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For those who need predictability in politics, the end of 2015 must come as great relief.

A major political upset ending the 44-year reign of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives, and the surge of Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberals from third place to a solid majority, clearly left some shaken.

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But does that mean that Brad Wall and his Saskatchewan Party face similar surprises in 2016?

Well, it would seem highly unlikely.

The 54-per-cent popularity Wall’s Sask. Party garnered in a November Insightrix poll remains the envy of every other government in the nation. Coupled with only 25-per-cent support for Cam Broten’s NDP — lower than then NDP’s 32 per-cent support on election day in 2011 — a Wall win is likely about the safest political bet one can place in 2016.

That said, it’s worth noting the Insightrix polling has the Sask. Party down 10 percentage points from its own 2011 election day popularity, losing support to the woeful provincial Liberals — at 14 per cent. (No doubt, this was a bump from Justin Trudeau’s federal performance.)