Final update: It’s a 5th consecutive SaskParty majority, extending their government into it’s 21st year but with reduced seats. A clear urban-rural split, the upstart Sask United party and Greens each cost the two major parties a seat or two, and another one or two still close. 52% turnout, about the same as 2020.
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Polls are now closed, Rebel News is covering the returns on X livestream.
Four Moe years? Or Rachel Notley lite?
Polls are open. and so are the comments for your observations and predictions. The latest Philippe Fournier polling claims the parties are tied in popular vote.
Of the 61 seats at the Saskatchewan legislature at the time of dissolution, the Saskatchewan Party held the lion’s share with 42 seats.
The opposition NDP held 14 seats, four seats were held by independents, and one was vacant.
The Regina Reader Post has an interactive map to track results this evening.
Best case is something like Moe 28, NDP 27, Sask Unity 6 to pull Moe from his worst tendencies.
This post aged well…
Yeah, one off on NDP.
Was hoping that SUP would be in place to keep SK Party honest. SK Party members will have to self police.
Moe’s brain trust likely thinks they need to soften more to appeal to those NDP voters. Wrong. SK Party needs to reform itself to get SUP voters back and to give former supporters a reason to show up to vote.
I predict SP 44 NDP 17
Wishful thinking? No. 61-0 is wishful thinking.
Good luck, Canadian cousins.
Seconded. With luck, Canadians will get a reprieve from the current tyranny,** although for how long?
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** That’s ‘current t-Y-ranny’, not ‘current tranny’, though I suppose either one works.
Is the close polling primarily a result of long-incumbency? Has Moe just accumulated enough baggage & enemies at this point that anyone perceived as reasonably competent can/will beat him?
That was at least partly the case in NB, but there was more than a little chatter that the pronouns-in-schools issue really hurt Higgs, that he was sticking his nose where it didn’t belong and just should’ve stayed out of it. Canadians’ infernal passivity about social issues at work and the incessant framing of the issue as being about trans rights. Moe’s gone down that road too and I’m wondering if that’s playing a role?
When the government (taxpayers) are footing the bill for education they got every right to stick their nose in. That said, it might have hurt him because there’s a lot of fags in New Brunswick, in the cities anyway. Not as bad as Newfoundland though.
Hope it’s not the NDP.
They are awful people.
If they happen to win the dipper parasites will be flying in from across the country for positions so they can fleece another province.
Manitoba has set the course of prairie ‘conservatism’ for years. It’s rural conservative and urban socialist.
Alberta has moved in the same direction and I suspect today will reveal Saskatchewan has joined the crowd. Come to think about it Ontario is much the same with SW Ontario being the only reliable conservative enclave.
I think Mo will prevail but it will be a lot closer than it has. Maybe uncomfortably close.
LOL…nope.
I hope that Jarod Clarke, the NDP MLA for Regina-Walsh Acres does not get re-elected. And who was that MLA that called for government supplied free drugs for drug addicts? I hope she does not get re-elected.
That they’re even discussing a possible NDP win or even coming close in this race is absolutely depressing.
A cheese store owner as energy minister…I want you to think about that.
I speak as an Ontarian. I know what the hell I’m talking about. Rae wrecked shop here and he was rewarded with a U.N. appointment.
well the idiots in new brunswick elected a CUPE union member as their premier
https://results.elections.sk.ca/
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https://elections.bc.ca/
For Gawd’s sake, do not follow Manitoba and B.C. Both are have not basket cases with safe injection sites and tens of thousands of homeless.
Manitoba is basically the largest Indian reserve in north America and will continue to be a basket case
I simply cant vote for moe after his handliing of the scamdemic. snitch lines, mrna mandates, visitor restrictions at Christmas. and now all this is shown to be non effective. I will never ever vote npd so glad there are alternatives. maybe someone will get the message.
Can you live with the NDP?
If Doctor Ryan Meili had been premier,we’d be walking around with masks stitched to our faces. Moe was the least restrictive of all the provinces in Canada, and got rid of it faster than anywhere else. So give him credit for that.
Yep, we’ll give him that, he’s a turd that doesn’t smell as bad as some of the other turds.
If you don’t vote for the least bad option, you fail to vote against something worse.
Evil Moe failed us terribly during the Covid scam. Persecuting those who chose to not take the poison jabs. Accepting the results of a Covid test that has many, many false positives. Persecuting churches who believe God’s commands outweigh mans. Collapsing many small businesses. Calling infant genocide (abortion) an essential service. Moe has reserved a place in Hell.
I supported the Sask Party for many years and am (was) close friends with a high ranking cabinet minister. Moe behaves like a Lieberal and shifted way left. He adjusted because of the Sask United Party.
There is a choice other than the communist, perverted, antisemitic EDNP or the Sask Party.
The clear choice is the Sask United Party and I hope they hold the balance of power. Good, decent people.
Totally agree Kate
all i wanted was a mea culpa that we did the best we could given the info we had…didnt get that much less an apology and a promise it would never happen again. instead we got nuthin…just ignore it and the stupid taxpayers will forget and forgive. well I’ll never forget nor forgive…and the people who were all for the lockdowns and snitchlines can just GTH.
I agree, Tim. I’ve voted for the Saskatchewan Party in every election since they became a political party but I’m 100% finished with them. I expect politicians to be kinda scummy and somewhat corrupt because that’s their nature. But, implementing policies of segregation and discrimination to illegally coerce people to take a pharmaceutical product is vile and unforgivable. I’ll never vote NDP or Liberal either.
