Party leader Dwain Lingenfelter lost his own seat and resigned following the election, triggering a leadership race that culminated in March 2013.

[5] Weir ultimately withdrew before the election and endorsed Meili, which led to a close three-way contest.

[7] Despite the narrow victory in the leadership contest, Broten's popularity and support among the party grew quickly.

[10][11][12][13] Broten also proposed caps on classrooms sizes, an increase in the number of educational assistants, and pushed for economic reforms including a new procurement policy and moving away from public-private-partnerships, which he argued ran up development costs while exporting benefits like jobs and profits to other jurisdictions.

[17] In Opposition, Broten put a particular emphasis on criticizing the governing Saskatchewan Party's application of LEAN principles on the province's health care system.

[23] Broten led the NDP into the 2016 provincial election against a popular Brad Wall and Saskatchewan Party government.

After resigning as NDP leader, Broten became the executive director of Saskatchewan Egg Producers, an industry marketing group.

[2] In 2004 Broten married Ruth Megan Eliason, a music therapist with Palliative Care Services in the Saskatoon Health Region who was raised on a family farm in the Stewart Valley area near Swift Current.