Yorkton—Melville

Yorkton—Melville is a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.

Yorkton—Melville

Saskatchewan electoral district
From the 2015 federal election to 2025 From the 2025 federal election Interactive map of riding boundaries. Points indicate the cities of Yorkton and Melville.
Coordinates:	51.929°N 102.751°W / 51.929; -102.751
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Cathay Wagantall Conservative
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2025
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	71,270
Electors (2015)	53,446
Area (km²)[2]	43,272
Pop. density (per km²)	1.6
Census subdivision(s)	Yorkton, Melville, Esterhazy, Canora, Orkney, Kamsack, Hudson Bay, Wadena, Langenburg, Foam Lake

Geography

The district is in east-central Saskatchewan.

History

The electoral district was created in 1966 from Yorkton, Melville and Mackenzie ridings.

In 2006, 30.2% of the population of the Yorkton—Melville constituency were of Ukrainian ethnic origin, the highest such percentage in Canada.^[3] Also during the 2006 election, the Yorkton—Melville riding had the highest percentage of eligible voters over the age of 65, and highest average age of all the then-308 federal electoral districts.

This riding lost a fraction of territory to Regina—Qu'Appelle and gained territory from Saskatoon—Humboldt and a fraction from Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Historical boundaries

• 
  1966 representation order
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  1976 representation order
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  1987 representation order
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  1996 representation order
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  2003 representation order
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  2013 representation order
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  2023 final report

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Yorkton—Melville Riding created from Yorkton, Melville and Mackenzie
28th	1968–1972		Lorne Nystrom	New Democratic
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997		Garry Breitkreuz	Reform
36th	1997–2000
	2000–2000			Alliance
37th	2000–2003
	2003–2004			Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019		Cathay Wagantall
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present

Demographics

Panethnic groups in Yorkton—Melville (2011−2021)

Panethnic group	2021[4]		2016[5]		2011[6]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
European[a]	56,145	80.71%	58,820	84.6%	61,600	88.21%
Indigenous	8,765	12.6%	7,530	10.83%	6,735	9.64%
Southeast Asian[b]	2,330	3.35%	1,910	2.75%	845	1.21%
South Asian	915	1.32%	315	0.45%	40	0.06%
African	545	0.78%	310	0.45%	255	0.37%
East Asian[c]	400	0.58%	435	0.63%	310	0.44%
Latin American	250	0.36%	120	0.17%	0	0%
Middle Eastern[d]	80	0.12%	55	0.08%	10	0.01%
Other/multiracial[e]	135	0.19%	60	0.09%	35	0.05%
Total responses	69,565	97.68%	69,530	97.89%	69,830	97.98%
Total population	71,220	100%	71,031	100%	71,270	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

Election results

Graph of election results in Yorkton—Melville (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Green	Valerie Brooks
	Libertarian	Alec Guggenmos
	Liberal	Luke Guimond
	New Democratic	Michaela Krakowetz
	Conservative	Cathay Wagantall
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters
Source: Elections Canada[7]

2021 federal election redistributed results[8]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	24,608	68.79
	New Democratic	4,332	12.11
	People's	3,293	9.21
	Liberal	2,257	6.31
	Green	623	1.74
	Others	658	1.84

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cathay Wagantall	23,850	68.67	-7.48	$48,266.24
	New Democratic	Halsten David Rust	4,237	12.20	-0.05	$504.29
	People's	Braden Robertson	3,247	9.35	+6.92	$8,392.80
	Liberal	Jordan Ames-Sinclair	2,183	6.29	-0.13	$2,023.58
	Green	Valerie Brooks	615	1.77	-0.99	$1,434.77
	Maverick	Denise Loucks	601	1.73	–	$2,354.31
Total valid votes/expense limit			34,733	–	–	$119,557.84
Total rejected ballots
Turnout				66.25	-6.56
Eligible voters			52,429
	Conservative hold		Swing		-3.72
Source: Elections Canada[9]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cathay Wagantall	29,523	76.15	+16.95	$47,858.75
	New Democratic	Carter Antoine	4,747	12.24	-7.96	$224.73
	Liberal	Connor Moen	2,488	6.42	-11.38	none listed
	Green	Stacey Wiebe	1,070	2.76	-0.04	$386.96
	People's	Ryan Schultz	941	2.43	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			38,769	99.27		–
Total rejected ballots			287	0.73	–
Turnout			39,056	72.81	–
Eligible voters			53,643
	Conservative hold		Swing		+12.50
Source: Elections Canada[10][11]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cathay Wagantall	21,683	59.22	-9.66	$57,632.77
	New Democratic	Doug Ottenbreit	7,396	20.20	-1.76	$21,043.83
	Liberal	Brooke Taylor Malinoski	6,504	17.76	+11.15	$3,627.04
	Green	Elaine Marie Hughes	1,030	2.81	+0.43	$130.31
Total valid votes/expense limit			36,613	100.0		$229,969.51
Total rejected ballots			95	–	–
Turnout			36,708	68.36	+4.96
Eligible voters			53,694
	Conservative hold		Swing		-3.95
Source: Elections Canada[12][13]

2011 federal election redistributed results[14]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	23,607	68.88
	New Democratic	7,526	21.96
	Liberal	2,266	6.61
	Green	817	2.38
	Independent	58	0.17

