Maurice Vellacott

Maurice Vellacott's career exemplifies the rightward political migration that characterized Canadian conservatism in the late 1990s, having abandoned the Liberal Party after an unsuccessful 1995 candidacy to emerge as a Reform Party standard-bearer in his breakthrough 1997 election. His subsequent tenure through successive iterations of right-wing consolidation—Canadian Alliance and then the unified Conservative Party—demonstrated both institutional loyalty and growing electoral strength in his Saskatchewan riding, where he accumulated increasingly commanding vote pluralities through 2011. Vellacott's trajectory from provincial Liberal also underscores the competitive pressures that pushed moderates toward more ideologically cohesive conservative vehicles during this period of realignment.

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Candidacy Notes

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Election	Electoral District	Political Party	Votes	Elected
SK (Jun 1995)	Saskatoon Mount Royal	Liberal Party of Saskatchewan	1,783	No
CAN (Jun 1997)	Wanuskewin	Reform Party of Canada	12,854	Yes
CAN (Nov 2000)	Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Canadian Alliance	17,404	Yes
CAN (Jun 2004)	Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Conservative Party of Canada/Parti conservateur du Canada post-2003	15,109	Yes
CAN (Jan 2006)	Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Conservative Party of Canada/Parti conservateur du Canada post-2003	17,753	Yes
CAN (Oct 2008)	Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Conservative Party of Canada/Parti conservateur du Canada post-2003	18,320	Yes
CAN (May 2011)	Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Conservative Party of Canada/Parti conservateur du Canada post-2003	21,183	Yes

Timeline

SK (Jun 1995)

Electoral district	Political party	Votes	Elected
Saskatoon Mount Royal	Liberal Party of Saskatchewan	1,783	No

CAN (Jun 1997)

Electoral district	Political party	Votes	Elected
Wanuskewin	Reform Party of Canada	12,854	Yes

CAN (Nov 2000)

Electoral district	Political party	Votes	Elected
Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Canadian Alliance	17,404	Yes

CAN (Jun 2004)

Electoral district	Political party	Votes	Elected
Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Conservative Party of Canada/Parti conservateur du Canada post-2003	15,109	Yes

CAN (Jan 2006)

Electoral district	Political party	Votes	Elected
Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Conservative Party of Canada/Parti conservateur du Canada post-2003	17,753	Yes

CAN (Oct 2008)

Electoral district	Political party	Votes	Elected
Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Conservative Party of Canada/Parti conservateur du Canada post-2003	18,320	Yes

CAN (May 2011)

Electoral district	Political party	Votes	Elected
Saskatoon--Wanuskewin	Conservative Party of Canada/Parti conservateur du Canada post-2003	21,183	Yes

Political Party	Candidacies
canadian alliance	1
conservative party of canada/parti conservateur du canada post-2003	4
liberal party of saskatchewan	1
reform party of canada	1