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1948 Saskatchewan general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1948 Saskatchewan general election
country	Saskatchewan
flag_year	1921
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1944 Saskatchewan general election
previous_year	1944
outgoing_members	10th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
election_date
elected_mps	[members](11th-legislative-assembly-of-saskatchewan)
next_election	1952 Saskatchewan general election
next_year	1952
seats_for_election	52 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
majority_seats	27
turnout
image1	Premier Tommy Douglas (F1257 s1057 it2743).jpg
colour1
leader1	Tommy Douglas
party1
leader_since1	July 17, 1942
leaders_seat1	Weyburn
last_election1	47
seats1	31
seat_change1	16
popular_vote1	236,900
percentage1	47.56%
swing1	5.57pp
<!-- Liberal -->	image2	Walter Tucker.jpg
colour2
leader2	Walter Tucker
party2
leader_since2	August 6, 1946
leaders_seat2	Rosthern
last_election2	5
seats2	19
seat_change2	14
popular_vote2	152,400
percentage2	30.60%
swing2	4.82pp
<!-- Social Credit -->	image4	3x4.svg
colour4
leader4	Joshua Haldeman
party4
leader_since4	1946
leaders_seat4	Ran in Yorkton (lost)
last_election4	0
seats4	0
seat_change4	±0
popular_vote4	40,268
percentage4	8.09%
swing4	8.03pp
<!-- Progressive Conservative -->	image5	3x4.svg
colour5
leader5	Rupert Ramsay
party5
leader_since5	February 15, 1944
leaders_seat5	Ran in Saskatoon City (lost)
last_election5	0
seats5	0
seat_change5	±0
popular_vote5	37,986
percentage5	7.63%
swing5	3.06pp
map_caption
title	Premier
before_election	Tommy Douglas
before_party
posttitle	Premier after election
after_election	Tommy Douglas
after_party

The 1948 Saskatchewan general election, the eleventh in the history of the province, was held on June 24, 1948, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Premier Tommy Douglas, first elected in 1944, was re-elected with a majority in the legislature.

Summary

Tommy Douglas' Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was re-elected with a reduced majority. While the CCF had won an outright majority of the popular vote in the 1944 election, the party won a large plurality in 1948, while seeing their seat share fall to 31 out of 51 in the Assembly.

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

The Social Credit Party, 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, led by Rupert Ramsay, continued to decline, and was also shut out of the legislature.

In some ridings, the Progressive Conservatives and Liberals ran joint candidates in failed attempts to defeat the CCF. These candidates ran as Liberal-PC or Conservative Liberal candidates. The lone successful such 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](1944-saskatchewan-general-election)	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
Tommy Douglas	52	47	31	-34.0%	236,900	47.56%	-5.57%	Walter Tucker	41	5
Total	149	52	52	–	498,067	100%
Source: [Elections Saskatchewan](https://web.archive.org/web/20140407165609/http://www.elections.sk.ca/previous-elections/historical---provincial-general-election-summaries/)

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

Percentages

Ranking

Party	Seats	Second	Third	Fourth
31	20	1	0	19

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

|- | |Axel Olsen 341 | | | | || |Louis M. Marion (Ind.) 628 Joseph D. Le Chasseur (Ind.) 225 ||

Louis Marcien Marion

Isidore Nollet
3,027

| |William Bradley 1,531 | |Fred F. Wilson 1,642 | | ||

Isidore Charles Nollet

| |Herschel Howell 2,635 || |William Lofts 3,307 | |John W. Evanishen 1,081 | | ||

Herschel Lee Howell

| |Dmytro Lazorko 2,357 || |Bernard Korchinski 2,571 | | | |Robert C. Glen (PC) 643 ||

Dmytro Matthew Lazorko

| |Wilbert S. Henschel 959 || |Walter Tucker 2,964 | |George W. Beilhartz 1,736 | | ||

Peter J. Hooge**

Louis Larsen
2,981

| |W.R. Vincent 2,806 | |George J. Klein 959 | | ||

Guy Franklin Van Eaton**

| |Alex Connon 3,554 || |Paul Prince 3,990 | | | | ||

Alexander Duff Connon

| |Bob Wooff 2,280 || |Leo Trippe 2,462 | |Matthew Slager 1,357 | | || |Robert Hanson Wooff

Northeastern Saskatchewan

|- | |Joseph Johnson 425 || |Lorne Blanchard 656 | | | |Joseph Maxim Buote (Ind.) 40 ||

Les Walter Lee**

| |Ben Putnam 2,657 || |Arnold Loehr 2,689 | |Joseph A. Thauberger 2,515 | | ||

Ben Putnam

Peter Howe
2,991

| |Gladstone Mansfield Ferrie 2,639 | |Frederick A. Patrick 1,225 | | ||

Peter Anton Howe

| |William J. Boyle 2,991 || |William C. Woods 3,086 | | | | ||

William James Boyle

| |Oakland Valleau 4,035 || |John Egnatoff 4,065 | | | | ||

Oakland Woods Valleau

Larry McIntosh
6,944

| |Charles McIntosh 6,052 | |Ralph Ernst 579 | | ||

Lachlan Fraser McIntosh

John Hewgill Brockelbank
5,242

| |Donald L.W. Hood 3,980 | | | |William Lucas Hayes (PC) 1,171 ||

John Hewgill Brockelbank

John Denike
2,260

| |Harold Guloien 1,779 | |Leo Nile Nicholson 1,448 | | || |John Bruce Harris**

West Central Saskatchewan

|- | |E.L. Heinrich 2,263 || |Gustaf Herman Danielson 3,400 | |Gabriel J. Giesinger 689 | | ||

