With more than 60 per cent of the vote across the province for the third consecutive election, Moe has tied a Canadian record matched only by Joey Smallwood's Newfoundland Liberals shortly after the province joined Confederation. Not even in Alberta — the province with the most notoriously enduring political dynasties — has a party captured more than 60 per cent of the vote in three elections in a row.
The Saskatchewan Party might also succeed in making history in another way. In both the 2011 and 2016 provincial elections, the party was able to engineer the defeat of the NDP opposition leader in their own ridings.
NDP Leader Ryan Meili will have to wait for the counting of potentially hundreds of mail ballots before he will know his fate in the riding of Saskatoon Meewasin, a seat he flipped to his party in a 2017 byelection. By the end of counting last night, Meili was 83 votes behind the Saskatchewan Party's Rylund Hunter.
If Meili were to lose, it would be the first time in history one of the two biggest parties in any legislature in Canada would see its leader go down to defeat in three consecutive elections......More
