The following elections occurred in the year 1948.
Africa
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1948 Mauritian general election
General elections were held in Mauritius in August 1948. They were the first under a new constitution, which established a Legislative Council with 19 elected members, 12 appointed members and 3 ''ex officio'' members, and expanded the franchise t ...
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1948 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa on 26 May 1948. They represented a turning point in the country's history, as despite receiving just under half of the votes cast, the United Party and its leader, incumbent Prime Minister Jan Smuts, ...
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1948 Southern Rhodesian general election
General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 15 September 1948. They saw Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins regain the overall majority he had lost in the previous elections in 1946. Huggins' United Party won a landslide, reducing the opp ...
Asia
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1948 North Korean parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held for the 1st Supreme People's Assembly of the soon-to-be established Democratic People's Republic of Korea on 25 August 1948. Organised by the People's Committee of North Korea, the elections saw 572 deputies el ...
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1948 Republic of China legislative election
The 1st Legislative Yuan election was held in China between 21 and 23 January 1948. This election, and the preceding 1947 National Assembly election are the first elections of under the newly ratified 1947 Constitution of the Republic of China. ...
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1948 Republic of China presidential election
The 1948 Chinese presidential election was held on April 20, 1948 at the National Assembly House in Nanking. The election was conducted by the National Assembly to elect the President and Vice President of China. This is the first election under ...
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1948 Singaporean general election
General elections were held for the first time in Singapore on 20 March 1948, when six of the 22 seats on the Legislative Council became directly-elected. Voting was not compulsory and was restricted to British subjects, who constituted around ...
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1948 South Korean general election
The 1948 South Korean Constitutional Assembly election took place on 10 May 1948. It was held under the American military occupation, with supervision from the United Nations, and resulted in a victory for the National Association for the Rapid Re ...
1948 Finnish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1948. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p606
Background
The political atmosphere during the July 1948 Finnish parliamentary elections was heated. ...
1948 Irish general election
The 1948 Irish general election to the 13th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 4 February following the dissolution of the 12th Dáil on 12 January 1948 by the President Seán T. O'Kelly on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. The general electi ...
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1948 Italian general election
General elections were held in Italy on 18 April 1948 to elect the first Parliament of the Italian Republic.
After the Soviet-backed coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, the U.S. became alarmed about Soviet intentions in Central Europe. ...
general election
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
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1948 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1948. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1858 Despite a campaign by a large part of the Swedish press against socializing insurances, controlled foreign ...
1948 Armagh by-election
The Armagh by-election was held on 5 March 1948, following the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament William Allen.
Allen had held the seat of Armagh since its recreation for the 1922 UK general election. He had often been elected ...
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1948 Brigg by-election
The 1948 Brigg by-election was a by-election held on 24 March 1948 for the British House of Commons constituency of Brigg in Lincolnshire.
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the constituency's Labour Party Member of Parliamen ...
1948 Edmonton by-election
A by-election for the constituency of Edmonton in the United Kingdom House of Commons was held on 13 November 1948, caused by the death of the incumbent Labour MP Evan Durbin. The result was a hold for the Labour Party, with their candidate Austen ...
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1948 Glasgow Camlachie by-election
The Glasgow Camlachie by-election was held on Wednesday 28 January 1948, following the death of the sitting Member of Parliament, Campbell Stephen.
Stephen was re-elected for the Independent Labour Party (ILP) at the 1945 general election. Howe ...
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1948 Glasgow Gorbals by-election
A by-election for the constituency of Glasgow Gorbals in the United Kingdom House of Commons was held on 30 September 1948, caused by the appointment as Chair of the National Assistance Board of the incumbent Labour MP George Buchanan. The result ...
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1948 Glasgow Hillhead by-election
A by-election for the constituency of Glasgow Hillhead in the House of Commons was held on 25 November 1948, caused by the appointment as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were judges app ...
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1948 Paisley by-election
The 1948 Paisley by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 February 1948 for the British House of Commons constituency of Paisley in Scotland. it was indirectly caused by the death of former Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Bal ...
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1948 Southwark Central by-election
A by-election for the constituency of Southwark Central (UK Parliament constituency), Southwark Central in the United Kingdom House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons was held on 29 April 1948, caused by the resignation of the incum ...
