1949 Manitoba general election

none September 2023 1949 Manitoba general election Manitoba 1921 parliamentary 1945 Manitoba general election 1945 elected members 1949 11 10 23rd Manitoba Legislature 1953 Manitoba general election 1953 57 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba 29 MB Liberal nohash Douglas Campbell November 13, 1948 MB Liberal-Progressive name Lakeside 25 31 6 38.70% 6.50% MB PC nohash Errick Willis June 9, 1936 MB PC name Turtle Mountain 13 19 4 19.013% 3.10% MB CCF nohash Edwin Hansford 1948 MB CCF name St. Boniface 9 7 2 25.6% 8.2% Premier Douglas Lloyd Campbell MB Liberal-Progressive name Premier after election Douglas Lloyd Campbell MB Liberal-Progressive name The 1949 Manitoba general election was held on November 10, 1949, to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. This election pitted the province's coalition government, made up of the Liberal-Progressive Party and the Progressive Conservative Party, against a variety of opponents. The social democratic Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was the coalition's primary challenger, while the communist Labour Progressive Party and an assortment of independent candidates also challenged the coalition in some constituencies. Liberal-Progressive and Progressive Conservative candidates ran against each other in some ridings, generally where no anti-coalition candidates had a serious chance of winning. The result was a landslide victory for the coalition. Premier Douglas Campbell's Liberal-Progressives remained the dominant party in government, increasing their caucus to thirty-one seats out of fifty-seven—enough to form a majority government even without assistance from other parties. One of these candidates was elected simply as a "Liberal", but sat as a full member of the Liberal-Progressive caucus. The Progressive Conservative Party, led by Errick Willis, remained the junior partner in government, falling to nine seats from thirteen in the previous election. Five independent "Conservative" or "Progressive Conservative" candidates were also elected, with all but one opposing the coalition government. These results provoked serious debate in the Progressive Conservative Party about the wisdom of staying with the coalition.March 2023 The CCF under Edwin Hansford fell to seven seats, down from nine in the previous election. Bill Kardash of the LPP retained his seat in north-end Winnipeg. Three pro-coalition independents were also elected, as was Edmond Prefontaine, an independent Liberal opposing the coalition. The Social Credit League did not contest the election, having fallen into a state of internal disorganization. Winnipeg had 12 seats filled through Single Transferable Voting, with four members elected in each of three Winnipeg districts. St. Boniface had two seats filled through STV. The other districts elected one MLA each through Alternative Voting, where a candidate had to have majority of the votes to be elected. In Iberville, Morris and Rhineland, where no candidate had the majority in the First Count, only the First Count totals are shown - the final vote count and the intermediate counts are not. In all three cases, the leader in the first count was elected. Instant runoff voting thus made no change to who would have been elected versus who would have been elected under First past the post. Results +Manitoba general election (November 10, 1949) https://www.electionsmanitoba.ca/downloads/HistoricalResultsSummaries/1949.pdf Twenty-Third General Election Held November 10, 1949 - Summary of Results electionsmanitoba.ca Elections Manitoba January 16, 2023PartyLeaderFirst-preference votesSeats Votes % FPv First-preference votes ± (pp) Cand. Total candidates standing for each party 1941 Elected Change Change in number of seats from the 2016 election to the 2020 election.  