No other political party in Saskatchewan has won four consecutive majority governments since the Tommy Douglas Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the CCF, which would later become the NDP) accomplished that feat in 1956. Douglas’s CCF would go on to win a fifth term in 1960, resulting in 20 years of rule. By the end of this term in 2024, the Brad Wall-Scott Moe-led Sask. Party will have ruled for 17 consecutive years, surpassing the string of 16 consecutive years for the Roy Romanow-Lorne Calvert-led NDP. It’s noteworthy, however, that one of the NDP’s four terms from 1999 until 2003 was actually a coalition government propped by Liberals who eventually defected to the NDP, so it wasn’t exactly a true majority.
No other political party in Saskatchewan has won four consecutive majority governments since the Tommy Douglas Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the CCF, that would later become the NDP) accomplished that feat in 1956. Douglas’s CCF would go to win a fifth term in 1960, resulting in 20 years of rule. By the end of this term in 2024, the Brad Wall-Scott Moe-led Sask. Party will have ruled for 17 consecutive years, surpassing the string of 16 consecutive years of the Roy Romanow-Lorne Calvert-led NDP. It’s noteworthy, however, that one of the NDP’s four terms from 1999 until 2003 was actually a coalition government propped by Liberals who eventually defected to the NDP, so it wasn t exactly a true majority.
Moe served in Brad Wall s cabinet before replacing the popular premier and Saskatchewan Party leader in a contest almost three years ago. Just never lose your gut instincts … on where people are, and how people want to be treated, and what they want to hear, Moe said his former boss told him. After months of leading the province through a hard stretch of the pandemic, Moe, 47, begins a new year facing the continued threat of deaths and hospitalizations, plus the added challenge of delivering vaccinations. There’s no doubt that it does weigh on you professionally, but it weighs on you as a person. he said.