REGINA — Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party won another majority government in the province’s general election Monday. Here’s a look at provincial governments over the past five decades:

New Democrats, 1971-78

The NDP and its leader Allan Blakeney, a former minister under Tommy Douglas, defeated Ross Thatcher’s Liberals in 1971. Blakeney and the NDP were re-elected in 1975 and 1978.

Progressive Conservatives, 1982-86

Blakeney’s NDP was defeated by Grant Devine’s Progressive Conservatives in 1982. Devine won a second term in 1986, but the Conservative Party was defeated by the NDP and its leader Roy Romanow in 1991.

New Democrats, 1991-2007

Romanow, a former attorney general under Blakeney, served as prime minister for three terms. He retired in 2000 and Lorne Calvert was appointed as the party’s new leader and Prime Minister. Calvert and the NDP won the 2003 election, but lost to Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party in 2007.

Saskatchewan Party, since 2007

The Saskatchewan Party, founded ten years earlier by a coalition of former provincial Conservatives and Liberals, first formed government in 2007 and won again in 2011, 2016 and 2020. Wall, a former ministerial aide to the Devine’s government, was re-elected. twice prime minister. He retired in 2018 and his Environment Minister, Scott Moe, was elected by party members to replace him. Moe was spearheaded to victory in the 2020 election, held during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published October 28, 2024.

Jeremy Simes, The Canadian Press