The small hamlet of Big Beaver, Sask. is the home of not-a-single-Liberal-voter..Blacklock’s Reporter says new Elections Canada data shows the Liberals went without a vote in a dozen municipalities across the country..But the outcome in the riding of Souris-Moose Mountain in Saskatchewan was the most lopsided in the country..Certified polling results showed Conservative MP Robert Kitchen won the Big Beaver poll with 85% of the popular vote. The hamlet 200 km southwest of Regina, near the Montana border, was home to 65 electors..Kitchen, chair of the Commons government operations committee, suffered a heart attack weeks after winning the riding..“To those who say politicians do not have a heart, I now have surgical proof I do,” Kitchen told the Commons February 8..Kitchen, a retired chiropractor, won the over all riding with 76% of the popular vote. It was the largest plurality of any candidate in Canada. Big Beaver was one of six hamlets in the constituency that did not have a single Liberal voter..A lone Liberal ballot was cast in the Town of Wapella, Sask., population 354. Lone ballots are typically cast by party scrutineers..Other polls without a Liberal supporter included Kola, Man., population 1,525. Conservative MP Larry Maguire (Brandon-Souris) won the southwest Manitoba riding with 60% support..Liberal organizers also failed to win a single vote in five hamlets in Battle River-Crowfoot, Alta. Conservative MP Damien Kurek was re-elected with 71% of the vote..“I did not see my Liberal or New Democrat opponents at all during the campaign,” Kurek said in an interview following the 2019 campaign he won by 85%..“I made it a priority to attend all-candidates forums. There was one where I was the only candidate who showed up. There was a lot of doughnuts and coffee left over.”.“People wanted their voices heard. We anticipated a fairly large turnout, but we had reports from scrutineers that voters were lined up outside the door at polling stations. That’s not typical in rural Alberta.”.Kurek’s 2019 certified poll returns included one of the largest pluralities in any contested federal election in Canadian history. Kurek won the Hamlet of Giltedge, Alta. with 99.6%, though five parties were on the ballot. The MP lost a single vote in the hamlet to a local New Democrat.
