Saskatchewan’s 2024 provincial election was a tight race between the ruling Saskatchewan Party and the Saskatchewan New Democrats. While the two parties were neck and neck in the polls, financial disclosures show the province’s business community was of one mind on who it wanted to win.

Corporations gave $1.6 million to the Saskatchewan Party last year, amounting to about one-third of the party’s fundraising and 70 per cent of all corporate donations made to the province’s political parties, according to data from Elections Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan NDP took in just $111,990, or five per cent of corporate contributions.