By Chris Carr

Conservative candidates sweep Saskatoon

May 3, 2011 | 7:22 AM

One of four Saskatoon-area ridings was way too close to call for much of the night Monday. Less than one percent of the vote separated Conservative Kelly Block from the NDP's Nettie Wiebe in the last election in Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar.

The margin was a little wider this time around. But the moments were no less tense. When it was all over, Block said she was absolutely thrilled with outcome.

“We did increase my margin of victory, so I'm glad for that. We'll take every vote we can get, and that's really the message that we took out there on the doorstep over the last five weeks,” Block said to News Talk Radio at the Conservative headquarters in Saskatoon.

Saskatoon-Blackstrap MP Lynne Yellich, Saskatoon-Humboldt's Brad Trost, and Saskatoon-Wanuskewin's Maurice Vellacott are also returning to Ottawa. Trost, whose comments to a pro-life group during the campaign brought the controversial issue of abortion back into the foreground, says a Harper majority will mean good things for the province.

“Saskatchewan voters were very much with our broad theme. Stable economy, low taxes, and tough on crime,” Trost maintained. Trost promised that Canadians can say goodbye to the long gun registry.

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