Communist Party of Canada (Saskatchewan)

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Communist Party of Canada (Saskatchewan)
Former provincial party
Ideology
National affiliation Communist Party of Canada

The Communist Party of Canada (Saskatchewan) was a communist party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was the Saskatchewan section of the Communist Party of Canada.

The party nominated candidates for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in provincial elections between 1938 and 1986. It ran three popular front candidates under the name "Unity" in 1938, electing two MLAs. It also ran two candidates under the Communist label, who failed to get elected. After the Communist Party was banned in the early years of World War II, it established the Labor-Progressive Party as its legal front, and ran candidates under that name throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It reverted to the Communist Party label in 1960.

Electoral history

Election# of votes% of popular vote# of candidates# elected
Unity / Communist
1938 9,848 Unity / 8,514 Communist2.24 Unity / 1.93 Communist3 Unity / 2 Communist2 Unity / 0 Communist
Labor-Progressive Party
1944 2,0670.5230
1948 1,3010.2610
1952 1,1510.2120
1956 5360.120
Communist Party
1960 3800.0620
1964 680.0110
1971 460.0110
1986 730.0110

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