Events in Manitoba History: Single-Digit Victories in Provincial Elections (1870-2019)

The following Manitoba provincial elections were won by a margin of fewer than 10 votes.

Year	Constituency	Candidate	Party	Votes
1870	Headingley	James Cunningham (1823-1915)	Opposition	32
		John Taylor (1834-1925)	Government	31
	Kildonan	John Sutherland (1837-1922)	Opposition	38
		David Matheson	Government	31
	Poplar Point	David Spence (?-?)	?	26
		M. Cook	?	18
		George Gunn (1833-1901)	?	14
	Portage la Prairie	Frederick Adolphus Bird (1823-1884)	?	37
		John James Weller	?	36
		William Garrioch	?	3
	St. Clements	Thomas Bunn (1830-1875)	?	39
		Charles Begg	?	32
	Ste. Agathe	Georges Klyne (1828-1906)	?	19
		Alex M?	?	14
1874	Headingley	John Taylor (1834-1925)	Independent	59
		William Auld Tait (1826-1900)	?	54
	Kildonan	John Sutherland (1837-1922)	?	49
		John Fraser	?	49
	Portage la Prairie	Kenneth McKenzie [Mackenzie] (1822-1911)	Opposition	87
		William John James (1844-1903)	?	81
	St. James	Edwin Bourke (1836-1915)	Independent	44
		Frederick Edward Molyneux St. John (1838-1904)	?	42
		Robert Tait (1830-1912)	?	3
	St. Pauls	Curtis James Bird (1838-1876)	Independent	42
		Hugh Pritchard (1830-1912)	?	34
1878	St. Andrews South	John Norquay (1841-1889)	?	62
		John Allan	?	54
	St. Francois Xavier East	Louis Schmidt (1844-1935)	?	36
		Maxime Lépine (c1837-1897)	?	32
1879	Burnside	John Smith (1817-1889)	Government	121
		Isaiah Mawhinney (1830-1913)	?	120
	Dufferin North	Andrew Laughlin (1844-1916)	Government	143
		George Leary	?	138
1883	Birtle	Edward Phillip “E. P.” Leacock (1853-1927)	Conservative	251
		Robert Nelson (1830-1912)	Liberal	242
	High Bluff	William Crawford (1847-1897)	Conservative	68
		H. J. Fox Rose	Liberal	66
	La Verendrye	Maxime Goulet (1855-1932)	Independent	181
		Louis Arthur Prud’Homme (1853-1941)	Conservative	173
	Springfield	John Hedley Bell (1840-1897)	Liberal	169
		Charles Bruce Edie (1842-1888)	Conservative	162
1886	Cypress	Robert Schuyler Thompson (1844-1930)	Liberal	248
		J. A. F. Andrews	Conservative	247
	Dufferin North	David Henry Wilson (1855-1926)	Conservative	360
		Rodmond Palen Roblin (1853-1937)	Liberal	355
	Lorne	John Alexander MacDonell (1854-1912)	Liberal	281
		H. Pentland	Conservative	277
	Russell	Edward Phillip “E. P.” Leacock (1853-1927)	Conservative	228
		James Fisher (1840-1927)	Liberal	220
	Springfield	Thomas Henry Smith (1848-1919)	Conservative	204
		J. B. McArthur	Liberal	195
	St. Clements	David Glass (1829-1906)	Independent	151
		Robert Hay (1838-1913)	Conservative	147
		W. J. Robinson	Liberal	60
1888	Kildonan	John Norquay (1841-1889)	Opposition	305
		Duncan MacArthur (1840-1907)	Government	303
1892	Cypress	Alfred Doig (1856-1939)	Government	552
		Ernest Jameson Wood (1862-?)	Opposition	549
	Dauphin	Theodore Arthur Burrows (1857-1929)	Government	317
		Glenlyon Archibald Campbell (1863-1917)	Opposition	308
	St. Boniface	James Emile Pierre Prendergast (1858-1945)	Government	313
		Roger Marion (1846-1920)	Opposition	312
