Doyle Vermette is the winner in Cumberland. (NDP Caucus)

By Derek Cornet

election results

Vermette re-elected in Cumberland, Belanger takes Athabasca for seventh term

Oct 26, 2020 | 10:57 PM

NDP MLA Doyle Vermette has been declared the winner of the Cumberland riding in northern Saskatchewan.

With 53 out of 54 polls reporting as of 11 p.m., voters handed Vermette a fourth term in office.

Vermette received 2,460 votes (66 per cent) against 1,173 votes for Sask. Party candidate Darren Deschambeault. Green Party candidate Aaron Oochoo received 111 votes.

Vermette was first elected an MLA in 2008 and was last elected with more than 60 per cent of the vote in 2016.

“I’m just going to work with many of the leaders, the residents, it’s been an honour to serve them and I’ll continue to serve them,” Vermette said after winning re-election. “We’ll raise the issues that need to be raised with government and bring their concerns to the government, and it will be up to the government to decide. They’ll hear it loud and clear and it’s going to be up to them to make those decisions.”

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In the Athabasca constituency, NDP MLA Buckley Belanger will keep his seat for a seventh consecutive term with 37 out of 39 polls reporting as of 11 p.m. Belanger received 1,704 votes (56 per cent) against 1,121 votes for Sask. Party candidate Kelly Kwan. Belanger has represented the riding since 1995.

Green Party candidate Leroy Laliberte received 200 votes in Athabasca to take third.

Buckley Belanger has been elected for a seventh term. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

“It’s been quite a different type of campaign this time with COVID-19,” Belanger said. “Just restrictions around home visits and being engaged with crowds. It really was an unusual election process.”

The Saskatchewan Party is projected to form a majority government with 48 out of 61 seats in the Legislature as of 11 p.m. The NDP is projected to receive 13 seats.

In total, 208,779 votes for the Sask. Party and 90,687 votes for the NDP had been counted across Saskatchewan as of 11 p.m.

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derek.cornet@jpbg.ca

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