1948 Saskatchewan general election

The 1948 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 24, 1948, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

1948 Saskatchewan general election
June 24, 1948 (1948-06-24)
52 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
27 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
LIB
Leader Tommy Douglas Walter Tucker
Party Co-operative Commonwealth Liberal
Leader since July 17, 1942 August 6, 1946
Leader's seat Weyburn Rosthern
Last election 47 5
Seats won 31 19
Seat change Decrease16 Increase14
Popular vote 236,900 152,400
Percentage 47.56% 30.60%
Swing Decrease5.57pp Decrease4.82pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Joshua Haldeman Rupert Ramsay
Party Social Credit Progressive Conservative
Leader since 1946 February 15, 1944
Leader's seat Ran in Yorkton (lost) Ran in Saskatoon City (lost)
Last election 0 0
Seats won 0 0
Seat change ±0 ±0
Popular vote 40,268 37,986
Percentage 8.09% 7.63%
Swing Increase8.03pp Decrease3.06pp
Premier before election

Tommy Douglas
Co-operative Commonwealth

 Premier after election

Tommy Douglas
Co-operative Commonwealth

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Premier Tommy Douglas was re-elected with a reduced majority in the legislature.

Although the share of the popular vote won by the Liberal Party of Walter Tucker fell by almost five percentage points, the party increased its representation in the legislature from 5 seats to 19.

The Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan, which had won 2 seats and 16% of the popular vote in the 1938 election – only to disappear in the 1944 election – returned to win over 8% of the vote, but no seats.

The Progressive Conservative Party – now led by Rupert Ramsay – continued to decline, and was also shut out of the legislature.

In some ridings, the Progressive Conservatives appear to have run joint candidates with the Liberals in failed attempts to defeat the CCF. These candidates ran as Liberal-PC candidates. The successful Conservative Liberal candidate – Alex "Hammy" McDonald – immediately joined the Liberal caucus upon being sworn in as an MLA.

Results
Party Party Leader # of
candidates		 Seats Popular Vote
1944 Elected % Change # % % Change
Co-operative Commonwealth Tommy Douglas 52 47 31 -34.0% 236,900 47.56% -5.57%
Liberal Walter Tucker 41 5 19 +280% 152,400 30.60% -4.82%
Social Credit 36 – – – 40,268 8.09% +8.03%
  Independent 5 – 1 +1000% 11,088 2.23% +2.05%
  Conservative Liberal (Alexander H. McDonald) 1 * 1 * 5,251 1.05% *
Progressive Conservative Rupert Ramsay 9 – – – 37,986 7.63% -3.06%
  Liberal-PC 3 * – * 9,574 1.92% *
  Independent Liberal 1 * – * 3,299 0.66 *
  Labour Progressive 1 – – – 1,301 0.26% -0.26%
Total 149 52 52 – 498,067 100%  
Source: Elections Saskatchewan

Note: * Party did not nominate candidates in previous election.

Percentages
Popular vote
CCF
 
 47.56%
Liberal
 
 30.60%
Social Credit
 
 8.09%
PC
 
 7.63%
Others
 
 6.12%
Seats summary
CCF
 
 59.62%
Liberal
 
 36.54%
Others
 
 3.85%

Ranking
Party Seats Second Third Fourth
Co-operative Commonwealth 31 20 1 0
Liberal 19 19 3 0
  Independent/Other parties 2 6 3 0
Social Credit 0 2 31 3
Progressive Conservative 0 3 4 2

Riding results

Names in bold represent cabinet ministers and the Speaker. Party leaders are italicized. The symbol " ** " indicates MLAs who are not running again.

