| Election Name: | 1948 Saskatchewan general election |
| Country: | Saskatchewan |
| Flag Year: | 1921 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1944 Saskatchewan general election |
| Previous Year: | 1944 |
| Previous Mps: | 10th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Election: | 1952 Saskatchewan general election |
| Next Year: | 1952 |
| Next Mps: | 12th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan |
| Seats For Election: | 52 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan |
| Majority Seats: | 27 |
| Leader1: | Tommy Douglas |
| Leader Since1: | July 17, 1942 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Weyburn |
| Last Election1: | 47 |
| Seats1: | 31 |
| Seat Change1: | 16 |
| Popular Vote1: | 236,900 |
| Percentage1: | 47.56% |
| Swing1: | 5.57pp |
| Leader2: | Walter Tucker |
| Leader Since2: | August 6, 1946 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Rosthern |
| Last Election2: | 5 |
| Seats2: | 19 |
| Seat Change2: | 14 |
| Popular Vote2: | 152,400 |
| Percentage2: | 30.60% |
| Swing2: | 4.82pp |
| Leader4: | Joshua Haldeman |
| Leader Since4: | 1946 |
| Leaders Seat4: | Ran in Yorkton (lost) |
| Last Election4: | 0 |
| Seats4: | 0 |
| Seat Change4: | ±0 |
| Popular Vote4: | 40,268 |
| Percentage4: | 8.09% |
| Swing4: | 8.03pp |
| Leader5: | Rupert Ramsay |
| Leader Since5: | February 15, 1944 |
| Leaders Seat5: | Ran in Saskatoon City (lost) |
| Last Election5: | 0 |
| Seats5: | 0 |
| Seat Change5: | ±0 |
| Popular Vote5: | 37,986 |
| Percentage5: | 7.63% |
| Swing5: | 3.06pp |
| Premier | |
| Before Election: | Tommy Douglas |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| After Election: | Tommy Douglas |
The 1948 Saskatchewan general election 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 was re-elected with a reduced majority in the legislature.
Although the share of the popular vote won by the Liberal Party of Walter Tucker fell by almost five percentage points, the party increased its representation in the legislature from 5 seats to 19.
The Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan, 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 – now led by Rupert Ramsay – continued to decline, and was also shut out of the legislature.
In some ridings, the Progressive Conservatives appear to have run joint candidates with the Liberals in failed attempts to defeat the CCF. These candidates ran as Liberal-PC candidates. The successful Conservative Liberal candidate – Alex "Hammy" McDonald – immediately joined the Liberal caucus upon being sworn in as an MLA.
| Party | Party Leader |
| Seats | Popular Vote | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1944 | Elected | % Change | % | % Change | Tommy Douglas | 52 | 47 | 31 | align="right" | -34.0% | 236,900 | 47.56% | align="right" | -5.57% | Walter Tucker | 41 | 5 | 19 | +280% | 152,400 | 30.60% | align="right" | -4.82% | 36 | – | – | – | 40,268 | 8.09% | +8.03% | Independent | 5 | – | 1 | +1000% | 11,088 | 2.23% | +2.05% | Conservative Liberal | 1 | 1 | 5,251 | 1.05% | Rupert Ramsay | 9 | – | – | – | 37,986 | 7.63% | align="right" | -3.06% | Liberal-PC | 3 | – | 9,574 | 1.92% | Independent Liberal | 1 | – | 3,299 | 0.66 | Labour Progressive | 1 | – | – | – | 1,301 | 0.26% | align="right" | -0.26% | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | 149 | 52 | 52 | – | 498,067 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: Elections Saskatchewan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note: * Party did not nominate candidates in previous election.
| Party | Seats | Second | Third | Fourth | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 19 | 3 | 0 | Independent/Other parties | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |
Names in bold represent cabinet ministers and the Speaker. Party leaders are italicized. The symbol " ** " indicates MLAs who are not running again.
