Humboldt-Watrous has its first candidate for the upcoming provincial election.

The Honourable Donna Harpauer, Minister of Finance and MLA for Humboldt-Watrous, will be acclaimed as the sole Saskatchewan Party candidate for the Constituency in the next provincial election. Deadline for filing papers as a candidate was February 6. Although two sets of papers were filed, Harpauer was selected as the sole candidate for the Party.

Patrick Bundrock, Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Party, notes that Harpauer's candidacy will be confirmed at the nomination meeting in Humboldt on February 20th. On the nomination, Bundrock states, "We are excited to have Donna Harpauer nominated, and of course currently serving as the Finance Minister, and we look forward to her contesting the Humboldt-Watrous Constituency in the next election."

Bundrock declined to comment on the identity or circumstances of the second individual to file.