Unity or Progressive Unity was the name used in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, Canada

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, by a popular front

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 party initiated by the Communist Party of Canada

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 for the 1938 Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan general election, 1938

The Saskatchewan general election of 1938 was the ninth provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on June 8, 1938, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan....

 and 1940 Canadian election

Canadian federal election, 1940

The Canadian federal election of 1940 was the 19th general election in Canadian history. It was held March 26, 1940 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 19th Parliament of Canada...

.

Under this label, two Saskatchewan MLA

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s were elected and Dorise Nielson was elected to the House of Commons

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. Nielson was a supporter of the Communist Party and ran for re-election in 1945 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1945

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 as a Labour Progressive Party candidate (the name adopted by the Communist Party after it was banned) and was defeated.

See also:

• Politics of Saskatchewan
  Politics of Saskatchewan
  The Politics of Saskatchewan are part of the Canadian federal political system along with the other Canadian provinces. Saskatchewan has a Lieutenant-Governor, Gordon Barnhart, who is the representative of the Crown in Right of Saskatchewan, an elected premier, Brad Wall, leading the Cabinet, and a...
  
  
• Communist Party of Canada (Saskatchewan)
  Communist Party of Canada (Saskatchewan)
  The Communist Party of Canada was a communist political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was the Saskatchewan section of the Communist Party of Canada...
  
  

United Progressive

In the 1940 federal election, William Halina sought election to the Canadian House of Commons in the riding

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 of Vegreville

Vegreville (electoral district)

Vegreville was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1997.This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Strathcona and Victoria ridings....

, Alberta

Alberta

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 under the United Progressive banner. Halina won 2,727 votes, or 19.4% of the total cast, placing third behind the Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

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 and Liberal

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 candidates, but ahead of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

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 candidate.

His campaign may have been related to the Progressive Unity platform that elected communist Dorise Nielsen

Dorise Nielsen

Dorise Winifred Webber Nielsen was a Canadian politician and teacher.Born in England, Nielsen arrived in Canada and settled in Saskatchewan in 1927 to work as a teacher and married a homesteader the same year. She joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1934 and was a CCF campaign...

 in Saskatchewan in the same election. Halina ran for the communist Labour-Progressive Party

Labour-Progressive Party

For the Labour-Progressive Coalition Government in New Zealand see the Fifth Labour Government of New ZealandThe Labor-Progressive Party was the legal political organization of the Communist Party of Canada between 1943 and 1959....

in the 1945 election.