Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1922)

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The Manitoba general election of 1922 was held on 18 July. The results were as follows:

Party	Leader	Votes	Seats
United Farmers of Manitoba / Progressive	John Bracken (1883-1969)	49,767	27
Liberal	Tobias Crawford Norris (1861-1936)	35,225	9
Conservative	?	23,539	8
Labour	Frederick John “Fred” Dixon (1881-1931)	24,188	6
Independent	-	19,055	5
Totals		151,774	55

The voting results for individual constituencies were as follows:

Constituency	Returning Officer	Candidate	Party	Votes
Arthur	Frank Kelly	Duncan Lloyd McLeod (1874-1935)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,130
		John Williams (1860-1931)	Liberal	777
Assiniboia	John A. Brown	William Dowell Bayley (1879-1955)	Labour	1,844
		Charles Leonard Richardson (1884-1939)	United Farmers of Manitoba	999
		William Bourke (1863-1943)	Independent	843
		John Haddow (1855-1932)	Independent	494
Beautiful Plains	Robert H. Wemyss	George Little (1858-1940)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,534
		Richard E. Coad	Conservative	939
		James Alexander Dempsey (1867-1938)	Liberal	429
Birtle	Mervyn Clemens Markle	William John Short (1865-1939)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,307
		William Iverach (1865-1947)	Liberal	710
Brandon City	David Potter Duncan	John Henry Edmison (1875-1932)	Independent	3,281
		Albert Edward Smith (1870-1947)	Labour	2,060
Carillon	Petter Musser	Albert Prefontaine (1861-1935)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,010
		Maurice Duprey (1873-1945)	Independent Farmer	694
Cypress	Walter A. Turnbull	William Hooey Spinks (1873-1949)	Conservative	1,252
		John Alexander Young	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,205
Dauphin	James Norton	Archibald Esplen (1864-1933)	Liberal	825
		George Hastings Palmer (1881-1947)	Labour	742
		Henry Pears Nicholson (1868-1933)	United Farmers of Manitoba	658
Deloraine	John A. Morrison	Duncan Stuart McLeod (1854-1933)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,012
		William Chalmers (1868-?)	Conservative	829
		Robert Stirton Thornton (1863-1936)	Liberal	810
Dufferin	Roland H. B. North	William Brown (1870-1943)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,645
		Herbert Edward Robson	Independent	1,504
Emerson	James Dowswell	Dymtro Yakimischak (1888-1958)	Independent	998
		David Henry McFadden (1856-1935)	Conservative	567
		Robert Franklin Curran (1883-1958)	United Farmers of Manitoba	566
		H. Stewart	Liberal	435
Ethelbert	Hiram Robert Reid	Nicholas Apoluner Hryhorczuk (1888-1979)	United Farmers of Manitoba	Acclaim
Fairford	B. Methusalemson	Albert Walmsley Kirvan (1870-1952)	Liberal	810
		Gotthard Lebrecht Maron (1868-1931)	United Farmers of Manitoba	398
Fisher	Ernest Bouchard	Nicolas Volodymir Bachynsky (1887-1969)	United Farmers of Manitoba	581
		Henry Liddell Mabb (1872-1960)	Independent	354
		John Garfield Hamilton	Liberal	262
Gilbert Plains	Robert Bedford	Arthur Ritchie Berry (1880-1943)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,034
		Horace Priestly Barrett	Independent	499
		George Darling Shortreed (1870-1940)	Liberal	317
Gimli	Halldor J. Eastman	Michael Rojeski (1884-1965)	Liberal	1,570
		Ingimar Ingaldson (1888-1934)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,310
		Elias Grabosky	Conservative	103
Gladstone	Alexander W. Stone	Albert Daniel McGregor (1870-1948)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,527
		David Smith (1867-1934)	Liberal	649
		Frederick Rhind (1868-1963)	Conservative	387
