Saskatchewan electoral district | |||
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Souris—Moose Mountain in relation to other Saskatchewan federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order.
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Federal electoral district | |||
Legislature | House of Commons | ||
MP |
Conservative |
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District created | 1987 | ||
First contested | 1988 | ||
Last contested | 2015 | ||
District webpage | profile, map | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2011) | 72,058 | ||
Electors (2015) | 51,580 | ||
Area (km²) | 43,184 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 1.7 | ||
Census subdivisions | Estevan, Weyburn, Moosomin, Grenfell, Carlyle, Kipling, Oxbow, Redvers, Carnduff |
Souris—Moose Mountain is a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.
This electoral district is located in Southeast Saskatchewan, encompassing the cities of Weyburn and Estevan. The riding extends from Radville in the west to the Manitoba border, and from Estevan to Grenfell and the Qu'Appelle River in the north.
This district was created in 1987 from Qu'Appelle—Moose Mountain and portions of the Assiniboia riding.
This riding lost a fraction of territory to Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan and gained territory from Wascana during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
Its Member of Parliament is Robert Gordon Kitchen a medical practitioner in Estevan who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal electoral district of Souris—Moose Mountain at the 2015 Canadian federal election.[2]