1899	Brandon City	Stanley William McInnis (1865-1907)	Conservative	569
		Charles Adams (1858-1931)	Liberal	561
	Gimli	Baldwin Larus Baldwinson (1856-1936)	Conservative	331
		Sigtryggur Jónasson (1852-1942)	Liberal	323
	Souris	Allen Edwin Thompson (1855-1910)	Conservative	412
		Archibald McIntyre Campbell (1851-1935)	Liberal	404
1903	Kildonan and St. Andrews	Martin J. O’Donohoe (1868-1909)	Liberal	718
		Orton Irwin Grain (1863-1930)	Conservative	713
	St. Boniface	Horace Chevrier (1875-1935)	Liberal	593
		Joseph Bernier (1874-1951)	Conservative	592
1907	Arthur	John Williams (1860-1931)	Liberal	536
		Amos Moore Lyle (1865-1943)	Conservative	533
	Morris	Colin Howell Campbell (1859-1914)	Conservative	526
		John Patrick Molloy (1873-1948)	Liberal	524
	Russell	Angus Lorne Bonnycastle (1873-1941)	Conservative	605
		Dr. Thomas Alexander Wright	Liberal	596
	South Brandon	Alfred Henry Carroll (1846-1924)	Conservative	417
		James M. Roddick	Liberal	410
1910	Deloraine	John Christie Walker Reid (1871-1942)	Conservative	743
		Robert Stirton Thornton (1863-1936)	Liberal	737
1914	Carillon	Thomas Boniface Molloy (1878-1948)	Liberal	659
		Albert Prefontaine (1861-1935)	Conservative	652
	Kildonan and St. Andrews	Walter Humphries Montague (1857-1915)	Conservative	1,086
		George Waldron Prout (1878-c1980)	Liberal	1,083
	Portage la Prairie	Ewan Alexander MacPherson [McPherson] (1879-1954)	Liberal	1,027
		Hugh Armstrong (1858-1926)	Conservative	1,020
1920	Fairford	Albert Walmsley Kirvan (1870-1952)	Liberal	241
		G. G. Serkan	Liberal	240
		O. Calverly	Independent	236
		A. F. Carpenter	Independent	137
		J. Matheson	Independent	121
	Glenwood	William Robson (1864-1941)	Conservative	1,149
		James Washington Breakey (1865-1952)	Liberal	1,145
1922	Roblin	Frederic Young Newton (1870-1959)	Conservative	1,181
		Henry Robson Richardson (1879-1966)	United Farmers of Manitoba	1,174
1962	Kildonan	James Thomas Mills (1914-1997)	Progressive Conservative	3,176
		Anthony John “Tony” Reid (1908-1993)	New Democratic	3,172
		Ernest Rudolph	Liberal	2,751
		John De Fehr	Social Credit	452
1966	Turtle Mountain	Edward Ingo “Ed” Dow (1904-1992)	Liberal	2,149
		Peter James McDonald (1912-1971)	Progressive Conservative	2,144
		Peter H. Sawatsky	Social Credit	690
		Selwyn Burrows	New Democratic	141
1973	Crescentwood	Harvey Norman Murray Patterson (1924-2014)	New Democratic	3,729
		Lawrence Oliver “Lawrie” Pollard (1928-2019)	Progressive Conservative	3,729
		Susanna June Menzies (1925-2020)	Liberal	1,734
	St. Boniface	Joseph Paul Marion (1927-2023)	Liberal	4,301
		Laurent Louis “Larry” Desjardins (1923-2012)	New Democratic	4,300
	Wolseley	Israel Harold “Izzy” Asper (1932-2003)	Liberal	3,135
		Murdoch MacKay (1930-2023)	New Democratic	3,131
		Robert Ashley Steen (1933-1979)	Progressive Conservative	1,807
1999	Assiniboia	James “Jim” Rondeau	New Democratic	4,347
		Linda G. McIntosh	Progressive Conservative	4,344
		J. Deborah Shiloff	Liberal	1,136

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: 30 September 2023