Monday nights provincial election ended with the Saskatchewan Party securing its fifth straight majority government win after coming out on top in 35 out of 61 seats throughout the province.
The NDP gave the Sask Party a tight race compared to the previous election, winning 26 seats compared to the 2020 election where they only had 13 seats. The last time the NDP saw more than 20 seats in government was in 2007.
The newly formed Martensville-Blarimore constituency saw Sask Party’s Jamie Martens elected with a total of 4,424 votes as of Tuesday, October 29th. NDPs Tammy Pike came in with 2,717 votes and Brittney Ricottone of the Green Party had 156 votes.
These numbers may change slightly following the mail-in ballot count.
Terry Jenson, the former MLA for the Martensville-Warman constituency was re-elected in the Warman constituency for Sask Party with 5,709 votes, with NDPs Erica Baerwald coming in second at 2,145 votes.
Sask Party leader Scott Moe won in his constituency of Shellbrook-Rosthern with 5,083 votes with Mark Thunderchild of the NDP placing second with 1,741 votes.
There was a clear divide once again between the rural and urban voting, as NDP was the prominent vote throughout Saskatoon and Regina.
In total, there were 439,771 total votes, with 829,884 eligible voters and 810,816 registered voters. There were 32,476 mail ballots issued and 20,417 pending count.
According to Elections Sask, the Saskatchewan Party received 53% of ballots cast in this election, for a total of 232,760 total votes. NDP saw 39.5&% of ballots cast with 173,285 total votes. The Saskatchewan United Party had 4.1% of ballots cast with 17,658 total votes. The Saskatchewan Green Party had 1.8% of ballots cast with 7,726 total votes. The Progressive Conservative Party of Sask had 1% of ballots cast with 4,300 votes. Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan had 0.8% of ballots cast with 3,201 votes. Saskatchewan Progress Party had 0.2% of ballots cast with 510 votes and Independent had 0.1% of ballots cast with 331 votes.
