Saskatchewan general election, 1967

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October 11, 1967 (1967-10-11)

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59 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
30 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
	LIB		PC
Leader	Ross Thatcher	Woodrow Lloyd	Martin Pederson
Party	Liberal	New Democratic	Progressive Conservative
Leader since	September 24, 1959	November 3, 1961	October 28, 1958
Leader's seat	Morse	Biggar	Arm River (lost re-election)
Last election	32	26	1
Seats won	35	24	0
Seat change	3	2	1
Popular vote	193,871	188,653	41,583
Percentage	45.57%	44.35%	9.78%
Swing	5.17pp	4.05pp	9.12pp

Premier before election

Ross Thatcher
Liberal

Premier-designate

Ross Thatcher
Liberal

The Saskatchewan general election of 1967 was the sixteenth provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on October 11, 1967, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

The Liberal Party of Saskatchewan, led by Premier W. Ross Thatcher, was re-elected with a slightly larger majority in the legislature and a larger share of the popular vote.

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation had changed its name to the New Democratic Party to match the change that had already been made at the federal level. Still led by former Premier Woodrow Lloyd, the NDP also managed to win an increased share of the popular vote but lost one of the seats that the CCF had won in the previous election.

The Liberal and NDP gains in the popular vote came at the expense of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan of Martin Pederson, which lost about half of its votes. Pederson finished third in the constituency he had won three years earlier, and no other PC members were elected. However, a PC candidate finished second in Athabasca.

It was the first election in which the cities of Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw were divided into two or more ridings instead of having a single multiple-member district for each city.

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