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1959 Manitoba general election

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FieldValue
election_name1959 Manitoba general election
countryManitoba
flag_year1957
typeparliamentary
ongoingno
party_colourno
party_nameno
previous_election1958 Manitoba general election
previous_year1958
elected_members[elected members](26th-manitoba-legislature)
next_election1962 Manitoba general election
outgoing_members25th Manitoba Legislature
next_year1962
seats_for_election57 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
29 seats were needed for a majority
election_dateMay 14, 1959
image1Hon. Duff Roblin (F0563 fl0008 it0001) (cropped 3-4).jpg
colour1
leader1Duff Roblin
leader_since1June 17, 1954
party1
leaders_seat1Wolseley
last_election126
seats1**36**
seat_change110
popular_vote1147,140
percentage147.0%
swing16.4pp
colour2
leader2Douglas Campbell
leader_since2November 13, 1948
party2
leaders_seat2Lakeside
last_election219
seats2**11**
seat_change28
popular_vote294,799
percentage230.3%
swing24.4pp
image3**CCF**
colour3
leader3Lloyd Stinson
leader_since3December 19, 1952
party3
leaders_seat3Osborne
*(lost re-election)*
last_election311
seats3**10**
seat_change31
popular_vote368,149
percentage321.8%
swing31.8pp
map_imageManitobaElection1959.png
map_size350px
map_captionMap of Election Results
titlePremier
posttitlePremier after the election
before_electionDufferin Roblin
before_party
after_electionDufferin Roblin
after_party

29 seats were needed for a majority (lost re-election) The 1959 Manitoba general election was held on May 14, 1959 to elect 57 members to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a majority victory for the incumbent Progressive Conservatives under the leadership of Premier Dufferin Roblin. It was the first time since the 1914 election that the PCs won an outright majority in the province, when they were led by Dufferin Roblin's grandfather, Sir Rodmond Roblin.

Roblin's PCs won 36 seats against 11 for the Liberal-Progressives, led by former Premier Douglas Campbell, and 10 for the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Lloyd Stinson. The PCs took 25 percent more votes than it had received in the previous election just one year before but took 40 percent more seats than it had won in 1958. They had won 117,822 votes in 1958, compared to 147,000 in 1959.

The Manitoba Social Credit Party, which won 2 seats in the 1958 election, did not contest any seats during the election and regained a foothold in the legislature only during a subsequent by-election. The communist Labor-Progressive Party contested three ridings but did not win any.

The election is the last one to be fought by candidates with the "Liberal-Progressive," "Co-operative Commonwealth," or "Labor-Progressive" labels in Manitoba. The Liberal-Progressives dropped the latter half in 1961 and ran all subsequent elections as "Liberals." Similarly, the Labor-Progressive candidates returned to the "Communist" label. The CCF changed its name following the national party's re-incorporation into the New Democratic Party and ran all future elections as Manitoba New Democrats.

Detailed Results

Summary

PartyParty leader# of
candidatesSeatsPopular vote[1958](1958-manitoba-general-election)Elected#%% Change
Progressive ConservativeDufferin Roblin5726**36**147,14047.0%Liberal-ProgressiveDouglas Campbell
**Total**16557**57**312,990**100%**