Northwestern Saskatchewan
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
CCFLiberalSocial CreditOther
Athabasca Axel Olsen
341		   Louis M. Marion (Ind.) 628
Joseph D. Le Chasseur (Ind.) 225		   Louis Marcien Marion
Cut Knife   Isidore Nollet
3,027		 William Bradley
1,531		 Fred F. Wilson
1,642		   Isidore Charles Nollet
Meadow Lake Herschel Howell
2,635		   William Lofts
3,307		 John W. Evanishen
1,081		   Herschel Lee Howell
Redberry Dmytro Lazorko
2,357		   Bernard Korchinski
2,571		 Robert C. Glen (PC) 643   Dmytro Matthew Lazorko
Rosthern Wilbert S. Henschel
959		   Walter Tucker
2,964		 George W. Beilhartz
1,736		   Peter J. Hooge**
Shellbrook   Louis Larsen
2,981		 W.R. Vincent
2,806		 George J. Klein
959		   Guy Franklin Van Eaton**
The Battlefords Alex Connon
3,554		   Paul Prince
3,990		   Alexander Duff Connon
Turtleford Bob Wooff
2,280		   Leo Trippe
2,462		 Matthew Slager
1,357		   Robert Hanson Wooff
February 4, 1950 By-Election: The Battlefords
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  Liberal Hugh Maher 3,296 48.22% -4.67
  CCF Alex Connon 3,158 46.20% -0.91
  Prog. Conservative David J. Thiessen 381 5.58% –
Total 6,835 100.00%

Northeastern Saskatchewan
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
CCFLiberalSocial CreditOther
Cumberland Joseph Johnson
425		   Lorne Blanchard
656		 Joseph Maxim Buote (Ind.) 40   Les Walter Lee**
Humboldt Ben Putnam
2,657		   Arnold Loehr
2,689		 Joseph A. Thauberger
2,515		   Ben Putnam
Kelvington   Peter Howe
2,991		 Gladstone Mansfield Ferrie
2,639		 Frederick A. Patrick
1,225		   Peter Anton Howe
Kinistino William J. Boyle
2,991		   William C. Woods
3,086		   William James Boyle
Melfort Oakland Valleau
4,035		   John Egnatoff
4,065		   Oakland Woods Valleau
Prince Albert   Larry McIntosh
6,944		 Charles McIntosh
6,052		 Ralph Ernst
579		   Lachlan Fraser McIntosh
Tisdale   John Hewgill Brockelbank
5,242		 Donald L.W. Hood
3,980		 William Lucas Hayes (PC) 1,171   John Hewgill Brockelbank
Torch River   John Denike
2,260		 Harold Guloien
1,779		 Leo Nile Nicholson
1,448		   John Bruce Harris**

West Central Saskatchewan
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
CCFLiberalSocial CreditOther
Arm River E.L. Heinrich
2,263		   Gustaf Herman Danielson
3,400		 Gabriel J. Giesinger
689		   Gustaf Herman Danielson
Biggar   Woodrow Lloyd
3,695		 Andrew S. Shaw
2,987		   Woodrow Stanley Lloyd
Hanley   Robert A. Walker
2,417		 Clayton L. Pascoe
2,366		 Frederick E. Roluf
512		 Emmett M. Hall (PC) 1,025   James Smith Aitken**
Kerrobert-Kindersley   John Wellbelove
3,333		 Fred Larson
3,155		 Norman Wildman
1,063		   John Wellbelove
Rosetown   John T. Douglas
3,647		 Alvin Hamilton (PC) 3,218   John Taylor Douglas
Watrous   James A. Darling
2,968		 Andrew William Michayluk
2,829		 Martin Kelln
1,092		   James Andrew Darling
Wilkie Hans O. Hansen
2,566		   John W. Horsman
3,143		 George K. Nicholson
1,110		 O. Allen Bently (PC) 329   Hans Ove Hansen

East Central Saskatchewan
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
CCFLiberalSocial CreditOther
Canora   Alex Kuziak
3,104		 Stephen T. Shabbits
2,453		 Stanley W. Gorchynski
1,801		   Myron Henry Feeley**
Last Mountain   Jacob Benson
3,755		 James Wilfrid Gardiner
3,001		 Godfrey Kelln
1,219		   Jacob Benson
Melville George T. Webster
4,690		   Patrick Deshaye
5,302		 John W. Hauser
1,014		   Bill Arthurs**
Pelly Dan Daniels
2,476		   John G. Banks
2,646		 John W. Kowalyshen
1,020		 William M. Berezowski
(Labour Prog.) 1,301		   Daniel Zederayko Daniels
Saltcoats Joseph L. Phelps
3,620		   Asmundur Loptson
3,945		 George A. Dulmage
807		   Joseph Lee Phelps
Touchwood   Tom Johnston
2,627		 John Joseph Collins
2,459		 Harold Fletcher
1,097		   Tom Johnston
Wadena   Frederick Dewhurst
4,218		 Halldor K. Halldorson
2,930		 Denis Dunlop
729		   Frederick Arthur Dewhurst
Yorkton   Arthur Swallow
3,795		 Andrew M. Kindred
3,256		 Joshua N. Haldeman
1,792		   Arthur Percy Swallow

