The 30th Saskatchewan general election will be held on or before October 28, 2024 to elect members of the

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Background

Since 2010, the Legislative Assembly has had a fixed four-year term. According to the 2019 amendment to the Legislative Assembly Act, 2007, "the first general election after the coming into force of this subsection must be held on Monday, October 26, 2020". Subsequent elections, must occur "on the last Monday of October in the fourth calendar year after the last general election". 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; in this case: April 7, 2025. The fixed election law does not infringe on the

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's right to dissolve the Legislative Assembly at an earlier date on the Premier's advice.

Legislative summary

Summary of the

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Timeline

2020

*October 26: The

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wins a majority government in the

2020 Saskatchewan general election The 2020 Saskatchewan general election was held on October 26, 2020 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. This date is set by Saskatchewan's fixed election date law. The writ was dropped on September 29 just in time to ho ...

. The

Saskatchewan New Democratic Party The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s. Th ...

(NDP) forms the official opposition. No other parties won seats in the election.

2021

* August 10: Athabasca MLA Buckley Belanger (NDP) resigned his seat to seek a federal Liberal nomination in the

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. * September 30: MLA Nadine Wilson resigned from the Sask. Party caucus after misrepresenting her COVID-19 vaccination status, becoming an independent MLA.

2022

* February 15: Sask. Party candidate

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won the

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. * February 18:

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announced his intention to resign as NDP leader. He intends to remain leader until a successor is chosen. *May 19:

announces his intention to resign as the MLA for

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, effective July 1. *June 26:

is elected as Leader of the

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. *September 26: Nathaniel Teed is elected as the MLA for

by the largest margin of victory in Saskatoon Meewasin since 1982. *November 30: The

Saskatchewan United Party The Saskatchewan United Party (SUP) is a political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. History The party was registered with Elections Saskatchewan on 30 November 2022, with Nadine Wilson, MLA for Saskatchewan Rivers, becoming p ...

is registered with Elections Saskatchewan, with MLA Nadine Wilson its leader.

Opinion polls

Opinion poll sources

References

{{SaskatchewanElections Elections in Saskatchewan

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