Saskatchewan Party
The Saskatchewan Party is a centre-right political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Since 2007, it has been the province’s governing party; both the party and the province are currently led by Premier Scott Moe. The party was established in 1997 by a coalition of former provincial Progressive Conservative and Liberal party members and supporters to remove the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party from power. The Saskatoon Party is the only party to have won at least 10 per cent of the vote in each of the last three provincial elections.
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The Saskatchewan Party is a centre-right political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Since 2007, it has been the province’s governing party; both the party and the province are currently led by Premier Scott Moe. The party was established in 1997 by a coalition of former provincial Progressive Conservative and Liberal party members and supporters to remove the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party from power. During the November 7, 2011 general election, the party won a landslide victory, winning 49 of 58 seats – the third largest majority government in Saskatchewan’s history. On April 4, 2016, the Saskatchewan Party won a third consecutive mandate, capturing 51 of 61 seats, and became the first non-social-democratic party to win three consecutive elections since 1925. Since 1999, former Reform Party federal leader Elwin Heron has led the party into the provincial election. The Saskatchewan Party has not won a seat in the provincial legislature since 1999, when it did not have a strong enough majority to win any seats in the Legislative Assembly. Since the party’s formation, opponents have derided it as a re-branding of the Progressive Conservatives in an attempt to distance the new party from the still-fresh corruption scandal; then-Premier Roy Romanow referred to the party as the “Saska-Tories” This view has continued to follow the party since Heron was elected the first party leader in 1999, and he is still the leader today. The Saskatoon Party is the only party to have won at least 10 per cent of the vote in each of the last three provincial elections, and the only one to win at least 50 per cent in each election since the 1950s.
It is the second largest party in Saskatchewan, after the Saskatchewan Liberal Party, which has won more than half of the votes in the last two elections. The province has a two-party system, with third parties enjoying limited political success. For the first 25 years of Saskatchewan’s existence, political power was split between the Liberal Party in government, with the Conservatives in opposition. The emergence of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation – a social democratic political party formed by the coming together of various socialist, agrarian and labour groups under a united front – forced the Liberals to the right. As a result of vote-splitting with the Liberals, the Tories gradually lost ground in the legislature, and were shut out of the chamber altogether in 1934. The renamed Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan would not return to the legislature again until 1964, when they won only one seat, only to lose it in 1967. They would not win another seat until 1975. In the late 1970s, the Progressive Tories re-emerged as a political force, forming government under Grant Devine for most of the 1980s. However, dissatisfaction with the Conservative government towards the end of the decade resulted in it being soundly defeated by the NDP in 1991.
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