Gustaf Herman Danielson

Woodrow Lloyd
3,695

| |Andrew S. Shaw 2,987 | | | | ||

Woodrow Stanley Lloyd

Robert A. Walker
2,417

| |Clayton L. Pascoe 2,366 | |Frederick E. Roluf 512 | |Emmett M. Hall (PC) 1,025 ||

James Smith Aitken**

John Wellbelove
3,333

| |Fred Larson 3,155 | |Norman Wildman 1,063 | | ||

John Wellbelove

John T. Douglas
3,647

| | | | | |Alvin Hamilton (PC) 3,218 ||

John Taylor Douglas

James A. Darling
2,968

| |Andrew William Michayluk 2,829 | |Martin Kelln 1,092 | | ||

James Andrew Darling

| |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

|- || |Alex Kuziak 3,104 | |Stephen T. Shabbits 2,453 | |Stanley W. Gorchynski 1,801 | | ||

Myron Henry Feeley**

Jacob Benson
3,755

| |James Wilfrid Gardiner 3,001 | |Godfrey Kelln 1,219 | | ||

Jacob Benson

| |George T. Webster 4,690 || |Patrick Deshaye 5,302 | |John W. Hauser 1,014 | | ||

Bill Arthurs**

| |Dan Daniels 2,476 || |John G. Banks 2,646 | |John W. Kowalyshen 1,020 | |William M. Berezowski (Labour Prog.) 1,301 ||

Daniel Zederayko Daniels

| |Joseph L. Phelps 3,620 || |Asmundur Loptson 3,945 | |George A. Dulmage 807 | | ||

Joseph Lee Phelps

Tom Johnston
2,627

| |John Joseph Collins 2,459 | |Harold Fletcher 1,097 | | ||

Tom Johnston

Frederick Dewhurst
4,218

| |Halldor K. Halldorson 2,930 | |Denis Dunlop 729 | | ||

Frederick Arthur Dewhurst

Arthur Swallow
3,795

| |Andrew M. Kindred 3,256 | |Joshua N. Haldeman 1,792 | | || |Arthur Percy Swallow

Southwest Saskatchewan

|- || |Maurice J. Willis 4,153 | | | | | |Harry N. McKenzie (Ind. Liberal) 3,299 ||

Maurice John Willis

| |Henry Houze 2,525 || |Edward Culliton 2,935 | |Milton A. Wilson 404 | | ||

Henry Edmund Houze

Alvin C. Murray
4,251

| | | |William E. Cowie 936 | |Jonas A. Johnson (Liberal-PC) 2,983 ||

Alvin Cecil Murray

| |Beatrice J. Trew 2,590 || |Alexander C. Cameron 2,920 | |A.J. Miller 2,491 | | ||

Beatrice Janet Trew

James W. Gibson
3,069

| |Ronald D. Miller 2,465 | |Fred Erhardt 694 | |John K. Rosa (PC) 481 ||

James William Gibson

Niles Leonard Buchanan
4,048

| |Hans Loken 3,483 | | | | ||

Niles Leonard Buchanan

Harry Gibbs
5,273

| |Clarence J. Orton 5,091 | | | | || |Harry Gibbs

Southeast Saskatchewan

|- || |Allan L.S. Brown 3,599 | |Archie V. Wightman 2,627 | |Arnold L. Meginbir 705 | | ||

Allan L. Samuel Brown

| |Ralph Hjertaas 3,422 || |William Patterson 4,687 | |Peter Franchuk 500 | | ||

William John Patterson

William S. Thair
2,876

| |Henry P. Mang 2,220 | |Gustav D. Pelzer 744 | |Arthur M. Pearson (PC) 1,003 ||

William Sancho Thair

Jacob Erb
2,803

| | | |George M. Howell 1,020 | |Lionel Aston (Liberal-PC) 2,363 ||

Frank Keem Malcolm**

| |Ivan Burden 3,442 | | | | || |Alex "Hammy" McDonald (Conservative-Liberal) 5,251 ||

Arthur Thomas Procter**

| |Warden Burgess 3,903 || |Frederick M. Dundas 4,470 | |Evert F. Josephson 1,253 | | ||

Warden Burgess

| |Charles Cuming 4,741 || |John E. McCormack 4,924 | |John K. Strachan 417 | | ||

Charles David Cuming

Tommy Douglas
6,273

| | | |Isabel Paxman 638 | |F. Charles Eaglesham (Liberal-PC) 4,228 || |Tommy Douglas

Urban constituencies

|- || |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 |- || |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 |- || |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

References

Saskatchewan Archives Board - Election Results By Electoral Division

References

(2001). "Saskatchewan Politics: Into the Twenty-First Century". Canadian Plains Research Centre.

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