That’s where I am. I am not in Sask but I held my nose in Manitoba, voted, while gagging, for the Conservatives in spite of how furious I am for how they treated me in plandemic and to my utter astonishment I found myself absolutely delighted when Wab won. F*ck those horrible disgusting foul people. What these bastards did to us during the plandemic can not be just ignored while they walk away from it like they did nothing wrong.
There’s still time for Moe to stand up and say what he did was wrong and apologize. He won’t of course, probably because Trudeau has him by the balls on something.
I’m hoping RFK jr. will release all of the covid vaccine data and discussions. The vaccine issue, and other pharmaceutical regulator controversies, needs full disclosure if there’s any hope of reestablishing trust in public health. The political class really doesn’t deserve trust but they should at least strive for not being seen as evil and corrupt.
I am reading the book ‘The Last Spike’ by Pierre Burton. Political corruption existed in the late 1880s with the building of the CPR. Millions were made by those (mostly politicians and their friends) with inside information. Politicians have been members of criminal organizations for a long time. Don’t expect it to change.
Too bad SUP didn’t have candidates in every riding. If your riding only had SP, Dippers and the Green wackos you’re SOL. Still voted and have never missed an election yet, but this was the 1st time I had to spoil a ballot.
I said a little prayer for the people of Saskatchewan that there wise enough to not vote in the NDP.
Apparently not.
A few comments here prove that. Once again it shows why the Liberals and NDP sometimes win. No matter what they do, their supporters always vote FOR them.
it’s called a mental disorder
I don’t know if this is true but according to this guy, CBC is saying it’s a Saskatchewan Party landslide.
https://x.com/connor__peters/status/1851042236277911554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1851042236277911554%7Ctwgr%5E5c349cf223b56678630f1a161b2df4503ab1ec67%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fblazingcatfur.ca%2Fauthor%2Fblazingcatfur%2F
Says 2020 results
Geez. People are shitposting and I’m falling for it. Thanks for catching that before I made an even bigger fool of myself.
BC has always had crazy politics, but “Tommy Douglas is not dead enough” applies. We in BC are in for another NDP govt. Eby is not as crazy as most NDP, but the outlook for everything here is on a negative trajectory.
Good luck SK! We do need some sanity in this country, and in the western world, for that matter.
First time for me voting in SK.
Can I have a sticker?
My bags are packed!
Saskatoon — nearest city to me — looks pretty solidly NDP. Little Toronto on the Prairies.
I don’t want to hear any more shit about Easterners or Ontarians or Torontonians. Western cities are just as evil.
Yep! As I said about a week ago… Regina is just as woke as the underlings back in Ottawa. That’s why I’m leaving. There’s no future for someone like me here.
Yes, this. Stoon voters (and 50% of the people) are dumpster fires. The mayor and city council are atrocious. Why are prairie people becoming such assholes when we descended from such awesome people???
Read Tommy Douglas’ Master’s thesis. He’s not entirely wrong.
This is weird! It shouldn’t be this close! Sask party has over 142 thousand votes to the NDP’s 90 thousand.
Yet there are many urban ridings up for grabs. The NDP, with 50 thousand less votes than the Sask party, still has a very good chance to form government!
The good news is that if things hold, Sask party is looking at a majority government, but it’s still nail-biting time.
With the Sask party leading/elected 9 more seats than the NDP, and having 50 thousand more votes, CTV is still saying that “it’s a close race!”
Projection should come any time now.
In this “close race,” the Sask party has obtained 55% of the popular vote to the NDP’s 37.2%
Sask party still leading in 34 seats in this “close race.”
The western cities are NDP because that’s where the hospitals, schools, universities, city employees, unionistas, greens and feminazis dominate. The concentration of public sector employees is a major voting block. That they are inherently in conflict of interest doesn’t deter them from voting for their big government advocating government. So called Conservative governments like them big too, thinking that pleasing their enemies might make them their friends.
This is nuts! CTV is celebrating with the NDP as if they won the election, even though the Sask party is consistently polling 50 to 60 thousand votes more than the NDP in the popular vote.
I must say that I am deeply disappointed in Regina. I thought Sask was true blue (or in SK’s case, true green.)
Sask 34; NDP 27, as of 11:30 pm SK time.
As I said…
Despite all the cheerleading, despite all the wishful thinking, CTV has finally given up the ghost:
11:41 pm, CTV has declared Sask party majority government.
So much for the “close race.” CTV is still saying it was a close race, ffs.
I have not been following it. 7 seats needed to tie? That would be close.
Yes, a flip of 4 seats changes government (really just 3 due to the speaker effect).
And now that they finally acknowledged the reality so late into the evening, the mood at CTV has changed. From celebration, to somber lament, and consolation. They’re still praising the NDP and ragging on the Sask party, as if they’re the evil empire. (cue Darth Vader’s storm trooper’s theme here.)
CTV will CTV no matter where you are… Nationally, or locally. just brutal coverage.
Big sigh of relief on my part. When am I going to learn to ignore the predictions of “experts”? As Jim Lahey would say Saskatchewan just dodged a big shit bullet.
SK has a LOT of government. 61MLA’s for a province of 1.2m. Alberta has 86 for just under 5 million. Too many there as well. I’ll vote for a party that offers to cut the size of government beginning with cutting the # of MLA’s.
Fewer MLA’s would immediately translate into fewer government departments. A win all the way around.
Smartest thing said on this thread.
This is a massive polling miss.
The last 5 opinion polls in a row, from 5 different companies, had the NDP up by 2 points or more. The polls inflated the NDP vote by 10%! It’s almost like they tried to manufacture a different result.