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Garry Breitkreuz	21,906	68.9	+0.9	$68,801
	New Democratic	Doug Ottenbreit	6,931	21.8	+1.0	$13,345
	Liberal	Kash Andreychuk	2,167	6.8	+1.4	$40,387
	Green	Elaine Marie Hughes	774	2.4	-3.3	$540
Total valid votes/expense limit			31,778	100.0		$92,190
Total rejected ballots			90	0.3	-0.1
Turnout			31,868	63.4	+6
Eligible voters			50,254	–	–
	Conservative hold		Swing		-0.05

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Garry Breitkreuz	19,824	68.0	+4.6	$65,139
	New Democratic	Doug Ottenbreit	6,076	20.8	+2.0	$12,454
	Green	Jen Antony	1,664	5.7	+2.9	$3,767
	Liberal	Bryan H. Bell	1,578	5.4	-8.5	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			29,142	100.0		$89,452
Total rejected ballots			107	0.4	+0.2
Turnout			29,249	57	-7
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.3

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Garry Breitkreuz	20,736	63.5	+0.6	$55,627
	New Democratic	Jason Dennison	6,165	18.9	+4.1	$19,488
	Liberal	Mervin Cushman	4,558	14.0	-0.8	$18,223
	Green	Keith Neu	923	2.8	+1.2	$641
	Independent	Carl Barabonoff	287	0.9	–	$739
Total valid votes			32,669	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			80	0.2	-0.1
Turnout			32,749	64.3	+4.1
	Conservative hold		Swing		-1.75

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Garry Breitkreuz	19,940	62.9	-5.0	$61,866
	New Democratic	Don Olson	5,890	18.6	+2.8	$18,736
	Liberal	Ted Quewezance	4,697	14.8	-1.4	$32,905
	Green	Ralph Pilchner	630	1.98	+2.0	–
	Independent	David Sawkiw	524	1.7	–	$6,330
Total valid votes			31,681	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			113	0.4	0.0
Turnout			31,794	60.2	-3.4
	Conservative hold		Swing		-3.9

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Garry Breitkreuz*	19,978	63.0	+12.9	$52,574
	Liberal	Ken Pilon	5,153	16.2	-2.6	$24,027
	New Democratic	Peter Champagne	5,007	15.8	-9.2	$9,235
	Progressive Conservative	Brent Haas	1,583	5.0	-1.1	$543
Total valid votes			31,721	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			103	0.3	0.0
Turnout			31,824	63.6	-3.3
	Reform hold		Swing		+7.75

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Garry Breitkreuz*	17,216	50.1	+17.4	$53,836
	New Democratic	Evan Carlson	8,583	25.0	-4.4	$43,899
	Liberal	Lloyd Sandercock	6,481	18.9	-10.6	$39,999
	Progressive Conservative	Ivan Daunt	2,101	6.1	-2.6	$6,357
Total valid votes			34,381	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			116	0.3
Turnout			34,497	66.9	–
	Reform hold		Swing		+10.90

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Garry Breitkreuz	10,605	32.7	-1.9
	Liberal	Jim Walters	9,531	29.4	+15.8
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom*	9,487	29.2	-21.9
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Reitenbach	2,825	8.7	-25.9
Total valid votes			32,448	100.0
	Reform gain from New Democratic		Swing		-8.85

* Denotes incumbent.

v t e 1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom*	18,523	51.1	-0.2
	Progressive Conservative	Virginia Battiste	12,543	34.6	+1.2
	Liberal	J. Robert Autumn	5,149	14.2	+0.1
Total valid votes			36,215	100.0

v t e 1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom*	18,116	51.3	+5.6
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Wasylysen	11,800	33.4	-3.9
	Liberal	Arliss Dellow	4,996	14.1	-2.8
	Confederation of Regions	Bill Kruczko	400	1.1	–
Total valid votes			35,312	100.0

v t e 1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom*	15,240	45.7	-1.8
	Progressive Conservative	Ben Hudye	12,450	37.3	+4.9
	Liberal	Gordon Hollinger	5,664	17.0	+1.3
Total valid votes			33,354	100.0
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v t e 1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom	16,677	47.5	+1.9
	Progressive Conservative	John Miller	11,381	32.4	+10.7
	Liberal	Phil Kotyk	5,501	15.7	-15.4
	Independent	Ben Hudye	1,566	4.5	–
Total valid votes			35,125	100.0

v t e 1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom	14,586	45.6	-2.1
	Liberal	Stan Kyba	9,946	31.1	+2.5
	Progressive Conservative	Marvin Wentzell	6,963	21.8	-0.7
	Social Credit	Harry Hoedel	338	1.1	-0.2
	Communist	George Shlakoff	179	0.6	–
Total valid votes			32,012	100.0

v t e 1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom	15,998	47.7	+8.8
	Liberal	Stephanie Potoski	9,574	28.5	-1.1
	Progressive Conservative	Don Armour	7,542	22.5	-9.0
	Social Credit	Harry Hoedel	425	1.3	–
Total valid votes			33,539	100.0

v t e 1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Lorne Nystrom	13,212	38.9
	Progressive Conservative	James N. Ormiston	10,699	31.5
	Liberal	Peter J. Konkin	10,068	29.6
Total valid votes			33,979	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada