1938 Saskatchewan general election

The 1938 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 8, 1938, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

The Liberal Party was returned to power under its new leader, William John Patterson, but it lost twelve of the seats it had held in the previous legislature. The Liberals faced several new forces in this election.

Six "Unity" candidates also ran in an attempt to create a popular front of the Communists, CCF supporters and various populists. Although two were elected, they received only a very small fraction of the overall vote.

Results

|align="center"|William Patterson |align="right"| 53 |align="right"|50 |align="right"|50 |align="right"| 38 |align="right"|-24% |align="right"|200,334 |align="right"|45.45% |align="right"|-2.55%

|align="center"|George Williams |align="right"| 31 |align="right"|5 |align="right"|5 |align="right"| 10 |align="right"|+100% |align="right"|82,529 |align="right"|18.73% |align="right"|-5.26%

|align="center"|Joseph Needham(default) |align="right"| 40 |align="right"|* |align="right"|– |align="right"| 2 |align="right"|* |align="right"|70,084 |align="right"|15.90% |align="right"|*

|align=left|Unity |align="center"| |align="right"| 3 |align="right"|– |align="right"|– |align="right"| 2 |align="right"|– |align="right"|9,848 |align="right"|2.24% |align="right"|+2.00%

| colspan=2 align=left|Independent Labour |align="right"| 3 |align="right"|* |align="right"|– |align="right"| – |align="right"|* |align="right"|12,039 |align="right"|2.73% |align="right"|+2.40%

|align=left|Labour Progressive |align="center"| |align="right"| 2 |align="right"|* |align="right"|– |align="right"| – |align="right"|* |align="right"|8,514 |align="right"|1.93% |align="right"|*

| colspan=2 align=left|Independent |align="right"| 2 |align="right"|– |align="right"|– |align="right"| – |align="right"|– |align="right"|4,023 |align="right"|0.91% |align="right"|+0.22%

| colspan=2 align=left|Independent Conservative |align="right"| 1 |align="right"|* |align="right"|– |align="right"| – |align="right"|* |align="right"|828 |align="right"|0.19% |align="right"|* |- | bgcolor="ACDEAD"| | colspan=2 align=left|Independent Social Credit |align="right"| 1 |align="right"|* |align="right"|– |align="right"| – |align="right"|* |align="right"|228 |align="right"|0.05% |align="right"|* |- |colspan=3| Total |align="right"| 160 |align="right"|55 |align="right"|55 |align="right"| 52 |align="right"|-5.5% |align="right"|440,742 |align="right"|100% |align="right"| |- | align="center" colspan=11|Source: Elections Saskatchewan

Note: * Party did not nominate candidates in previous election.

Percentages

Ranking Party SeatsSecondThirdFourth381500101362213187Unity2010Conservative0996Other parties0270

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 Electoral DistrictCandidatesIncumbentCo-operative Commonwealth FederationConservativeOther Athabasca Jules Marion642William J. Windrum (Liberal) 628 Deakin Alexander HallCut Knife John A. Gordon2,379Andrew Macauley1,766Bill Roseland2,471 Andrew James MacauleyMeadow Lake Donald MacDonald3,184Robert C. Paul1,800Judson B. Clark2,434 Donald MacDonaldRedberry Orest Zerebko2,601Sheridan P. Porter1,824Arnold Larsen (Ind.) 1,572New DistrictRosthern John Uhrich3,267H. Henry Henschel1,735Peter Peters (Ind. Social Credit) 228 John Michael UhrichShellbrook Omer Demers2,933Albert Mansfield1,343Virden Gable2,560 Omer DemersThe Battlefords John Gregory3,119Lloyd A. Gardiner1,287Albert J. Tatchell2,085 John Albert GregoryTurtleford Bill Kerr2,925John Stegehuis440James Proctor2,759Walter A. Hicks456 Charles Arthur Ayre**

Northeastern Saskatchewan Electoral DistrictCandidatesIncumbentCo-operative Commonwealth FederationConservative Cumberland Deakin A. Hall548George W. Smith57New DistrictHumboldt Jim King3,636Joe Burton3,446John J. Lins385 James Chisholm KingKelvington James Marshall2,747Peter Howe4,174 George Ernest DraganKinistino John Taylor2,866William J. Boyle1,864William H. Setka1,482Andrew Fraser560 John Richard Parish TaylorMelfort John MacFarlane2,657Oakland Woods Valleau3,024Chrysostom J. Lewis1,029Gilbert D. Eamer1,604 John Duncan MacFarlanePrince Albert Thomas Davis5,279John J.F. McIsaac970George Bzowey2,342Kennedy H. Palmer2,227 Thomas Clayton DavisTisdale Harvie Dorrance3,421John Hewgill Brockelbank4,202Robert M. Locker1,115Garth F. Johnston654 Harvie James DorranceTorch River Jim Kiteley1,992Harry Fenster1,354Herve Prince1,025Conrad B. Euler366New District

|style="width: 130px"|CCF |Joe Burton |align="right"|3,909 |align="right"|50.90% |align="right"|+4.75%

