YORKTON - Each year Yorkton This Week compiles a list of the top-10 news stories in the city from the past year as identified by the editorial staff. From Dec. 28 through until Jan. 6, YTW will be posting one story a day, culminating with the #1 story on the 6th. Today is #8.
The Yorkton-Melville riding would remain under Conservative leadership once again as Cathay Wagantall won the September 20 election.
Wagantall received more than 22,900 votes or just over 69 per cent of the votes.
"It's even more honouring to be able to continue to serve the riding of Yorkton-Melville," she said, "I've never had so much engagement directly calling, emailing, asking so many questions and having so many concerns. The results show that they had the confidence in me with the answers I was able to give them and that trust, and that means more than I can imagine to be able to go to the hill and to represent Yorkton-Melville and continue to do my best to represent them and see more done for rural Canada."
Wagantall beat five other candidates with Halsten David Rust (NDP) coming in second with 3,957 votes (12 per cent), Braden Robertson (PPC) followed up with 3,150 votes (9.5 per cent), then Jordan Ames-Sinclair (Liberal), who received 1,949 (5.9 per cent), then Denise Loucks (Maverick Party), and Valerie Brooks (Green Party) receiving less than 2 per vent of the vote with Loucks getting 583 votes, and Brooks 560 votes.
Federally, Wagantall said it wasn't what they wanted, but it just means there is more work to do.
