The 1948 Saskatchewan general election, the eleventh in the history of the province, was held on June 24, 1948, to elect members of the

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. The

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government of

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Tommy Douglas Thomas Clement Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Bap ...

, 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

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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

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upon being sworn in as an MLA.

Results

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

Percentages

Ranking

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

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Athabasca , , Axel Olsen
341 , , , , , , , Louis M. Marion ( Ind.) 628
Joseph D. Le Chasseur (Ind.) 225 , , , Louis Marcien Marion , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Cut Knife , , , Isidore Nollet
3,027 , , William Bradley
1,531 , , Fred F. Wilson
1,642 , , , , , Isidore Charles Nollet , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Meadow Lake , , Herschel Howell
2,635 , , , William Lofts
3,307 , , John W. Evanishen
1,081 , , , , , Herschel Lee Howell , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Redberry , , Dmytro Lazorko
2,357 , , , Bernard Korchinski
2,571 , , , , Robert C. Glen ( PC) 643 , , , Dmytro Matthew Lazorko , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Rosthern , , Wilbert S. Henschel
959 , , , '' Walter Tucker''
2,964 , , George W. Beilhartz
1,736 , , , , , Peter J. Hooge** , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Shellbrook , , , Louis Larsen
2,981 , , W.R. Vincent
2,806 , , George J. Klein
959 , , , , , Guy Franklin Van Eaton** , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , Alex Connon
3,554 , , , Paul Prince
3,990 , , , , , , , Alexander Duff Connon , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Turtleford , , Bob Wooff
2,280 , , , Leo Trippe
2,462 , , Matthew Slager
1,357 , , , , , Robert Hanson Wooff , style="width: 130px", Liberal , Hugh Maher , align="right", 3,296 , align="right", 48.22% , align="right", -4.67 , CCF , Alex Connon , align="right", 3,158 , align="right", 46.20% , align="right", -0.91 , Prog. Conservative , David J. Thiessen , align="right", 381 , align="right", 5.58% , align="right", – , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 6,835 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right",

Northeastern Saskatchewan

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , Joseph Johnson
425 , , , Lorne Blanchard
656 , , , , Joseph Maxim Buote ( Ind.) 40 , , , Les Walter Lee** , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Humboldt , , Ben Putnam
2,657 , , , Arnold Loehr
2,689 , , Joseph A. Thauberger
2,515 , , , , , Ben Putnam , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Kelvington , , , Peter Howe
2,991 , , Gladstone Mansfield Ferrie
2,639 , , Frederick A. Patrick
1,225 , , , , , Peter Anton Howe , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Kinistino , , William J. Boyle
2,991 , , , William C. Woods
3,086 , , , , , , , William James Boyle , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Melfort , , Oakland Valleau
4,035 , , , John Egnatoff
4,065 , , , , , , , Oakland Woods Valleau , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , , Larry McIntosh
6,944 , , Charles McIntosh
6,052 , , Ralph Ernst
579 , , , , , Lachlan Fraser McIntosh , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Tisdale , , , John Hewgill Brockelbank
5,242 , , Donald L.W. Hood
3,980 , , , , William Lucas Hayes ( PC) 1,171 , , , John Hewgill Brockelbank , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Torch River , , , John Denike
2,260 , , Harold Guloien
1,779 , , Leo Nile Nicholson
1,448 , , , , , John Bruce Harris**

West Central Saskatchewan

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Arm River , , E.L. Heinrich
2,263 , , , Gustaf Herman Danielson
3,400 , , Gabriel J. Giesinger
689 , , , , , Gustaf Herman Danielson , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Biggar , , ,

Woodrow Lloyd Woodrow Stanley Lloyd (July 16, 1913 – April 7, 1972) was a Canadian politician and educator who served as the 8th premier of Saskatchewan from 1961 to 1964. Born in Saskatchewan in 1913, he became a teacher in the early 1930s. He worked as ...

3,695 , , Andrew S. Shaw
2,987 , , , , , , , Woodrow Stanley Lloyd , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , , Robert A. Walker
2,417 , , Clayton L. Pascoe
2,366 , , Frederick E. Roluf
512 , , Emmett M. Hall ( PC) 1,025 , , , James Smith Aitken** , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Kerrobert-Kindersley , , , John Wellbelove
3,333 , , Fred Larson
3,155 , , Norman Wildman
1,063 , , , , , John Wellbelove , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Rosetown , , , John T. Douglas
3,647 , , , , , ,

Alvin Hamilton Francis Alvin George Hamilton (March 30, 1912June 29, 2004) was a Canadians, Canadian politician. Hamilton led the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan from 1949 until he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1957 Canadi ...

