Saskatchewan residents are waking up to another Saskatchewan Party government, after Premier Scott Moe secured a fifth-straight majority for the party in Monday91裸聊视频檚 election.
Moe91裸聊视频檚 party lost in the big cities while retaining its grip on rural areas to secure 35 seats in the 61-seat legislature.
The Saskatchewan Party was shut out by Carla Beck91裸聊视频檚 NDP in Regina and lost all but two seats in Saskatoon.
But it found enough support everywhere else to be elected in 35 seats in the 61-seat legislature, compared with 26 for the NDP.
He said his government heard the message sent by voters that there is unhappiness in how the province is delivering health care, education and making life affordable.
91裸聊视频淭hank you once again, Saskatchewan for placing your trust in our party, the Saskatchewan Party,91裸聊视频 Moe said as supporters in Shellbrook clapped and whooped.
91裸聊视频淭his was a much closer election than we91裸聊视频檝e seen for some time.91裸聊视频
Moe says he must do better. He says he has heard the message sent by voters that there91裸聊视频檚 unhappiness in how the province is delivering health care, education and making life more affordable.
91裸聊视频淲e must do better and we most certainly will,91裸聊视频 he said.
Beck has said while she91裸聊视频檚 disappointed by her loss, she91裸聊视频檚 proud of the gains her party made and she will continue to hold Moe accountable.
The New Democrats almost doubled their seat total from the 14 it had at dissolution, retaining seats and gaining more in Regina and Saskatoon. In doing so, they defeated Saskatoon cabinet ministers Christine Tell, Bronwyn Eyre and Paul Merriman along with Regina91裸聊视频檚 Laura Ross and Gene Makowsky.
Beck retained her seat in Regina Lakeview.
The NDP also gained back the rural northern riding of Athabasca, which it won in 2020 only to lose to the Saskatchewan Party in a subsequent byelection.
But with 31 rural seats to 30 urban ones, the NDP91裸聊视频檚 margin of error was razor thin. It needed wins in the two seats in Moose Jaw and the two in Prince Albert 91裸聊视频 but failed to get them.
Beck delivered her concession speech in Regina to cheers from supporters and chants of 91裸聊视频淐arla! Carla!91裸聊视频
91裸聊视频淔riends, we came so close,91裸聊视频 said Beck. 91裸聊视频淢any people did not give us much of a chance, but we believed.
91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檝e given people a reason to hope again, and that91裸聊视频檚 not nothing. That91裸聊视频檚 a victory in its own right.
91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檝e changed the landscape in this province.91裸聊视频
Moe, in his second election as leader of the Saskatchewan Party, kept his seat in Rosthern-Shellbrook.
Other Saskatchewan Party cabinet ministers were re-elected: David Marit, Jim Reiter, Colleen Young, Lori Carr, Everett Hindley, Terry Jenson, Jeremy Cockrill, Tim McLeod and Jeremy Harrison.
Harrison was a controversial figure on the hustings. Earlier this year, he apologized for carrying a gun into the legislature about a decade ago while on the way to go hunting.
Moe91裸聊视频檚 Saskatchewan Party has been in power for 17 years in office, while Beck91裸聊视频檚 NDP was looking to take back government for the first time since 2007.
It91裸聊视频檚 the third straight campaign where the Saskatchewan Party has lost seats 91裸聊视频 from 51 in 2016, to 48 in 2020. The party had 42 seats at dissolution due to byelection losses, retirements and two members facing criminal charges.
The voting capped a month-long campaign that focused on health care, affordability and crime.
Beck pledged to spend more to fix health care and education, pause the gas tax, and remove the provincial sales tax on children91裸聊视频檚 clothes and some grocery items.
Moe promised broad tax relief and continued withholding of federal carbon levy payments to Ottawa.
He also promised that his first order of business if re-elected would be to ban 91裸聊视频渂iological boys91裸聊视频 from using school changing rooms with 91裸聊视频渂iological girls.91裸聊视频
He said he made the promise after learning of a complaint at a southeast Saskatchewan school about two biological boys using a girls change room.
It was later revealed that a parent of the two children who were the subjects of the complaint is an NDP candidate. Moe said he didn91裸聊视频檛 know that when he made the promise.
Beck has said such a ban would make vulnerable kids more vulnerable. She also promised to repeal a Saskatchewan Party law that requires parental consent if children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school.