1944 Saskatchewan general election
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.[1][2]
The 1944 election marked the first time a nominally socialist government was elected anywhere in Canada.[1] 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.[3]
The Liberals, led by Patterson, had run a negative campaign, accusing Douglas and the CCF of being communists.[2] The Liberal popular vote fell by 10 percentage points, and the party won only five seats.[3] 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.[3]
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.[3]
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
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Dissol. | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | Tommy Douglas | 52 | 10 | 11 | 47 | +327.3% | 211,364 | 53.13% | +34.4% | William Patterson | 52 | 38 | 37 | 5 | -86.5% | 140,901 | 35.42% | -10.03% | Rupert Ramsay | 39 | – | – | – | – | 42,511 | 10.69% | -1.18% | Labor-Progressive | 3 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 2,067 | 0.52% | -1.41% | Independent | 5 | – | – | – | – | 705 | 0.18% | -0.73% | Joseph J. Needham (default) | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 249 | 0.06% | -15.84% | Independent Liberal | 1 | * | * | – | * | 5 | 0.00% | * | |||
| Total | 153 | 52 | 52 | 52 | – | 397,802 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: Elections Saskatchewan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note: * Party did not nominate candidates in previous election.
Percentages
Ranking
Template:Canadian party colour| Party | Seats | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 0 | Other parties | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Northeastern Saskatchewan
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
West Central Saskatchewan
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
East Central Saskatchewan
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Southwest Saskatchewan
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Southeast Saskatchewan
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Urban constituencies
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| colspan="2" style="width:1%; border-right:none;" Template:Canadian party colour | colspan="2" style="width:1%; border-right:none;" Template:Canadian party colour | colspan="2" style="width:1%; border-right:none;" Template:Canadian party colour | Other | |||||||
| Moose Jaw City | Template:Canadian party colour| | John Wesley Corman 6296 |
William George Baker 2881 Harold Walpole Pope |
Russell Lawrence Brownridge 1271 Hugh Alexander Tiers |
Frank Ernest Talbot (Social Credit) 249 | Template:Canadian party colour| | William Gladstone Ross**
William George Baker | |||
| Saskatoon City | Template:Canadian party colour| | John Henry Sturdy 9375 |
James Wilfred Estey 5084 |
Rupert David Ramsay 5368 Henry Oswald Wright |
Frederick Nelson Clarke (Labor-Progressive) 797 Russell Hartney (Ind.) 200 John Harrison Hilton (Ind.) 121 |
Template:Canadian party colour| | Robert Mitford Pinder
James Wilfred Estey | |||
| Regina City | Template:Canadian party colour| | Clarence Melvin Fines 14129 |
Charles Roberts Davidson 10982 Bernard J. McDaniel |
Hugh McGillivray 3536 Claude Henry James Burrows |
Template:Canadian party colour| | Bernard J. McDaniel
Percy McCuaig Anderson** | ||||
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
By-elections
Template:Canadian party colourTemplate:Canadian party colourTemplate:Canadian party colour| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF | Guy Franklin Van Eaton | 3,350 | 53.1 | -7.3 | |
| Liberal | Harold Keith Elder | 2,514 | 42.9 | +3.2 | |
| Social Credit | Albert M. Courchene | 450 | 15.2 | - | |
| Total | 6,314 | ||||
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Template:Canadian party colourTemplate:Canadian party colour| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF | Frederick Arthur Dewhurst | 2,474 | 80.9 | +12.2 | |
| Labor-Progressive | William Beeching | 584 | 19.1 | - | |
| Total | 3,085 | ||||
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Template:Canadian party colourTemplate:Canadian party colourTemplate:Canadian party colour| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF | James William Gibson | 3,006 | 46.1 | -3.1 | |
| Liberal | Herbert Wiebe | 2,410 | 37.0 | -0.8 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Rupert Ramsay | 1,098 | 16.9 | +3.9 | |
| Total | 6,514 | ||||
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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 Valleau | 605 | |
| Lt. Col. N.S. Cuthbert | 554 | |
| Lt. Col. F.E. Bell | 330 | |
| Major J.R. Mather | 319 | |
| Lt. P.A. Mahon | 311 | |
| Sgt. H.S. Bearden | 301 | |
| RSM A.S. Cochrane | 301 | |
| Lt. Col. F. Steele | 283 | |
| F/L C.A. Angus | 265 | |
| Col. R.B. Martin | 260 | |
| F/L G. Ward | 233 | |
| Capt. H.C. Rees | 217 | |
| S/Sgt. S. Haskell | 159 | |
| F/O J.C. Cavanagh | 149 | |
| Lt. J.E. McCann | 90 | |
| F/O J. Knippelberg | 89 | |
| Capt. S.A. Giverego | 53 |
Area 2 (Mediterranean Theatre)
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Lt. Col. Alan Williams Embury | 803 | |
| BSM H.J. MacBurney | 451 | |
| Sgt. H.M. Woollard | 218 | |
| Pte. J.H. Heffernan | 216 | |
| Capt. E. Horvath | 211 | |
| Capt. K.A. Calder | 203 | |
| Cpl. Ian Selkirk | 186 | |
| Lt. J.H. Archer | 168 | |
| BSM R.G. Polloc | 148 | |
| Lt. E.J. Western | 105 | |
| Sgt. V.C. McCarthy | 86 | |
| Sgt. C.J. Baker | 59 | |
| Sgt. D.G. Rice | 49 | |
| A/PO H.W. Moody | 41 |
Area 3 (Newfoundland and Canada outside of Saskatchewan)
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Major Malcolm James Dobie | 510 | |
| S/L John Allan Young | 386 | |
| C.W.M.S. Clifford Herbert Peet | 355 | |
| Lt. Col. Henry Austin Hunt | 355 | |
| Lt. Douglas Hague | 347 | |
| S/L E.W. Campbell | 317 | |
| Major Percy H. Maguire | 265 | |
| AC1 John Bender | 209 | |
| Lt. Col. Thomas Russell MacNutt | 209 | |
| Lt. Comdr. Donald Alexander Grant | 190 | |
| L/Sgt. William Harold Lilwall | 186 | |
| S/L Angus C. McClaskey | 170 | |
| F/L Walter Hemming Nelson | 124 | |
| Sgt. Benjamin Malcolm MacKinnon | 114 | |
| F/O Robert Bruce Butler | 114 | |
| Sgt. Irving S. Brown | 80 | |
| S.Q.M.S. (WO II) David Vogt | 74 | |
| F/S Gerhard Epp | 72 | |
| F/S Arthur Rudolph Dohlen | 41 | |
| F/L H.E.M. Hales | 29 |
Further reading
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Saskatchewan Election Results By Electoral Division
- Elections Saskatchewan: Provincial Vote Summaries
- Saskatchewan's 1944 CCF Election
Script error: No such module "Navbox". Template:Authority control