1948 Saskatchewan general election

Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.^[1]

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

The Progressive Conservative Party, led by Rupert Ramsay, continued to decline, and was also shut out of the legislature.^[1]

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
Party	Party Leader	# of candidates	1944	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change Template:Canadian party colour	Tommy Douglas	52	47	31	-34.0%	236,900	47.56%	-5.57% Template:Canadian party colour	Walter Tucker	41	5	19	+280%	152,400	30.60%	-4.82% Template:Canadian party colour	Joshua Haldeman	36	–	–	–	40,268	8.09%	+8.03% Template:Canadian party colour	Independent	5	–	1	+1000%	11,088	2.23%	+2.05% Template:Canadian party colour	Conservative Liberal (Alexander H. McDonald)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	1	*	1	*	5,251	1.05%	* Template:Canadian party colour	Rupert Ramsay	9	–	–	–	37,986	7.63%	-3.06% Template:Canadian party colour	Liberal-PC	3	*	–	*	9,574	1.92%	* Template:Canadian party colour	Independent Liberal	1	*	–	*	3,299	0.66	* Template:Canadian party colour	Labor-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

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Party		Seats	Second	Third	Fourth
31	20	1	0 Template:Canadian party colour	19	19	3	0 Template:Canadian party colour	Independent/Other parties	2	6	3	0 Template:Canadian party colour	0	2	31	3 Template:Canadian party colour	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.