Events in Manitoba History: Canadian Federal Election (1940)

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The Canadian federal election of 1940 was held on 26 March. The results were as follows:

Riding	Candidate	Party	Votes
Brandon	James Ewen Matthews (1869-1950)	Liberal	8,908
	John William McLeod Thompson (1908-1986)	National Government	6,168
	James Henry Wood	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	2,609
Churchill	Thomas Alexander Crerar (1876-1975)	Liberal	8,276
	William Blakeman Scarth (1895-1983)	National Government	4,963
Dauphin	William John Ward (1880-1971)	Liberal	5,953
	James Langstaff Bowman (1879-1951)	National Government	5,900
	Ronald Stewart Moore (1913-2003)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	5,142
Lisgar	Howard Waldemar Winkler (1891-1970)	Liberal	5,221
	Reginald Arthur Sprake Follett	National Government	2,433
	David Leslie McBrien	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	1,160
	Thomas Eldon McIntyre	New Democracy	685
Macdonald	William Gilbert “Gib” Weir (1896-1971)	Liberal Progressive	7,728
	James Anthony Cuddy (1892-1971)	National Government	4,510
	Ivan Andrew Langtry	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	2,639
Marquette	James Allison Glen (1877-1950)	Liberal Progressive	7,027
	James Wilson Ewbank	Independent	5,259
	Robert Peden	National Government	4,545
Neepawa	Frederick Donald MacKenzie (1882-1970)	Liberal	6,724
	Thomas Gerow Murphy (1883-1971)	National Government	4,865
	John Hazelett Duffy (1878-1942)	New Democracy	2,208
Portage la Prairie	Henry George “Harry” Leader (1880-1946)	Liberal	7,442
	George Herbert Jones	National Government	4,835
Provencher	René Norbert Jutras (1913-1995)	Liberal	3,768
	Leo Arthur Slater (1896-1984)	Independent	3,329
	Harry Matthew Podolsky	Independent	1,765
	William Richard Johnston	National Government	1,441
	Albert Banville	New Democracy	1,099
	Évariste Rupert Gagnon	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	841
St. Boniface	John Power Howden (1879-1959)	Liberal	7,926
	George Campbell MacLean (1887-1957)	National Government	3,578
	Philippe Guay	Social Credit	1,839
	George Henry Barefoot	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	1,739
	Morris Jacob	Independent	216
Selkirk	Joseph Thorarinn Thorson (1889-1978)	Liberal	11,023
	Richard Ambrose Wise	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	6,869
	Edmund Partridge (1868-1955)	National Government	3,890
Souris	James Arthur Ross (1893-1958)	National Government	4,991
	George William McDonald (1875-1950)	Liberal	4,861
	Alex H. Parkes	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	1,370
Springfield	John Mowat Turner (1900-1945)	Liberal	7,462
	Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	7,018
	Roderick Kenneth Finlayson	National Government	3,311
Winnipeg North	Charles Stephen Booth (1897-1988)	Liberal	13,015
	Abraham Albert Heaps (1885-1954)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	11,249
	Leslie Tom Morris	Communist	5,315
	Percy Ellor	National Government	2,255
Winnipeg North Centre	James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	11,324
	Ambrose Roy “Beau” MacDonell (1901-1966)	Liberal	11,199
	Bjorn “Bjossi” Stefansson (1888-1963)	National Government	5,412
Winnipeg South	Leslie Alexander Mutch (1897-1977)	Liberal	15,461
	Edwin Godfrey Phipps Baker (1885-1963)	National Government	8,445
	David Adrian Mulligan (1893-1981)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	3,912
Winnipeg South Centre	Ralph Maybank (1890-1965)	Liberal	19,486
	William Walker Kennedy (1882-1963)	National Government	10,698
	John Julius Swanson	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	5,576

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Members of the Ninteenth Canadian Parliament (1940-1945)

Sources:

History of Federal Ridings Since 1867, Parliament of Canada.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 3 December 2022