The CCF Premier of Saskatchewan, the legendary Tommy Douglas, continued his remarkable string of consecutive majority victories on this date in 1960. When the political dust settled after all the votes were counted, Douglas and his party had won their fifth straight majority, receiving 41 percent of the vote, and sending 37 MLA to Reginas. The Liberals under Ross Thatcher won 17 seats with 33 percent of the vote. The Progressive Conservatives earned 12 percent of the popular vote, but elected no MLAs.

Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.