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Athabasca||Axel Olsen
341|||||| |Louis M. Marion (Ind.) 628
Joseph D. Le Chasseur (Ind.) 225|| |Louis Marcien Marion|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cut Knife|| |Isidore Nollet
3,027||William Bradley
1,531||Fred F. Wilson
1,642|||| |Isidore Charles Nollet|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Meadow Lake||Herschel Howell
2,635|| |William Lofts
3,307||John W. Evanishen
1,081|||| |Herschel Lee Howell|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Redberry||Dmytro Lazorko
2,357|| |Bernard Korchinski
2,571||||Robert C. Glen (PC) 643|| |Dmytro Matthew Lazorko|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Rosthern||Wilbert S. Henschel
959|| |Walter Tucker
2,964||George W. Beilhartz
1,736|||| |Peter J. Hooge**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shellbrook|| |Louis Larsen
2,981||W.R. Vincent
2,806||George J. Klein
959|||| |Guy Franklin Van Eaton**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|The Battlefords||Alex Connon
3,554|| |Paul Prince
3,990|||||| |Alexander Duff Connon|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Turtleford||Bob Wooff
2,280|| |Leo Trippe
2,462||Matthew Slager
1,357|||| |Robert Hanson Wooff
|style="width: 130px"|Liberal|Hugh Maher|align="right"|3,296|align="right"|48.22%|align="right"|-4.67|CCF|Alex Connon|align="right"|3,158|align="right"|46.20%|align="right"|-0.91|Prog. Conservative|David J. Thiessen|align="right"|381|align="right"|5.58%|align="right"|–|- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|6,835!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"|
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland||Joseph Johnson
425|| |Lorne Blanchard
656||||Joseph Maxim Buote (Ind.) 40|| |Les Walter Lee**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humboldt||Ben Putnam
2,657|| |Arnold Loehr
2,689||Joseph A. Thauberger
2,515|||| |Ben Putnam|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kelvington|| |Peter Howe
2,991||Gladstone Mansfield Ferrie
2,639||Frederick A. Patrick
1,225|||| |Peter Anton Howe|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kinistino||William J. Boyle
2,991|| |William C. Woods
3,086|||||| |William James Boyle|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Melfort||Oakland Valleau
4,035|| |John Egnatoff
4,065|||||| |Oakland Woods Valleau|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Prince Albert|| |Larry McIntosh
6,944||Charles McIntosh
6,052||Ralph Ernst
579|||| |Lachlan Fraser McIntosh|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Tisdale|| |John Hewgill Brockelbank
5,242||Donald L.W. Hood
3,980||||William Lucas Hayes (PC) 1,171|| |John Hewgill Brockelbank|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Torch River|| |John Denike
2,260||Harold Guloien
1,779||Leo Nile Nicholson
1,448|||| |John Bruce Harris**
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Arm River||E.L. Heinrich
2,263|| |Gustaf Herman Danielson
3,400||Gabriel J. Giesinger
689|||| |Gustaf Herman Danielson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Biggar|| |Woodrow Lloyd
3,695||Andrew S. Shaw
2,987|||||| |Woodrow Stanley Lloyd|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hanley|| |Robert A. Walker
2,417||Clayton L. Pascoe
2,366||Frederick E. Roluf
512||Emmett M. Hall (PC) 1,025|| |James Smith Aitken**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kerrobert-Kindersley|| |John Wellbelove
3,333||Fred Larson
3,155||Norman Wildman
1,063|||| |John Wellbelove|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Rosetown|| |John T. Douglas
3,647||||||Alvin Hamilton (PC) 3,218|| |John Taylor Douglas|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Watrous|| |James A. Darling
2,968||Andrew William Michayluk
2,829||Martin Kelln
1,092|||| |James Andrew Darling|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Wilkie||Hans O. Hansen
2,566|| |John W. Horsman
3,143||George K. Nicholson
1,110||O. Allen Bently (PC) 329|| |Hans Ove Hansen
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Canora|| |Alex Kuziak
3,104||Stephen T. Shabbits
2,453||Stanley W. Gorchynski
1,801|||| |Myron Henry Feeley**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Last Mountain|| |Jacob Benson
3,755||James Wilfrid Gardiner
3,001||Godfrey Kelln
1,219|||| |Jacob Benson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Melville||George T. Webster
4,690|| |Patrick Deshaye
5,302||John W. Hauser
1,014|||| |Bill Arthurs**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pelly||Dan Daniels
2,476|| |John G. Banks
2,646||John W. Kowalyshen
1,020||William M. Berezowski
(Labour Prog.) 1,301|| |Daniel Zederayko Daniels|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saltcoats||Joseph L. Phelps
