1967 Saskatchewan general election explained

Election Name:	1967 Saskatchewan general election
Country:	Saskatchewan
Flag Year:	1965
Type:	parliamentary
Party Colour:	no
Party Name:	no
Previous Election:	1964 Saskatchewan general election
Previous Year:	1964
Previous Mps:	15th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
Elected Mps:	members
Next Election:	1971 Saskatchewan general election
Next Year:	1971
Next Mps:	17th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
Seats For Election:	59 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
Majority Seats:	30
Image1:	LIB
Leader1:	Ross Thatcher
Leader Since1:	September 24, 1959
Leaders Seat1:	Morse
Last Election1:	32
Seats1:	35
Seat Change1:	3
Popular Vote1:	193,871
Percentage1:	45.57%
Swing1:	5.17pp
Leader2:	Woodrow Lloyd
Leader Since2:	November 3, 1961
Leaders Seat2:	Biggar
Last Election2:	26
Seats2:	24
Seat Change2:	2
Popular Vote2:	188,653
Percentage2:	44.35%
Swing2:	4.05pp
Image3:	PC
Leader3:	Martin Pederson
Leader Since3:	October 28, 1958
Leaders Seat3:	Arm River (lost re-election)
Last Election3:	1
Seats3:	0
Seat Change3:	1
Popular Vote3:	41,583
Percentage3:	9.78%
Swing3:	9.12pp
Premier
Before Election:	Ross Thatcher
Posttitle:	Premier after election
After Election:	Ross Thatcher

The 1967 Saskatchewan general election was held on October 11, 1967, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

The Liberal Party of Saskatchewan, led by Premier Ross Thatcher, was re-elected with a slightly larger majority in the legislature and a larger share of the popular vote.

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation had changed its name to the New Democratic Party to match the change that had already been made at the federal level. Still led by former Premier Woodrow Lloyd, the NDP also won an increased share of the popular vote but lost one of the seats that the CCF had won in the previous election.

The Liberal and NDP gains in the popular vote came at the expense of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan of Martin Pederson, which lost about half of its votes. Pederson finished third in the constituency he had won three years earlier, and no other PC members were elected. However, a PC candidate finished second in Athabasca.

It was the first election in which the cities of Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw were divided into two or more ridings instead of having a single city-wide multiple-member district for each city. Previously those cities had elected their MLAs through Plurality block voting, but starting in this election, the city MLAs began to be elected through First past the post.

It was the last election, as of 2020, in which the leaders of both the government and the opposition in Saskatchewan represented rural constituencies. It was also the last election contested by the Social Credit Party, which nominated six candidates. To date this is the last election in which the Saskatchewan Liberal Party won a majority of seats.

Results

|- bgcolor=CCCCCC!rowspan=2 colspan=2 align=center|Party!rowspan=2 align=center|Party leader!rowspan=2|

Candidates!colspan=4 align=center|Seats!colspan=3 align=center|Popular vote|- bgcolor=CCCCCC|align="center"|1964|align="center"|Elected|align="center"|% Change|align="center"|#|align="center"|%|align="center"|% Change|align="center"|Ross Thatcher|align="right"| 59|align="right"|32|align="right"| 35|align="right"|+9.4%|align="right"|193,871|align="right"|45.57%|align="right"|+5.17%|align="center"|Woodrow Lloyd|align="right"| 59|align="right"|25|align="right"| 24|align="right"|-4.0%|align="right"|188,653|align="right"|44.35%|align="right"|+4.05%|align="center"|Martin Pederson|align="right"| 41|align="right"|1|align="right"| –|align="right"|-100%|align="right"|41,583|align="right"|9.78%|align="right"|-9.12%|align="center"||align="right"| 6|align="right"|–|align="right"| –|align="right"|–|align="right"|1,296|align="right"|0.30%|align="right"|-0.09%|-|colspan=3| Total|align="right"| 165|align="right"|58|align="right"|59|align="right"|+1.7%|align="right"|425,403|align="right"|100%|align="right"| |-| align="center" colspan=11|Source: Elections Saskatchewan|-

