1944 Saskatchewan general election

Canadian provincial election December 2024 December 2024 1944 Saskatchewan general election Saskatchewan 1921 parliamentary no no 1938 Saskatchewan general election 1938 9th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan 1944 06 15 members 1948 Saskatchewan general election 1948 52 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan 27 Premier Tommy Douglas (F1257 s1057 it2743).jpg SK CCF nohash Tommy Douglas SK CCF name July 17, 1942 Weyburn 10 47 37 211,364 53.13% 34.4pp William John Patterson (cropped).jpg SK Liberal nohash William John Patterson SK Liberal name 1935 Cannington 38 5 33 140,901 35.42% 10.03pp PC SK PC nohash Rupert Ramsay SK PC name February 15, 1944 Ran in Saskatoon City (lost) 0 0 ±0 42,511 10.69% 1.18pp 3x4.svg SK Labor-Progressive nohash — Labor-Progressive — — 2 0 2 2,067 0.52% 1.41pp 3x4.svg SK Social Credit nohash Joseph Needham SK Social Credit name 1935 Did not run 2 0 2 249 0.06% 15.84pp Premier William John Patterson SK Liberal name Premier after election Tommy Douglas SK CCF name The 1944 Saskatchewan general election, the tenth in the history of the province, was held on June 15, 1944 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, under the leadership of Tommy Douglas, was elected to a majority government. Summary The 1944 election was held six years after the previous election in 1938. While there is normally a five-year limit on the lifespan of Parliaments and provincial assemblies in Canada, the emergency brought on by the Second World War allowed the government to delay the election temporarily, which William Patterson's governing Liberal Party opted to do.2004 Tommy Douglas and the Election of 1944 http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/gallery/election/en/election.htm dead https://wayback.archive-it.org/14753/20201016223437/http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/gallery/election/en/election.htm 2020-10-16 2024-10-07 Saskatchewan's 1944 CCF Election Saskatchewan Council for Archives & ArchivistsWaiser Bill https://archive.org/details/saskatchewannewh0000wais/page/n3/mode/2up Saskatchewan: A New History Fifth House 2005 978-1-894856-49-2 Calgary 340–42 en-CA registration left|thumb|250px|Douglas standing under a CCF election billboard with C.M. Fines and Clarence Gillis shortly after winning the election. The 1944 election marked the first time a nominally socialist government was elected anywhere in Canada. With the victory, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) leader Tommy Douglas became the premier of Saskatchewan. The CCF, which had spent two terms as the Official Opposition, won 47 of the 52 seats in the legislature, and over half the popular vote.https://archive.org/details/saskatchewanpoli0000unse/ Saskatchewan Politics: Into the Twenty-First Century Canadian Plains Research Centre 2001 0-88977-131-6 Leeson Howard A. Regina 408 en-CA registration The Liberals, led by Patterson, had run a negative campaign, accusing Douglas and the CCF of being communists. The Liberal popular vote fell by 10 percentage points, and the party won only five seats. This marked the worst defeat of a sitting government in Saskatchewan's history. The Social Credit Party, which had won 16% of the vote and two seats in the 1938 election, collapsed; the party had only one candidate, who received only 249 votes. The Communist Party-led Unity movement reverted to the name Labor-Progressive Party, and lost both of the seats it had won in 1938. The Conservative Party, renamed the Progressive Conservative Party and led by Rupert Ramsay, continued to see its share of the vote drop, taking only just over 10% of the vote, and won no seats. An at-large service vote was held for Saskatchewan residents in the Canadian armed services fighting during the war. This special vote elected three nonpartisan members to represent Saskatchewan soldiers, sailors and airmen stationed in Great Britain, the Mediterranean region, and Newfoundland and Canada outside the province. Alberta had a