June 08 1953 (MB)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1953-06-08
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province Manitoba
By-Election ❌

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Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 5,425
Invalid Votes 5,424
Total Electors 451,815
Turnout Rate 59
Valid Ballots 267,636
Valid Votes 267,636

Notes

  • Note: The electoral divisions of Winnipeg South, North, and Centre were multi-round votes. The official reports contain only the original for each constituency.
  • Electoral System: The last provincial election in Manitoba to feature multi-member constituencies and election by the single transferable ballot. Winnipeg Centre, Winnipeg North and Winnipeg South elected four members each, while St. Boniface elected two members. All other constituencies elected one member by instant runoff voting.

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation 25 5 8.77% 16.56%
Communist Party of Canada - Manitoba 1 1 1.75% 1.42%
Independent 11 2 3.51% 3.58%
Independent Liberal Progressive 5 2 3.51% 3.73%
Liberal Progressive 52 33 57.89% 40.31%
Manitoba Social Credit Party 42 2 3.51% 12.97%
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba 39 12 21.05% 21.43%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Ronald D Turner Liberal Progressive Winnipeg South 8,007 ✅
Dufferin Roblin Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Winnipeg South 6,045 ✅
Andrew Russell Paulley Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Kildonan-Transcona 5,770 ✅
Lloyd Stinson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Winnipeg South 4,934 ✅
Francis Laurence Jobin Liberal Progressive The Pas 4,875 ✅
Morris A Gray Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Winnipeg North 4,642 ✅
Roger-Joseph Teillet Liberal Progressive St. Boniface 4,530 ✅
J Leslie Bodie Liberal Progressive Kildonan-Transcona 4,394 ❌
Gurney Evans Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Winnipeg South 4,221 ✅
Donovan Swailes Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Winnipeg Centre 3,910 ✅
William Kardash Communist Party of Canada - Manitoba Winnipeg North 3,812 ✅
Stephen Juba Independent Winnipeg Centre 3,619 ✅
Leslie Raymond Fennell Liberal Progressive St. Boniface 3,580 ✅
Reginald O Lissaman Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Brandon (MB) 3,514 ✅
Reginald F Wightman Liberal Progressive Assiniboia 3,359 ✅
Edmond Prefontaine Liberal Progressive Carillon 3,278 ✅
Jack St John Liberal Progressive Winnipeg Centre 3,276 ✅
Joseph G VanBelleghem Independent Liberal Progressive St. Boniface 3,189 ❌
Alvin H Mackling Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Assiniboia 3,078 ❌
James A Creighton Liberal Progressive Brandon (MB) 3,063 ❌
Stanley Copp Liberal Progressive St. Clements 2,970 ✅
Thomas P Hillhouse Liberal Progressive St. Andrews 2,938 ✅
John M Hawryluk Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Winnipeg North 2,857 ✅
David Turner Co-operative Commonwealth Federation St. Boniface 2,707 ❌
George P Renouf Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Swan River 2,383 ✅
John R Solomon Independent Liberal Progressive Emerson 2,329 ✅
Douglas Lloyd Campbell Liberal Progressive Lakeside 2,290 ✅
Steinn Olafur Thompson Liberal Progressive Gimli 2,252 ✅
Joseph Edmond Brodeur Liberal Progressive La Verendrye / La Vérendrye 2,203 ✅
John William McLeod Thompson Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Virden 2,182 ✅
Frank Casper Liberal Progressive Emerson 2,155 ❌
Francis Campbell Bell Liberal Progressive Birtle 2,148 ✅
Samuel Edward Burch Liberal Progressive Norfolk-Beautiful Plains 2,133 ✅
Raymond Hughes Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba St. Boniface 2,101 ❌
Harry B Scott Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Winnipeg Centre 2,085 ✅
Mathew Robinson Sutherland Liberal Progressive Lansdowne 2,014 ✅
Robert W Bend Liberal Progressive Rockwood 1,952 ✅
Michael N Hryhorczuk Liberal Progressive Ethelbert 1,948 ✅
J Arthur Ross Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Arthur 1,920 ✅
John M Kozoriz Liberal Progressive Winnipeg North 1,863 ❌
James Oswald Argue Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Deloraine-Glenwood 1,862 ✅
Ivan Schultz Liberal Progressive Mountain 1,851 ✅
William Lucko Liberal Progressive Springfield 1,837 ✅
Walter Clifton McDonald Liberal Progressive Dufferin 1,833 ✅
Maude McCreery Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Winnipeg South 1,820 ❌
