Rent reduced for Riders, early budget items approved by Regina Council
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Council retroactively slashed $1.33 million in rent owed by the Roughriders.
Political watchers and hopeful parties will be glued to their screens Thursday night, waiting for the final numbers to come in after three provincial byelections.
Three seats are up for grabs: Regina Walsh Acres, Regina Coronation Park and Lumsden-Morse.
All three had been Saskatchewan Party seats until the spring sitting, but the Regina ridings had been in NDP hands for years until the 2011 election.
Regina Coronation Park was held by the NDP for 16 years before it went to the Sask. Party, and in both elections since 2011, the seat has been won by only a few hundred votes.
The Sask. Party, the NDP and the Green Party all ran candidates in each riding.
The Buffalo Party, Progressive Conservative Party, Saskatchewan Progress Party (formerly the Liberal Party) and Sask. United Party — the only other party with a seat in the legislature — all ran a candidate in at least one of the byelection ridings.
Five days of advance voting preceded election day on Thursday. Polls open at 9 a.m. Thursday, closing at 8 p.m. with results expected to start rolling in around 8:30 p.m.
Voters in the ridings can find their polling locations on voter cards or online.