Southwest Saskatchewan
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
CCFLiberalSocial CreditOther
Elrose   Maurice J. Willis
4,153		 Harry N. McKenzie (Ind. Liberal) 3,299   Maurice John Willis
Gravelbourg Henry Houze
2,525		   Edward Culliton
2,935		 Milton A. Wilson
404		   Henry Edmund Houze
Gull Lake   Alvin C. Murray
4,251		 William E. Cowie
936		 Jonas A. Johnson (Liberal-PC) 2,983   Alvin Cecil Murray
Maple Creek Beatrice J. Trew
2,590		   Alexander C. Cameron
2,920		 A.J. Miller
2,491		   Beatrice Janet Trew
Morse   James W. Gibson
3,069		 Ronald D. Miller
2,465		 Fred Erhardt
694		 John K. Rosa (PC) 481   James William Gibson
Notukeu-Willow Bunch   Niles Leonard Buchanan
4,048		 Hans Loken
3,483		   Niles Leonard Buchanan
Swift Current   Harry Gibbs
5,273		 Clarence J. Orton
5,091		   Harry Gibbs
November 10, 1949 By-Election: Gull Lake
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  CCF Thomas Bentley 3,627 51.36% -0.67
  Liberal Harold M. Haney 2,792 39.54% –
  Prog. Conservative Charles H. Howlett 643 9.10% –
Total 7,062 100.00%
July 10, 1951 By-Election: Gravelbourg
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  CCF Edward H. Walker 2,571 50.76% +7.70
  Liberal Ronald A. MacLean 2,494 49.24% -0.81
Total 5,065 100.00%

Southeast Saskatchewan
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
CCFLiberalSocial CreditOther
Bengough   Allan L.S. Brown
3,599		 Archie V. Wightman
2,627		 Arnold L. Meginbir
705		   Allan L. Samuel Brown
Cannington Ralph Hjertaas
3,422		   William Patterson
4,687		 Peter Franchuk
500		   William John Patterson
Lumsden   William S. Thair
2,876		 Henry P. Mang
2,220		 Gustav D. Pelzer
744		 Arthur M. Pearson (PC) 1,003   William Sancho Thair
Milestone   Jacob Erb
2,803		 George M. Howell
1,020		 Lionel Aston (Liberal-PC) 2,363   Frank Keem Malcolm**
Moosomin Ivan Burden
3,442		   Alex "Hammy" McDonald (Conservative-Liberal) 5,251   Arthur Thomas Procter**
Qu'Appelle-Wolseley Warden Burgess
3,903		   Frederick M. Dundas
4,470		 Evert F. Josephson
1,253		   Warden Burgess
Souris-Estevan Charles Cuming
4,741		   John E. McCormack
4,924		 John K. Strachan
417		   Charles David Cuming
Weyburn   Tommy Douglas
6,273		 Isabel Paxman
638		 F. Charles Eaglesham (Liberal-PC) 4,228   Tommy Douglas
November 10, 1949 By-Election: Cannington
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  Liberal Rosscoe A. McCarthy 4,200 54.06% -0.38
  CCF Edward G. McCullough 3,569 45.94% +6.19
Total 7,769 100.00%

Urban constituencies
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
CCFLiberalSocial CreditOther
Moose Jaw City   John Wesley Corman
7,534

D. Henry R. Heming
7,331

 H. Gordon Young (Ind.) 5,240

J. Fraser McClellan (Ind.) 4,955

   John Wesley Corman

Dempster Henry R. Heming

Saskatoon City   John Henry Sturdy
14,970

Arthur T. Stone
14,295

 L. Charles Sherman
11,551		 Malcolm J. Haver
1,959		 Rupert D. Ramsay (PC) 13,376   John Henry Sturdy

Arthur T. Stone

Regina City   Charlie Williams
20,475

Clarence Fines
20,474

 Wilfred G. Brown
16,578		 Walter E. Stowe
1,049

Anthony E. Kovatch
971

 Allan W. Embury (PC) 16,740   Charles Cromwell Williams

Clarence Melvin Fines

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