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This article is the Electoral history of Tommy Douglas, the seventh Premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. He was the longest-serving Premier of Saskatchewan, from 1944 to 1961.
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Douglas led the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in five provincial elections, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960, winning majority governments each time. He was the first of two CCF premiers.
He stood for election to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan six times. He was defeated in his first try, in 1934, but then was elected five times from 1944 to 1960.
In addition to his time in provincial politics, he was a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Canada from 1935 to 1944, and again from 1962 to 1968, and then from 1969 to 1979.
In 1961, Douglas was elected leader of the newly formed federal New Democratic Party, successor to the CCF. He resigned as Premier to re-enter federal politics, and was succeeded as Premier and leader of the CCF by Woodrow Lloyd.
Douglas led the federal NDP in four federal elections, in 1962, 1963, 1965, and 1968. The NDP remained a third party after each election.
Douglas stood for election to the House of Commons ten times in eight general elections and in two by-elections. He was elected eight times and defeated twice. After retiring from the NDP leadership in 1971, he remained in the Commons until 1979, when he retired from politics, after over forty years of electoral service, both federally and provincially.