(PC) 3,218 , , , John Taylor Douglas , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Watrous , , , James A. Darling
2,968 , , Andrew William Michayluk
2,829 , , Martin Kelln
1,092 , , , , , James Andrew Darling , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, 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

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Canora , , , Alex Kuziak
3,104 , , Stephen T. Shabbits
2,453 , , Stanley W. Gorchynski
1,801 , , , , , Myron Henry Feeley** , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Last Mountain , , , Jacob Benson
3,755 , , James Wilfrid Gardiner
3,001 , , Godfrey Kelln
1,219 , , , , , Jacob Benson , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Melville , , George T. Webster
4,690 , , , Patrick Deshaye
5,302 , , John W. Hauser
1,014 , , , , , Bill Arthurs** , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, 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 , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , Joseph L. Phelps
3,620 , , , Asmundur Loptson
3,945 , , George A. Dulmage
807 , , , , , Joseph Lee Phelps , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Touchwood , , , Tom Johnston
2,627 , , John Joseph Collins
2,459 , , Harold Fletcher
1,097 , , , , , Tom Johnston , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Wadena , , , Frederick Dewhurst
4,218 , , Halldor K. Halldorson
2,930 , , Denis Dunlop
729 , , , , , Frederick Arthur Dewhurst , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , , Arthur Swallow
3,795 , , Andrew M. Kindred
3,256 , , Joshua N. Haldeman
1,792 , , , , , Arthur Percy Swallow

Southwest Saskatchewan

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Elrose , , , Maurice J. Willis
4,153 , , , , , , Harry N. McKenzie (Ind. Liberal) 3,299 , , , Maurice John Willis , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Gravelbourg , , Henry Houze
2,525 , , , Edward Culliton
2,935 , , Milton A. Wilson
404 , , , , , Henry Edmund Houze , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Gull Lake , , , Alvin C. Murray
4,251 , , , , William E. Cowie
936 , , Jonas A. Johnson ( Liberal- PC) 2,983 , , , Alvin Cecil Murray , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Maple Creek , , Beatrice J. Trew
2,590 , , , Alexander C. Cameron
2,920 , , A.J. Miller
2,491 , , , , , Beatrice Janet Trew , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Morse , , , James W. Gibson
3,069 , , Ronald D. Miller
2,465 , , Fred Erhardt
694 , , John K. Rosa ( PC) 481 , , , James William Gibson , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Notukeu-Willow Bunch , , , Niles Leonard Buchanan
4,048 , , Hans Loken
3,483 , , , , , , , Niles Leonard Buchanan , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , , Harry Gibbs
5,273 , , Clarence J. Orton
5,091 , , , , , , , Harry Gibbs , - , style="width: 130px", CCF ,

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, align="right", 3,627 , align="right", 51.36% , align="right", -0.67 , Liberal , Harold M. Haney , align="right", 2,792 , align="right", 39.54% , align="right", – , Prog. Conservative , Charles H. Howlett , align="right", 643 , align="right", 9.10% , align="right", – , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 7,062 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - , style="width: 130px" , CCF , Edward H. Walker , align="right", 2,571 , align="right", 50.76% , align="right", +7.70 , Liberal , Ronald A. MacLean , align="right", 2,494 , align="right", 49.24% , align="right", -0.81 , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 5,065 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right",

Southeast Saskatchewan

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Bengough , , , Allan L.S. Brown
3,599 , , Archie V. Wightman
2,627 , , Arnold L. Meginbir
705 , , , , , Allan L. Samuel Brown , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Cannington , , Ralph Hjertaas
3,422 , , , William Patterson
4,687 , , Peter Franchuk
500 , , , , ,

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, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Lumsden , , , William S. Thair
2,876 , , Henry P. Mang
2,220 , , Gustav D. Pelzer
744 , , Arthur M. Pearson ( PC) 1,003 , , , William Sancho Thair , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , , Jacob Erb
2,803 , , , , George M. Howell
1,020 , , Lionel Aston ( Liberal- PC) 2,363 , , , Frank Keem Malcolm** , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Moosomin , , Ivan Burden
3,442 , , , , , , , Alex "Hammy" McDonald (

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- Liberal) 5,251 , , ,

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** , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , Warden Burgess
3,903 , , , Frederick M. Dundas
4,470 , , Evert F. Josephson
1,253 , , , , , Warden Burgess , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Souris-Estevan , , Charles Cuming
4,741 , , , John E. McCormack
4,924 , , John K. Strachan
417 , , , , , Charles David Cuming , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , , ''

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6,273 , , , , Isabel Paxman
638 , , F. Charles Eaglesham ( Liberal- PC) 4,228 , , , ''

'' , style="width: 130px", Liberal , Rosscoe A. McCarthy , align="right", 4,200 , align="right", 54.06% , align="right", -0.38 , CCF , Edward G. McCullough , align="right", 3,569 , align="right", 45.94% , align="right", +6.19 , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 7,769 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right",

Urban constituencies

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, 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 , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Saskatoon City , , ,

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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 , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Regina City , , , Charlie Williams
20,475

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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
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