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1948 Stirling and Falkirk by-election
A by-election for the constituency of Stirling and Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency), Stirling and Falkirk in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons was held on 7 October 1948, caused by the death of the incumbent Labour M ...
1948 Guatemalan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Guatemala between 26 and 28 November 1948 in order to elect half the seats in Congress. The National Renovation Party- Revolutionary Action Party alliance won the most seats, but the Popular Liberation Front r ...
1948 Panamanian general election
General elections were held in Panama on 27 May 1948, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new National Assembly.
"For the 1948 campaign the reigning Liberal Doctrinaire Party chose 73-year-old Domingo Díaz Arosemena as its candid ...
Canada
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1948 Alberta general election
The 1948 Alberta general election was held on August 17, 1948, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Ernest C. Manning led the Social Credit to a fourth term in government, increasing its share of the popular vote further abov ...
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1948 Edmonton municipal election
The 1948 municipal election was held November 3, 1948 to elect five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council. There was no mayoral election, as Harry Ainlay was in the second year of a two-year term. There were no elections for school trustees, ...
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1948 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election
The 1948 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election was called to replace retiring Liberal leader and sitting Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The convention was held exactly 29 years after the 1919 leadership convention that saw Ki ...
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1948 New Brunswick general election
The 1948 New Brunswick general election was held on June 28, 1948, to elect 52 members to the 41st New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada.
The Liberal government of John B. McNair was ...
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1948 Newfoundland referendums
The Newfoundland referendums of 1948 were a series of two referendums to decide the political future of the Dominion of Newfoundland. Before the referendums, Newfoundland was in debt and went through several delegations to determine whether the co ...
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1948 Ontario general election
The 1948 Ontario general election was held on June 7, 1948, to elect the 90 members of the 23rd Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario.
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, ...
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1948 Ottawa municipal election
The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 6, 1948.
Mayor of Ottawa
Ottawa Board of Control
(4 elected)
Ottawa City Council
The Ottawa City Council (french: Conseil municipal d'Ottawa) is the governing body of the Cit ...
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1948 Quebec general election
The 1948 Quebec general election was held on July 28, 1948, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent '' Union Nationale'', led by Maurice Duplessis, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Lib ...
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1948 Saskatchewan general election
The 1948 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 24, 1948, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Premier Tommy Douglas was re-elected with a reduced majority in ...
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1948 Toronto municipal election Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1948. Robert Hood Saunders was re-elected as mayor in an election that also saw no changes on the Board of Control or City Council.
Toronto mayor
Mayor Robert Hood Saunders fa ...
United States
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1948 United States presidential election
The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. In one of the greatest election upsets in American history, incumbent President Harry S. Truman, the Democra ...
1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election
The 1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election was decided by a Democratic primary held in two rounds on January 20 and February 24, 1948, which was tantamount to election. The 1948 election saw the defeat of Louisiana's reformer "anti-Long" faction ...
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1948 Maine gubernatorial election
The 1948 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 13, 1948. Incumbent Republican Governor Horace A. Hildreth, was term limited and seeking election to the United States Senate (eventually losing the Republican primary to Margaret Chas ...
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1948 Minnesota gubernatorial election
The 1948 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1948. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Luther Youngdahl defeated Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party challenger Charles Halsted.
Results
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1948 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1948 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives in 1948 which coincided with President Harry S. Truman's election to a full term. Truman had campaigned against a "do-nothing"' ...
United States Senate
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1948 United States Senate elections
The 1948 United States Senate elections were elections which coincided with the election of Democratic President Harry S. Truman for a full term. Truman had campaigned against an "obstructionist" Congress that had blocked many of his initiatives, ...
1948 Argentine legislative election
Argentina held legislative elections in 1948 were held on 7 March.
Background
Elected in early 1946 on a populist platform, President Juan Perón undertook a program of nationalization of strategic industries and services, as well as the vigorou ...
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1948 Argentine Constituent Assembly election
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Argentina on 5 December 1948. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p67 Peronistas dominated the election, winning 66% of the vote. Voter turnout was 74%.Nohlen, p ...
1948 Tasmanian state election
The 1948 Tasmanian state election was held on 21 August 1948 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system:1948 elections
{{Electoral calendar navigation
1948
Events January
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** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect.
** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...