{{short description|Canadian politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2009}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Evan Carlson | honorific_suffix = | caption = | office1 = MLA for Melville | term_start1 = 1991 | term_end1 = 1995 | predecessor1 = Grant Schmidt | successor1 = Ron Osika | party = New Democratic Party | spouse = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|6|28}} | birth_place = Melville, Saskatchewan }} '''Evan Carlson''' (born June 28, 1953) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Melville in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1991 to 1995.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHeJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Carlson+AND+%22evan%22+melville|title = The Canadian Parliamentary Guide|year = 1995|isbn = 9781896413013}}</ref>
==Background== Born and raised in Melville, Carlson worked as a farmer before entering politics, and served on the board of the Melville Credit Union.
==Politics== He was first elected in the 1991 provincial election, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA Grant Schmidt. However, he was defeated in the 1995 provincial election by Ron Osika of the Liberals.
He subsequently stood as the federal New Democratic Party candidate in Yorkton—Melville in the 1997 federal election, but lost to Reform Party incumbent Garry Breitkreuz.
==Career after politics== He was subsequently employed as a victim support worker with the Saskatoon Police Service from 1999 to 2003, and is currently a mental health worker with the Saskatoon Health Region. He is also on the board of an emergency housing shelter in Saskatoon.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.saskatoonsos.ca/aboutus.html |title=Saskatoon Overnight Shelter: About Us |access-date=2009-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427074724/http://www.saskatoonsos.ca/aboutus.html |archive-date=2009-04-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Electoral record== {{1997 Canadian federal election/Yorkton—Melville}} {{Election box begin | title=1991 Saskatchewan general election: Melville}} |- {{Canadian party colour|SK|NDP|row}} |style="width: 130px"|NDP |Evan Carlson |align="right"|3,656 |align="right"|45.90% |align="right"|+7.31 {{Canadian party colour|SK|PC|row}} |style="width: 130px"|Prog. Conservative |Grant Schmidt |align="right"|3,048 |align="right"|38.26% |align="right"|-15.20 {{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}} |style="width: 130px"|Liberal |Ray Chastkavich |align="right"|1,262 |align="right"|15.84% |align="right"|+8.33 |- bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|7,966 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| {{election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=1995 Saskatchewan general election: Melville}} |- {{CANelec|SK|Liberal|Ron Osika|3,274|41.89%|+26.05}} {{Canadian party colour|SK|NDP|row}} |style="width: 130px"|NDP |Evan Carlson |align="right"|2,975 |align="right"|38.07% |align="right"|-7.83 {{Canadian party colour|SK|PC|row}} |style="width: 130px"|Prog. Conservative |Doug Gattinger |align="right"|1,566 |align="right"|20.04% |align="right"|-18.22 |- bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|7,815 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| {{election box end}}
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1997|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|Reform|Garry Breitkreuz|17,216|50.07%|–|$53,836}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|'''Evan Carlson'''|8,583|24.96%|–|$43,899}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Lloyd Sandercock|6,481|18.85%|–|$39,999}} {{CANelec|CA|PC|Ivan Daunt|2,101|6.11%|–|$6,357}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|34,381|100.00%}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|116|0.34%}} {{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|34,497|66.92%}} {{End}}
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