The Saskatchewan Liberals have been busy putting together a field of candidates for the upcoming April 4 provincial election.
The Liberals have nominated 35 candidates, according to their website, and have confirmed a candidate is in place in the Battlefords.
Dexter Gopher is running for the Liberals in the Battlefords. Gopher is listed as the Liberal candidate on the party’s website.
In both 2007 and 2011 their candidate in the Battlefords was their former provincial leader Ryan Bater. Bater is currently on North Battleford city council.
The Battlefords has been among the strongest ridings in the province for the Liberals for a number of years. Their vote share was over 11 per cent in the Battlefords in 2011, which was the best Liberal showing in the province.
The other candidates nominated in the Battlefords include Saskatchewan Party incumbent Herb Cox, NDP candidate Rob Feist and Green Party candidate Josh Hunt. There is no word yet on whether the Progressive Conservatives or other parties will also field a candidate.
Overall, the 35 nominations for the Liberals in Saskatchewan are way up from the nine candidates that ran for the Liberals in their 2011 campaign, where they received less than one per cent of the vote.
In another Northwest region riding, Eric McCrimmon will be the Liberal candidate in Meadow Lake.
No other Liberal candidates have been announced in other ridings in the region as of yet, but leader Darrin Lamoureux, who is running in Regina Pasqua, has been quoted on a few occasions as saying his party plans to run a full slate.