Ranking

Party		Seats	Second	Third	Fourth	35	24	0	0	24	34	1	0	0	1	40	0	0	0	1	5

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

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Athabasca|| |Allan Ray Guy
1,397||Tony Wood
602||Harry J. Houghton
818|||| |Allan Ray Guy|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cut Knife-Lloydminster||Ben Gulak
2,121|| |Miro Kwasnica
2,862||Gordon Goodfellow
1,289||Walter B. Hoover (Social Credit) 164|| |Isidore Charles Nollet**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Meadow Lake|| |Henry Coupland
2,394||Martin Semchuk
2,288||Leo Jeannotte
921|||| |Henry Ethelbert Coupland|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Redberry||Steve Sulatisky
2,343|| |Dick Michayluk
2,365||Ed Thunderchild
510|||| |Demitro Wasyl Michayluk|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Rosthern|| |David Boldt
2,950||George Guenther
1,466|||||| |David Boldt|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shellbrook||Pat Moan
2,204|| |George Bowerman
2,515||Norval Horner
910|||| |John Marcel Cuelenaere**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|The Battlefords||Herbert O.M. Sparrow
3,700|| |Eiling Kramer
4,200|||||| |Eiling Kramer|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Turtleford||John Flack
2,125|| |Bob Wooff
2,152||Hugh E. Konsmo
813|||| |Robert Hanson Wooff

Northeastern Saskatchewan

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humboldt|| |Mathieu Breker
3,693||Palma Little
2,881||Frank J. Martin
720|||| |Mathieu Theodore Breker|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kelsey||William John McHugh
2,381|| |John R. Messer
2,473||Carsten Johnson
606|||| |John Hewgill Brockelbank**|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kelvington|| |Bryan Bjarnason
2,440||Neil Byers
2,432||Anita M. Kubat
659|||| |Bryan Bjarnason|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kinistino||Lyle Rea
2,724|| |Arthur Thibault
3,260|||||| |Arthur Thibault|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Melfort-Tisdale||Donald Lamb
3,650|| |Clarence George Willis
4,133||||Orville Pederson (Social Credit) 331|| |Clarence George Willis|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Nipawin|| |Frank Radloff
2,454||Walter A. Mills
2,446||John A. Whittome
1,185|||| |Frank Kenneth Radloff|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Prince Albert East-Cumberland||Eldon McLachlan
3,152|| |Bill Berezowsky
4,123|||||| |Bill Berezowsky|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Prince Albert West|| |Davey Steuart
5,090||Orville K. Hjertaas
4,928|||||| |David Gordon Steuart

West Central Saskatchewan

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Arm River|| |Wilbert McIvor
1,929||Merle Snustead
1,895||Martin Pederson
1,214|||| |Martin Pederson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Biggar||Elmer McNiven
1,571|| |Woodrow S. Lloyd
2,916||Peter Wiebe
1,334|||| |Woodrow Lloyd|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Elrose|| |George Leith
3,081||David Loewen
2,957|||||| |George Gordon Leith|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hanley|| |Robert Andrew Heggie
2,282||Robert Alexander Walker
2,149|||||| |Robert Alexander Walker|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kerrobert-Kindersley|| |William S. Howes
3,499||Boyd Sadler
2,672|||||| |William S. Howes|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Rosetown|| |George Loken
2,951||Harry David Link
2,446||Earl Keeler
862|||| |George Fredrick Loken|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Watrous|| |Percy Schmeiser
2,622||Hans Broten
2,557||Hugh Kirk
533|||| |Hans Broten|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Wilkie|| |Joseph "Cliff" McIsaac
3,817||Norman Heather
2,436|||||| |Joseph "Cliff" McIsaac

East Central Saskatchewan

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Canora||Ken Romuld
3,170|| |Al Matsalla
3,386|||||| |Kenneth Gordon Romuld|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Last Mountain|| |Donald MacLennan
2,425||Gordon MacMurchy
2,399||George Richardson
995|||| |Donald Gilbert MacLennan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Melville||James W. Gardiner
3,463|| |John Kowalchuk
3,584||Art Pelzer
799|||| |James Wilfrid Gardiner|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pelly|| |Jim Barrie
3,002||Leo Larson
2,753|||||| |Leo Larson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saltcoats|| |James Snedker
3,639||Charles Woolfitt
2,392||Cliff Obre
904|||| |James Snedker|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Touchwood||George Trapp
2,713|| |Frank Meakes
3,002|||||| |George Joseph Trapp|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Wadena||George Fisher
3,146|| |Fred Dewhurst
4,213|||||| |Frederick Arthur Dewhurst|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yorkton|| |Barry Gallagher
5,048||Irving W. Carlson
4,393|||||| |Bernard David Gallagher

