Summary
The 1903 Manitoba general election was held on July 20, 1903, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.
The result was a second consecutive majority government for the Conservative Party of Manitoba, now led by Premier Rodmond Roblin. Roblin's electoral machine won a landslide thirty-two seats, while the opposition Manitoba Liberal Party under former premier Thomas Greenway won only eight. The Winnipeg Labour Party also contested two constituencies, winning none.
Although the parties' relative seat counts gave the impression of a major victory for Conservatives, the candidates of that party actually received less than half the votes, and only 2000 more votes (just four percent) than the Liberals. Proportionally to votes cast, of the Legislature's 40 seats, 20 should have gone to the Conservatives, 18 to Liberals and two seats to Labour and other "third party" candidates.[1]
Results edit
| Party | Party Leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular Vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Conservative | Rodmond Roblin | 39 | 31 | 26,074 | 48.98% | ||||
| Liberal-Conservative | Rodmond Roblin | 1 | 1 | 855 | 1.61% | ||||
| Liberal | Thomas Greenway | 40 | 8 | 23,740 | 44.60% | ||||
| Labour | 2 | 0 | 1,013 | 1.90% | |||||
| Prohibition | 4 | 0 | 955 | 1.79% | |||||
| Independents | 3 | 0 | 595 | 1.12% | |||||
| Total | 89 | 40 | 53,232 | 100% | |||||
Constituency Results edit
- (incumbent)Allen Thompson (C) 547
- John Williams (L) 499
- Joseph Prefontaine (L) 415
- Charles Caron (C) 398
Avondale:
- (incumbent)James Argue (C) 641
- Cornelius Miller (L) 435
Beautiful Plains:
- (incumbent)John Andrew Davidson (C) 838
- James McRae (L) 710
- (incumbent)Charles Mickle (L) 584
- John Leich (C) 293
- (incumbent)Stanley McInnis (C) 765
- Alexander Fraser (L) 723
- Albert Prefontaine (C) 399
- Arthur Hebert (L) 308
- (incumbent)George Steel (LC) 855
- William Little (L) 756
- John Gunne (C) 797
- John A. Campbell (L) 656
Deloraine:
- Edward Briggs (C) 457
- H.L. Montgomery (Proh) 437
- George Patterson (L) 429
- (incumbent)Rodmond Roblin (C) 1150
- (incumbent)James Riddell (L) 731
- (incumbent)David H. McFadden (C) 436
- George Walton (L) 417
- W.R. Mulock (Proh) 77
- Glenlyon Campbell (C) 598
- Thomas Young (L) 396
- (incumbent)Baldwin Baldwinson (C) accl.
- David Wilson (C) 829
- (incumbent)Thomas Morton (L) 693
- David Jackson (L) 762
- (incumbent)William Ferguson (C) 740
- Martin O'Donohoe (L) 718
- (incumbent)Orton Grain (C) 713
- (incumbent)George Lawrence (C) 713
- Reuben Cross (Proh) 299
- G.B. Monteith (L) 282
- Edwin Lynch (C) 537
- William Fulton (L) 469
- Harvey Hicks (C) 915
- (incumbent)Tobias Norris (L) 899
- (incumbent)William Lagimodiere (L) 348
- Jean Lauzon (C) 337
- (incumbent)Robert Rogers (C) 923
- Donald Campbell (L) 548
- William B. Waddell (C) 751
- Neil Cameron (L) 670
- (incumbent)John Ruddell (C) 616
- G.H. Bradshaw (L) 528
- (incumbent)Colin H. Campbell (C) 620
- Napoleon Comeault (L) 500
- (incumbent)Thomas Greenway (L) 911
- Daniel A. McIntyre (C) 567
- M. Wilson (Ind) 254
Norfolk:
- (incumbent)Robert Lyons (C) 941
- J.D. Hunt (L) 753
- (incumbent)Hugh Armstrong (C) 742
- Edward Brown (L) 711
- (incumbent)Valentine Winkler (L) 355
- H.P. Hansen (C) 284
- Hermann Dirks (Ind) 148
- (incumbent)Isaac Riley (C) 616
- Alexander Leonard (L) 516
- W.J. Doig (L) 475
- Angus Bonnycastle (C) 351
- Horace Chevrier (L) 593
- (incumbent)Joseph Bernier (C) 592
South Brandon:
- Alfred Carroll (C) 508
- John Watson (L) 496
- William Henry Corbett (C) 353
- (incumbent)Thomas H. Smith (L) 245
- Donald Ross (Ind) 193
- James Wells Robson (C) 503
- A.J. Cotton (L) 272
- (incumbent)James Johnson (C) 741
- J.S. McEwan (L) 475
- J.F. Hunter (Proh) 142
- John Agnew (C) 674
- F.W. Clinigan (L) 649
- (incumbent)Thomas Taylor (C) 1276
- J.A. McArthur (L) 1123
- William Scott (Winnipeg Labor Party) 422
- Sampson Walker (C) 1106
- J.W. Cockburn (L) 1057
- Robert Thoms (Winnipeg Labor Party) 591
- (incumbent)James Gordon (C) 1807
- John D. Cameron (L) 1633
References edit
- ^ Proportional Representation Review, Dec. 1903