West Central Saskatchewan Electoral DistrictCandidatesIncumbentCo-operative Commonwealth FederationConservative Arm River Gustaf Herman Danielson3,295John Diefenbaker3,105 Gustaf Herman DanielsonBiggar Bob Hassard3,196John Young3,341Henry A. Gardner841 Robert Pelham HassardHanley Charles Agar2,774Frederick E. Roluf1,599John A. Stewart1,623 Charles AgarKerrobert-Kindersley Donald Laing3,298Frank Jaenicke1,201Robert M. Goodwin2,336Donald LaingKerrobertMerged districtLouis Henry HantelmanKindersleyRosetown Neil McVicar2,449John T. Douglas1,941William J. Loucks1,415Andrew Wilson951 Neil McVicarWatrous Frank S. Krenn3,522John Waldbillig2,181Charles A. Schmeiser1,609Julius W. Stechishin474 Bert Clement**Wilkie John C. Knowles4,053Frank R. Beggs2,797 John Jardine**

East Central Saskatchewan Electoral DistrictCandidatesIncumbentCo-operative Commonwealth FederationConservativeOther Canora George Dragan3,259Myron Feeley3,504New DistrictLast Mountain Guy H. Hummel3,168Jacob Benson3,299William H. Schroder902Alfred J. Dyer1,121 Guy Hartsel HummelMelville Charles Dunn5,089John Herman5,100 E. Walt Gerrand**Pelly Reginald J.M. Parker3,936Gertrude S. Telford3,088 Reginald John Marsden ParkerSaltcoats Asmundur A. Loptson3,114Joseph L. Phelps3,409Alexander E. Sahlmark1,003New DistrictTouchwood John Parker1,910Tom Johnston2,301Hugh H. Lyle1,268John Hnatyshyn1,287 John Mason ParkerWadena Donald McCallum3,085George Williams4,871Harry W. Arnold345 George Hara WilliamsYorkton Vincent Smith3,274Alan Stewart (Unity) 4,955 Vincent Reynolds Smith

Southwest Saskatchewan Electoral DistrictCandidatesIncumbentCo-operative Commonwealth FederationConservativeOther Elrose George B. Weiler2,676Louis H. Hantelman3,164Gilbert A.W. Gessel1,014Henry T. Blackwell360 John Andrew Wilson**Gravelbourg Edward Culliton3,683Andrew J. Miller2,202 Edward Milton CullitonGull Lake Harvey McMahon3,901Henry Kemper3,732 Herman Henry KemperMaple Creek John Mildenberger4,058Oliver Reid2,136A.J. Mercer (Unity) 1,562 John Joseph MildenbergerMorse Benjamin T. Hyde2,861Henry P. Thiessen1,808William E. Armstrong1,416Cliff B. Martin478 Neil John MacDonald**Notukeu-Willow Bunch Charles W. Johnson3,659John E. Lidgett2,859George W.S. Eisnor1,100George Spence**NotukeuMerged districtCharles William JohnsonWillow BunchSwift Current Jim Taggart4,953Clarence Stork3,584Alfred C. Butterworth1,097 James Gordon Taggart

Southeast Saskatchewan Electoral DistrictCandidatesIncumbentCo-operative Commonwealth FederationConservativeOther Bengough James B. Smith3,158Herman K. Warren (Unity) 3,331 James Bidwell SmithCannington William Patterson4,473Gladys Strum3,477 William John PattersonLumsden Robert S. Donaldson2,596McDirmid Rankin1,847Thomas Allan McInnis624Claude H.J. Burrows1,923 Henry Phillip Mang**Milestone William Pedersen2,820Samuel Horton630Samuel Norval Horner (Ind.) 2,451 William PedersenMoosomin Arthur Procter4,198Joseph C. Richards1,400Percy S. George2,528 Arthur Thomas ProcterQu'Appelle-Wolseley Frederick M. Dundas4,871Joseph Thauberger1,496Stanley W. Nichols3,253 Frederick Middleton DundasSouris-Estevan Norman McLeod4,383W. Glenroy Allen3,467Ernest W. Hinkson441 Jesse Pichard Tripp**Weyburn George L. Crane4,744Frederick C. Williams4,167John C. Burnside (Ind. Conservative) 828 Hugh Elliott Eaglesham**

Urban constituencies Electoral DistrictCandidatesIncumbentCo-operative Commonwealth FederationConservativeOther Moose Jaw City William Gladstone Ross4,830 William George Baker4,728John Wesley Corman2,689 William J. Passmore2,465John Alexander Merkley2,137 Arthur W.E. Fawkes2,005 William Gladstone Ross William George BakerSaskatoon City James Wilfred Estey7,213 Robert Mitford Pinder6,893Jacob Klassen4,339 John Harrison Hilton4,164James T.M. Anderson5,006 Stephen N. MacEachern4,692Robert Hunter (Independent Labour) 4,813 James Wilfred Estey George Wesley Norman**Regina City Percy McCuaig Anderson12,749 Bamm David Hogarth12,641John Harold Crawford966Hugh McGillivray7,934 Frederick Bertram Bagshaw6,576Alban Cedric Ellison (Ind. Labour) 5,329

Samuel Barrington East (Lab. Prog.) 4,426

Thomas Gerald McManus (Lab. Prog.) 4,088

Alexander Duff Connon (Ind. Labour) 1,897 Percy McCuaig Anderson William Franklin Kerr

|CCF |Charles Cromwell Williams |align="right"|4,298 |align="right"|20.87% |align="right"|–

See also List of political parties in Saskatchewan List of Saskatchewan provincial electoral districts

References

Brown, Lorne A. "The Early CCF in Saskatchewan." In The Prairie Agrarian Movement Revisited, edited by Murray Knuttila and Bob Stirling, 169–185. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2007. Saskatchewan Archives Board - Election Results By Electoral Division Elections Saskatchewan - Provincial Vote Summaries

1938 Saskatchewan general election

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