List of Saskatchewan general elections

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Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use mdy dates This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian province of SaskatchewanTemplate:'s unicameral legislative body, the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The number of seats has varied over time, from 25 for the first election in 1905 to a high of 66 for the 1991 election. There are currently 61 seats in the Legislature.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The charts on the right show the information graphically, with more recent elections on the right. They shows the popularity of the Liberal Party (red) before the Second World War and the subsequent rise of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, which was succeeded by the New Democratic Party (orange). The successes and failures of the Progressive Conservatives (blue) and the recent arrival of the Saskatchewan Party (green) as a new conservative party can also be seen.

Results

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CCF / NDP Liberal Saskatchewan Party
Conservative Other Independent
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Electoral results by parties and independent MLAs (as a percentage of total Legislative Assembly seats) from 1912 to 2007. 1997 is shown due to the formation of the Saskatchewan Party.

The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election.<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Year Seats LiberalTemplate:Ref label Progressive
Conservative
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Independent Other parties
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Seats Vote (%) Seats Vote (%) Seats Vote (%) Seats Vote (%) Seats Vote (%) Seats Vote (%)
1905 Template:Canadian party colour | 25 16 52.2 9 47.5 0 0.3
1908 Template:Canadian party colour | 41 27 50.8 14 47.9 0 1.3
1912 Template:Canadian party colour | 53 45 57.0 8 42.0 0 1
1917 Template:Canadian party colour | 62 51 52.8 7 33.8 1 2.4 Soldier MLAsTemplate:Ref label (3) 11.4
1921 Template:Canadian party colour | 63 45 51.4 2 3.9 9 31.8 Labour (1), Progressive (6) 12.9
1925 Template:Canadian party colour | 63 50 51.5 3 18.4 3 5.2 Progressive (6), Labour-Liberal (1) 24.9
1929 Template:Canadian party colour | 63 28 45.6 24Template:Ref label 36.4 6 9.4 Progressive (5) 8.6
1934 Template:Canadian party colour | 55 50 48.0 0 26.8 5 24.0 0 0.7 0 0.6
1938 Template:Canadian party colour | 52 38 45.5 0 11.9 10 18.7 0 3.9 Unity (2), Social Credit (2) 20.1
1944 Template:Canadian party colour | 52 5 35.4 0 10.7 47 53.1 0 0.2 0 0.6
1948 Template:Canadian party colour | 52 20 33.6 0 7.6 31 47.6 1 2.9 0 8.4
1952 Template:Canadian party colour | 53 11 39.3 0 2.0 42 54.1 0 0.6 0 4.1
1956 Template:Canadian party colour | 53 14 30.3 0 2.0 36 45.3 0 0.9 Social Credit (3) 21.6
1960 Template:Canadian party colour | 54 17 32.7 0 14.0 37 40.8 0 0.2 0 12.4
1964 Template:Canadian party colour | 58 32 40.4 1 18.9 25 40.3 0 0.4
1967 Template:Canadian party colour | 59 35 45.6 0 9.8 24 44.4 0 0.3
1971 Template:Canadian party colour | 60 15 42.8 0 2.1 45 55.0 0 0.1 0 0.0
1975 Template:Canadian party colour | 61 15 31.7 7 27.6 39 40.1 0 0.6
1978 Template:Canadian party colour | 61 0 13.8 17 38.1 44 48.1 0 0.0
1982 Template:Canadian party colour | 64 0 4.5 55 54.1 9 37.6 0 0.3 0 3.5
1986 Template:Canadian party colour | 64 1 10.0 38 44.6 25 45.2 0 0.1 0 0.1
1991 Template:Canadian party colour | 66 1 23.3 10 25.5 55 51.1 0 0.1 0 0.0
1995 Template:Canadian party colour | 58 11 34.7 5 17.9 42 47.2 0 0.2
1999 Template:Canadian party colour | 58 4 20.2 0 0.4 29Template:Ref label 38.7 25 39.6 0 0.1 0 1.0
2003 Template:Canadian party colour width=3 | 58 0 14.2 0 0.2 30 44.7 28 39.4 0 0.5 0 1.2
2007 Template:Canadian party colour | 58 0 9.4 0 0.2 20 37.2 38 50.9 0 2.3
2011 Template:Canadian party colour | 58 0 0.6 0 0.3 9 32.0 49 64.3 0 0.0 0 2.9
2016 Template:Canadian party colour | 61 0 3.6 0 1.3 10 30.3 51 62.5 0 0.4 0 1.9
2020 Template:Canadian party colour | 61 0 0.1 0 1.9 13 31.8 48 61.1 0 0.2 0 4.8
2024 Template:Canadian party colour | 61 0 0.2 0 1.0 27 40.4 34 52.3 0 0.1 0 6.4

Notes

Template:Note label Includes results as the Progress Party from 2023.
Template:Note label Includes results as the Provincial Rights Party from 1905 and 1908 and the Conservative Party from 1912 to 1944.
Template:Note label Includes results as the Farmer-Labour Group for 1934. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation became the New Democratic Party; the party ran as the CCF-NDP in 1964 and as the NDP from 1967.
Template:Note label The Saskatchewan Party formed in 1997 with a merger of eight former Progressive Conservative and Liberal MLAs.
Template:Note label Three MLAs were elected to represent Saskatchewan residents serving overseas in Belgium, France, and England during the First World War.
Template:Note label The Liberals lost a confidence motion shortly after the election and government was formed by a Conservative coalition with Progressive and Independent members.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Note label The NDP formed a coalition government with the Liberals.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

References

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