3,620|| |Asmundur Loptson
3,945||George A. Dulmage
807|||| |Joseph Lee Phelps|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Touchwood|| |Tom Johnston
2,627||John Joseph Collins
2,459||Harold Fletcher
1,097|||| |Tom Johnston|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Wadena|| |Frederick Dewhurst
4,218||Halldor K. Halldorson
2,930||Denis Dunlop
729|||| |Frederick Arthur Dewhurst|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yorkton|| |Arthur Swallow
3,795||Andrew M. Kindred
3,256||Joshua N. Haldeman
1,792|||| |Arthur Percy Swallow
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Elrose|| |Maurice J. Willis
4,153||||||Harry N. McKenzie (Ind. Liberal) 3,299|| |Maurice John Willis|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gravelbourg||Henry Houze
2,525|| |Edward Culliton
2,935||Milton A. Wilson
404|||| |Henry Edmund Houze|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gull Lake|| |Alvin C. Murray
4,251||||William E. Cowie
936||Jonas A. Johnson (Liberal-PC) 2,983|| |Alvin Cecil Murray|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Maple Creek||Beatrice J. Trew
2,590|| |Alexander C. Cameron
2,920||A.J. Miller
2,491|||| |Beatrice Janet Trew|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Morse|| |James W. Gibson
3,069||Ronald D. Miller
2,465||Fred Erhardt
694||John K. Rosa (PC) 481|| |James William Gibson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Notukeu-Willow Bunch|| |Niles Leonard Buchanan
4,048||Hans Loken
3,483|||||| |Niles Leonard Buchanan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Swift Current|| |Harry Gibbs
5,273||Clarence J. Orton
5,091|||||| |Harry Gibbs
|-|style="width: 130px"|CCF|Thomas Bentley|align="right"|3,627|align="right"|51.36%|align="right"|-0.67|Liberal|Harold M. Haney|align="right"|2,792|align="right"|39.54%|align="right"|–|Prog. Conservative|Charles H. Howlett|align="right"|643|align="right"|9.10%|align="right"|–|- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|7,062!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"|
|-| style="width: 130px" |CCF|Edward H. Walker|align="right"|2,571|align="right"|50.76%|align="right"|+7.70|Liberal|Ronald A. MacLean|align="right"|2,494|align="right"|49.24%|align="right"|-0.81|- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|5,065!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"|
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bengough|| |Allan L.S. Brown
3,599||Archie V. Wightman
2,627||Arnold L. Meginbir
705|||| |Allan L. Samuel Brown|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cannington||Ralph Hjertaas
3,422|| |William Patterson
4,687||Peter Franchuk
500|||| |William John Patterson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lumsden|| |William S. Thair
2,876||Henry P. Mang
2,220||Gustav D. Pelzer
744||Arthur M. Pearson (PC) 1,003|| |William Sancho Thair|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Milestone|| |Jacob Erb
2,803||||George M. Howell
1,020||Lionel Aston (Liberal-PC) 2,363|| |Frank Keem Malcolm**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moosomin||Ivan Burden
3,442|||||| |Alex "Hammy" McDonald (Conservative-Liberal) 5,251|| |Arthur Thomas Procter**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Qu'Appelle-Wolseley||Warden Burgess
3,903|| |Frederick M. Dundas
4,470||Evert F. Josephson
1,253|||| |Warden Burgess|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Souris-Estevan||Charles Cuming
4,741|| |John E. McCormack
4,924||John K. Strachan
417|||| |Charles David Cuming|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Weyburn|| |Tommy Douglas
6,273||||Isabel Paxman
638||F. Charles Eaglesham (Liberal-PC) 4,228|| |Tommy Douglas
|style="width: 130px"|Liberal|Rosscoe A. McCarthy|align="right"|4,200|align="right"|54.06%|align="right"|-0.38|CCF|Edward G. McCullough|align="right"|3,569|align="right"|45.94%|align="right"|+6.19|- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|7,769!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"|
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moose Jaw City|| |John Wesley Corman
7,534D. Henry R. Heming
7,331||||||H. Gordon Young (Ind.) 5,240J. Fraser McClellan (Ind.) 4,955|| |John Wesley CormanDempster Henry R. Heming|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon City|| |John Henry Sturdy
14,970Arthur T. Stone
14,295||L. Charles Sherman
11,551||Malcolm J. Haver
1,959||Rupert D. Ramsay (PC) 13,376|| |John Henry SturdyArthur T. Stone|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina City|| |Charlie Williams
20,475Clarence Fines
20,474||Wilfred G. Brown
16,578||Walter E. Stowe
1,049Anthony E. Kovatch
971||Allan W. Embury (PC) 16,740|| |Charles Cromwell WilliamsClarence Melvin Fines