Saskatchewan general election, 1999

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August 16, 1999 (1999-08-16)

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58 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan 30 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
		SK	LIB
Leader	Roy Romanow	Elwin Hermanson	Jim Melenchuk
Party	New Democratic	Saskatchewan	Liberal
Leader since	November 7, 1987	April 20, 1998	November 24, 1996
Leader's seat	Saskatoon Riversdale	Rosetown-Elrose	Saskatoon Northwest
Last election	42	pre-creation	11
Seats before	43	10	5
Seats won	29	25	4
Seat change	14	15	1
Popular vote	157,046	160,603	81,694
Percentage	38.73%	39.61%	20.15%
Swing	8.48pp	39.61	14.55pp

Premier before election

Roy Romanow
New Democratic

Premier-designate

Roy Romanow
New Democratic

The Saskatchewan general election of 1999 was the twenty-fourth provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on September 16, 1999 to elect members of the 24th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

Polls during the campaign indicated strong levels of support for the New Democratic Party government. However, facing the fallout of a poor crop growing season and a scandal involving SaskPower (Channel Lake), the New Democrat government of Premier Roy Romanow – challenged by the newly created Saskatchewan Party – lost a significant share of the popular vote; winning exactly half of the fifty eight seats in the legislature.

The right-wing Saskatchewan Party was created during the sitting of the 23rd Assembly by former members of the Progressive Conservative Party and by conservative Liberals who were unhappy with the leadership of Jim Melenchuk.

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