Saskatchewan general election, 2016

Saskatchewan general election, 2016

April 4, 2016 (2016-04-04)

61 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan 31 seats needed for a majority   First party Second party   Leader Brad Wall Cam Broten Party Saskatchewan New Democratic Leader since March 15, 2004 March 9, 2013 Leader's seat Swift Current Saskatoon Massey Place (ran in Saskatoon Westview; lost) Last election 49 seats, 64.25% 9 seats, 31.97% Seats before 47 9 Seats won 51 10 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 270,776 131,137 Percentage 62.36% 30.20% Swing 1.89pp 1.72pp

Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding. A star (*) marks the party leader’s riding. An (X) means the party leader ran in this riding but failed to win the seat.

Premier before election Brad Wall Saskatchewan Premier after election Brad Wall Saskatchewan

The 28th Saskatchewan general election, was held on April 4, 2016, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The Lieutenant Governor dissolved the Legislature on March 8, 2016, setting the election date for April 4. The election resulted in the Saskatchewan Party winning its third majority government. This is the first time in 90 years that a party other than the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) or its predecessor the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) has won a third consecutive majority mandate in Saskatchewan. It is also the first time that a centre-right party has won three consecutive elections in the province.

Date

Under The Legislative Assembly Act, 2007 (Saskatchewan), the election "must be held" on the first Monday of November in the fourth calendar year following the previous election. As the last election was held in 2011, that date would be November 2, 2015. However, the act also provides that if the election period would overlap with a federal election period, the provincial election is to be postponed until the first Monday of the following April.^[1] Under the federal fixed-term act, the 42nd general election occurred on October 19, 2015, overlapping election periods by approximately two weeks. Because the federal Conservatives called the election on August 2, 2015 for October 19, the Saskatchewan election was held on April 4, 2016, even though the Lieutenant Governor retained the power to dissolve the Legislative Assembly early on the Premier's advice.

Results

Due to an increase in the number of ridings (from 58 to 61), both parties increased their total number of seats.

The Saskatchewan Party maintained its sweep of the southern and central rural ridings, and also held on to a majority of seats in Regina and Saskatoon. The NDP seemed to have some momentum after winning federal seats for the first time in a decade at the 2015 federal election. However, it was unable to recover much of the ground it lost in its severe defeat of almost five years earlier. It only netted a one-seat gain, and for the second consecutive election saw its leader unseated in his own riding; Cam Broten was defeated in the reconfigured riding of Saskatoon Westview by a slim margin of 232 votes. The results reflected the opinion polling done prior to the election, with the popular vote falling within the margins of error, though the Saskatchewan Party won more seats than what was projected.^[2]

Election summary

Summary of the April 4, 2016 Saskatchewan Legislature election

Detailed analysis

Incumbents not contesting their seats

Retiring incumbents

Opinion polls

Riding-by-riding results

People in bold represent cabinet ministers and the speaker. Party leaders are italicized. The symbols ** indicates MLAs who are not running again.

Northwest Saskatchewan

Northeast Saskatchewan

West Central Saskatchewan

Southwest Saskatchewan

Southeast Saskatchewan

Saskatoon

Regina

References

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