Saskatchewan Election 2024: Open Thread (Bumped)
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.
Saskatchewan Leaders Debate
I only tuned into the last 10 minutes or so, but good God is Carla Beck bad at this.
Socialist Math
NDP Release Do-Over Platform Costing, But Get Revenue and Expenses Mixed Up: pic.twitter.com/qkcykMmf4i
— Saskatchewan Party (@SaskParty) October 11, 2024
Saskatchewan Election Contest: Bumped with Results
The recounts are finished, the results are final.
Our prediction contest winner is matt smythe.
September 29, 2020 at 4:49 pm Edit
SaskParty –48
NDP –13
Buffalo –
PC –
Green –
Liberal –
Independent* –Tiebreaker: Share of popular vote by winner – 55
- Original post below.
Meili at left, Moe at right.
The Sask Party holds 46 seats and the opposition NDP has 13. There are also candidates running for the following: Buffalo Party, Progressive Conservatives, Green Party, and Saskatchewan Liberals. Further details at CBC.
Update with correction. There are actually 61 seats to distribute, as two were vacant at dissolution. Thus I have to void the first group of entries accordingly and allow you all to post again. My bad, I was sloppy there.
Please use the following format for your prediction — should total 61;
SaskParty –
NDP –
Buffalo –
PC –
Green –
Liberal –
Independent* –
Tiebreaker: Share of popular vote by winner –
The most accurate prediction will win a free book from the SDA Free Book Library. Winner will be announced on election night or as soon as possible afterward.
Good News For Ryan Meili
Cam Broten Steps Down From Party of Left Wing Extremists
Well, look who’s gone.
I guess Broten couldn't talk someone into resigning their $95K/year job so he could fill their seat. He resigned as leader of SaskNDP today
— Safimod (@Safimod) April 11, 2016
And look whose blog is as popular as ever.
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Justin
Here’s a list of some Liberal candidates, every one of whom lost:
Nadeem Islam. Gulraiz Tariq. Ana Ashraf. Shah Rukh. Ezaz Jaseem. Naveed Anwar. And so on.
In the last census, 0.1% of Saskatchewanians are Muslim.
Which means that at any given time, one in four can be found in a Superstore.
Cam Broten’s Party of Left Wing Extremists
This morning’s story is served with a steaming hot cup of schadenfreude.
Word is, there may be more to fall.
Because Personally, He’d Like To Fill The Premier’s Home With Spent Uranium
.@Sask_NDP loses second candidate in provincial election. Party says Mark Jeworski, in Weyburn-Big Muddy, has resigned for personal reasons.
— Jennifer Graham (@JGrahamCP) March 11, 2016
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Oops. It just got worse.
Pollspotting!
CTV Regina: Should homeless people be given bus tickets to return home or for employment opportunities?
He’s A Leftie
Premier Brad, on Twitter: Last night some jackwagon vandalized @SaskParty HQ w/graffiti. If you recog said jackwagon please call @reginapolice
Last night some jackwagon vandalized @SaskParty HQ w/graffiti. If you recog said jackwagon please call @reginapolice pic.twitter.com/yKONmUJdkp
— Brad Wall (@PremierBradWall) March 6, 2016
Standard Operating Procedure
Nurses union can’t negotiate before a writ of election in the press? That will throw a kink into the early-game election strategies.
Not that a mediator will be able to stop things from ‘leaking out’ in the most damning way possible with no ability for SAHO to respond.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
New Democrat leader Dwain Lingenfelter’s promise to get more electricity from wind turbines is being criticized by the Saskatchewan Party.
The party says if elected on Nov. 7, an NDP government will add 400 megawatts of new wind power over four years.
But Sask. Party Leader Brad Wall says there’s a huge hole in the NDP platform because it’s not being costed out.
According to SaskPower planning documents, large wind power projects have capital costs of between $2 million and $3 million per megawatt…
Wall said that’s another example of the NDP making unaffordable promises.
“Are you going to make SaskPower borrow the money? Is it going to come from the general revenue fund? Or are people going to pay higher electricity rates?” Wall asked.
The wind power promise is part of the NDP’s environmental plan to ensure that by 2025, 50 per cent of the province’s electricity is clean, renewable energy.
A plan to generate half of Saskatchewan’s power from renewable sources by 2030 is “ambitious,” but the provincial government insists it can be done.
Days after Premier Brad Wall announced that by 2030, wind, solar and geothermal power would be developed to meet a 50-per-cent renewable target, minister responsible for SaskPower Bill Boyd on Monday said he was “confident SaskPower can meet the target by taking an ‘all of the above’ approach to planning.
Wynneing, flatlander-style.
Pollspotting!
The “yes” side is already well behind. Let’s bury them.
Is Sask Premier Wall just “showboating” in his defense of the oil and gas industry?
The Calgary Sun is running the same question.
And when you’re finished voting there, come back for a bonus smackdown.
Brad’s Bloopers
Saskatchewan Election Map
9:21pm Update: Historic results: No NDP leader ever defeated, highest popular vote ever for winning party. Knife twist: Liberals get .6% of vote
Sun News Freudian slip of the evening: David Akin’s reference to Brad Wall as “premier of Alberta”. Not “premier of Alberta Lite”. We’ve arrived, baby!!!
(Original continues below)
As of 6:40 pm the CBC, CTV, Global, Star Phoenix/Leader Post, Sun News and Canadian Press election desks have called it for the Sask Party. (University Of Saskatchewan’s the Sheaf is the lone holdout.)
Now, we wait for polls to close.
At time of dissolution, the SaskParty held 38 seats to the NDP‘s 20. The Greens are the only other party with candidates in all ridings. The once mighty Liberals have been reduced to a shadow of their former selves. If I may offer some advice, it would be for the Liberals to merge with the few stragglers that comprise the old Progressive Conservatives to form a new part….. oh, wait.
Follow results across the province with this nifty interactive map at SaskVotes.com or the live poll results at Elections Saskatchewan. The map is running WAY behind Elections SK.
For those out of province and away from a TV, you can listen live to election banter with Rawlco radio talk host John Gormley beginning at 7pm. (You’ll have to sit through an ad).
Oh, and…. sucks to be you!
Saskatchewan Election Day
Polls open in an hour. I’m providing this dedicated thread to share polling station observations, road conditions, seat predictions and other election day related comments. I will insist that your comments remain strictly on topic. All others deleted without mercy.
http://www.elections.sk.ca/
“Out, Damned Spot!”
Now is the time in Act V, Scene 1. The Surrogates Of Lady MacLink that we Juxtapose!
“Saskatchewan man” (NDP) complaint over political ad, November 2011;
Scott, the Canadian Press reports, says the image, the audio and the words leave the viewer with a subconscious impression that Lingenfelter is a criminal with blood on his hands. Scott has even filed a complaint with Canada’s Broadcast Standards Council.
“Saskatchewan Federation of Labour” (NDP) paid political ad, April 2008;
h/t Tyler
Wee Province
John Robson – Watch that Saskatchewan election, folks. We could have a national trend here.”