User:Mr Serjeant Buzfuz/Electoral history of James Garfield Gardiner
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This article is the Electoral history of James Garfield Gardiner, the fourth Premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. He served two non-consecutive terms, the only Saskatchewan Premier to do so, from 1926 to 1929 and from 1934 to 1935.
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Gardiner led the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan in two provincial elections, in 1929 and 1934. The 1929 election returned a hung parliament and Gardiner resigned as Premier after being defeated on a confidence vote in the Assembly. He again led the Liberals in the 1934 election and won a majority government. He was the fourth of six Liberal premiers to date.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan seven times from 1916 to 1934, five by contested elections and twice by acclamation.
In 1935, Gardiner resigned as Premier in 1935 to enter federal politics and was succeeded as Premier by William Patterson. He was elected to Parliament six times and served as the federal Minister of Agriculture for over twenty-one years, in the governments of William Lyon Mackenzie King and then Louis St. Laurent. He made an unsuccessful attempt to become Prime Minister on King's retirement in 1948, but was defeated by St. Laurent.
He was defeated in his own riding in the federal general election of 1958 and retired from politics.