Coalition candidatesMB Liberal-Progressive colour&nameDouglas Campbell75,29138.26.04425305MB Progressive Conservative colour&nameErrick Willis23,41011.94.0161394MB Independent colour&name7,4523.80.95341MB Liberal colour&name4,3112.21.81–11MB Independent Liberal-Progressive colour&name2,6251.30.21–––MB Independent-Liberal colour&name1,0150.50.11–––MB Social Credit colour&name––1.3–2–2  Anti-Coalition candidatesMB CCF colour&nameSeymour Farmer49,93325.38.525972MB Progressive Conservative colour&name9,6964.94.94–33MB Independent colour&name6,8923.50.841–1MB Labor-Progressive colour&name5,2432.72.1211MB Independent-PC colour&name5,0442.62.62–11MB Independent-Liberal colour&name4,0942.12.13–––MB Independent-CCF colour&name1,1710.61.411–1MB Independent Liberal-Progressive colour&name8600.40.41–11MB Independent Labour colour&name99––1–––MB Social Credit colour&name––0.7––––MB Socialist colour&name––0.1–––– Valid 197,136 100.0 – 111 55 57 2 Rejected 2,540 Total votes cast 199,676 Registered voters/TurnoutExcludes constituencies where candidates returned by acclamation 369,644 54.0 a Results by riding Bold names indicate members returned by acclamation. Italicized names indicate Anti-Coalition candidates returned. Incumbents are marked with *. #EA6D6A Arthur: John R. Pitt* #EA6D6A Assiniboia: Reginald Wightman #EA6D6A Birtle: Francis Bell* #9999FF Brandon City: Joseph Donaldson #DCDCDC Carillon: Edmond Prefontaine*Elected in 1945 as a Coalition candidate (Ind-LP Independent Liberal-Progressive) #EA6D6A Cypress: James Christie* #9999FF Dauphin: Ernest McGirr #9999FF Deloraine-Glenwood:New single-member ridings arising from redistribution James O. Argue*Previously MLA for Deloraine #EA6D6A Dufferin: Walter McDonald* #EA6D6A Emerson: John Solomon* #EA6D6A Ethelbert: Michael Sawchuk*Elected in 1945 under the CCF banner #EA6D6A Fairford: James Anderson* #EA6D6A Fisher: Nicholas Bachynsky* #EA6D6A Gilbert Plains: Ray Mitchell #EA6D6A Gimli: Steinn Thompson* #EA6D6A Gladstone: William Morton* #EA6D6A Hamiota: Charles L. Shuttleworth #9999FF Iberville: John McDowell #EEDDAA Kildonan-Transcona: George Olive*Previously MLA for Springfield #9999FF Killarney: Abram Harrison* #EA6D6A Lakeside: Douglas Campbell* #9999FF Lansdowne: Thomas Seens #EA6D6A La Verendrye: Sauveur Marcoux* #9999FF Manitou-Morden: Hugh Morrison*Previously MLA for Manitou #EA6D6A Minnedosa: Henry Rungay*Elected in byelection #DCDCDC Morris: Harry Shewman #EA6D6A Mountain: Ivan Schultz* #EA6D6A Norfolk-Beautiful Plains: Samuel Burch #9999FF Portage la Prairie: Charles Greenlay* #9999FF Rhineland: Wallace C. Miller #DCDCDC Roblin: Ronald Robertson #DCDCDC Rockwood: Robert Bend #EA6D6A Rupertsland: Daniel Hamilton* #DCDCDC Russell: Rodney Clement #9999FF St. Andrews: James McLenaghen*Previously MLA for Kildonan & St. Andrews #EA6D6A St. Boniface: 'Joseph Van Belleghem #EEDDAA St. Boniface: Edwin Hansford #EA6D6A St. Clements: Nicholas Stryk #EA6D6A St. George: Christian Halldorson* #EA6D6A Ste. Rose: Maurice Dane MacCarthy* #EA6D6A Springfield: William Lucko #9999FF Swan River: George Renouf* #EA6D6A The Pas: Francis Jobin (Lib Liberal) #9999FF Turtle Mountain: Errick Willis* #EA6D6A Virden: Robert Mooney* #EA6D6A Winnipeg Centre: Paul Bardal #EA6D6A Winnipeg Centre: Charles Rhodes Smith* #EEDDAA Winnipeg Centre: Gordon Fines #EEDDAA Winnipeg Centre: Donovan Swailes* #EA6D6A Winnipeg North: Frank Chester #EEDDAA Winnipeg North: Morris Gray* #EEDDAA Winnipeg North: John Hawryluk #FF6347 Winnipeg North: Bill Kardash* #EA6D6A Winnipeg South: John McDiarmid* #EA6D6A Winnipeg South: Ronald Turner* #EEDDAA Winnipeg South: Lloyd Stinson* #DCDCDC Winnipeg South: Dufferin Roblin (Ind-PC Independent Progressive Conservative) a Multi-member constituencies + MLAs returned by party (multi-member constituencies) Party St. Boniface Winnipeg Centre Winnipeg North Winnipeg South MB Liberal-Progressive row-name1212 MB CCF row-name1221 MB Labor-Progressive row-name1MB Independent-PC row-name1Total2444 St. Boniface St. Boniface 3 Joseph Van Belleghem (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 26.77 3,936 4,055 5,906 (incumbent)Edwin Hansford MB