George P MacLeod Liberal Progressive Winnipeg South 1,806 ❌
Stanley Carrick Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Winnipeg North 1,795 ❌
Abram William Harrison Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Killarney 1,786 ✅
Francis Milton Ferg Liberal Progressive Cypress (MB) 1,785 ✅
Errick French Willis Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Turtle Mountain 1,777 ✅
Lewis St George Stubbs Independent Winnipeg Centre 1,741 ❌
Rodney S Clement Independent Liberal Progressive Russell 1,704 ✅
Christian Halldorson Liberal Progressive St. George 1,695 ✅
Ernest Brotman Independent Liberal Progressive Winnipeg North 1,672 ❌
William L Bullmore Manitoba Social Credit Party Dauphin 1,668 ✅
William H Calvert Manitoba Social Credit Party The Pas 1,668 ❌
Charles Edwin Greenlay Liberal Progressive Portage La Prairie 1,653 ✅
Alexander Turk Liberal Progressive Winnipeg North 1,622 ✅
Gordon A Mooney Liberal Progressive Virden 1,621 ❌
Wallace Conrad Miller Liberal Progressive Rhineland 1,608 ✅
Hugh B Morrison Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Manitou-Morden 1,606 ✅
Charles Lemington Shuttleworth Liberal Progressive Hamiota 1,599 ✅
Robert E Moffat Liberal Progressive Deloraine-Glenwood 1,594 ❌
Damase Dufresne Manitoba Social Credit Party La Verendrye / La Vérendrye 1,576 ❌
Thomas H Seens Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Lansdowne 1,563 ❌
Nicholas V Bachynsky Liberal Progressive Fisher 1,554 ✅
Nan Murphy Liberal Progressive Winnipeg Centre 1,546 ❌
George E Fournier Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Assiniboia 1,528 ❌
Harry P Shewman Independent Morris 1,528 ✅
Walter A Thompson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation The Pas 1,526 ❌
Delbert Leroy Downs Manitoba Social Credit Party Swan River 1,508 ❌
Edgar Edward Smee Co-operative Commonwealth Federation St. Clements 1,495 ❌
John Potoski Liberal Progressive Dauphin 1,494 ❌
Ronald D Robertson Liberal Progressive Roblin 1,474 ✅
John McDowell Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Iberville 1,442 ✅
John Robertson Pitt Liberal Progressive Arthur 1,440 ❌
Gilbert A Hutton Manitoba Social Credit Party Minnedosa 1,433 ✅
Antonio Lemoine Manitoba Social Credit Party St. Boniface 1,420 ❌
Henry S Rungay Liberal Progressive Minnedosa 1,401 ❌
Charles John McKinnon Manitoba Social Credit Party Norfolk-Beautiful Plains 1,394 ❌
Gildas L Molgat Liberal Progressive Ste. Rose 1,369 ✅
Heller Basaraba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Ethelbert 1,368 ❌
Keith H Robson Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba St. Andrews 1,366 ❌
Harold A Nelson Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Norfolk-Beautiful Plains 1,365 ❌
William Storsley Manitoba Social Credit Party Springfield 1,365 ❌
George Loeppky Manitoba Social Credit Party Dufferin 1,329 ❌
William C Warren Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Portage La Prairie 1,329 ❌
Kay Mackinnon Co-operative Commonwealth Federation St. Boniface 1,293 ❌
Henry C Jarvis Liberal Progressive Iberville 1,247 ❌
Ernest Newburn McGirr Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Dauphin 1,235 ❌
Clifford W Lankerkin Liberal Progressive Killarney 1,230 ❌
Edward P Vanables Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Hamiota 1,227 ❌
Roderick G Hurton Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Cypress (MB) 1,198 ❌
Arthur S Beaubien Liberal Progressive Morris 1,191 ❌
Michael J Sotas Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Russell 1,190 ❌
John J Kelsch Liberal Progressive Winnipeg North 1,173 ❌
Francis Roy Brown Liberal Progressive Rupertsland 1,136 ✅
Len Aylen Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Winnipeg North 1,122 ❌
Lorne G Carson Manitoba Social Credit Party Kildonan-Transcona 1,117 ❌
A Montague Israels Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Winnipeg South 1,117 ❌
James A Fletcher Independent Liberal Progressive Ste. Rose 1,083 ❌
Gordon Richard Fines Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Winnipeg Centre 1,080 ❌
James F Anderson Liberal Progressive Fairford 1,072 ✅
Raymond Mitchell Liberal Progressive Gilbert Plains 1,069 ✅
Klaas J Kroeker Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Carillon 1,065 ❌
William A Wyborn Manitoba Social Credit Party Brandon (MB) 1,056 ❌
Charles D McLean Liberal Progressive Manitou-Morden 1,054 ❌
John A Burgess Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Minnedosa 1,047 ❌
Robert J Wilson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Gilbert Plains 989 ❌
Harry Boulette Liberal Progressive Rupertsland 982 ❌
Victor Peters Manitoba Social Credit Party Rhineland 964 ❌
Osborne A Earle Manitoba Social Credit Party St. Clements 959 ❌
Francis M Manwaring Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Birtle 957 ❌
Marcel Philippe Manitoba Social Credit Party Cypress (MB) 950 ❌
Nicholas Halas Manitoba Social Credit Party Winnipeg North 917 ❌
Earl Thompson Collins Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Dufferin 911 ❌
Dollard E Lafreniere Manitoba Social Credit Party Mountain 894 ❌
Antoine Pineau Manitoba Social Credit Party Ste. Rose 891 ❌
Charles C Gorrie Liberal Progressive Turtle Mountain 883 ❌
Elmer H Fitch Manitoba Social Credit Party Gimli 867 ❌
Joseph Perchaluk Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Roblin 866 ❌
Wilbert James Tinkler Manitoba Social Credit Party Morris 844 ❌
Ernest R Draffin Co-operative Commonwealth Federation St. Andrews 838 ❌
David Graham Liberal Progressive Winnipeg Centre 831 ❌
steve melnyk Independent Kildonan-Transcona 820 ❌
James W L Tully Manitoba Social Credit Party Lakeside 786 ❌
Frank Fullbrook Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Dauphin 785 ❌
Bernard H Rempel Manitoba Social Credit Party Portage La Prairie 784 ❌
Percival W Brown Manitoba Social Credit Party Winnipeg Centre 763 ❌
Albert O'Donnell Manitoba Social Credit Party Manitou-Morden 758 ❌
Stephen Einarson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Swan River 757 ❌
Louis Léger Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba St. Boniface 737 ❌
Keith Porter (MB) Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Russell 723 ❌
Roy W Doherty Manitoba Social Credit Party Lansdowne 709 ❌
Leon William Michalchuk Independent Fisher 705 ❌
Everette P Brown Manitoba Social Credit Party Gilbert Plains 695 ❌
Florence M Bloomfield Manitoba Social Credit Party Assiniboia 677 ❌
George G Paterson Manitoba Social Credit Party Killarney 666 ❌
John C Hilgenga Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Iberville 665 ❌
Charles H Spence Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Lakeside 662 ❌
Fred G Cook Manitoba Social Credit Party Fairford 659 ❌
Henry G Langrell Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Rockwood 656 ❌
Albert Hugh Watt Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Springfield 643 ❌
Doreen Benjamin Manitoba Social Credit Party Winnipeg South 612 ❌
Jemina F Webster Manitoba Social Credit Party Winnipeg South 566 ❌
Leo A Recksiedler Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Rhineland 565 ❌
Gislis Borgford Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Winnipeg Centre 541 ❌
Fred Charles Manitoba Social Credit Party Hamiota 525 ❌
Charles R Beswatherick Manitoba Social Credit Party Russell 511 ❌
Clarence A Ferguson Manitoba Social Credit Party Turtle Mountain 507 ❌
Joseph Stepnuk Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Winnipeg Centre 478 ❌
John A Mabon Independent Mountain 399 ❌
Charles E Toutant Manitoba Social Credit Party Rockwood 389 ❌
Burdette Elliot Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Gilbert Plains 380 ❌
Walter H Whyte Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba St. Clements 378 ❌
Cornelius F Rempel Manitoba Social Credit Party Iberville 374 ❌
Earl D McIntyre Manitoba Social Credit Party Roblin 366 ❌
Emil A Johnson Manitoba Social Credit Party Winnipeg Centre 354 ❌
Hazel C Allan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Lakeside 342 ❌
Ernest H Hartfield Manitoba Social Credit Party St. George 321 ❌
Daniel McFadyen Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Fairford 288 ❌
Patrick J Mulgrew Manitoba Social Credit Party Winnipeg Centre 286 ❌
John L Solomon Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Ethelbert 276 ❌
John A McDonald (MB) Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Fairford 249 ❌
Fred E Cowan Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Roblin 227 ❌
Henry Dyck Manitoba Social Credit Party Ethelbert 225 ❌
John J Friesen Manitoba Social Credit Party Emerson 220 ❌
Elsie Lyon Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Fisher 211 ❌
John Firman Independent Gimli 194 ❌
Charles L Abbott Independent Rupertsland 186 ❌
George E Scalf Independent Swan River 184 ❌
David Heinrichs Manitoba Social Credit Party Fisher 144 ❌
John Yuzyk Independent Winnipeg North 138 ❌
Edward L Colson Independent Winnipeg Centre 63 ❌
William Morton Liberal Progressive Gladstone 0 ✅