Southwest Saskatchewan

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gravelbourg|| |Leo Coderre
2,385||Norman Allan
1,860||Keith Mukelt
567|||| |Lionel Philas Coderre|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Maple Creek|| |Alexander Cameron
2,683||Ernie Howes
1,901||Marlyn K. Clary
955|||| |Alexander C. Cameron|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moose Jaw North||Vic Cole
2,725|| |Gordon Snyder
2,860||Daniel J. Patterson
1,126|||| |Gordon Snyder|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moose Jaw South||Harry P. Swarbrick
2,415|| |Bill Davies
4,674||Nick Markewich
1,356|||| |William Gwynne Davies|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Morse|| |Ross Thatcher
3,396||Louis H. Lewry
2,398||Earl Cooper
694|||| |Ross Thatcher|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Notukeu-Willow Bunch|| |Jim Hooker
2,772||Allan Engel
2,216|||||| |James Benjamin Hooker|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shaunavon|| |Fernand Larochelle
3,091||Robert B. Fulton
2,684|||||| |Fernand Larochelle|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Swift Current||T. Lawrence Salloum
3,366|| |Everett Irvine Wood
4,825||Donald C. McGowan
1,439|||| |Everett Irvine Wood

Southeast Saskatchewan

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bengough|| |Alex Mitchell
2,408||Dale Leifso
2,194||Jim Hall
723|||| |Alexander Mitchell|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cannington|| |Tom Weatherald
3,436||Stanley G. Barnard
2,377||Glenn Brimner
1,436|||| |Thomas Milton Weatherald|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lumsden|| |Darrel Heald
2,812||Cliff Thurston
2,114||Donald K. MacPherson
917|||| |Darrel Verner Heald|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Milestone|| |Cyril MacDonald
2,491||Fred P. Petruic
1,920||J.K. Glenn
610|||| |Cyril Pius MacDonald|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moosomin|| |Frank Gardner
3,297||William Francis Goodwin
2,435||Andrew Emerson Bruce
1,956|||| |E. Franklin Gardner|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Qu'Appelle-Wolseley|| |Doug McFarlane
2,990||John Stephen Leier
1,842||Victor Edward Horsman
1,401||Lloyd Avram (Social Credit) 323|| |Douglas Thomas McFarlane|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Souris-Estevan|| |Ian MacDougall
5,197||Russell Brown
4,335|||||| |Ian Hugh MacDougall|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Weyburn||Junior Staveley
4,693|| |Jim Pepper
4,876||Jean Benson
865|||| |James Auburn Pepper

Saskatoon

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon City Park-University|| |Jeff Charlebois
6,096||Alex M. Nicholson
5,410||Mel Mills
1,356||| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Mayfair||Alex W. Prociuk
3,576|| |John Edward Brockelbank
5,739||Hugh Rainey
1,432||| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Nutana Centre|| |Clarence Estey
6,184||Wes Robbins
4,902||George Bateman
1,170||| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Nutana South|| |Bill Forsyth
5,193||Adele Smillie
3,445||Peter Ritchie
1,267||| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Riversdale||Margaret Gent
2,327|| |Roy Romanow
4,888||Emanuel Sonnenschein
1,160||| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District

Regina

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Centre||Pat McKerral
2,442|| |Allan Blakeney
4,363||Les Youngson
698||Nelson Falkowsky (Social Credit) 142| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina North East||Frank Gerein
3,344|| |Walt Smishek
5,892||Albert E. Wilson
1,224||| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina North West||Frank Kleefeld
3,728|| |Ed Whelan
5,364||George J. Tkach
1,011||H. Ken Cooper (Social Credit) 147| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina South|| |Gordon Grant
6,297||Jack W. Kehoe
2,575||Lillian Groeller
487|||| |Gordon Burton Grant|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina South East||Paul Dojack
5,461|| |Henry Baker
5,893||Bill Barry
896||| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina South West|| |Don McPherson
5,890||Murray Koskie
4,076||Dennis Braun
1,084||Henry Austin Hunt (Social Credit) 189| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District