All Floor Crossings

Pankiw, MP for Saskatoon-Humboldt, was part of the DRC dissidents from the Alliance. He sat as an independent after failing to join other parties, known for controversial views.

Melenchuk and Osika, the last two Saskatchewan Liberal MLAs, crossed to the governing NDP, effectively ending the Saskatchewan Liberals as a legislative force.

Laliberte, NDP MP for Churchill River, crossed to the Liberals in 2000, reportedly for better access to government resources for his northern riding.

Buckley Belanger

1998Notable

Saskatchewan Liberal → Saskatchewan NDPMLASaskatchewan

5/5

Belanger, Saskatchewan Liberal MLA for Athabasca, crossed to the governing NDP, joining the party he felt better served his northern riding's interests.

Four Liberal and four PC members of the Saskatchewan legislature left their parties to create a brand new party - the Saskatchewan Party - uniting the right.

Julé, Saskatchewan Liberal MLA for Humboldt, left the Liberals to join the newly formed Saskatchewan Party, which united the right against the NDP.

Gooshen, Saskatchewan PC MLA, refused to join the new Saskatchewan Party formed from the merger of PCs and Liberals, choosing instead to sit as an independent.

McPherson, Saskatchewan NDP MLA, left the NDP to join the Liberals.

Collver, former leader of the Saskatchewan PCs, and fellow MLA Dennis Ham left to form the Unionest Party, which controversially advocated for western Canadian provinces joining…

Thatcher, Saskatchewan Liberal MLA for Thunder Creek and son of former Premier Ross Thatcher, defected to the PCs over dissatisfaction with the provincial Liberal party's direct…

Hazen Argue

1962Notable

NDP → LiberalMPSaskatchewan

4/5

Argue ran to be leader of the new NDP but lost to Tommy Douglas. Bitter about the loss, he crossed to the Liberals.

Ross Thatcher

1955Notable

CCF (socialist party) → IndependentMPSaskatchewan

3/5

Thatcher was a socialist MP, but over time his views shifted dramatically to the right. He left the CCF because he no longer believed in their policies.

Ernest Edward Perley, a Liberal MP from Saskatchewan, crossed to the Conservative Party around 1935 during the Great Depression. Like several western MPs, Perley was dissatisfie…

Agar, Progressive MLA in Saskatchewan, crossed to the governing Liberals as the Progressive movement declined on the prairies.

Baker, Saskatchewan Labour MLA, crossed to the Liberals, joining the governing party.

Knox, elected as a Liberal-Unionist in 1917, joined the growing Progressive movement in 1919 as prairie farmers organized politically against the traditional parties.