Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan
- Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan
The Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan was a political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan that promoted social credit economic theories from the mid-1930s to the late 1960s.
The party fought its first election campaign in the 1938 provincial election, and won 15.90% of the popular vote. Because Saskatchewan, like the other provinces and the federal government of Canada, uses the British parliamentary model (the 'first past the post' system) for electing its Legislative Assembly, only two of the 40 Social Credit candidates won election in 52 seats available in the legislature.
In the following election in 1944, Social Credit collapsed: it nominated only one candidate, who won only 249 votes (0.06% of the provincial popular vote).
Social Credit recovered somewhat in the 1948 provincial election, nominating 36 candidates and winning 8.09% of the popular vote.
In the 1956 provincial election, Social Credit nominated candidates in all 53 ridings, and won 21.48% of the popular vote, but only three of its candidates were elected.
Its vote fell to 12.35% in the 1960 election. Although the party nominated a few candidates in the two subsequent elections, (1964 and 1967), it could not win more than 0.45% of the popular vote or win a seat.
The party did not contest elections after 1967. It formally merged with the province's Progressive Conservative Party in the 1970s.
ee also
*Canadian social credit movement
*Social Credit Party of Canada
*List of Saskatchewan political parties
*Politics of Saskatchewan
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