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1932 Manitoba general election

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Field	Value
election_name	1932 Manitoba general election
country	Manitoba
flag_year	1921
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1927 Manitoba general election
previous_year	1927
outgoing_members	[elected members](18th-manitoba-legislature)
next_election	1936 Manitoba general election
elected_members	19th Manitoba Legislature
next_year	1936
election_date	June 16, 1932
seats_for_election	55 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
majority_seats	27
image1	John Bracken circa 1941.jpg
image1_size	x150px
colour1
leader1	John Bracken
leader_since1	August 8, 1922
party1
leaders_seat1	The Pas
last_election1	36
seats1	38
seat_change1	2
popular_vote1	101,286
percentage1	39.6%
swing1	13.5pp
colour2
leader2	Fawcett Taylor
leader_since2	April 5, 1922
party2	Conservative
leaders_seat2	Portage la Prairie
last_election2	15
seats2	10
seat_change2	5
popular_vote2	92,660
percentage2	35.4%
swing2	8.2pp
colour3
leader3	John Queen
leader_since3	1923
party3	Independent Labour
leaders_seat3	Winnipeg
last_election3	3
seats3	5
seat_change3	2
popular_vote3	41,963
percentage3	16.5%
swing3	6.0pp
map_caption
title	Premier
before_election	John Bracken
before_party
posttitle	Premier after election
after_election	John Bracken
after_party

The 1932 Manitoba general election was held on June 16, 1932, to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Manitoba, Canada. A Liberal-Progressive majority government was elected.

This was the second election in Manitoba where two types of preferential voting was used in all electoral divisions. Winnipeg elected ten members through single transferable ballot, while all other constituencies elected one member by instant runoff voting.

The election was called soon after the announcement of an alliance between the governing Progressive Party of John Bracken and the Liberal Party led by Murdoch Mackay. These parties were ideologically similar, and had a common interest in preventing the Conservative Party from coming to power. National Liberal leader William Lyon Mackenzie King supported this alliance, out of concern that a Conservative victory would strengthen the hand of Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bennett.

Bracken tried to bring the Conservatives into his coalition, but was rebuffed by Conservative leader Fawcett Taylor. Taylor's refusal to consider a consensus government was used against him in the campaign.

The election was also contested by the social democratic Independent Labour Party, under the leadership of John Queen. Though it was the second-largest party in the legislature after the 1920 election, Labour had slumped to only three seats in 1927 amid a general period of decline in the Canadian left. While the ILP was poised to improve its showing in the 1932 campaign, it was not a serious contender for government. In the event it elected only five MLAs, four in Winnipeg and one in St. Boniface, evidence of the benefits of preferential balloting to a minority party.

Some members of the provincial Liberal Party opposed the Liberal-Progressive alliance, and contested the election as "continuing Liberals". Their leader was David Campbell, the mayor of St. Boniface.

Leslie Morris and Jacob Penner of the Communist Party campaigned in the city of Winnipeg, and other Communist candidates ran in the outlying areas. As the Communist Party was under legal restrictions at the time, they ran as "United Front Workers" candidates. Former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) George Armstrong ran as a candidate of the Socialist Party, and Jessie MacLennan campaigned as a labour candidate unaffiliated with the ILP.

The result was a resounding victory for the governing alliance, as Liberals, Progressives and their allies won 38 out of 55 seats. The Conservatives fell from fifteen seats to ten. Having lost his third consecutive election, Fawcett Taylor resigned as Conservative leader in 1933. The Independent Labour Party managed a modest recovery after its poor showing in 1927, increasing its caucus to five members. No other parties' candidates were elected, although two former Progressives were elected as independents. The Continuing Liberals fared especially poorly, and disappeared after the election.

Leslie Morris came 309 votes short of winning the tenth seat in Winnipeg. Had he won, he would have been the first Communist elected to a provincial legislature in Canada.

The new Legislature would see 15 new MLAs, ten arising from incumbents being defeated, and the other five from open seats. Of the latter, four incumbents chose not to run, and one incumbent (John H. Edmison of Brandon) had died in March 1932.