Districts

Arthur
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 24 elections (1903–1988)

J Arthur Ross · Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

1,920 votes
Assiniboia
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 36 elections (1879–2023)

Reginald F Wightman · Liberal Progressive

3,359 votes
Birtle
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 19 elections (1883–1953)

Francis Campbell Bell · Liberal Progressive

2,148 votes
Brandon (MB)
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 9 elections (1883–1966)

Reginald O Lissaman · Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

3,514 votes
Carillon
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 23 elections (1886–1966)

Edmond Prefontaine · Liberal Progressive

3,278 votes
Cypress (MB)
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 23 elections (1886–1966)

Francis Milton Ferg · Liberal Progressive

1,785 votes
Dauphin
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 37 elections (1883–2023)

William L Bullmore · Manitoba Social Credit Party

1,668 votes
Deloraine-Glenwood
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 2 elections (1949–1953)

James Oswald Argue · Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

1,862 votes
Dufferin
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 19 elections (1888–1966)

Walter Clifton McDonald · Liberal Progressive

1,833 votes
Emerson
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 38 elections (1879–2016)

John R Solomon · Independent Liberal Progressive

2,329 votes
Ethelbert
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 9 elections (1920–1953)

Michael N Hryhorczuk · Liberal Progressive

1,948 votes
Fairford
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 9 elections (1920–1953)

James F Anderson · Liberal Progressive

1,072 votes
Fisher
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 13 elections (1920–1966)

Nicholas V Bachynsky · Liberal Progressive

1,554 votes
Gilbert Plains
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 14 elections (1903–1953)

