Morse (electoral district)

Morse is a former provincial electoral division for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, centred on the town of Morse, Saskatchewan. The district was created before the 3rd Saskatchewan general election in 1912, and abolished before the 23rd Saskatchewan general election in 1995. It was the riding of Premier Ross Thatcher.

It is now part of the Lumsden-Morse, Swift Current, and Wood River constituencies.

#	MLA	Served	Party
1.	Malcolm L. Leitch	1912 – 1921	Liberal
2.	John Archibald Maharg	1921 – 1925	Independent Pro-Government
3.	William Paris MacLachlan	1925 – 1927	Liberal
4.	Duncan Morris Robertson	Aug. 1927 – 1929	Liberal
5.	Richard Percy Eades	1929 – 1934	Conservative
6.	Neil John MacDonald	1934 – 1938	Liberal
7.	Benjamin T. Hyde	1938 – 1944	Liberal
8.	Sidney M. Spidell	1944 – 1946	CCF
9.	Jim Gibson	Sept. 1946 – 1960	CCF
10.	Ross Thatcher	1960 – 1971	Liberal
11.	Jack Wiebe	1971 – 1978	Liberal
12.	Reg Gross	1978 – 1982	New Democrat
13.	Harold Martens	1982 – 1995	Progressive Conservative

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Malcolm L. Leitch	876	61.52%	–
	Conservative	Henry M. Klassen	548	38.48%	–
Total			1,424	100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Malcolm L. Leitch	1,553	34.45%	-27.07
	Nonpartisan League	Edward Wright Grainger	1,425	31.61%	–
	Conservative	Henry Edmund Houze	871	19.32%	-19.16
	Independent	John F. Wiebe	659	14.62%	–
Total			4,508	100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Pro-Government	John Archibald Maharg	Acclaimed	100.00%
Total			Acclamation

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Paris MacLachlan	2,480	65.26%	-
	Progressive	John Ferguson Byce	1,320	34.74%	-
Total			3,800	100.00%

Members of the Legislative Assembly

1938 Saskatchewan general election: Morse electoral district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Benjamin T. Hyde	2,861	43.59%	-2.47
	CCF	Henry Peter Thiessen	1,808	27.55%	+3.31
	Conservative	Clifford B. Martin	1,416	21.58%	-8.12
	Social Credit	William E. Armstrong	478	7.28%	–
Total			6,563	100.00%

1944 Saskatchewan general election: Morse electoral district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CCF	Sidney M. Spidell	2,763	49.25%	+21.70
	Liberal	Benjamin T. Hyde	2,122	37.83%	-5.76
	Prog. Conservative	Clifford B. Martin	725	12.92%	-8.66
Total			5,610	100.00%

June 27, 1946 By-Election: Morse electoral district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CCF	Jim Gibson	3,006	46.15%	-3.10
	Liberal	Herbert Wiebe	2,410	37.00%	-0.83
	Prog. Conservative	Rupert D. Ramsay	1,098	16.85%	+3.93
Total			6,514	100.00%

1948 Saskatchewan general election: Morse electoral district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CCF	Jim Gibson	3,069	45.75%	-0.40
	Liberal	Ronald D. Miller	2,465	36.74%	-0.26
	Social Credit	Fred Erhardt	694	10.34%	-
	Prog. Conservative	John Kinchen Rosa	481	7.17%	-9.68
Total			6,709	100.00%