– Regina City, Saskatchewan – MP 1945 (ran 1949, CCF lost) Robert Ross (Roy) Knight – teacher – CCF – Saskatoon City, Saskatchewan – MP 1945, Saskatoon 1949, 1953 (ran 1957, CCF lost) Thomas Bentley – agriculturist – CCF – Swift Current, Saskatchewan – MP 1945 (ran 1949, CCF lost) Max Campbell – manager – CCF – the Battlefords, Saskatchewan – MP 1945 (ran 1949, CCF lost) returned 1953, 1957 (ran 1958, CCF lost) Eric Bowness McKay – teacher – CCF – Weyburn, Saskatchewan – MP 1945 (1949, riding merged with Maple Creek, ran, CCF lost) Hazen Argue – farmer – CCF – Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan – MP 1945 Assiniboia 1949, 1953, 1957, 1958 (Switched to the Liberals in 1961 after he lost the NDP leadership race, re-elected as a Liberal in 1962 but defeated by the Progressive Conservatives in 1963 and 1965) also William Irvine, a former Progressive and United Farmers of Alberta MP (1917–1935) and founding member of the CCF who was defeated in 1935 returns to Parliament, this time as a British Columbia MP, marking the first time he is elected as a CCFer – editor – CCF – Cariboo – MP 1945–1949 (ran, CCF lost) 1948 by-elections Three CCFers were elected for the first time in by-elections in 1948, for a total of 32 MPs: Rodney Young – student – CCF – Vancouver Centre, BC – MP 1948 (ran 1949, CCF lost) Owen Lewis Jones – merchant – CCF – Yale, BC – MP 1948, 1949, Okanagan Boundary 1953 (ran 1957, CCF lost) Arthur Henry Williams – trade union organizer – CCF – Ontario, Ontario – MP 1948 (ran 1949, CCF lost) 1949 general election The party was reduced to 13 seats in the 1949 election, gaining no new MPs. 1953 general election The party won 23 seats in the 1953 election, including three members who had previously been elected, and seven new members: Erhart Regier – teacher – CCF/NDP – Burnaby-Coquitlam – MP 1953, 1957, 1958, 1962 (gives up seat after 1962 g.e. for Tommy Douglas, which he won in a by-election) Thomas Speakman Barnett – millworker – CCF/NDP – Comox-Alberni – MP 1953, 1957, (ran 1958, CCF lost) returned as NDP 1962, 1963, 1965, (ran 1968, NDP lost, result voided) returned in by-election 1969, 1972 (retired 1974, NDP lost) Colin Cameron – pipe fitter/political economist/former MLA – CCF – Nanaimo, BC – MP 1953,