Glenwood	Thomas Albert Lockhart	James Washington Breakey (1865-1952)	Liberal	1,468
		Wellington Geddes Rathwell (1887-1951)	United Farmers of Manitoba	950
Hamiota	George S. Anderson	Thomas Wolstenholme (1870-1952)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,338
		John Henry McConnell (1862-1944)	Liberal	935
Iberville	Charles A. Prefontaine	Arthur Rivers Boivin (1878-1951)	United Farmers of Manitoba	902
		Henry Alfred Mullins (1861-1952)	Liberal	290
Kildonan and St. Andrews	John H. Gunn	Charles Albert Tanner (1887-1970)	Labour	1,453
		Fred Larter	Liberal	977
		Samuel Henry Summerscales (1872-1941)	United Farmers of Manitoba	828
Killarney	Thomas Hill	Andrew Edmond Foster (1867-1956)	United Farmers of Manitoba	949
		Thomas W. Waldon (1867-1947)	Conservative	747
		Thomas Henry Buck (1859-1929)	Liberal	394
Lakeside	Hugh McKay	Douglas Lloyd Campbell (1895-1995)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,591
		Herbert Muir	Conservative	1,101
Lansdowne	James H. Wilkinson	Tobias Crawford Norris (1861-1936)	Liberal	1,680
		John Morrison Allen	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,219
La Verendrye	Max Champagne	Phillipe Adjutor “Pete” Talbot (1879-1967)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,134
		Louis Philippe Roy (1889-1963)	Liberal	694
Manitou	Charles Herbert Vrooman	George Compton (1872-1950)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,049
		John Sutherland Ridley (1882-1934)	Conservative	1,018
		Joseph B. Lane	Independent	548
		Gilbert Ernest Davidson (1868-1949)	Liberal	531
Minnedosa	John McQuarrie	Neil Cameron (1863-1935)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,966
		Arthur Wellesley Shaw (1856-1931)	Liberal	1,160
Morden and Rhineland	W. H. Snowden	John Hugh Kennedy (1867-1927)	Conservative	1,297
		John Sweet (1861-1942)	United Farmers of Manitoba	960
Morris	Harold “Harry” Grills (1870-1954)	William Reid Clubb (1884-1962)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,222
		Alexandre “Buffalo” Ayotte (1859-1932)	Liberal	751
Mountain	Clarence Miles Brown	Charles Reginald Cannon (1866-1951)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,580
		James Bryson Baird (1859-1939)	Liberal	968
		George M. Fraser	Conservative	578
Norfolk	R. H. Swallow	John Muirhead (1877-1954)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,279
		Reuben James Waugh (1875-1945)	Conservative	1,142
Portage la Prairie	Herbert J. J. Smith	Fawcett Gowler Taylor (1878-1940)	Conservative	1,436
		Charles Duncan McPherson (1877-1970)	Liberal	1,307
Roblin	William James Westwood	Frederic Young Newton (1870-1959)	Conservative	1,181
		Henry Robson Richardson (1879-1966)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,174
Rockwood	Miles J. MacDonald	William Clarke McKinnell (1873-1939)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,374
		Harvey Elgin Hicks (1865-1940)	Conservative	706
		Robert William Rutherford	Independent	703
Ruperts Land	Alexander Matheson McLeod	Francis Mollison Black (1870-1941)	Liberal	Acclaim
Russell	Alexander S. Crerar	Isaac Bertie Griffiths (1882-1970)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,177
		William Wilber Wilfred Wilson (1885-1964)	Liberal	783
		Edgar Carnegy de Galinhard	Conservative	741
St. Boniface	Antoine Gingras	Joseph Bernier (1874-1951)	Independent	2,024
		Hector Mackenzie Sutherland (1870-1936)	Liberal	1,176
		Charles W. Foster	Labour	1,124
St. Clements	Murdock Daniel McLean	Donald Andrew Ross (1856-1938)	Independent	1,245
		Hugh Connolly (1890-1970)	United Farmers of Manitoba	532
		Nicolas Kolisnyk	Labour	387
