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

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

341 Joseph D. Le Chasseur (Ind.) 225 3,027 1,531 1,642 2,635 3,307 1,081 2,357 2,571 959 2,964 1,736 2,981 2,806 959 3,554 3,990 2,280 2,462 1,357

Northeastern Saskatchewan

425 656 2,657 2,689 2,515 2,991 2,639 1,225 2,991 3,086 4,035 4,065 6,944 6,052 579 5,242 3,980 2,260 1,779 1,448

West Central Saskatchewan

2,263 3,400 689 3,695 2,987 2,417 2,366 512 3,333 3,155 1,063 3,647 2,968 2,829 1,092 2,566 3,143 1,110

East Central Saskatchewan

3,104 2,453 1,801 3,755 3,001 1,219 4,690 5,302 1,014 2,476 2,646 1,020 (Labour Prog.) 1,301 3,620 3,945 807 2,627 2,459 1,097 4,218 2,930 729 3,795 3,256 1,792

Southwest Saskatchewan

4,153 2,525 2,935 404 4,251 936 2,590 2,920 2,491 3,069 2,465 694 4,048 3,483 5,273 5,091

Southeast Saskatchewan

3,599 2,627 705 3,422 4,687 500 2,876 2,220 744 2,803 1,020 3,442 3,903 4,470 1,253 4,741 4,924 417 6,273 638

Urban constituencies

7,534 D. Henry R. Heming 7,331 J. Fraser McClellan (Ind.) 4,955 Dempster Henry R. Heming 14,970 Arthur T. Stone 14,295 11,551 1,959 Arthur T. Stone 20,475 Clarence Fines 20,474 16,578 1,049 Anthony E. Kovatch 971 Clarence Melvin Fines