Regina Walsh Acres

Regina Walsh Acres

Saskatchewan electoral district
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Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
MLA	Warren Steinley Saskatchewan
District created	1967 as "Regina North West"
First contested	1967
Last contested	2011
Demographics
Electors	9,382
Census divisions	Division 6
Census subdivisions	Regina

Regina Walsh Acres is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. Originally created for the 16th Saskatchewan general election in 1967, this constituency has changed boundaries many times.

Today this district includes the Regina neighbourhoods of Normanview, Normanview West, Regent Park, Sherwood-McCarthy, McCarthy Park, and Walsh Acres.

This district was called "Regina North West" until 1995, and "Regina Sherwood" from 1995 to 2003.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Regina North West
16th	1967–1971		Charles Whelan	New Democrat
17th	1971–1975
18th	1975–1978
19th	1978
	1979–1982		John Solomon	New Democrat
20th	1982–1983		Bill Sveinson	Progressive Conservative
	1983–1985			Liberal
	1986			Western Canada Concept
21st	1986–1991		John Solomon	New Democrat
22nd	1991–1993
	1994–1995		Anita Bergman	Liberal
Regina Sherwood
23rd	1995–1999		Lindy Kasperski	New Democrat
24th	1999–2003
Regina Walsh Acres
25th	2003–2007		Sandra Morin	New Democrat
26th	2007–2011
27th	2011–present		Warren Steinley	Saskatchewan Party

Election results

Saskatchewan general election, 2011: Regina Walsh Acres

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Saskatchewan	Warren Steinley	3,679	58.18	-
	NDP	Sandra Morin	2,488	39.34	-22.65
	Green	Bart Soroka	157	2.48	-0.96
Total			6,324	100.00

Saskatchewan general election, 2007: Regina Walsh Acres

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Sandra Morin	3,942	61.99	-0.86
	Liberal	Marie-France Magnin	2,198	34.57	+24.09
	Green	Kelsey Pearson	219	3.44	+2.56
	Saskatchewan	Dan Harder1	-	-	-
Total			6,359	100.00

¹ Dan Harder, the Saskatchewan Party candidate, withdrew his candidacy on October 27, 2007 after the party learned the details of a complaint of inappropriate conduct made against him by employees of Big Brothers of Regina in 2006 while he was executive director of the organization. See

Saskatchewan general election, 2003: Regina Walsh Acres

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Sandra Morin	4,594	62.85	+12.27
	Saskatchewan	Mike Shenher	1,693	23.16	-2.20
	Liberal	Perry Juttla	766	10.48	-11.93
	Independent	Lindy Kasperski1	192	2.63	*
	New Green	Nigel Taylor	64	0.88	*
Total			7,309	100.00

¹ Lindy Kasperski was suspended from the 24th Assembly's NDP caucus after being charged with fraud. Following Kasperski's acquittal, he was offered reinstatement – but refused in the face of a difficult re-nomination fight in this constituency.

Regina Sherwood (1995–2003)

Saskatchewan general election, 1999: Regina Sherwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Lindy Kasperski	3,090	50.58	-12.68
	Saskatchewan	Arlene Bray	1,549	25.36	*
	Liberal	Tom Crosby	1,369	22.41	-7.09
	Prog. Conservative	George Marcotte	101	1.65	-5.59
Total			6,109	100.00

Saskatchewan general election, 1995: Regina Sherwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Lindy Kasperski	3,951	63.26	+23.38
	Liberal	Frank Gribbon	1,842	29.50	-27.55
	Prog. Conservative	Thomas D. Durbin	452	7.24	+4.17
Total			6,245	100.00

Regina North West (1967–1995)

February 4, 1994 By-election: Regina North West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Anita Bergman	2,566	57.05	+28.40
	NDP	Kathie Maher-Wolbaum	1,794	39.88	-20.85
	Prog. Conservative	Harvey Schmidt	138	3.07	-7.55
Total			4,498	100.00

Saskatchewan general election, 1991

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	John Solomon	5,660	60.73	+2.46
	Liberal	Liz Calvert	2,670	28.65	+20.23
	Prog. Conservative	Jack Mock	990	10.62	-22.40
Total			9,320	100.00

Saskatchewan general election, 1986

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	John Solomon	7,970	58.27	+19.97
	Prog. Conservative	Alvin Law	4,517	33.02	-24.71
	Liberal	John MacGowan	1,152	8.42	+6.34
	Alliance	Bill Sveinson	39	0.29	*
Total			13,678	100.00

Saskatchewan general election, 1982

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Prog. Conservative	Bill Sveinson	6,797	57.73	+36.95
	NDP	John Solomon	4,509	38.30	-9.45
	Liberal	Adrian McBride	245	2.08	-29.39
	Western Canada Concept	Les R. Kavanagh	222	1.89	*
Total			11,773	100.00

October 17, 1979 By-election: Regina North West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	John Solomon	3,354	47.75	-7.12
	Liberal	Ted Malone	2,211	31.47	+17.27
	Prog. Conservative	Philip Lundeen	1,460	20.78	-10.15
Total			7,025	100.00

Saskatchewan general election, 1978

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Charles Whelan	5,575	54.87	+12.74
	Prog. Conservative	Philip Lundeen	3,142	30.93	+4.03
	Liberal	J. Culliton Poston	1,443	14.20	-16.77
Total			10,160	100.00

Saskatchewan general election, 1975

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Charles Whelan	3,174	42.13	-22.14
	Liberal	David Bouchard	2,333	30.97	-4.42
	Prog. Conservative	Bill Sveinson	2,027	26.90	-
Total			7,534	100.00

Saskatchewan general election, 1971

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Charles Whelan	8,805	64.27	+11.94
	Liberal	David H. Sheard	4,848	35.39	-0.98
	Communist	Fred J. Schofield	46	0.34	*
Total			13,699	100.00

Saskatchewan general election, 1967

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Charles Whelan	5,364	52.33	*
	Liberal	Frank Kleefeld	3,728	36.37	*
	Prog. Conservative	George Tkach	1,011	9.86	*
	Social Credit	H. Kenneth Cooper	147	1.44	*
Total			10,250	100.00

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
• Elections Saskatchewan - Official Results of the 2011 Provincial Election
• Saskatchewan Archives Board – Provincial Election Results By Electoral Division