| 1949 Canadian federal election: Welland | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Humphrey Mitchell | 23,734 | 47.3 | +3.7 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Sam Hughes | 13,259 | 26.4 | -6.3 | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Armour McCrae | 11,493 | 22.9 | +6.4 | ||||
| Labor–Progressive | Melbourne A. Doig | 1,711 | 3.4 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 50,197 | 100.0 | ||||||