party) with 5,930 votes (17.6%), defeated by a margin of 14,617 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Larry Ingram (Liberal, 16%).
Riding information
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Battlefords—Lloydminster covers a large area of west-central Saskatchewan, stretching from the city of North Battleford and the town of Battleford in the east to the Saskatchewan side of Lloydminster—a city straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan provincial border—in the west. The riding also includes the communities of Unity, Kindersley, and numerous small rural towns and First Nations reserves.
Candidates
Gerry Ritz (Conservative) — First elected in the predecessor riding in 1997, Ritz served as Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food from 2007 to 2015, an eight-year tenure during which Canadian agricultural exports grew significantly. He also held the portfolio of Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board. Before entering politics, he farmed for over 20 years near Rosetown and co-owned a weekly newspaper and a contracting business.
Glenn Tait (NDP) — Tait ran as the NDP candidate in a riding that had been solidly Conservative for nearly two decades.
Larry Ingram (Liberal) — Ingram carried the Liberal banner in a traditionally difficult riding for the party in Saskatchewan.
Doug Anguish (Independent) — A veteran politician, Anguish previously served as the NDP Member of Parliament for The Battlefords—Meadow Lake from 1980 to 1984. He later won the North Battleford seat in the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1986, serving as an NDP MLA through the Romanow government until 1996.
Mikaela Tenkink (Green Party) also contested the riding.
About the Riding
The riding’s economy is built on agriculture and energy. Grain farming and cattle ranching dominate the landscape, while heavy crude oil extraction in the Lloydminster-Kerrobert-Kindersley corridor and natural gas production in the western portion add a significant resource sector. Lloydminster’s cross-border status between Saskatchewan and Alberta creates distinctive regulatory and taxation dynamics for local businesses. North Battleford, the riding’s largest city, serves as a regional service centre for the surrounding agricultural hinterland. Key issues in the 2015 campaign included grain transportation bottlenecks, the future of the Canadian Wheat Board after its 2012 deregulation, oil and gas sector support, and infrastructure funding for rural municipalities.
