The Battlefords (federal electoral district)

This article is about the defunct federal riding. For the provincial electoral district, see The Battlefords (provincial electoral district). For other uses, see Battleford (disambiguation).

The Battlefords was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1968. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of North Battleford, Rosetown and South Battleford ridings.

It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Meadow Lake, Battleford—Kindersley and Saskatoon—Biggar ridings.

History

Historical boundaries

• 
  1933 representation order
• 
  1947 representation order
• 
  1952 representation order

Members of Parliament

This ridings elected the following members of Parliament:

1. Joseph Needham, Social Credit (1935–1940)
2. John Albert Gregory, Liberal (1940–1945)
3. Max Campbell, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) (1945–1949)
4. Arthur James Bater, Liberal (1949–1953)
5. Max Campbell, CCF (1953–1958)
6. Albert Horner, Progressive Conservative (1958–1968)

Election results

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Joseph Needham	6,314
	Liberal	John Vallance	5,990
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Louise Lucas	3,247
	Conservative	Ariel Franklin Sallows	2,766

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Albert Gregory	7,195
	New Democracy	Joseph Needham	5,453
	Co-operative Commonwealth	I.C. Nollet	4,512

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Max Campbell	7,579
	Liberal	John Albert Gregory	5,156
	Progressive Conservative	John David Deans	2,994
	Social Credit	Anders Olav Aalborg	1,346

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Arthur James Bater	8,034
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Max Campbell	6,715
	Progressive Conservative	John George Walker	1,948

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Max Campbell	8,922
	Liberal	Arthur James Bater	8,481
	Progressive Conservative	Alfred V. Svoboda	1,345

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Max Campbell	8,320
	Liberal	Duff Noble	6,287
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Horner	4,325
	Social Credit	Peter J. Klippenstein	2,298

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Horner	10,970
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Max Campbell	6,363
	Liberal	William J. Burak	2,975

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Horner	11,740
	New Democratic	Joe Phelps	5,166
	Liberal	S. Duff Noble	5,045

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Horner	12,108
	Liberal	Hugh James Maher	4,179
	New Democratic	Fred Woloshyn	3,771
	Social Credit	John Boskay	746

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Horner	10,297
	New Democratic	Don Sinclair	6,107
	Liberal	Ed Odishaw	4,478

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada