Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1879)

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The Manitoba provincial election of 1879 was held on 16 December. The results were as follows:

Party

Leader

Votes

Seats

Government

John Norquay (1841-1889)

 

21

Independent

-

 

2

Opposition

Thomas Scott (1841-1915)

 

1

Totals

 

24

The voting results for individual constituencies were as follows:

Constituency

Returning Officer

Candidate

Party

Votes

Assiniboia

?

Alexander “Sandy” Murray (1839-1913)

Independent

187

John Taylor (1834-1925)

?

106

Baie St. Paul

?

Marc Amable Girard (1822-1892)

Government

Acclaim

Burnside

?

John Smith (1817-1889)

Government

121

Isaiah Mawhinney (1830-1913)

?

120

Cartier

?

Gilbert McMicken (1813-1891)

Government

108

Joseph Octave Lemay (1829-1892)

?

67

Pierre Delorme (1832-1912)

?

52

Dufferin North

?

Andrew Laughlin (1844-1916)

Government

143

George Leary

?

138

Dufferin South

?

William James Winram (1838-1891)

Government

Acclaim

Emerson

?

William Hill Nash (1846-1917)

Government

154

Isaac Casson

?

37

Frederick Ernest Burnham (1847-?)

?

29

Gladstone

?

Corydon Partlow Brown (1848-1891)

Government

Acclaim

High Bluff & Poplar Point

?

John Aldham Kyte Drummond (1847-1913)

Government

96

William Crawford (1847-1897)

?

66

Kildonan & St. Paul

?

Alexander MacBeth Sutherland (1849-1884)

Government

107

John Sutherland (1837-1922)

?

69

La Verendrye

?

Maxime Goulet (1855-1932)

Government

219

J. Desautels

?

176

Morris

?

Joseph Noel Taillefer (1828-1897)

Government

153

Stewart Mulvey (1834-1908)

?

118

Alphonse Fortunat Martin (1849-1905)

?

36

Mountain

?

Thomas Greenway (1838-1908)

Government

Acclaim

Portage la Prairie

?

James Cowan (1831-1910)

Government

Acclaim

Rockwood

?

John Somerset Aikins (1850-1911)

Government

125

Thomas Lusted (1841-1904)

?

96

H. J. Clarke

?

65

Ste. Agathe

?

Alexander Kittson (1853-1883)

Government

62

Joseph-Alfred-Norbert Provencher (1843-1887)

?

32

St. Andrews

?

John Norquay (1841-1889)

Government

Acclaim

St. Boniface

?

Alphonse Alfred Clement LaRivière (1842-1925)

Government

122

Joseph-Alfred-Norbert Provencher (1843-1887)

?

3

St. Clements

?

Edward Henry George Gunson Hay (1840-1918)

Independent

120

John Gunn (1826-?)

?

81

John Wright Sifton (1833-1912)

?

60

St. Francois Xavier

?

Patrice Breland (1837-1908)

Government

Acclaim

Springfield

?

Arthur Wellington Ross (1846-1901)

Government

222

A. Barnard

?

3

Westbourne

?

David Marr Walker (1835-1920)

Government

139

Walter J. N. Pratt (c1852-1924)

Opposition

110

Winnipeg

?

Thomas Scott (1841-1915)

Opposition

387

Daniel Hunter McMillan (1846-1933)

?

321

Woodlands

?

Francis Wesley Lipsett (1850-1889)

Government

Acclaim

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Fourth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1879-1883)

Sources:

“Local elections,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 December 1879, page 1.

Manitoba Election Records (December 1870 to November 1957, June 1958 to June 1969), Manitoba Legislative Library.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

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