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The Canadian federal election of 1968 was held on 25 June. The results were as follows:
Riding
Candidate
Party
Votes
Brandon-Souris
Walter Gilbert Dinsdale (1916-1982)
Progressive Conservative
15,060
James R. Bates
Liberal
9,963
Harold Van Mulligen
New Democratic
4,031
Churchill
Robert “Bud” Simpson (1910-1990)
Progressive Conservative
9,009
Frank Dembinsky
Liberal
7,673
Brian Koshul
New Democratic
4,888
Dauphin
William Gordon David Ritchie (1918-1998)
Progressive Conservative
8,701
Raymond-J. Allard
Liberal
6,770
Evelyn Syme
New Democratic
6,737
Dean Waldon Whiteway
Social Credit
1,194
Lisgar
George Robson Muir (1903-1970)
Progressive Conservative
11,785
Donald A. Livingston
Liberal
7,748
Roy E. Esler
Social Credit
1,350
Edith Alsop
New Democratic
1,305
George G. Elias
Independent
614
Marquette
Craig Stewart (1928-2009)
Progressive Conservative
12,706
Rodney Stewart “Rod” Clement (1919-1969)
Liberal
9,183
Michael Stephen Antonation (1913-1985)
New Democratic
3,651
Walter Donovan
Independent
593
Portage
Gerald Richard Joseph Cobbe (1927-2004)
Liberal
8,415
Siegfried John “Sig” Enns (1924-2020)
Progressive Conservative
8,025
Kazmir Roschuk
New Democratic
3,184
Provencher
Mark Gerald Smerchanski (1914-1989)
Liberal
9,021
Warner Herbert Jorgenson (1918-2005)
Progressive Conservative
7,791
Harry Blake-Knox
New Democratic
3,078
Lorne Anthony Reznowski (1929-2011)
Social Credit
1,773
St. Boniface
Joseph-Philippe Guay (1915-2001)
Liberal
22,032
Harry Shafransky (1930-1986)
New Democratic
11,566
Vaughan Lawson Baird (1927-2013)
Progressive Conservative
8,048
Georges Forest (1924-1990)
Social Credit
949
Selkirk
New Democratic
17,310
Bernard Rodolph “Bernie” Wolfe (1922-2014)
Liberal
12,020
Eric Stefanson (1913-1977)
Progressive Conservative
8,781
Walter Bowden
Social Credit
707
Winnipeg North
David Orlikow (1919-1998)
New Democratic
15,608
Yaroslaw “Cecil” Semchyshyn (1930-2002)
Liberal
14,645
Gary Raymond Scherbain (1942-2021)
Progressive Conservative
3,206
William Cecil Ross (c1911-1998)
Communist
869
Winnipeg North Centre
Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)
New Democratic
14,880
Liberal
11,323
Joseph C. “Joe” Kerr (?-2000)
Progressive Conservative
4,124
Winnipeg South
James Armstrong Richardson (1922-2004)
Liberal
23,457
Louis Ralph “Bud” Sherman (1926-2015)
Progressive Conservative
15,209
William John Hutton
New Democratic
5,499
Winnipeg South Centre
Edmund Boyd Osler (1919-1987)
Liberal
23,775
Charles Dufferin “Duff” Roblin (1917-2010)
Progressive Conservative
13,268
Frances Thompson
New Democratic
8,240
John McDowell (1894-1980)
Independent Conservative
632
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Members of the Twenty-Eighth Canadian Parliament (1968-1972)
History of Federal Ridings Since 1867, Parliament of Canada.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 February 2022
