1949 Manitoba general election

1949 Manitoba general election
57 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba; 29 seats needed for a majority
Premier before election; Douglas Lloyd Campbell; Liberal–Progressive	Premier after election ; Douglas Lloyd Campbell; Liberal–Progressive

The 1949 Manitoba general election was held on November 10, 1949, to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.

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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.^{[citation needed]}

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.

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Manitoba general election (November 10, 1949)^[1]
Party		Leader	First-preference votes			Seats
Party		Leader	Votes	% FPv	± (pp)	Cand.	1941	Elected	Change
	Coalition candidates
	█ Liberal–Progressive	Douglas Campbell	75,291	38.2	6.0	44	25	30	5
	█ Progressive Conservative	Errick Willis	23,410	11.9	4.0	16	13	9	4
	█ Independent		7,452	3.8	0.9	5	3	4	1
	█ Liberal		4,311	2.2	1.8	1	–	1	1
	█ Independent Liberal-Progressive		2,625	1.3	0.2	1	–	–	–
	█ Independent-Liberal		1,015	0.5	0.1	1	–	–	–
	█ Social Credit		–	–	1.3	–	2	–	2
	Anti-Coalition candidates
	█ Co-operative Commonwealth	Seymour Farmer	49,933	25.3	8.5	25	9	7	2
	█ Progressive Conservative		9,696	4.9	4.9	4	–	3	3
	█ Independent		6,892	3.5	0.8	4	1	–	1
	█ Labor–Progressive		5,243	2.7	2.1	2	1	1
	█ Independent-PC		5,044	2.6	2.6	2	–	1	1
	█ Independent-Liberal		4,094	2.1	2.1	3	–	–	–
	█ Independent-CCF		1,171	0.6	1.4	1	1	–	1
	█ Independent Liberal-Progressive		860	0.4	0.4	1	–	1	1
	█ Independent Labour		99	–	–	1	–	–	–
	█ Social Credit		–	–	0.7	–	–	–	–
	█ Socialist		–	–	0.1	–	–	–	–
Valid			197,136	100.0	–	111	55	57	2
Rejected			2,540
Total votes cast			199,676
Registered voters/Turnout^{[a 1]}			369,644	54.0

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[a 1]
Excludes constituencies where candidates returned by acclamation

Results by riding

Bold names indicate members returned by acclamation. Italicized names indicate Anti-Coalition candidates returned. Incumbents are marked with *.

Arthur: John R. Pitt*

Assiniboia: Reginald Wightman

Birtle: Francis Bell*

Brandon City: Joseph Donaldson

Carillon: Edmond Prefontaine*^{[a 1]} (Ind-LP)

Cypress: James Christie*

Dauphin: Ernest McGirr

Deloraine-Glenwood:^{[a 2]} James O. Argue*^{[a 3]}

Dufferin: Walter McDonald*

Emerson: John Solomon*

Ethelbert: Michael Sawchuk*^{[a 4]}

Fairford: James Anderson*^{[a 5]}

Fisher: Nicholas Bachynsky*

Gilbert Plains: Ray Mitchell

Gimli: Steinn Thompson*

Gladstone: William Morton*

Hamiota: Charles L. Shuttleworth

Iberville: John McDowell^{[a 1]}

Kildonan-Transcona:^{[a 2]} George Olive*^{[a 6]}

Killarney: Abram Harrison*

Lakeside: Douglas Campbell*

Lansdowne: Thomas Seens

La Verendrye: Sauveur Marcoux*

Manitou-Morden:^{[a 2]} Hugh Morrison*^{[a 1]}^{[a 7]}

Minnedosa: Henry Rungay*^{[a 5]}

Morris: Harry Shewman

Mountain: Ivan Schultz*

Norfolk-Beautiful Plains:^{[a 2]} Samuel Burch

Portage la Prairie: Charles Greenlay*

Rhineland: Wallace C. Miller

Roblin: Ronald Robertson

Rockwood: Robert Bend

Rupertsland: Daniel Hamilton*

Russell: Rodney Clement

St. Andrews:^{[a 2]} James McLenaghen*^{[a 8]}

St. Boniface: 'Joseph Van Belleghem

St. Boniface: Edwin Hansford

St. Clements: Nicholas Stryk

St. George: Christian Halldorson*

Ste. Rose: Maurice Dane MacCarthy*

Springfield: William Lucko

Swan River: George Renouf*^{[a 1]}

The Pas: Francis Jobin (Lib)

Turtle Mountain: Errick Willis*

Virden: Robert Mooney*

Winnipeg Centre: Paul Bardal

Winnipeg Centre: Charles Rhodes Smith*

Winnipeg Centre: Gordon Fines

Winnipeg Centre: Donovan Swailes*

Winnipeg North: Frank Chester

Winnipeg North: Morris Gray*

Winnipeg North: John Hawryluk

Winnipeg North: Bill Kardash*

Winnipeg South: John McDiarmid*

Winnipeg South: Ronald Turner*

Winnipeg South: Lloyd Stinson*

Winnipeg South: Dufferin Roblin (Ind-PC)

[a 1]
Elected in 1945 as a Coalition candidate
[a 2]
New single-member ridings arising from redistribution
[a 3]
Previously MLA for Deloraine
[a 4]
Elected in 1945 under the CCF banner
[a 5]
Elected in byelection
[a 6]
Previously MLA for Springfield
[a 7]
Previously MLA for Manitou
[a 8]
Previously MLA for Kildonan & St. Andrews

Multi-member constituencies

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MLAs returned by party (multi-member constituencies)
Party		St. Boniface	Winnipeg Centre	Winnipeg North	Winnipeg South
	Liberal–Progressive	1	2	1	2
	Co-operative Commonwealth	1	2	2	1
	Labor–Progressive			1
	Independent-PC				1
Total		2	4	4	4

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