Results

Party	Leader	First-preference votes	Seats	Votes	% FPv	Cand.	[1927](1927-manitoba-general-election)	Elected	Change
John Bracken	97,388	38.26	50	33	36	3	Fawcett Taylor	90,135	35.41
Valid	254,562	100.00	147	55	55	–
Rejected	n/a
Total votes cast	254,562
Registered voters/Turnout	350,476	72.6

First-preference votes by riding

Riding	LP	Con	ILP	CL	Ind	Ind-Con	Ind-Frm	Ind-FL	Ind-LP	Ind-Pr	Ind-Ukr	Lab	Soc	UFW	Total
Arthur	1,835	881													2,716
Assiniboia	1,008	2,813	2,349												6,170
Beautiful Plains	2,378	1,729													4,107
Birtle		1,315								1,954					3,269
Brandon City	1,423	2,647	1,574	893											6,537
Carillon	2,590	804													3,394
Cypress	1,795	1,539													3,334
Dauphin	1,668	1,525	578												3,771
Deloraine	2,003	1,523													3,526
Dufferin	2,568	1,966													4,534
Emerson	1,987	1,742						559							4,288
Ethelbert	2,331		1,682												4,013
Fairford	1,011			677											1,688
Fisher	845	352							195					364	1,756
Gilbert Plains	1,601	1,312													2,913
Gimlitwo LP candidates fielded, from both the Progressive and Liberal wings	2,409	858		230										710	4,207
Gladstone	1,902	1,144													3,046
Glenwood	2,020	1,087													3,107
Hamiota	1,847	1,223													3,070
Iberville		807		304					1,488						2,599
Kildonan and St. Andrews	2,308	2,543	1,315												6,166
Killarney	1,571	1,481													3,052
Lakeside	1,969	1,522													3,491
Lansdowne	2,193	1,095		189	302										3,779
La Verendrye	1,587	1,473			374										3,434
Manitou	2,268	1,776													4,044
Minnedosa	2,210	2,336			396										4,942
Morden and Rhineland	2,837	2,390													5,227
Morris	2,526	1,077													3,603
Mountain	3,076	1,182													4,258
Norfolk	1,773	1,537													3,310
Portage la Prairie	1,051	2,016													3,067
Roblin		1,238							1,847						3,085
Rockwood	2,114	1,136					997								4,247
Rupertsland	527				111										638
Russell	2,523	1,237													3,760
St. Boniface	3,283	3,483	3,477	1,116											11,359
St. Clements	3,234	2,046	1,774	412											7,466
St. George	1,604	1,104													2,708
Ste. Rose	1,959	1,203													3,162
Springfield	2,407	1,080	235	232				3,035							6,989
Swan River	1,034	1,698			1,279										4,011
The Pas	1,915		1,072			173									3,160
Turtle Mountain	1,277	1,322													2,599
Virden	2,101	1,619		249											3,969
Winnipeg	14,818	27,274	21,938	1,824	1,435						2,693	1,600	848	4,561	76,991
Total	97,386	90,135	35,994	6,126	3,897	173	997	3,594	3,530	1,954	2,693	1,600	848	5,635	254,562

Results by riding

Incumbents are marked with *.

For Liberal and Progressive incumbents: :() = Progressive MLA in previous Legislature :() = Liberal MLA in previous Legislature

Seats changing hands

In the single-member ridings, 13 seats changed allegiance:

Conservative to Liberal-Progressive

Cypress
Dauphin
Killarney
Manitou
Morden & Rhineland

Conservative to ILP

St. Boniface

Conservative to Independent-LP

Roblin

Liberal-Progressive to Conservative

Swan River

Liberal-Progressive to Independent-Progressive

Birtle

Liberal-Progressive to Independent-Farmer-Labour

Springfield

Independent to Conservative

Brandon

Independent-Farmer to Liberal-Progressive

Ethelbert

Independent-Progressive to Independent-LP

Iberville

:(Italics indicate that incumbent changed allegiance)

In Winnipeg, the seat distribution was changed as follows:

Party	1927	1932	change
4	3	1	3
		ILP	3	4
Total	10	10

Turnover on runoff

In the single-member ridings, there was only one case where the first-place candidate on first-preference votes failed to win:

1
11,359
100.00
-
1,935
17.03%
}

In the second count, Lawrence received enough transfers from Campbell to lead by 82 votes. He would receive a significant share from Gagnon's transfers to finish with a lead of 484 votes. Lawrence would become the first-ever ILP MLA for the riding.

Multiple-LP candidate contests

In two ridings, two LP candidatesrespectively nominated by the party's Liberal and Progressive wingswere on the ballot.

