The Saskatchewan legislative assembly will have an unfamiliar look when it resumes sitting late next month: The opposition NDP has nearly doubled its seat count, while Premier Scott Moe will have to fill a cabinet decimated by retirements and election defeats.

Trusted names who sometimes carried heavy portfolios are gone, and Moe is facing the prospect of a cabinet with likely only one MLA from Saskatoon and none from Regina.

After an initial mail-in ballot count, the NDP's April ChiefCalf has ta…