Claim: In the 2003 Saskatchewan general election, former CBC journalist and NDP's candidate Joan Beatty won with 3,268 votes, edgeing out her rival Winston McKay of the Saskatchewan party with just 1,029 votes, landing him in second place.
Evidence: The 2003 Saskatchewan general election was the twenty-fifth provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Joan Beatty is a Canadian politician. She was the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the constituency of Cumberland. A former CBC journalist, Beatty became the first Aboriginal woman and first First Nations person elected to the Saskatchewan legislature when she was elected on November 5, 2003. However, she lost the federal by-election to Conservative candidate Rob Clarke.