Saskatchewan election race tightens as parties spend final day campaigning

Open this photo in gallery:Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, left, and Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck during news conferences in Regina, both on March 20.Heywood Yu/The Canadian PressSaskatchewan’s election campaign entered its final day Sunday, with both main party leaders vying for government in what has shaped up to be the tightest race in nearly two decades.Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party is seeking a fifth-straight majority after 17 years in office, while Carla Beck’s NDP is looking to take back government for the first time since 2007.Political experts say Mr. Moe is still favoured to win, given his party’s strength in rural areas, but the question is: How small of a Saskatchewan Party majority could it be?Election day is Monday.“I think the parties are much closer than they’ve been in 17 years,” Charles Smith, a professor of political studies at St. Thomas More College in Saskatoon, said in a recent interview.“For the first time in well over a decade, [the…