Events in Manitoba History: Canadian Federal Election (1926)

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The Canadian federal election of 1926 was held on 14 September. The results were as follows:

Riding	Candidate	Party	Votes
Brandon	Robert Forke (1860-1934)	Liberal Progressive	8,267
	David Wilson Beaubier (1864-1938)	Conservative	7,101
Dauphin	William John Ward (1880-1971)	Liberal Progressive	7,260
	James Langstaff Bowman (1879-1951)	Conservative	5,502
Lisgar	John Livingstone Brown (1867-1953)	Liberal Progressive	4,657
	William James Rowe (1872-1947)	Conservative	3,790
Macdonald	William James Lovie (1868-1938)	Progressive	6,652
	Valmore Eric Schweitzer (1894-1955)	Conservative	4,306
Marquette	James Allison Glen (1877-1950)	Liberal Progressive	7,327
	Henry Alfred Mullins (1861-1952)	Conservative	6,235
Neepawa	Robert Milne (1881-1953)	Progressive	6,293
	Thomas Gerow Murphy (1883-1971)	Conservative	4,495
Nelson	Thomas William Bird (1883-1958)	Progressive	3,042
	Joseph Myers	Conservative	2,632
Portage la Prairie	Ewan Alexander MacPherson [McPherson] (1879-1954)	Liberal	6,394
	Arthur Meighen (1874-1960)	Conservative	5,966
Provencher	Arthur Lucien Beaubien (1879-1971)	Liberal Progressive	acclaim
St. Boniface	John Power Howden (1879-1959)	Liberal	5,903
	Joseph Bernier (1874-1951)	Conservative	3,235
	Allan Meikle	Labour	2,427
Selkirk	Leland Payson Bancroft (1880-1951)	Liberal Progressive	7,016
	Hannes Marino Hannesson (1884-1958)	Conservative	5,104
Souris	James Steedsman (1864-1959)	Progressive	6,105
	Errick French Willis (1896-1967)	Conservative	4,946
Springfield	Edgar Douglass Richmond Bissett (1889-1990)	Liberal Progressive	3,852
	Thomas Hay (1872-1939)	Conservative	2,638
	Thomas Herbert Dunn	Labour	1,375
Winnipeg North	Abraham Albert Heaps (1885-1954)	Labour	6,171
	Richard Reuben “Dick” Knox (1864-1947)	Conservative	3,555
	George Boyd McTavish	Liberal	2,821
Winnipeg North Centre	James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942)	Labour	7,221
	Jose Alexander Banfield (1856-1937)	Conservative	4,220
Winnipeg South	John Stewart McDiarmid (1882-1965)	Liberal	8,809
	Robert Rogers (1864-1936)	Conservative	7,638
Winnipeg South Centre	Joseph Thorarinn Thorson (1889-1978)	Liberal	12,315
	William Walker Kennedy (1882-1963)	Conservative	11,737

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Members of the Sixteenth Canadian Parliament (1926-1930)

Sources:

History of Federal Ridings Since 1867, Parliament of Canada.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 15 June 2023