Northern Manitoba

|- || |John Ingebrigtson 1,587 | |Kenneth D. Wray 954 | | | | ||

E.J. Williams
Charles Witney
1,810

| |Francis Jobin 1,728 | |Frederick S. Pope 923 | | ||

Francis Jobin
Joseph Jeannotte
2,268

| |Harry Boulette 587 | |Alfred J. Cook 393 | | ||

Joseph Jeannotte
John Carroll
2,345

| |Marvin Hill 1,027 | |Peter Schewchuk 779 | | || |John Carroll |}

Southern Manitoba

|- || |John Cobb 2,513 | |John McRae 1,932 | | | |William G. Powne (Ind.) 556 ||

John Cobb
Robert Smellie
2,239

| |Rodney Clement 2,015 | |Michael Sotas 947 | | ||

Rodney Clement
Reginald Lissaman
5,452

| |Gordon A. Phillips 2,159 | |Hans Fries 1,415 | | ||

Reginald Lissaman

| |Gordon B. Burnett 1,409 | |Arthur Trapp 1,083 || |Ed Schreyer 2,107 | | ||

Ed Schreyer

| |Peter J. Thiessen 1,791 || |Edmond Prefontaine 2,397 | | | | ||

Edmond Prefontaine
Marcel Boulic
2,951

| |John Leslie Sundell 1,781 | | | | ||

Marcel Boulic
Stewart McLean
2,951

| |Emma Hildegard Ringstrom 967 | |A. Clifford Matthews 1,233 | | ||

Stewart McLean
William Homer Hamilton
2,077

| |Walter McDonald 1,923 | |Chester Ernest Johnson 167 | | ||

Walter McDonald

| |Ben Comeaux 2,190 || |John Tanchak 2,752 | | | | ||

John Tanchak

| |Isadore Syrnyk 1,001 || |Michael Hryhorczuk 1,856 | |Peter Burtniak 1,590 | | ||

Michael Hryhorczuk

| |Roy Ellison 1,361 | |W.J. Griffin, Jr. 1,028 || |Peter Wagner 1,777 | | ||

Peter Wagner
George Johnson
2,570

| |Alex Hawrysh 1,007 | |Zado Zator 932 | | ||

George Johnson

| |Earl Murray 2,318 || |Nelson Shoemaker 2,469 | |Della Yuel 415 | | ||

Nelson Shoemaker
Barry Strickland
2,377

| |James Chester Scott 2,136 | |Arthur Nicholson 440 | | ||

Barry Strickland
Oscar Bjornson
1,357

| |John Ateah 1,272 | |Donald H. MacLean 1,018 | |Stanley Copp (Ind.) 346 ||

Arthur Trapp

| |John Frederick Bate 1,774 || |Douglas Campbell 1,896 | |Allen Werbiski 278 | | ||

Douglas Campbell

| |Edmund Guertin 1,581 || |Stan Roberts 1,799 | | | | ||

Stan Roberts
Walter Weir
2,386

| |Charles L. Shuttleworth 2,029 | |J.M. Lee 1,090 | | ||

Charles L. Shuttleworth
Harry Shewman
1,905

| |Bruce MacKenzie 1,298 | | | | ||

Harry Shewman
Maurice Ridley
3,077

| |Lynwood Graham 1,199 | | | | ||

Maurice Ridley
John Christianson
2,300

| |Charles Greenlay 1,827 | |Fred Allan Tufford 416 | | ||

Charles Greenlay

| |Leo Recksiedler 1,462 || |Wallace C. Miller 1,648 | | | | ||

Wallace C. Miller
Keith Alexander
1,946

| |Ray Mitchell 1,334 | |Joseph Perchaluk 1,569 | | ||

Keith Alexander
Abram Harrison
2,545

| |Walter Clark 1,843 | |Cyril Hamwee 632 | | ||

Abram Harrison
George Hutton
2,269

| |Robert Bend 2,143 | |Samuel Cranston 444 | | ||

Robert Bend

| |Ivan George Casselman 1,371 || |Elman Guttormson 2,279 | |Nellie Baker 255 | | ||

Elman Guttormson

| |Albert Fletcher 1,576 || |Gildas Molgat 2,390 | |Leon W. Hoefer 353 | | ||

Gildas Molgat

| |Edward Foster 1,732 || |Thomas P. Hillhouse 1,814 | |Scottie Bryce 872 | | ||

Thomas P. Hillhouse
Malcolm McKellar
2,688

| |George Adrian Griffith 1,448 | | | | ||

Malcolm McKellar
Fred Klym
1,878

| |William Lucko 1,507 | |Richard Loeb 772 | | ||

William Lucko
Albert H.C. Corbett
2,292

| |Arvid Burst 786 | |Hilliard Farriss 1,431 | | ||

Albert H.C. Corbett
Errick Willis
3,247

| |Walter Christianson 1,187 | | | | ||

Errick Willis
John Thompson
3,097

| |John Wesley Clarke 1,337 | | | | ||

John Thompson
}

Winnipeg

|- || |George Johnson 3,157 | |Jack Brownrigg 1,388 | |Donovan Swailes 2,940 | |George R.A. Brown (Ind.) 269 ||

