PCs set date for Turtle Mountain nomination meetings
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The Progressive Conservative candidate for Turtle Mountain will be decided at two nomination meetings next month, the party announced on Friday.
Currently, two people have announced they are seeking the PC nod in the riding for the next provincial election, scheduled for no later than October 2027.
Wally Daudrich, who narrowly lost the party leadership last year, declared his intention in December, while Mark Custance, a councillor in the Municipality of Two Borders, announced his candidacy in March.
PC members will elect the candidate at two meetings on June 13.
The first meeting at the St. Matthews Parish Hall in Boissevain starts with registration at 9 a.m. and speeches at 10:30 a.m. Registration and voting closes at 1 p.m.
The second meeting, at the Somerset Community Centre in Somerset, starts with registration at 3 p.m. and speeches at 3:30 p.m. Registration and voting there closes and 7 p.m.
People have until June 2 to register as a candidate.
To vote, people must be a member of the party for at least 14 days prior to the meeting date and be 14 years old.
If there are more than two candidates, voters will rank their preferred choice.
Sitting PC Turtle Mountain MLA Doyle Piwniuk announced in November that he will leave politics at the end of his term.
Daudrich is running on a platform of increasing oil production in the riding and the province as a whole, rural gasification of homes and businesses, infrastructure improvements and creating better water retention in the area.
Custance said investing in infrastructure and health care and making the region a better place to live are his main priorities.
The NDP in early March announced it will run Rick Pauls in Turtle Mountain. Pauls previously served as the mayor of Killarney-Turtle Mountain and currently sits as a councillor in the municipality.
The PCs under Piwniuk have won Turtle Mountain by more than 32 percentage points in the two elections since the riding was recreated ahead of the 2019 election.
In contrast, the NDP has seen its support in rural and northern areas rise since the 2023 provincial election, with 47 per cent support compared to 43 per cent support for the PCs, polling released in March by Probe Research suggests.
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