Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations interim Chief Morley Watson says he is looking forward to a respectful relationship with Premier Brad Wall.

While it wasn't the result the FSIN was hoping for, Watson says he was happy to see more aboriginal candidates running throughout the province, noting Sask Party's Jennifer Campeau's win in Saskatoon Fairview.

A missing Saskatchewan man has twice been sighted in Manitoba in the past week.

The Nipawin RCMP says James Gallagher was last seen in Melfort on Nov. 1. The 71-year-old man, who has a farm near White Fox, is believed to be lost and disoriented.

Last Tuesday, he was stopped by Melfort RCMP for a possible impaired driving complaint but was released. He was believed to have returned to his farm but was spotted last Thursday in Cranberry Portage, Man., and Flin Flon, Man.

The Sask Party's new term has set the issue of moving the school year to after Labour Day a top order of business, and the education minister has set a meeting with the Saskatchewan School Boards Association to discuss it.

Association President Sandi Urban-Hall believes it should be left to individual school boards to decide.

"It is within their purview to change legislation and we'll respect that, but any time there's legislative change we have the expectation that that's done in consultation."

Monday night was all about defeat for the NDP and now the question is how the New Democrats will move past it.

University of Saskatchewan political science professor Joe Garcea said things could have gone in any of three ways for them.

Voter turnout in Saskatchewan's election was down this year compared to 2007 coming in at an estimated 66 per cent,, says Elections Saskatchewan.

"The preliminary numbers for voter turnout were just over 398,000," said Daniel Bogden with Elections Saskatchewan. There are just over 603,000 eligible voters.

At 66 per cent, that's down about 10 per cent compared to the 2007 election.

An official number is expected Nov. 19 when a final count will take place.

The Salvation Army has more than 100 beds between Saskatoon and Regina, but even those aren't enough to shelter those in need after the province's first snowfall.

Salvation Army spokesperson Chad Jeremy said they saw a surge in Saskatoon three weeks ago, long before the white blanket came down.

"Every single one of the 68 beds are now full, and now the overflow beds have come into play," he said, referring to simple mattresses laid out on the floor.

The 40 beds in Regina are also mostly filled up as well.

Green Party Leader Victor Lau said he's proud of what his party was able to accomplish in Monday night's election, especially since he took over as party leader only six weeks ago.

He's especially pleased with the NDP's poor showing, led by Dwain Lingenfelter whom Lau called "weak kneed".

"The played the game of campaign from the left and govern from the right, and they saw the results tonight."

Lau claimed that Brad Wall won in Swift Current because he "managed to convince people that he's an okay kind of guy."

Dwain Lingenfelter resigned as leader of the Saskatchewan NDP after he lost his seat in Regina Douglas Park to the Sask. Party’s Russ Marchuk.

Lingenfelter’s loss marks the first time in Saskatchewan history that an NDP leader has lost his own seat in a general election.

(* denotes candidate is new to seat.)

Saskatchewan Party elected candidates (49)

(by constituency, alphabetized)

Arm River-Watrous – Sask Party Greg Brkich

Batoche – Sask Party Delbert Kirsch