1945 Manitoba general election

none September 2023 January 2023 1945 Manitoba general election Manitoba 1921 parliamentary 1941 Manitoba general election 1941 elected members 1949 Manitoba general election 22nd Manitoba Legislature 1949 October 15, 1945 57 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba 29 Stuart Garson.jpg MB Liberal nohash Stuart Garson January 14, 1943 MB Liberal-Progressive name Fairford 27 25 2 70,475 32.2% 3.5pp 3x4.svg MB PC nohash Errick Willis June 9, 1936 Conservative Turtle Mountain 12 13 1 34,819 15.9% 0.1pp Seymour James Farmer 1932-1936.jpg MB CCF nohash Seymour Farmer 1936 MB CCF name Winnipeg 3 9 6 73,988 33.8% 16.5pp Premier Stuart Garson MB Liberal-Progressive name Premier after election Stuart Garson MB Liberal-Progressive name The 1945 Manitoba general election was held on October 15, 1945 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. The election was a landslide majority government for the incumbent coalition government led by the Liberal-Progressive Party. The 1945 provincial election was extremely different from the previous election, which was held in 1941. In the 1941 election, the province's four legal political parties were united in a coalition government—and while coalition partners ran against one another in some constituencies, the final outcome was never in doubt. By 1945, the coalition had been reduced to three parties. The dominant party was the Liberal-Progressive Party, whose leader was Premier Stuart Garson. The Progressive Conservative Party of Errick Willis (formerly called the Conservative Party) was the junior partner in government, while the small Social Credit League and some independents also supported the coalition. The social-democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) left the coalition in 1943, and experienced a surge in popularity over the next two years. This party was the primary opposition to the coalition government in 1945. When Tommy Douglas's CCF won a landslide election victory in 1944 in neighbouring Saskatchewan, many believed that the Manitoba party had a chance of forming government. The communist Labour Progressive Party also ran in the election, against the coalition. The Communist Party of Canada had been banned in 1941 so sitting MLA Bill Kardash and candidates of that ilk ran under the label "Labour Progressive Party" starting in 1943. A revived Socialist Party of Canada also fielded one candidate in Winnipeg. The CCF experienced numerous difficulties during the campaign. Two of its incumbent members, Dwight Johnson and Beresford Richards, were accused of holding communist sympathies, and broke from the party to seek re-election as "Independent CCF" candidates. Party members were divided on the positions held by Johnson and Richards, and the CCF entered the campaign in a divided state. The party also suffered a series of unexpected technical problems: some candidates were unable to campaign because of late nomination filing, insufficient signatures on their nomination forms, and related reasons. The result of the election was a landslide majority government for the coalition. Twenty-five Liberal-Progressives and thirteen Progressive Conservatives were elected, along with two Social Crediters and three independent coalitionists. This gave the coalition forty-three of fifty-seven seats. Most of the coalition's members were from rural constituencies. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation won four of ten seats in Winnipeg, but could not duplicate this success in the rest of the province. The party won only nine seats in total, up from three in the previous election. Richards, who was re-elected as an Independent CCF candidate, later rejoined the caucus as a tenth member. The CCF actually received more votes than any other party, but this meant little in practical terms: the combined coalition vote was well above the CCF total, and some coalition seats were won by acclamation. Labour Progressive Party leader Bill Kardash also won a Winnipeg seat, as did independent leftist Lewis Stubbs. Like previous elections, all the voters cast preferential votes. Ten MLAs were elected in city-wide Winnipeg district through Single transferable vote; all other MLAs were elected through Instant-runoff voting. Results +Manitoba general election (October 15, 1945) https://www.electionsmanitoba.ca/downloads/HistoricalResultsSummaries/1945.pdf Twenty-Second General Election Held October 15, 1945 - 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&nameStuart Garson70,47532.23.53427252MB Progressive Conservative colour&nameErrick Willis34,81915.90.12812131MB Independent colour&name6,3842.98.67532MB Independent Liberal-Progressive colour&name3,2481.51.53–––MB Independent-Liberal colour&name8240.40.41–––MB Social Credit colour&name2,9531.30.32321  Anti-Coalition candidatesMB CCF colour&nameExited the Coalition in 1943Seymour Farmer73,98833.816.539396MB Social Credit colour&name1,5480.74.92–––MB Conservative colour&name––4.4–3–3MB Independent colour&name9,4204.30.2311MB Labor-Progressive colour&nameFormerly the Communist Party10,5664.81.81311MB Independent-CCF colour&name4,3942.02.02–11MB Socialist colour&name2220.10.11–––MB Sound Money Economics colour&name––0.5––––MB Liberal colour&name––0.4–––– Valid 218,841 100.0 – 135 55 55 – RejectedFor rural ridings only. No tally was taken for Winnipeg. 1,906 Total votes cast 220,747 Registered voters/TurnoutExcludes constituencies where candidates returned by acclamation 397,527 55.1 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* #EEDDAA Assiniboia: Ernest Draffin #9999FF Beautiful Plains: John Poole*Elected in 1941 as an Anti-Coalition candidate #EA6D6A Birtle: Francis Bell* #EA6D6A Brandon: Leslie McDorman #EA6D6A Carillon: Edmond Prefontaine* #EA6D6A Cypress: James Christie* #EA6D6A Dauphin: Robert Hawkins* #9999FF Deloraine: James O. Argue #DCDCDC Dufferin: Earl Collins*Elected in byelection #EA6D6A Emerson: John Solomon*Elected in 1941 as an Independent-Coalition candidate #EEDDAA Ethelbert: Michael Sawchuk #EA6D6A Fairford: Stuart Garson* #EA6D6A Fisher: Nicholas Bachynsky* #90EE90 Gilbert Plains: Stanley Fox* #EA6D6A Gimli: Steinn Thompson #EA6D6A Gladstone: William Morton* #EA6D6A Glenwood: Gilbert Grant #90EE90 Hamiota: Norman Turnbull* #DCDCDC Iberville: John McDowell (Ind PC Independent Progressive Conservative) #9999FF Kildonan & St. Andrews: James McLenaghen* #9999FF Killarney: Abram Harrison* #EA6D6A Lakeside: Douglas Campbell* #EA6D6A Lansdowne: Matthew Sutherland* #EA6D6A La Verendrye: Sauveur Marcoux* #9999FF Manitou: Hugh Morrison* #9999FF Minnedosa: Earl Rutledge* #9999FF Morden & Rhineland: Wallace C. Miller* #EA6D6A Morris: John C. Dryden #EA6D6A Mountain: Ivan Schultz* #9999FF Norfolk: John Lawrie* #9999FF Portage la Prairie: Charles Greenlay* #DCDCDC Roblin: Ronald Robertson #9999FF Rockwood: W.J. Campbell #EA6D6A Rupertsland: Daniel Hamilton #EA6D6A Russell: William Wilson #EEDDAA St. Boniface: Edwin Hansford #EEDDAA St. Clements: Wilbert Doneleyko #EA6D6A St. George: Christian Halldorson #EA6D6A Ste. Rose: Maurice Dane MacCarthy* #EEDDAA Springfield: George Olive #9999FF Swan River: George Renouf* #DCDCDC The Pas: Beresford Richards*Elected in byelection as a CCF candidate (Ind-CCF Independent-CCF) #9999FF Turtle Mountain: Errick Willis*Formerly MLA for Deloraine #EA6D6A Virden: Robert Mooney* #EA6D6A Winnipeg: John Stewart McDiarmid* #EA6D6A Winnipeg: William Scraba #EA6D6A Winnipeg: Charles Rhodes Smith* #EEDDAA Winnipeg: Seymour Farmer* #EEDDAA Winnipeg: Morris Gray* #EEDDAA Winnipeg: Lloyd Stinson #EEDDAA Winnipeg: Donovan Swailes #9999FF Winnipeg: Gunnar Thorvaldson* #DCDCDC Winnipeg: Lewis Stubbs* #FF6347 Winnipeg: Bill Kardash* a Winnipeg Ten MLAs elected through Single transferable vote. + Winnipeg MLAs returned by party Party Number MB CCF row-name4 MB Liberal-Progressive row-name3 MB Independent row-name1 MB Labor-Progressive row-name1 MB Progressive Conservative row-name1Total10 Winnipeg (ten members) 15 (incumbent)Seymour Farmer MB CCF 14.15 11,237 (incumbent)J.S. McDiarmid MB Liberal-Progressive 13.56 10,771 10,771 (incumbent)Lewis Stubbs (Opposition) MB Independent 10.46 8,309 8,309 8,309 Lloyd Stinson MB CCF 9.79 7,773 7,773 7,773 7,773 (incumbent)Charles Rhodes Smith MB Liberal-Progressive 6.18 4,909 4,946 6,059 6,174 6,181 6,313 6,889 6,973 6,995 7,010 7,957 (incumbent)Morris Gray MB CCF 5.13 4,075 5,743 5,787 5,915 6,026 6,111 6,165 6,664 7,462 (incumbent)Bill Kardash MB Labor-Progressive 5.05 4,014 4,067 4,076 4,133 4,138 4,183 4,212 4,237 6,141 6,319 6,388 6,394 6,512 6,832 6,892 (incumbent)Gunnar Thorvaldson MB Progressive Conservative 4.96 3,941 3,966 4,592 4,671 4,677 4,830 5,099 5,128 5,145 5,148 5,818 6,013 6,067 6,162 7,256 William Scraba MB Liberal-Progressive 4.55 3,616 3,656 3,790 3,828 3,833 3,900 4,032 4,085 4,135 4,143 4,479 4,712 4,847 4,931 5,774 Mark Long MB Progressive Conservative 3.79 3,012 3,035 3,227 3,272 3,276 3,425 3,776 3,806 3,819 3,822 4,121 4,191 4,232 4,273 Joseph Zuken MB Labor-Progressive 3.70 2,939 2,963 2,974 3,010 3,014 3,049 3,092 3,103 Morley Lougheed MB Progressive Conservative 3.38 2,681 2,715 3,200 3,285 3,291 3,407 3,637 3,664 3,679 3,683 3,993 4,192 4,242 4,315 5,621 Donovan Swailes MB CCF 3.35 2,663 3,682 3,709 3,876 4,087 4,210 4,243 4,902 4,924 4,941 5,065 5,089 7,863 George Stapleton MB CCF 2.93 2,329 2,687 2,698 2,757 2,838 2,928 2,942 3,942 3,960 3,971 4,047 4,055 (incumbent)Paul Bardal MB Liberal-Progressive 2.58 2,053 2,094 2,677 2,766 2,773 2,882 3,213 3,237 3,290 3,291 M. Walsh MB Liberal-Progressive 2.35 1,867 1,898 2,127 2,166 2,171 2,253 A.N. Robertson MB CCF 2.26 1,796 2,391 2,419 2,483 2,568 2,659 2,694 T.H. Taylor MB Social Credit 0.80 635 656 663 689 692 Roy Sully MB Progressive Conservative 0.75 592 623 665 706 716 James Milne MB Socialist Party of Canada 0.28 222 236 254 263 264 15 155,824 79,433 n/a 7,222 79,433 (50.98%) Winnipeg (analysis of transferred votes, candidates ranked in order of 1st preference votes) #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Seymour Farmer 1 11237 14.15 11237 12000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive J.S. McDiarmid 1 10771 13.56 10771 12000 gainsboro Independent Lewis Stubbs 1 8309 10.46 8309 12000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Lloyd Stinson 1 7773 9.79 7773 12000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive Charles Rhodes Smith 11 7957 10.20 4909 12000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Morris Gray 9 7462 9.51 4075 12000 #FF6347 Labor-Progressive Bill Kardash 15 6892 9.06 4014 12000 #9999FF Progressive Conservative Gunnar Thorvaldson 15 7256 9.54 3941 12000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive William Scraba 15 5774 7.59 3616 12000 #9999FF Progressive Conservative Mark Long 14 4273 5.54 3012 12000 #FF6347 Labor-Progressive Joseph Zuken 8 3103 3.95 2939 12000 #9999FF Progressive Conservative Morley Lougheed 15 5621 7.39 2681 12000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth Donovan Swailes 13 7863 10.20 2663 12000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth George Stapleton 12 4055 5.20 2329 12000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive Paul Bardal 10 3291 4.20 2053 12000 #EA6D6A Liberal-Progressive M. Walsh 6 2253 2.85 1867 12000 #EEDDAA Co-operative Commonwealth A.N. Robertson 7 2694 3.42 1796 12000 #90EE90 Social Credit T.H. Taylor 5 716 0.90 635 12000 #9999FF Progressive Conservative Roy Sully 5 692 0.87 592 12000 #FFD700 Socialist Party of Canada James Milne 5 264 0.33 222 12000 3336 4.20 4 12000 3,336 4.20 Post-election changes Beresford Richards (Ind CCF) was re-admitted to the CCF caucus in December 1945. Special elections for members of the armed forces were held in January 1946, in light of the fact that many Manitoba citizens had served overseas in World War II and were unable to vote in the general election. Gordon Churchill was elected to represent the Canadian Army, Alex J. Stringer was elected for the Royal Canadian Navy and Ronald Turner was elected for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Stringer later became a Progressive Conservative, while Turner became a Liberal-Progressive. Churchill sat as an Independent. Minnedosa (res. Earl Rutledge, July 13, 1948), November 2, 1948: Henry Rungay (LP) 3470 Frith (CCF) 1362 Fairford (res. Stuart Garson, November 13, 1948), December 23, 1948: James Anderson (LP) elected Michael Taczynski (CCF) Beresford Richards and Wilbert Doneleyko were expelled from the CCF in July 1949, and sat as independent members. Iberville (res. John McDowell, 1949) Winnipeg (res. Gunnar Thorvaldson, 1949) Gordon Churchill, Army Representative, resigns in 1949. See also List of Manitoba political parties References Category:1945 elections in Canada 1945 Category:1945 in Manitoba Category:October 1945 in Canada