		Matthew James Stanbridge (1876-1939)	Labour	352
St. George	William Henry Robinson	Skuli Sigfusson (1870-1969)	Liberal	1,512
		Albert Edward Kristjansson (1877-1974)	United Farmers of Manitoba	860
Ste. Rose	Emile Lussier	Joseph Hamelin (1873-1947)	Independent	1,362
		Thomas McDonald	United Farmers of Manitoba	1.272
Springfield	Isaac Cook	Clifford Barclay (1876-1961)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,014
		William James Black	Liberal	854
		Samuel Leonard Henry	Conservative	365
Swan River	John Leslie	Robert William Emmond (1869-1935)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,320
		Daniel Hawe	Conservative	548
The Pas (* deferred election on 5 October 1922)	Arthur Larose	John Bracken (1883-1969)	United Farmers of Manitoba	472
		Herman Finger (1856-1929)	Independent	118
		Peter Cecil Robertson (1872-1954)	Independent	71
		R. H. MacNeill	Independent	38
Turtle Mountain	Christopher R. Wood	Richard Gardiner Willis (1865-1929)	Conservative	1,059
		Fawcett Wright Ransom (1882-1957)	United Farmers of Manitoba	955
Virden	E. M. Conray	Robert Henry Mooney (1873-1953)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,638
		George Clingan (1868-1944)	Liberal	961
Winnipeg (* elected)	Donald Robert Campbell MacLean (1885-1931)	John Queen (1882-1946) *	Labour	4,045
		Seymour James Farmer (1878-1951) *	Labour	4,036
		Frederick John “Fred” Dixon (1881-1931) *	Labour	4,030
		John Kensington Downes (1879-1944) *	Independent	4,030
		William Sanford Evans (1869-1949) *	Conservative	4,030
		John Thomas Haig (1877-1962) *	Conservative	4,030
		Robert Jacob (1879-1944) *	Liberal	4,030
		William “Bill” Ivens (1878-1957) *	Labour	3,645
		Edith Frances McTavish Rogers (1876-1947) *	Liberal	3,485
		Richard W. Craig (1877-1966) *	Progressive	3,412
		Duncan Cameron (1865-1948)	Liberal	3,041
		Thomas Joseph Murray (1875-1954)	Progressive	2,181
		George Armstrong (1870-1956)	Labour	2,135
		Arthur Sullivan (1881-1957)	Conservative	1,546
		George Fisher Chipman (1882-1935)	Progressive	1,467
		Walter Harley Trueman (1870-1951)	Liberal	1,323
		William Ryde Milton (1871-1959)	Liberal	1,070
		Matthew Popovic [Popovitch] (1890-1943)	Labour	1,039
		William James Donovan (1875-1949)	Liberal	922
		Dr. James Alexander McTavish	Liberal	848
		Árni Eggertsson (1873-1942)	Liberal	768
		William Johnston Tupper (1862-1947)	Conservative	754
		Patrick James Henry (1878-?)	Progressive	723
		James Winning (1881-1951)	Labour	683
		Charles Kenning Newcombe (1877-1944)	Progressive	654
		Daniel McLean (1868-1950)	Conservative	612
		Samuel Cartwright	Labour	557
		Peter McCallum (1882-?)	Progressive	521
		Hugh Dysart Cutler	Liberal	489
		Mrs. Lily Brown	Conservative	449
		Martha Jane Richards Hample (1859-1927)	Progressive	393
		Bernard Bronislaw Dubienski (1891-1981)	Independent	364
		Archibald Henderson	Labour	282
		Allan Livingston Mclean	Liberal	275
		Fred Hilson	Independent	175
		Fleming Ward Magill	Labour	165
		Arthur W. Puttee (1868-1957)	Progressive	150
		William Clarence Morden (1878-1930)	Independent	145
		James Simpkin (1875-1946)	Labour	140
		William Hammond	Labour	112
		Mrs. Agnes Munro	Conservative	100
		Mrs. Maude McCarthy	Labour	96
		Colin L. MacPhail	Independent	39

See also:

Events in Manitoba History: Proportional Voting (1920-1957)

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial By-Elections (1922-1925)

Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1923-1927)

Sources:

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

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 30 September 2023