Donovan Swailes

| |Andrew Zaharychuk 1,286 | |Joseph R. Hnidan 1,155 || |John Hawryluk 2,235 | |William Cecil Ross (LPP) 675 ||

John Hawryluk

| |Henry Emerson Snyder 2,560 | |Alex Turk 1,488 || |Steve Peters 2,782 | | ||

Steve Peters
Sterling Lyon
4,842

| |Stanley Farwell 2,035 | |Nena Woodward 1,373 | | ||

Sterling Lyon
Gurney Evans
4,352

| |Jerome Marrin 1,947 | |Robert C. Murdoch 1,425 | | ||

Gurney Evans

| |Mary A. Wawrykow 2,106 | |John A. Kolt 981 || |Morris Gray 3,635 | |L.W. Kaminski (LPP) 468 ||

Morris Gray

| |John Ernest Willis 3,511 | |Cornelius Huebert 1,972 || |A.J. Reid 3,659 | | ||

A.J. Reid

| |Albert Edward Bennett 1,921 | |John Kozoriz 873 || |Lemuel Harris 2,098 | | ||

Stephen Juba
Obie Baizley
3,808

| |David Bowman 1,166 | |Lloyd Stinson 3,482 | | ||

Lloyd Stinson

| |Harold Huppe 2,998 | |Nick Slotek 2,029 || |Russell Paulley 4,085 | | ||

Russell Paulley
W.B. Scarth
4,936

| |Keith Routley 3,060 | |Magnus Eliason 478 | | ||

W.B. Scarth

| |Harry De Leeuw 2,992 || |Laurent Desjardins 3,772 | |Benjamin Cyr 1,309 | | ||

Roger Teillet
Douglas Stanes
3,616

| |David Graham 1,541 | |Al Mackling 2,348 | | ||

Douglas Stanes

| |Dan Zaharia 2,010 | |Abe Yanofsky 854 || |David Orlikow 2,261 | |Jacob Penner (LPP) 588 ||

David Orkilow
William Martin
3,635

| |Paul Goodman 1,900 | |Gordon Fines 2,090 | | ||

William Martin
Fred Groves
4,599

| |George R. D. Goulet 1,946 | |Joseph Trafer 353 | | ||

Fred Groves

| |Charles Nye 1,973 | |Calvin Scarfe 1,343 || |Arthur E. Wright 3,889 | | ||

Arthur E. Wright
Richard Seaborn
3,082

| |William Norrie 1,624 | |James McIsaac 2,854 | | ||

Richard Seaborn
James Cowan
3,712

| |Gurzon Harvey 1,462 | |Fred Paulley 1,474 | | ||

James Cowan
Dufferin Roblin
4,351

| |Francis C. Muldoon 1,707 | |Peter Griffin 1,131 | | ||

Dufferin Roblin
}

By-elections 1958 to 1962

|- style="background-color:white" ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes ! style="text-align:right;" |3,995 ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 |100

|- style="background-color:white" ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes ! style="text-align:right;" |4,032 ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 |100

|- style="background-color:white" ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes ! style="text-align:right;" |3,584 ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 |100

|- style="background-color:white" ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes ! style="text-align:right;" |4,654 ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2|100

|- style="background-color:white" ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes ! style="text-align:right;" |4,934 ! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 |100

References

References

  1. "Province of Manitoba Twenty-Fifth General Election held June 16, 1958 - Summary of Results".
  2. (August 1, 2019). "Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial By-Elections (1959-1960)".
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