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He was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1944. He became an instrumental figure in Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government between 1944 and 1961, serving as Education Minister and then Treasurer. He succeeded Douglas as Saskatchewan Premier in late 1961. In that role, Lloyd piloted Canada's first Medicare program from legislation to implementation, including resolving the 1962 Saskatchewan doctors' strike.

Lloyd's government was defeated in the 1964 provincial election and he served the next six years as the Leader of the Official Opposition. He stepped down as party leader in 1970, and from the Legislature in 1971. Lloyd was appointed to a United Nations post in South Korea, where he died of a heart attack in 1972.

Early life and careerEdit

Lloyd was born in Webb, Saskatchewan on July 16, 1913.<ref name="Phoenix 19720410">Template:Cite news</ref> He initially studied engineering, but after the onset of the Great Depression, switched his studies to teaching and graduated with a teaching degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1936.<ref name="Phoenix 19720410"/> He started teaching school that year, and eventually became a school principal in the early 1940s at Stewart Valley, Vanguard, and Biggar.<ref name="Phoenix 19720410"/> Lloyd was also active in the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation and held many positions in the organization including the presidency from 1940 to 1944.<ref name=Obit/> He also served on the University of Saskatchewan's Senate, and was the president of the Saskatchewan Educational Conference in the early 1940s.<ref name=Obit/>

Political careerEdit

Douglas government (1944–61)Edit

In the 1944 provincial election, Lloyd was elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member for the constituency of Biggar, a seat that he went on to hold until his retirement in 1971. The 1944 election brought the CCF to power for the first time with the party promising to invest in social security and economic development. Lloyd became the youngest cabinet minister in Saskatchewan history when he was appointed Minister of Education by Premier Tommy Douglas. Lloyd served in that role for the next sixteen years and oversaw the complete overhaul of the Saskatchewan education system.<ref name="Phoenix 19700401">Template:Cite news</ref> The most controversial measure he introduced was the amalgamation of thousands of local school boards into 56 larger school units in 1944–45.<ref name="Johnson 84-86">Johnson, pp. 84–86."</ref> The measure was instituted to create more equitable educational opportunities for students across the province by providing students greater opportunity to receive instruction by specialized teachers and access to increased education resources, including provincial grants.<ref name="Johnson 84-86" /> However, the move was opposed by some rural residents who resented the loss of local control over schools, as the move to larger units resulted in the closure of nearly all rural one-room schools over the next two decades.<ref name="Johnson 84-86" /><ref name="Phoenix 19550604">Template:Cite news</ref> The transformation has been called "the most revolutionary revision to the province's education system since the creation of the province", and it helped lead to increased school attendance across all age groups.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref> In addition to school reform, Lloyd led the implementation of a regional library system for the province.<ref name=":1" />

After the 1960 election—which resulted in the fifth consecutive CCF majority government—Douglas appointed Lloyd to be the provincial treasurer. The 1960 election was largely seen as a referendum on public healthcare, which the CCF had promised to implement. After the CCF victory, In 1961, Douglas resigned as premier to assume the leadership of the newly-formed federal New Democratic Party (NDP). Lloyd was elected as Douglas' successor for what was now called the Saskatchewan CCF-NDP, defeating Olaf Turnbull.<ref name="1961 Leadership victory">Lloyd (1979), p. 113.</ref> This made Lloyd the first premier of Saskatchewan to have been born in the province after its accession to Confederation in 1905.

Premier of Saskatchewan (1961–64)Edit

As Premier, Lloyd was responsible for implementing the universal health care plan that had been introduced under Douglas.<ref name="Introduction of Medicare TOStar 2012">Template:Cite news</ref> Lloyd's biggest obstacle was the July 1962 Saskatchewan doctors' strike, when the province's physicians withdrew service in an attempt to defeat the Medicare initiative.<ref name="Introduction of Medicare TOStar 2012" /> Lloyd and his government refused to back down on the concept of a universal public health care system and persuaded the doctors to settle after 23 days.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> After updated legislation was passed, Maclean's named Lloyd an "outstanding citizen".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In 1963, Lloyd's government created the Saskatchewan Economic Development Corporation to partner with private industry in research and development.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Although Medicare was successfully implemented—and would be implemented across the country in the years that followed—the political turmoil did lasting damage to the CCF government, which by 1964 and had been in power for twenty years. Ross Thatcher's Liberal Party took advantage of a mood for change and worked to limit competition between free-enterprise candidates in the 1964 provincial election; although the popular vote was a virtual tie between Lloyd's party and Thatcher's Liberals, the Liberals won a narrow majority government, which was only confirmed after a number of recounts in close ridings.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Late political career (1964–71)Edit

