The Saskatchewan Party is seeking a fifth straight majority after 17 years in office
It’s the final day of the Saskatchewan election campaign.
The Saskatchewan Party is seeking a fifth straight majority after 17 years in office, while the NDP is looking to take back government for the first time since 2007.
Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe has promised broad tax relief and to continue withholding federal carbon levy payments to Ottawa.
NDP Leader Carla Beck has pledged to spend more to fix health care and education, pause the gas tax, and remove the provincial sales tax on children’s clothes and some grocery items.
Beck is set to meet with supporters in the afternoon in Regina.
A spokesperson for Moe says he doesn’t have any public events scheduled for the day.
Here’s a look at the provincial governments over the last five decades:
New Democrats, 1971-78
The NDP and leader Allan Blakeney, a former cabinet minister under Tommy Douglas, defeated Ross Thatcher’s Liberals in 1971. Blakeney and the NDP were re-elected in 1975 and 1978.
Progressive Conservatives, 1982-86
Blakeney’s NDP was defeated by Grant Devine’s Progressive Conservatives in 1982. Devine won a second term in 1986 but the PCs went down to defeat at the hands of the NDP and leader Roy Romanow in 1991.
New Democrats, 1991-2007
Romanow, a former attorney general under Blakeney, was premier for three terms. He retired in 2000 and Lorne Calvert was named the new party leader and premier. Calvert and the NDP won the 2003 election but lost to Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party in 2007.
Saskatchewan Party, since 2007
The Saskatchewan Party, founded a decade earlier by a coalition of former provincial Tories and Liberals, formed government for the first time in 2007 and won again in 2011, 2016 and 2020. Wall, a former ministerial assistant in Devine’s government, was re-elected twice as premier. He retired in 2018 and his environment minister, Scott Moe, was voted by party members to replace him. Moe was at the helm for the win in the 2020 election, held during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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