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11th Saskatchewan Legislature

The 11th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was elected in the Saskatchewan general election held in June 1948. The assembly sat from February 10, 1949, to May 7, 1952.{{cite web |url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Sessions-Dates.pdf |title=Saskatchewan Sessions of the Legislative Assembly and Their Duration |format=PDF |publisher=Saskatchewan Archive Board |accessdate=2012-03-06}} The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) led by Tommy Douglas formed the government.{{cite web |url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Premiers.pdf |title=Saskatchewan Premiers |accessdate=2012-03-07 |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |format=PDF}} The Liberal Party led by Walter Adam Tucker formed the official opposition.{{cite web |url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Leaders-of-the-Opposition.pdf |format=PDF |title=Saskatchewan Leaders of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |accessdate=2012-03-07}}

Tom Johnston served as speaker for the assembly.{{cite web |url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Speakers.pdf |format=PDF |title=Saskatchewan Speakers of the Legislative Assembly |publisher=Saskatchewan Archive Board |accessdate=2012-03-07}}

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1948:{{cite web|url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Membership-of-Legislatures.pdf |title=Membership of the Legislatures |format=PDF |publisher=Saskatchewan Archive Board |accessdate=2012-03-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227192150/http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Membership-of-Legislatures.pdf |archivedate=2013-12-27 }}

class="wikitable sortable"

!

!Electoral district

!Member

!Party

!First elected / previously elected

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Arm River

|Gustaf Herman Danielson

|Liberal

|1934

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Independent|row}}

|Athabasca

|Louis Marcien Marion

|Independent

|1944{{efn|First elected as a Liberal}}

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Bengough

|Allan Lister Samuel Brown

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Biggar

|Woodrow Stanley Lloyd

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Cannington

|William John Patterson

|Liberal

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Rosscoe Arnold McCarthy (1949)

|Liberal

|1949

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Canora

|Alex Gordon Kuziak

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Cumberland

|Lorne Earl Blanchard

|Liberal

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Cut Knife

|Isidore Charles Nollet

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Elrose

|Maurice John Willis

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Gravelbourg

|Edward Milton Culliton

|Liberal

|1935, 1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Edward Hazen Walker (1951)

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1951

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Gull Lake

|Alvin Cecil Murray

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Thomas John Bentley (1949)

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1949

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Hanley

|Robert Alexander Walker

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Humboldt

|Arnold William Loehr

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Kelvington

|Peter Anton Howe

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1938

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Kerrobert-Kindersley

|John Wellbelove

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Kinistino

|William Carlton Woods

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Last Mountain

|Jacob Benson

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1929,{{efn|First elected as Progressive}} 1938

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Lumsden

|William Sancho Thair

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Maple Creek

|Alexander C. Cameron

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Meadow Lake

|William Thorneycroft Lofts

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Melfort

|John George Egnatoff

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Melville

|V. Patrick Deshaye

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Milestone

|Jacob Walter Erb

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Moose Jaw City

|John Wesley Corman

|rowspan=2 |Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Dempster Henry Ratcliffe Heming

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Conservative Liberal|row}}

|Moosomin

|Alexander Hamilton McDonald

|Conservative Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Morse

|James William Gibson

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1946

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Notukeu-Willow Bunch

|Niles Leonard Buchanan

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Pelly

|John Gray Banks

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Prince Albert

|Lachlan Fraser McIntosh

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Qu'Appelle-Wolseley

|Frederick Middleton Dundas

|Liberal

|1934, 1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Redberry

|Bernard Leo Korchinski

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Regina City

|Charles Cromwell Williams

|rowspan=2 |Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Clarence Melvin Fines

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Rosetown

|John Taylor Douglas

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Rosthern

|Walter Adam Tucker

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Saltcoats

|Asmundur A. Loptson

|Liberal

|1929, 1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Saskatoon City

|Arthur Thomas Stone

|rowspan=2 |Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|John Henry Sturdy

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Shellbrook

|Louis William Larsen

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Souris-Estevan

|John Edward McCormack

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Swift Current

|Harry Gibbs

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2 |The Battlefords

|Paul Prince

|Liberal

|1940, 1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Hugh James Maher (1950)

|Liberal

|1950

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Tisdale

|John Hewgill Brockelbank

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1938

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Torch River

|John Robert Denike

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Touchwood

|Tom Johnston

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1938

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Turtleford

|Leo Trippe

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Wadena

|Frederick Arthur Dewhurst

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1945

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Watrous

|James Andrew Darling

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Weyburn

|Thomas Clement Douglas

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Wilkie

|John Whitmore Horsman

|Liberal

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Yorkton

|Arthur Percy Swallow

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|1944

Notes:

Party Standings

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" | Affiliation

! Members

{{Canadian party colour|SK|CCF|row}}

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|align="right" |31

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Liberal

|align="right" |19

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Independent|row}}

|Independent

|align="right" |1

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Conservative Liberal|row}}

|Conservative Liberal

|align="right" |1

colspan="2" rowspan="1" |  Total

|align="right" |52

colspan="2" rowspan="1" |  Government Majority

|align="right" |10

Notes:

By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

class="wikitable sortable"

!Electoral district

!Member elected

!Party

!Election date

!Reason

Cannington

|Rosscoe Arnold McCarthy

|Liberal

|November 10, 1949

|WJ Patterson named to federal Board of Transport Commissioners{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/patterson_william_john_1886-1976.html |title=Patterson, William John (1886–1976) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan |accessdate=2012-06-05 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303164415/http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/patterson_william_john_1886-1976.html |archivedate=2009-03-03 |url-status=dead }}

Gull Lake

|Thomas John Bentley

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|November 10, 1949

|AC Murray died in September 1949{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AiRgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3W4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1950,2467946 |title=Weather Compels Tories to Defer Nomination Meet |newspaper=Start-Phoenix |location=Saskatoon |date=October 20, 1949 |page=3 |accessdate=2012-06-02}}

The Battlefords

|Hugh James Maher

|Liberal

|February 8, 1950

|P Prince died December 17, 1949{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BapkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YG8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=4515,2134282 |title=Paul Prince Passes Away |newspaper=Star-Phoenix |location=Saskatoon |date=December 17, 1949 |page=3 |accessdate=2012-06-05}}

Gravelbourg

|Edward Hazen Walker

|Co-operative Commonwealth

|July 10, 1951

|EM Culliton named to Saskatchewan Court of Appeal{{cite web|url=http://www.sasklawcourts.ca/default.asp?pg=ca_justices_08 |title=Justices of the Court |work=Courts of Saskatchewan |accessdate=2012-06-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208031739/http://www.sasklawcourts.ca/default.asp?pg=ca_justices_08 |archivedate=2012-02-08 }}

Notes

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References

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