Early in the night the NDP appeared set to pick up the former Saskatchewan Party seat of Regina Walsh Acres shortly after polls closed. skpoli
Opposition leader Carla Beck spoke Thursday night to a packed ballroom, congratulating her candidates and now leading the largest NDP caucus since 2011.
After the first round of vote counting on Thursday night in Coronation Park Burki and the NDP won 56.6 per cent of the vote and Ahmad with the Sask Party 31.4 per cent. In Walsh Acres Clarke won with 54 per cent as Markwart took home 40.2 per cent. The Lumsden-Morse constituency will take longer for votes to be counted but by 10:00 p.m. with 21 of 23 ballot boxes reporting McLeod and the Sask Party took home 51.
“In the hottest summer on record, you were out there every day. You knocked on the doors. You talked to people and you gave them hope,” he said. MLA’s Elect Jared Clarke and Noor Burki walk into a conference hall after winning their ridings in the 2023 provincial byelection held at the DoubleTree Hotel on Thursday, August 10, 2023 in Regina. KAYLE NEIS / Regina Leader-PostLumsden-Morse also saw 63.4 per cent voter turnout while Walsh Acres saw 56.5 per cent Coronation Park registered 47.6 per cent.
Elections Saskatchewan did rollout a “Voting Week” which offered several chances to vote in advanced polls, bringing out 7,349 people to cast ballots. According to Elections Saskatchewan at “the start of Voting Week, there were 13,391 registered voters in Lumsden-Morse, 12,415 in Regina Coronation Park, and 11,777 in Regina Walsh Acres.”Article content
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