similar system during the war. Results PartyParty leader# ofcandidatesSeatsPopular vote1938Dissol.Elected% Change#%% Change SK CCF row-name Tommy Douglas 521011 47+327.3%211,364 53.13%+34.4% SK Liberal row-nameWilliam Patterson 523837 5-86.5%140,90135.42%-10.03% SK PC row-nameRupert Ramsay 39–– ––42,51110.69%-1.18% SK Labor-Progressive row Labor-Progressive 322 ––2,0670.52%-1.41% SK Independent rowIndependent 5–– ––7050.18%-0.73% SK Social Credit row-nameJoseph J. Needham (default) 122 ––2490.06%-15.84% SK Independent Liberal rowIndependent Liberal 1** –*50.00%* Total 1535252 52–397,802100% Source: Elections Saskatchewan Note: * Party did not nominate candidates in previous election. Percentages Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px CCF SK CCF 53.13 Liberal SK Liberal 35.42 PC SK PC 10.69 Others SK Independent 0.76 Seats summary #ddd 600px 410px CCF SK CCF 90.38 Liberal SK Liberal 9.62 Ranking Party SeatsSecondThirdFourthFifthSK CCF row-name 474100 SK Liberal row-name547000 SK PC row-name003720 SK Independent rowOther parties01333 Riding-by-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 SK CCF Liberal PC Other |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Athabasca | |Pierre Ephrem Ayotte57 |SK Liberal background|  |Louis Marcien Marion626 | |Alexander Fred De Laronde9 | |Errick Guttormur Erickson (Ind.) 78 Francis Xavier Poitras (Ind. Liberal) 5 |SK Liberal background|  |Hubert Staines** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cut Knife |SK CCF background|  |Isidore Charles Nollet2726 | |John A. Gordon1820 | | | | |SK Social Credit background|  |William Roseland** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Meadow Lake |SK CCF background|  |Herschel Lee Howell2034 | |Donald MacDonald1805 | |William Titley362 | |Arthur J. Doucet (Labor-Progressive) 716 |SK Liberal background|  |Donald MacDonald |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Redberry |SK CCF background|  |Dmytro Matthew Lazorko2306 | |Wilfred James Langley1285 | |Ernest Wilson662 | |Peter John Semko (Ind.) 99 |SK Liberal background|  |Orest Zerebko** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Rosthern | |Henry Begrand1541 |SK Liberal background|  |Peter J. Hooge2199 | |Gordon Ellis Goble473 | | |SK Liberal background|  |John Michael Uhrich** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shellbrook |SK CCF background|  |Albert Victor Sterling3310 | |Omer Demers2177 | | | | |SK Liberal background|  |Omer Alphonse Demers |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|The Battlefords |SK CCF background|  |Alexander Duff Connon2783 | |Paul Prince2426 | |Robert Wendell McNair446 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Paul Prince |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Turtleford |SK CCF background|  |Bob Wooff2506 | |William Franklin Kerr1766 | |Chester Hicks399 | | |SK Liberal background|  |William Franklin Kerr Northeastern Saskatchewan SK CCF Liberal PC Other |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland |SK CCF background|  |Leslie Walter Lee357 | |Deakin Alexander Hall242 | |Raoul Olier St. Denis11 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Deakin Alexander Hall |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humboldt |SK CCF background|  |Ben Putnam3587 | |Arnold William Loehr2673 | |Stephen David Weese358 | | |SK CCF background|  |Joseph William Burton** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kelvington |SK CCF background|  |Peter Anton Howe3132 | |Gladstone Mansfield Ferrie1880 | |Samuel Edward Hall649 | | |SK CCF background|  |Peter Anton Howe |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kinistino |SK CCF background|  |William James Boyle3055 | |Russell Martin Paul1544 | |Andrew Fraser671 | | |SK Liberal background|  |John Richard Parish Taylor** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Melfort |SK CCF background|  |Oakland Woods Valleau3396 | |John Duncan MacFarlane1862 | |Stanley Beattie Caskey1450 | | |SK CCF background|  |Oakland Woods Valleau |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Prince Albert |SK CCF background|  |Lachlan Fraser McIntosh6178 | |Harold John Fraser3617 | |Edgar Percy Woodman655 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Harold John Fraser |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Tisdale |SK CCF background|  |John Hewgill Brockelbank5283 | |Clarence Railsback O'Connor2269 | |Isaac Flexman Stothers703 | | |SK CCF background|  |John Hewgill Brockelbank |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Torch River |SK CCF background|  |John Bruce Harris2609 | |Donald L. Menzies846 | |Keith Acton Baldwin535 | | |SK Liberal background|  |James Archibald Kiteley** West Central Saskatchewan SK CCF Liberal PC Other |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Arm River | |William R. Fansher 2256 |SK Liberal background|  |Gustaf Herman Danielson2343 | |Thomas Alfred Homersham 1068 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Gustaf Herman Danielson |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Biggar |SK CCF background|  |Woodrow Stanley Lloyd 3633 | |Frank Freeman 2156 | | | | |SK CCF background|  |John Allan Young** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hanley |SK CCF background|  |James Smith Aitken2272 | |Charles Agar1775 | |James Hubert Cannon893 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Charles Agar |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kerrobert-Kindersley |SK CCF background|  |John Wellbelove3236 | |Donald Laing2377 | |Wellington Smith Myers933 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Donald Laing |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Rosetown |SK CCF background|  |John Taylor Douglas3168 | |William Leith1864 | |John Wilbert Stewart1046 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Neil McVicar** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Watrous |SK CCF background|  |James Andrew Darling3801 | |Frank Stephen Krenn2312 | |Hugh Smith749 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Frank Stephen Krenn |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Wilkie |SK CCF background|  |Hans Ove Hansen3567 | |John Cunningham Knowles2527 | | | | |SK Liberal background|  |John Cunningham Knowles East Central Saskatchewan SK CCF Liberal PC Other |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Canora |SK CCF background|  |Myron Henry Feeley3538 | |Stephen T. Shabbits2537 | | | | |SK CCF background|  |Myron Henry Feeley |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Last Mountain |SK CCF background|  |Jacob Benson3803 | |Henry Philip Mang2064 | |James Lindsay Blair1281 | | |SK CCF background|  |Jacob Benson |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Melville |SK CCF background|  |William James Arthurs4575 | |Lionel Stilborn3614 | |Shamus Patrick Regan821 | | |SK Social Credit background|  |John Frederick Herman** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pelly |SK CCF background|  |Dan Daniels3273 | |Reginald John Marsden Parker2544 | | | |William Michael Berezowski(Labor-Progressive) 554 |SK Liberal background|  |Reginald John Marsden Parker |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saltcoats |SK CCF background|  |Joseph Lee Phelps3461 | |Donald Alexander MacKenzie2874 | |Rae Melville Salkeld454 | | |SK CCF background|  |Joseph Lee Phelps |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Touchwood |SK CCF background|  |Tom Johnston3337 | |John Joseph Collins1925 | |William Seneshen301 | | |SK CCF background|  |Tom Johnston |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Wadena |SK CCF background|  |George Hara Williams4162 | |George Russell Cook1686 | | | |Walter Elvy Rogers (Ind.) 207 |SK CCF background|  |George Hara Williams |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yorkton |SK CCF background|  |Arthur Percy Swallow3887 | |Alfred Ariel Brown2280 | |Norman Roebuck958 | | |SK Communist background|  |Alan Carl Stewart** (Unity) Southwest Saskatchewan SK CCF Liberal PC Other |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Elrose |SK CCF background|  |Maurice John Willis3771 | |Hubert Staines1807 | |Ernest J. Ewing1013 | | |SK CCF background|  |Louis Henry Hantelman** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gravelbourg |SK CCF background|  |Henry Edmund Houze2681 | |Edward M. Culliton2586 | | | | |SK Liberal background|  |Edward Milton Culliton |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gull Lake |SK CCF background|  |Alvin Cecil Murray3942 | |Harvey Harold McMahon2200 | |Charles Howard Howlett1356 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Harvey Harold McMahon |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Maple Creek |SK CCF background|  |Beatrice Janet Trew3656 | |John Joseph Mildenberger2872 | |George Chester Stewart911 | | |SK Liberal background|  |John Joseph Mildenberger |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Morse |SK CCF background|  |Sidney Merlin Spidell2763 | |Benjamin Thomas Hyde2122 | |Clifford Bruce Martin725 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Benjamin Thomas Hyde |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Notukeu-Willow Bunch |SK CCF background|  |Niles Leonard Buchanan4176 | |Charles William Johnson2862 | | | | |SK Liberal background|  |Charles William Johnson |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Swift Current |SK CCF background|  |Harry Gibbs4756 | |James Gordon Taggart3123 | |Bryan Maxwell Hill1021 | | |SK Liberal background|  |James Gordon Taggart Southeast Saskatchewan SK CCF Liberal PC Other |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bengough |SK CCF background|  |Allan Lister Samuel Brown3847 | |Thomas Waddell2473 | | | | |SK Communist background|  |Herman Kersler Warren** (Unity) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cannington | |Gladys Strum3204 |SK Liberal background|  |William John Patterson3210 | |William Armstrong Brigden687 | | |SK Liberal background|  |William John Patterson |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lumsden |SK CCF background|  |William Sancho Thair2966 | |James Gallagher Knox1887 | |Arthur Maurice Pearson1220 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Robert Scott Donaldson** |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Milestone |SK CCF background|  |Frank Keem Malcolm3302 | |William Pedersen2207 | | | | |SK Liberal background|  |William Pedersen |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moosomin | |David Alexander Cunningham3324 |SK Liberal background|  |Arthur Thomas Procter3865 | | | | |SK Liberal background|  |Arthur Thomas Procter |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Qu'Appelle-Wolseley |SK CCF background|  |Warden Burgess4339 | |Frederick Middleton Dundas3314 | |William Herman Acres938 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Frederick Middleton Dundas |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Souris-Estevan |SK CCF background|  |Charles David Cuming3933 | |Norman Leslie McLeod2660 | |Herbert Samuel Penny1259 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Norman Leslie McLeod |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Weyburn |SK CCF background|  |Thomas Clement Douglas5605 | |James Weyburn Adolphe3489 | | | | |SK Liberal background|  |George Levi Crane** Urban constituencies SK CCF Liberal PC Other |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moose Jaw City |SK CCF background|  |John Wesley Corman6296 Dempster Henry Ratcliffe Heming5894 | |William George Baker2881 Harold Walpole Pope2887 | |Russell Lawrence Brownridge1271 Hugh Alexander Tiers1036 | |Frank Ernest Talbot (Social Credit) 249 |SK Liberal background|  |William Gladstone Ross** William George Baker |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon City |SK CCF background|  |John Henry Sturdy9375 Arthur Thomas Stone7792 | |James Wilfred Estey5084 Robert Mitford Pinder3924 | |Rupert David Ramsay5368 Henry Oswald Wright3171 | |Frederick Nelson Clarke(Labor-Progressive) 797 Russell Hartney (Ind.) 200 John Harrison Hilton (Ind.) 121 |SK Liberal