{"id":272199,"date":"2025-11-09T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272199\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:16:16","slug":"moe-gets-more-than-80-approval-in-leadership-vote-after-taking-blame-for-sask-party-losses-in-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272199\/","title":{"rendered":"Moe gets more than 80% approval in leadership vote after taking blame for Sask. Party losses in cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Scott Moe has received more than 80 per cent support from members at his Saskatchewan Party&#8217;s convention.<\/p>\n<p>Moe faced the leadership vote at the party&#8217;s convention on Saturday. Organizers did not provide Moe&#8217;s exact approval rating percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the vote, Moe had told the gathering he plans on running in the next election, but said the party needs to do better.<\/p>\n<p>He says he takes responsibility for losses in the province&#8217;s two major cities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatoon\/saskatchewan-election-results-finalised-close-race-with-opposition-1.7379833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last year&#8217;s provincial election<\/a>, which saw Moe&#8217;s government win a fifth-straight majority but lose significant ground in Regina and Saskatoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition NDP won all of the Regina seats, and all but one in Saskatoon.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Saskatchewan Party holds 34 seats in the legislature, while the NDP holds 27.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The loss] was a step backwards for us and a step backwards for the Saskatchewan Party. For that, I take responsibility,&#8221; he told the crowd ahead of the leadership vote on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was the face of the campaign, and we didn&#8217;t always get it right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moe said he needed the support of his members so he can run again as the party leader in the next election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will never, ever take that support for granted,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moe said he offers a stable choice to voters who want the economy to grow, arguing the NDP is &#8220;lost and reckless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the party needs to refocus and organize, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Potential candidates for the next election can start seeking their nominations early next year, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not the time for any of us in this room or in this province to in any way become complacent,&#8221; Moe said. &#8220;We cannot afford to take anything for granted as we move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moe, who has led the Saskatchewan Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatchewan\/saskatchewan-new-premier-leadership-1.4507473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">since 2018<\/a>, received an approval rating of 97 per cent during the party&#8217;s last convention in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-272199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}