CCF 26.56 3,905 4,897 5,206 Paul Marion (Anti-Coalition) MB Progressive Conservative 18.57 2,730 2,836 3,105 G.P. Shearer (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 18.01 2,647 2,681   E.R. Gagnon MB CCF 10.09 1,483     3 29,981 14,701 237 4,901 14,938 (49.82%) St. Boniface (analysis of transferred votes, ranked in order of 1st preference votes) #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive Joseph Van Belleghem 3 5906 41.54 3936 8000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Edwin Hansford 3 5206 36.62 3905 8000 #9999FF Progressive Conservative Paul Marion 3 3105 21.84 2730 8000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive G.P. Shearer 2 2681 18.53 2647 8000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth E.R. Gagnon 1 1483 10.09 1483 8000 484 3.29 4 8000 484 3.29 Winnipeg Centre Four to be elected. Winnipeg Centre 8 (incumbent)Charles Rhodes Smith (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 25.01 5,140 (incumbent)Donovan Swailes MB CCF 24.45 5,025 5,025 Hank Scott (Coalition) MB Progressive Conservative 11.40 2,338 2,529 2,559 2,681 2,965 3,122 3,258 3,378 Gordon Fines MB CCF 10.48 2,149 2,170 2,749 2,784 2,871 3,225 4,321 Paul Bardal (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 8.97 1,839 2,448 2,478 2,903 3,193 3,279 3,444 3,578 John McNeil MB Labor-Progressive 5.91 1,211 1,230 1,256 1,286 1,392 Ina Thompson MB CCF 5.45 1,117 1,146 1,366 1,396 1,491 1,741 Stephen Juba (Coalition) MB Independent Liberal 4.95 1,015 1,065 1,078 1,155 J.H. Walker (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 3.27 621 830 845 8 50,339 20,555 220 4,112 20,775 (41.27%) Winnipeg Centre (analysis of transferred votes, ranked in order of 1st preference votes) #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive Charles Rhodes Smith 1 5140 25.01 5140 8000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Donovan Swailes 1 5025 24.45 5025 8000 #9999FF Progressive Conservative Hank Scott 8 3378 17.51 2338 8000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Gordon Fines 7 4321 22.45 2149 8000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive Paul Bardal 8 3578 18.55 1839 8000 #FF6347 Labor-Progressive John McNeil 5 1392 6.91 1211 8000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Ina Thompson 6 1741 8.89 1117 8000 gainsboro Independent Liberal Stephen Juba 4 1155 5.65 1015 8000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive J.H. Walker 3 845 4.11 621 8000 1263 6.14 4 8000 1,263 6.14 Winnipeg North Winnipeg North 8 (incumbent)Morris Gray MB CCF 27.33 6,718 (incumbent)Bill Kardash MB Labor-Progressive 16.40 4,032 4,199 4,219 4,240 4,772 4,804 4,862 5,204 Frank Chester (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 14.85 3,649 3,714 3,923 4,035 4,107 4,501 4,824 5,660 John Hawryluk MB CCF 7.88 1,938 2,569 2,616 2,678 3,497 3,700 4,316 4,485 John M. Kozoriz (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 7.33 1,804 1,818 1,868 1,914 1,935 2,110 2,681 2,809 (incumbent)William Scraba (Coalition) MB Independent Liberal-Progressive 6.81 1,673 1,697 1,718 1,810 1,827 2,046 Abe Simkin (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 6.54 1,607 2,139 2,227 2,243 2,270 2,351 2,411 Stan Carrick (Coalition) MB Progressive Conservative 4.58 1,126 1,149 1,211 1,369 1,384 Herman Shaak MB CCF 3.12 767 1,100 1,116 1,131 Jerdry Wach (Coalition) MB Independent 2.63 646 651 671 Donald Callis MB Liberal-Progressive 2.12 521 533 A.J. Yallits MB Independent Labour 0.40 99 104 8 46,649 24,580 329 4,917 24,909 (53.39%) Winnipeg North (analysis of transferred votes, ranked in order of 1st preference votes) #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Morris Gray 1 6718 27.33 6718 8000 #FF6347 Labor-Progressive Bill Kardash 8 5204 22.55 4032 8000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive Frank Chester 8 5660 24.53 3649 8000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth John Hawryluk 8 4485 19.44 1938 8000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive John M. Kozoriz 8 2809 12.17 1804 8000 gainsboro Independent Liberal-Progressive William Scraba 4 2046 8.38 1673 8000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive Abe Simkin 7 2411 10.04 1607 8000 #9999FF Progressive Conservative Stan Carrick 5 1384 5.61 1126 8000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Herman Shaak 4 1131 4.65 767 8000 gainsboro Independent Jerdry Wach 3 671 2.74 646 8000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive Donald Callis 2 533 2.17 521 8000 #EEBBBB Independent Labour A.J. Yallits 2 104 0.42 99 8000 1505 6.12 4 8000 1,505 6.12 Winnipeg South 4 to be elected. Quota was 5522. Winnipeg South 5 (incumbent)John McDiarmid (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 23.42 6,466 5522 (incumbent)Lloyd Stinson MB CCF 22.99 6,346 6,346 5522 (incumbent)Ronald Turner (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 20.02 5,526 5,526 5,526 5,526 5,526 Dufferin Roblin (Anti-Coalition) MB Independent Progressive Conservative 12.47 3,443 3,572 3,767 4,601 5,557 C.F. Green (Anti-Coalition) MB Independent 8.51 2,349 2,444 2,833 3,151 3,959 J. Gurzon Harvey (Coalition) MB Liberal-Progressive 6.30 1,739 2,320 2,447 3,003 (incumbent)Alex Stringer (Coalition) MB Progressive Conservative 6.30 1,738 1,877 1,990 5 53,742 27,607 155 5,522 27,762 (51.7%) Winnipeg South (analysis of transferred votes, ranked in order of 1st preference votes) #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive John McDiarmid 1 6466 23.42 6466 8000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Lloyd Stinson 1 6346 22.99 6346 8000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive Ronald Turner 1 5526 20.02 5526 8000 gainsboro Independent Progressive Conservative Dufferin Roblin 5 5557 21.30 3443 8000 gainsboro Independent C.F. Green 5 3959 15.18 2349 8000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive J. Gurzon Harvey 4 3003 10.99 1739 8000 #9999FF Progressive Conservative Alex Stringer 3 1990 7.21 1738 8000 1521 5.51 4 8000 1,521 5.51 Post-election changes On August 15, 1950, Progressive Conservative leader Errick Willis resigned his seat in cabinet. The party formally left the coalition later in the summer, and John McDowell, Hugh Morrison and Dufferin Roblin joined the party caucus. Some Progressive Conservative MLAs opposed their party's decision, and chose to remain with the coalition side. Charles Greenlay and Wallace C. Miller chose to remain in cabinet, while James Argue and Joseph Donaldson sat as pro-coalition independents. Argue rejoined the Progressive Conservatives in 1953, while Donaldson resigned his seat. Thomas Seens did not initially support the party's decision to leave the coalition, but sat with the Progressive Conservatives in the legislature. Ronald Robertson and Edmond Prefontaine rejoined the Liberal-Progressives, while independents Rod Clement and Walter Weir also remained on the government side. Harry Shewman appears to have sided with the opposition. St. Andrews (dec. James McLenaghen, June 23, 1950), October 24, 1950: Thomas P. Hillhouse (LP) 2366 William Earl Gordon (CCF) 1513 Veitch (PC) 1187 St. Clements (dec. Nicholas Stryk, 1950), October 24, 1950: Albert Trapp (LP) 2729 Wasylyk (CCF) 560 Andrew Bileski (LPP) 254 Brandon City (res. Joseph Donaldson, April 18, 1951), January 21, 1952: Reginald Lissaman (PC) 3223 Alex McPhail (LP) 2233 Spafford (CCF) 1305 La Verendrye (dec. Sauveur Marcoux, November 16, 1951), January 21, 1952: Edmond Brodeur (LP) 2334 Arpin (PC) 1363 Winnipeg South (res. Charles Rhodes Smith, 1952) St. Clements (dec. Albert Trapp, January 9, 1953) Cypress (dec. James Christie, January 19, 1953) Virden (dec. Robert Mooney, January 30, 1953) Ste. Rose (dec. Maurice MacCarthy, June 8, 1953) Further reading http://www.electionsmanitoba.ca/downloads/HistoricalSummary.pdf Historical Summaries 2007 Elections Manitoba Category:1949 elections in Canada 1949 Category:1949 in Manitoba Category:November 1949 in Canada