Regina City is a former provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Regina City elected a single MLA 1905 to 1917. It elected two members 1921 to 1948, three members in 1952 and 1956, and four members in 1960. In each election where Regina elected multiple MLAs, each voter could cast as many votes as there were seats to be filled (block voting).
Its MLA 1916-1922 was Premier William Melville Martin.
The district of Regina City existed from 1905 to 1964 when it was divided into:
1960 Saskatchewan general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Charles Cromwell Williams | 23,425 | 11.14 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Allan Blakeney | 22,382 | 10.64 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Marjorie Alexandra Cooper | 22,205 | 10.56 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Ed Whelan | 21,806 | 10.37 | |||||
Liberal | Frederick William Johnson | 16,662 | 7.92 | |||||
Liberal | Leslie Charles Sherman | 16,316 | 7.76 | |||||
Liberal | James Gillis Collins | 15,578 | 7.41 | |||||
Liberal | Mavis Jeanne Adams | 14,589 | 6.94 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | John Leishman | 7,944 | 3.78 | |||||
Social Credit | Henry Austin Hunt | 7,652 | 3.64 | |||||
Social Credit | Bert Louis Iannone | 7,206 | 3.43 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | M. A. MacPherson | 7,194 | 3.42 | |||||
Social Credit | G. Lindsay Bower | 7,103 | 3.38 | |||||
Social Credit | William G. Gemlin | 7,058 | 3.36 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Donald Bowman | 6,358 | 3.02 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Walter Schmidt | 5,175 | 2.46 | |||||
Independent | Leslie Hibbs | 698 | 0.33 | |||||
Independent | Herbert Kenneth Cooper | 624 | 0.30 | |||||
Communist | William C. Beeching | 345 | 0.16 | |||||
Total number of valid votes | 210,237 | 100.00 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 63,391 | |||||||
Source: Canadian Elections Database [1] |
1956 Saskatchewan general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Charles Cromwell Williams | 23,771 | 17.55 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Marjorie Alexandra Cooper | 23,389 | 16.53 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Clarence Melvin Fines | 21,658 | 15.99 | |||||
Liberal | Leslie Charles Sherman | 11,984 | 8.85 | |||||
Liberal | George Alexander Jupp | 11,905 | 8.79 | |||||
Liberal | John M. Riffel | 11,612 | 8.58 | |||||
Social Credit | Frederick William Mullin | 10,629 | 7.85 | |||||
Social Credit | Les Hammond | 10,588 | 7.82 | |||||
Social Credit | Henry Austin Hunt | 10,455 | 7.72 | |||||
Labor–Progressive | Frederick Nelson Clarke | 419 | 0.31 | |||||
Total number of valid votes | 136,859 | 100.00 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 55,101 | |||||||
Source: Canadian Elections Database [2] |
1952 Saskatchewan general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Charles Cromwell Williams | 25,774 | 19.97 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Clarence Melvin Fines | 25,018 | 19.39 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Marjorie Alexandra Cooper | 24,706 | 19.15 | |||||
Liberal | Garnet Nelson Menzies | 16,232 | 12.58 | |||||
Liberal | Harry Grayson Robert Walker | 15,833 | 12.27 | |||||
Liberal | John Cunningham Knowles | 15,328 | 11.88 | |||||
Independent Progressive Conservative | George Alexander Jupp | 1,542 | 1.19 | |||||
Social Credit | William C. Gamelin | 1,446 | 1.12 | |||||
Social Credit | Nick Iannoue | 1,329 | 1.03 | |||||
Social Credit | Anthony E. Kovatch | 1,259 | 0.98 | |||||
Labor–Progressive | William C. Beeching | 579 | 0.45 | |||||
Total number of valid votes | 128,467 | 100.00 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 48,645 | |||||||
Source: Canadian Elections Database [3] |
1948 Saskatchewan general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Charles Cromwell Williams | 20,475 | 26.84 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Clarence Melvin Fines | 20,474 | 26.84 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Allan Williams Embury | 16,740 | 21.94 | |||||
Liberal | Wilfred George Brown | 16,578 | 21.73 | |||||
Social Credit | Walter E. Stowe | 1,049 | 1.38 | |||||
Social Credit | Anthony E. Kovatch | 971 | 1.27 | |||||
Total number of valid votes | 76,287 | 100.00 | ||||||
Source: Canadian Elections Database [4] |
1944 Saskatchewan general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Charles Cromwell Williams | 14,784 | 25.89 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Clarence Melvin Fines | 14,129 | 24.75 | |||||
Liberal | Charles Roberts Davidson | 10,982 | 19.23 | |||||
Liberal | Bernard J. McDaniel | 10,551 | 18.48 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Hugh McGillivray | 3,536 | 6.19 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Claude H. J. Burrows | 3,114 | 5.45 | |||||
Total number of valid votes | 57,906 | 100.00 | ||||||
Source: Canadian Elections Database [5] |
1938 Saskatchewan general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
Liberal | Percy McCuaig Anderson | 12,749 | 22.52 | |||||
Liberal | Bamm David Hogarth | 12,641 | 22.33 | |||||
Conservative | Hugh McGillivray | 7,934 | 14.02 | |||||
Conservative | Frederick Bertram Bagshaw | 6,576 | 11.62 | |||||
Independent Labor | Alban Cedric Ellison | 5,329 | 9.41 | |||||
Labor–Progressive | Samuel Barrington East | 4,426 | 7.82 | |||||
Labor–Progressive | Thomas Gerald McManus | 4,088 | 7.22 | |||||
Independent Labor | Alexander Duff Connon | 1,897 | 3.35 | |||||
Social Credit | John Harold Crawford | 966 | 1.71 | |||||
Total number of valid votes | 56,606 | 100.00 | ||||||
Source: Canadian Elections Database [6] |
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