Raymond Mitchell · Liberal Progressive

1,069 votes
Gimli
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 32 elections (1899–2016)

Steinn Olafur Thompson · Liberal Progressive

2,252 votes
Gladstone
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 27 elections (1879–1995)

William Morton · Liberal Progressive

0 votes
Hamiota
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1966)

Charles Lemington Shuttleworth · Liberal Progressive

1,599 votes
Iberville
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 11 elections (1914–1953)

John McDowell · Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

1,442 votes
Kildonan-Transcona
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 2 elections (1949–1953)

Andrew Russell Paulley · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

5,770 votes
Killarney
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 18 elections (1888–1953)

Abram William Harrison · Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

1,786 votes
La Verendrye / La Vérendrye
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 40 elections (1879–2023)

Joseph Edmond Brodeur · Liberal Progressive

2,203 votes
Lakeside
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 38 elections (1886–2023)

Douglas Lloyd Campbell · Liberal Progressive

2,290 votes
Lansdowne
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 18 elections (1888–1953)

Mathew Robinson Sutherland · Liberal Progressive

2,014 votes
Manitou-Morden
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 2 elections (1949–1953)

Hugh B Morrison · Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

1,606 votes
Minnedosa
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 34 elections (1883–2007)

Gilbert A Hutton · Manitoba Social Credit Party

1,433 votes
Morris
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 37 elections (1879–2016)

Harry P Shewman · Independent

1,528 votes
Mountain
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 21 elections (1879–1953)

Ivan Schultz · Liberal Progressive

1,851 votes
Norfolk-Beautiful Plains
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 2 elections (1949–1953)

Samuel Edward Burch · Liberal Progressive

2,133 votes
Portage La Prairie
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 43 elections (1870–2023)

Charles Edwin Greenlay · Liberal Progressive

1,653 votes
Rhineland
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 18 elections (1892–1988)

Wallace Conrad Miller · Liberal Progressive

1,608 votes
Roblin
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 20 elections (1914–2023)

Ronald D Robertson · Liberal Progressive

1,474 votes
Rockwood
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 23 elections (1874–1953)

Robert W Bend · Liberal Progressive

1,952 votes
Rupertsland
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 24 elections (1920–2007)

Francis Roy Brown · Liberal Progressive

1,136 votes
Russell
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 22 elections (1886–2007)

Rodney S Clement · Independent Liberal Progressive

1,704 votes
Springfield
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 36 elections (1874–2007)

William Lucko · Liberal Progressive

1,837 votes
St. Andrews
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 8 elections (1879–1953)

Thomas P Hillhouse · Liberal Progressive

2,938 votes
St. Boniface
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 42 elections (1874–2023)

Roger-Joseph Teillet · Liberal Progressive

4,530 votes
St. Clements
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 17 elections (1870–1953)

Stanley Copp · Liberal Progressive

2,970 votes
St. George
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 18 elections (1914–1977)

Christian Halldorson · Liberal Progressive

1,695 votes
Ste. Rose
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 26 elections (1914–2007)

Gildas L Molgat · Liberal Progressive

1,369 votes
Swan River
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 33 elections (1903–2023)

George P Renouf · Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

2,383 votes
The Pas
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 28 elections (1914–2016)

Francis Laurence Jobin · Liberal Progressive

4,875 votes
Turtle Mountain
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 34 elections (1883–2023)

Errick French Willis · Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

1,777 votes
Virden
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 25 elections (1899–1988)

John William McLeod Thompson · Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

2,182 votes
Winnipeg Centre
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 18 elections (1888–1977)

Donovan Swailes · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

3,910 votes
Winnipeg North
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 13 elections (1883–1953)

Alexander Turk · Liberal Progressive

1,622 votes
Winnipeg South
Manitoba (MB) Provincial 13 elections (1883–1953)

Ronald D Turner · Liberal Progressive

8,007 votes

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