1
4,213
100.00
-
1,099
26.09%
}

1
638
100.00
-
90
14.11%
}

McPherson had previously failed to unseat Fawcett Taylor in Portage la Prairie on Election Day, so he opted to campaign again in Rupertsland, which had been deferred to July 14. This time he was successful.

Winnipeg

Winnipeg (ten members):

Valid votes: 76,991 Quota: 7000 votes

Party	MLAs
3	3
		ILP
Total	10

|- ! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Party ! rowspan="2"|Candidate ! colspan="2"|First-preference votes ! colspan="3"|Maximum votes |- style="text-align:right; background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center" ! Votes ! % FPv ! Votes ! Round ! Initial vs transfer votes mix | 13,507 | 17.54 | 13,507 | 1 | 9,302 | 12.08 | 9,302 | 1 | 5,940 | 7.72 | 7,044 | 17 | 5,053 | 6.56 | 7,105 | 11 | 4,432 | 5.76 | 7,019 | 5 | 3,540 | 4.60 | 6,060 | 24 | 3,530 | 4.59 | 7,486 | 22 | 3,455 | 4.49 | 4,959 | 24 | 3,366 | 4.37 | 6,593 | 24 | 2,945 | 3.83 | 5,268 | 24 | 2,693 | 3.50 | 2,923 | 20 | 2,262 | 2.94 | 5,470 | 24 | 1,991 | 2.59 | 2,045 | 19 | 1,951 | 2.53 | 3,547 | 21 | 1,614 | 2.10 | 2,177 | 18 | 1,600 | 2.08 | 2,082 | 16 | 1,549 | 2.01 | 4,780 | 23 | 1,339 | 1.74 | 1,570 | 15 | 1,106 | 1.44 | 1,106 | 13 | 1,061 | 1.38 | 1,061 | 14 | 894 | 1.16 | 1,084 | 10 | 848 | 1.10 | 880 | 9 | 688 | 0.89 | 1,331 | 13 | 597 | 0.78 | 597 | 7 | 588 | 0.76 | 812 | 8 | 548 | 0.71 | 588 | 6 | 314 | 0.41 | 378 | 4 | 182 | 0.24 | 182 | 3 | 96 | 0.12 | 96

3
76,991
100.00
-
11,600
15.07%
}

Sources

The first ballot results for Winnipeg and results for all other constituencies are taken from an official Manitoba government publication entitled "Manitoba elections, 1920-1941", cross-referenced with an appendix to the government's report of the 2003 provincial election. The Canadian parliamentary guide lists slightly different results from Kildonan & St. Andrews, Lansdowne, La Verendrye, Morris, Springfield and Turtle Mountain; the other two sources are more comprehensive, however, and may be taken as more reliable.

All ballot results for Winnipeg after the first count are taken from reports in the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper. It is possible that some errors appeared in the original publication.

Post-election changes

Portage la Prairie (res. Fawcett Taylor, 1933), November 27, 1933:

Toby Sexsmith (C) 1166, 1261
E.A. Gilroy (Ind [LP]) 851, 1024
H.A. Ireland (Ind-Lab) 597

Arthur (dec. Duncan McLeod, May 10, 1935), June 24, 1935:

John R. Pitt (LP) accl.

Russell (Isaac Griffiths to cabinet, May 28, 1935), July 4, 1935:

Isaac Griffiths (LP) accl.

Carillon (dec. Albert Prefontaine, 1935), July 4, 1935:

Edmond Prefontaine (LP) 1948
Louis-P. Gagnon 1793

Gimli (res. Einar Jonasson, 1935)

Winnipeg (res. Ralph Maybank, October 1, 1935)

Winnipeg (res. John Thomas Haig, 1935)

References

. (June 20, 1932). ["15 Members of Last House Will Be Missing This Winter"](https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1781534). *[[The Winnipeg Tribune]]*.
. ["Nineteenth General Election Held June 16, 1932 - Summary of Results"](https://www.electionsmanitoba.ca/downloads/HistoricalResultsSummaries/1932.pdf). *[[Elections Manitoba]]*.
. (June 20, 1932). ["Fred Lawrence Beats Bernier in St. Boniface"](https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1781534). *[[The Winnipeg Tribune]]*.
. (July 15, 1932). ["Premier Wins and McPherson Has Big Lead"](https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm:1782084). *[[The Winnipeg Tribune]]*.

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