Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1907)

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The Manitoba general election of 1907 was held on 7 March. The results were as follows:

Party	Leader	Votes	Seats
Conservative	Rodmond Palen Roblin (1853-1937)	31,066	28
Liberal	Edward Brown (1865-1947)	29,426	13
Labour	?	939	0
Totals		61,431	41

The voting results for individual constituencies were as follows:

Constituency	Candidate	Party	Votes
Arthur	John Williams (1860-1931)	Liberal	536
	Amos Moore Lyle (1865-1943)	Conservative	533
Assiniboia	Aime Benard (1873-1938)	Conservative	550
	Joseph H. Prefontaine (1859-1937)	Liberal	311
Avondale	James Henthorne Argue (1848-1927)	Conservative	590
	William Henry Beck “Harry” Hill (1857-1940)	Liberal	451
Beautiful Plains	James Henry Howden (1860-1938)	Conservative	791
	Alexander Dunlop (1856-1930)	Liberal	679
Birtle	Charles Julius Mickle (1848-1919)	Liberal	617
	Thomas W. Thompson	Conservative	380
Brandon City	Stanley William McInnis (1865-1907)	Conservative	1,210
	John William Fleming (1868-1928)	Liberal	1,081
Carillon	Albert Prefontaine (1861-1935)	Conservative	423
	Mastai Gervais (1862-?)	Liberal	318
Cypress	George Steel (1858-1940)	Conservative	783
	Adam Forbes	Liberal	672
Dauphin	John Archibald “Jack” Campbell (1872-1963)	Liberal	830
	James Graham Harvey (1869-1950)	Conservative	709
Deloraine	Robert Stirton Thornton (1863-1936)	Liberal	602
	Edward Briggs (1854-1941)	Conservative	561
Dufferin	Rodmond Palen Roblin (1853-1937)	Conservative	931
	Edward Arthur “Eddie” August (1860-1935)	Liberal	760
Emerson	George Walton (1854-1925)	Liberal	582
	David Henry McFadden (1856-1935)	Conservative	477
Gilbert Plains	Glenlyon Archibald Campbell (1863-1917)	Conservative	Acclaim
Gimli	Sigtryggur Jónasson (1852-1942)	Liberal	621
	Baldwin Larus Baldwinson (1856-1936)	Conservative	465
Gladstone	James William Armstrong (1860-1928)	Liberal	743
	David Wilson (1858-1927)	Conservative	682
Hamiota	William Ferguson (1862-1936)	Conservative	737
	M. B. Jackson	Liberal	636
Kildonan and St. Andrews	Orton Irwin Grain (1863-1930)	Conservative	792
	Martin J. O’Donohoe (1868-1909)	Liberal	751
Killarney	George Lawrence (1857-1924)	Conservative	642
	Robert Lorne Richardson (1860-1921)	Liberal	486
Lakeside	Edwin David Lynch (1860-1941)	Conservative	460
	Peter McArthur	Liberal	433
Lansdowne	Tobias Crawford Norris (1861-1936)	Liberal	859
	Harvey Elgin Hicks (1865-1940)	Conservative	763
La Verendrye	Jean Baptiste Lauzon (1858-1944)	Conservative	361
	William Lagimodiere (1859-1930)	Liberal	338
Manitou	Robert Rogers (1864-1936)	Conservative	832
	Gilbert Ernest Davidson (1868-1949)	Liberal	512
Minnedosa	William Bramwell Waddell (1857-1942)	Conservative	792
	Ernest William Pearson (1861-1936)	Liberal	626
Morden	Benjamin James McConnell (1861-1923)	Liberal	544
	George Ashdown (1851-1939)	Conservative	454
Morris	Colin Howell Campbell (1859-1914)	Conservative	526
	John Patrick Molloy (1873-1948)	Liberal	524
Mountain	James Bryson Baird (1859-1939)	Liberal	1,031
	Daniel A. McIntyre (1866-1941)	Conservative	598
Norfolk	Robert Fern Lyons (1856-1926)	Conservative	799
	William Walker (1850-?)	Liberal	646
Portage la Prairie	Hugh Armstrong (1858-1926)	Conservative	868
	Edward Brown (1865-1947)	Liberal	645
Rhineland	Valentine Winkler (1864-1920)	Liberal	364
	Cornelius Bergman	Conservative	321
Rockwood	Isaac Riley (1853-1926)	Conservative	676
	Ira Stratton (1865-1943)	Liberal	620
Russell	Angus Lorne Bonnycastle (1873-1941)	Conservative	605
	Dr. Thomas Alexander Wright	Liberal	596
St. Boniface	Joseph Bernier (1874-1951)	Conservative	753
	Horace Chevrier (1875-1935)	Liberal	677
South Brandon	Alfred Henry Carroll (1846-1924)	Conservative	417
	James M. Roddick	Liberal	410
Springfield	Donald Andrew Ross (1856-1938)	Liberal	540
	John Little	Conservative	359
Swan River	James Wells Robson (1867-1941)	Conservative	387
	J. P. Jones	Liberal	348
Turtle Mountain	James Johnson (1855-1929)	Conservative	649
	John Morrow	Liberal	462
Virden	John Hume Agnew (1863-1908)	Conservative	730
	John Grant Rattray (1867-1944)	Liberal	645
Winnipeg Centre	Thomas William Taylor (1852-1924)	Conservative	2,314
	John Adolphus MacArthur [McArthur] (c1860-?)	Liberal	2,047
Winnipeg North	John Fletcher Mitchell (1862-1943)	Conservative	2,244
	Alexander “Sandy” Macdonald (1843-1928)	Independent	1,874
Winnipeg South	James Thomas Gordon (1858-1919)	Conservative	2,122
	Benjamin Elswood Chaffey (1859-1953)	Liberal	1,988
Winnipeg West	Thomas Herman Johnson [Tómas Hermann Jónsson] (1870-1927)	Liberal	2,011
	Thomas Sharpe (1866-1929)	Conservative	1,785
	Kempton McKim	Labour	939

See also:

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial By-Elections (1907-1909)

Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Twelfth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1908-1910)

Sources:

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

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 April 2022