Voters in the riding of Battlefords-Lloydminster have returned Conservative Gerry Ritz to Ottawa for a seventh time. The Agriculture Minister in Stephen Harper’s government was first elected in 1997 as an MP for the Reform Party.
Ritz beat out Glenn Tait from the NDP, the Liberal’s Larry Ingram, Mikaela-Mari Tenkink for the Green Party and Independent Doug Anguish.
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In 2011, Ritz defeated Tait by 39.8 per cent, his largest margin of victory since 2000.
The riding, created prior to the 1997 election, has only been held by Ritz, first elected as an MP for the Reform Party.
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22.3 per cent of people were Aboriginal in the 2011 census, the fourth highest number in the province.
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