background|  |Robert Mitford Pinder James Wilfred Estey |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina City |SK CCF background|  |Clarence Melvin Fines14129 Charles Cromwell Williams14784 | |Charles Roberts Davidson10982 Bernard J. McDaniel10551 | |Hugh McGillivray3536 Claude Henry James Burrows3114 | | |SK Liberal background|  |Bernard J. McDaniel Percy McCuaig Anderson** By-elections By-election: Shellbrook, June 29, 1945 CCF hold |- SK CCF row | style="width: 130px" |CCF |Guy Franklin Van Eaton |align="right"|3,350 |align="right"|53.1 |align="right"|-7.3 |- SK Liberal row |Liberal |Harold Keith Elder |align="right"|2,514 |align="right"|42.9 |align="right"|+3.2 |- SK Social Credit row |Social Credit |Albert M. Courchene |align="right"|450 |align="right"|15.2 |align="right"|- |- |- bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|6,314 !align="right"| !align="right"| By-election: Wadena, November 21, 1945 CCF hold |- SK CCF row | style="width: 130px" |CCF |Frederick Arthur Dewhurst |align="right"|2,474 |align="right"|80.9 |align="right"|+12.2 |- SK Labor-Progressive row |Labor-Progressive |William Beeching |align="right"|584 |align="right"|19.1 |align="right"|- |- |- bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|3,085 !align="right"| !align="right"| By-election: Morse, June 27, 1946 CCF hold |- SK CCF row | style="width: 130px" |CCF |James William Gibson |align="right"|3,006 |align="right"|46.1 |align="right"|-3.1 |- SK Liberal row |Liberal |Herbert Wiebe |align="right"|2,410 |align="right"|37.0 |align="right"|-0.8 |- SK PC row |Progressive Conservative |Rupert Ramsay |align="right"|1,098 |align="right"|16.9 |align="right"|+3.9 |- |- bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|6,514 !align="right"| !align="right"| 1944 service elections Active Service Voters, Saskatchewan members of the Canadian armed services on active duty outside of Saskatchewan, were polled between October 17 and October 30, 1944. One representative was elected from each of three areas. These candidates did not specify any party affiliation. Area 1 (Great Britain) Candidate Votes %LAC Delmar Storey Valleau605Lt. Col. N.S. Cuthbert554Lt. Col. F.E. Bell330Major J.R. Mather319Lt. P.A. Mahon311Sgt. H.S. Bearden301RSM A.S. Cochrane301Lt. Col. F. Steele283F/L C.A. Angus265Col. R.B. Martin260F/L G. Ward233Capt. H.C. Rees217S/Sgt. S. Haskell159F/O J.C. Cavanagh149Lt. J.E. McCann90F/O J. Knippelberg89Capt. S.A. Giverego53 Area 2 (Mediterranean Theatre) Candidate Votes %Lt. Col. Alan Williams Embury803BSM H.J. MacBurney451Sgt. H.M. Woollard218Pte. J.H. Heffernan216Capt. E. Horvath211Capt. K.A. Calder203Cpl. Ian Selkirk186Lt. J.H. Archer168BSM R.G. Polloc148Lt. E.J. Western105Sgt. V.C. McCarthy86Sgt. C.J. Baker59Sgt. D.G. Rice49A/PO H.W. Moody41 Area 3 (Newfoundland and Canada outside of Saskatchewan) Candidate Votes %Major Malcolm James Dobie510S/L John Allan Young386C.W.M.S. Clifford Herbert Peet355Lt. Col. Henry Austin Hunt355Lt. Douglas Hague347S/L E.W. Campbell317Major Percy H. Maguire265AC1 John Bender209Lt. Col. Thomas Russell MacNutt209Lt. Comdr. Donald Alexander Grant190L/Sgt. William Harold Lilwall186S/L Angus C. McClaskey170F/L Walter Hemming Nelson124Sgt. Benjamin Malcolm MacKinnon114F/O Robert Bruce Butler114Sgt. Irving S. Brown80S.Q.M.S. (WO II) David Vogt74F/S Gerhard Epp72F/S Arthur Rudolph Dohlen41F/L H.E.M. Hales29 Further reading Argyle Ray Turning Points: The Campaigns that Changed Canada 2004 and Before 2004 White Knight Publications Toronto 978-0-9734186-6-8 https://archive.org/details/turningpointscam0000argy registration See also List of political parties in Saskatchewan List of Saskatchewan provincial electoral districts References Saskatchewan Election Results By Electoral Division Elections Saskatchewan: Previous Elections External links Saskatchewan Election Results By Electoral Division Elections Saskatchewan: Provincial Vote Summaries Saskatchewan's 1944 CCF Election Category:1944 elections in Canada Category:1944 in Saskatchewan 1944 Category:June 1944 in Canada