Election Name: | 1929 Saskatchewan general election |
Country: | Saskatchewan |
Flag Year: | 1921 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Election: | 1925 Saskatchewan general election |
Previous Year: | 1925 |
Previous Mps: | 6th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan |
Elected Mps: | members |
Next Election: | 1934 Saskatchewan general election |
Next Year: | 1934 |
Next Mps: | 8th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan |
Seats For Election: | 63 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan |
Majority Seats: | 32 |
Leader1: | James Gardiner |
Leader Since1: | February 25, 1926 |
Leaders Seat1: | North Qu'Appelle |
Last Election1: | 50 |
Seats1: | 28 |
Seat Change1: | 22 |
Popular Vote1: | 164,487 |
Percentage1: | 45.6% |
Swing1: | 6.0pp |
Leader2: | James Anderson |
Leader Since2: | March 25, 1924 |
Leaders Seat2: | Saskatoon City |
Last Election2: | 3 |
Seats2: | 24 |
Seat Change2: | 21 |
Popular Vote2: | 131,550 |
Percentage2: | 36.4% |
Swing2: | 18.1pp |
Image3: | PRO |
Leader3: | — |
Leader Since3: | — |
Leaders Seat3: | — |
Last Election3: | 6 |
Seats3: | 5 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 24,988 |
Percentage3: | 6.9% |
Swing3: | 16.1pp |
Premier | |
Before Election: | James Gardiner |
Posttitle: | Premier after election |
After Election: | James Anderson |
The 1929 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 6, 1929 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
As a result of corruption scandals, the Liberal Party of Premier James Gardiner lost a significant share of its popular vote, but more important, lost twenty-two of the seats it had won in the 1925 election. While the Liberals held the largest number of seats in the legislature, they had only a minority. Gardiner tried to continue as a minority government, but was quickly defeated in a Motion of No Confidence, and resigned as premier.
The Conservative Party of James T.M. Anderson increased its representation in the legislature from three to twenty four seats. Following Gardiner's resignation, Anderson was able to form a coalition government with the support of the Progressive Party and some independents.
The Progressives had lost a large part of the popular vote it had won in 1925, but managed to retain five of the six seats it had won previously.
Party | Party Leader |
| Seats | Popular Vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1925 | Elected | % Change | Votes | % | % Change | James Gardiner | 62 | 50 | 28 | align="right" | -44% | 164,487 | 45.56% | align="right" | -5.95% | James Anderson | 40 | 3 | 24 | +700% | 131,550 | 36.44% | +18.09% | Independent | 17 | 2 | 6 | +200% | 32,729 | 9.06% | +5.55% | 16 | 6 | 5 | align="right" | -18.3% | 24,988 | 6.92% | align="right" | -16.12% | Liberal-Labour | 1 | – | 4,181 | 1.16% | 3 | – | 1,942 | 0.54% | 1 | 1 | – | align="right" | -100% | 1,160 | 0.32% | align="right" | -0.75% | ||||||||||||||
Total | 140 | 63 | 63 | – | 361,037 | 100% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: Elections Saskatchewan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For complete electoral history, see individual districts
District | Member | Party | Cumberland | Deakin Alexander Hall | Liberal |
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District | Member | Party | Île-à-la-Crosse | Jules Marion | Liberal |
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