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Less than five months after the Saskatchewan Party romped to a one-sided electoral victory, we’ve got ourselves a horserace — or the makings of one.

The Sask. Party is down and the rival NDP is up in a new Mainstreet/Postmedia poll, with 53 and 37 per cent support, respectively, among decided and leaning voters. The remaining 10 per cent is split between the Green and Liberal parties.

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That’s a narrowing of the gap between the two parties since just before the April 4 provincial election when another Mainstreet/Postmedia poll gave them 60 and 31 per cent, respectively. That turned out to be almost identical to the election result a few days later.

More striking is what has happened in Regina. Here, the most recent poll gives the NDP 52 per cent among decided and leaning voters versus 39 per cent for the Sask. Party.

Mainstreet executive vice-president David Valentin attributes that to the realization by Reginans, many of whom work in the civil service or have kin in it, that cuts could be coming as hard economic times and the Sask Party’s much-discussed “transformational change” takes hold.