After the 1964 election, Lloyd became leader of the Opposition. In that role he sought to renew grassroots engagement and party policy, which he felt had begun to stagnate after the long period in power.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1967, the party fully adopted the NDP name.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Thatcher also called a snap election that year; although Lloyd's party increased its share of the vote, the Liberals secured a second majority, increasing Lloyd's sense of urgency to update the party platform.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> When the "Waffle" movement—a faction of New Left supporters seeking to return the NDP to its socialist roots and advocating against American imperialism—began making inroads into the NDP at both the federal and provincial level in the late 1960s, it found a supporter in Lloyd, who saw its potential to increase engagement and propose innovative policy.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite book</ref> Lloyd voted in support of the movement's Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada at the 1969 federal NDP convention. However, the Waffle lost the vote and Lloyd's support for the movement and his willingness to open the party to debate proved contentious among the party at home.<ref name=":2" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> After a special caucus meeting in 1970 in which Lloyd judged he lacked the support of much of his cabinet, he decided to resign as party leader.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In July 1970, Allan Blakeney, who had served as Minister of Health under Lloyd, was elected as the new NDP leader.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite book</ref> Lloyd opted not to run in the 1971 election, which saw Blakeney guide the NDP back to a majority government on a rejuvenated platform that incorporated elements of Waffle policy and promised a return to the interventionist approach of the CCF.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

After politicsEdit

Upon Lloyd's retirement, Tommy Douglas stated that Lloyd had been "the conscience of the government and the conscience of the party."<ref name="McLeod 153">McLeod & McLeod, p. 153.</ref> In 1971, Lloyd was appointed as representative for the United Nations Development Program in South Korea. However, in 1972, just months after assuming that post, he died suddenly in Seoul.<ref name="Obit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Electoral historyEdit

Electoral history of CCF-NDP under Woodrow Lloyd
Year	Party		Votes			Seats		Position
Year	Party		Total	%	Template:Tooltip	Total	±	Position
1964	rowspan="5" style="background-color:Template:Canadian party colour;"\|	CCF-NDP	268,742	40.3%	–0.5%	Template:Composition bar compact	–11	Template:No
1967	188,653		44.4%	+4.1%	Template:Composition bar compact	–2	Template:No

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General Election, June 15, 1944: Biggar
Party		Candidate	Popular Vote	%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	E Woodrow Lloyd	3,633	62.76%
Frank Freeman	2,156	37.24%
Total			5,789	100.00%
Source: Saskatchewan Archives — Election Results by Electoral Division<ref name="sk-ridings">Saskatchewan Archives — Election Results by Electoral Division.</ref>

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General Election, June 24, 1948: Biggar
Party		Candidate	Popular Vote	%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	E X Woodrow Lloyd	3,695	55.30%
Andrew Stewart Shaw	2,987	44.70%
Total			6,682	100.00%
Source: Saskatchewan Archives — Election Results by Electoral Division<ref name = sk-ridings/>

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General Election, June 11, 1952: Biggar
Party		Candidate	Popular Vote	%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	E X Woodrow Lloyd	3,811	64.18%
Andrew Stewart Shaw	2,127	35.82%
Total			5,938	100.00%
Source: Saskatchewan Archives — Election Results by Electoral Division<ref name = sk-ridings/>

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General Election, June 20, 1956: Biggar
Party		Candidate	Popular Vote	%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	E X Woodrow Lloyd	3,182	56.10%
Frank Freeman	1,720	30.32%
Edward Wilfred Maybuck	770	13.58%
Total			5,672	100.00%
Source: Saskatchewan Archives — Election Results by Electoral Division<ref name = sk-ridings/>

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General Election, June 8, 1960: Biggar
Party		Candidate	Popular Vote	%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	E X Woodrow Lloyd	3,049	51.66%
Andrew Douglas Hutchison	1,932	32.73%
Jack Lehmond	663	11.23%
Henry Neufeld	258	4.37%
Total			5,902	99.99%¹
Source: Saskatchewan Archives — Election Results by Electoral Division<ref name = sk-ridings/>

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General Election, April 22, 1964: Biggar
Party		Candidate	Popular Vote	%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	E X Woodrow Lloyd	2,875	48.02%
Benson McLeod Blacklock	1,992	33.27%
George Loucks	1,120	18.71%
Total			5,987	100.00%
Source: Saskatchewan Archives — Election Results by Electoral Division<ref name = sk-ridings/>

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General Election, October 11, 1967: Biggar
Party		Candidate	Popular Vote	%
New Democratic Party	E X Woodrow Lloyd	2,916	50.09%
Elmer McNiven	1,571	26.99%
Peter Wiebe	1,334	22.92%
Total			5,821	100.00%
Source: Saskatchewan Archives — Election Results by Electoral Division<ref name = sk-ridings/>