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The Manitoba provincial election of 1874 was held on 23 December. The results were as follows:
Party
Leader
Votes
Seats
Government
Marc Amable Girard (1822-1892)
10
Opposition
?
8
Independent
-
5
Totals
23
The voting results for individual constituencies were as follows:
Constituency
Returning Officer
Candidate
Party
Votes
Baie St. Paul
?
Felix Chenier (1843-1910)
Government
81
William E. Spence
?
37
Headingley
?
John Taylor (1834-1925)
Independent
59
William Auld Tait (1826-1900)
?
54
High Bluff
?
James Cowan (1831-1910)
Opposition
76
James Cadman
?
30
Kildonan
?
John Sutherland (1837-1922)
?
49
John Fraser
?
49
Lake Manitoba
?
Angus McKay (1836-1910)
Government
Acclaim
Poplar Point
?
Francis Evans “Frank” Cornish (1831-1878)
Opposition
92
Robert Hastie
?
65
Portage la Prairie
?
Kenneth McKenzie [Mackenzie] (1822-1911)
Opposition
87
William John James (1844-1903)
?
81
Rockwood
?
William Fisher Luxton (1844-1907)
Opposition
90
A. W. McClure
?
24
Ste. Agathe
?
Alphonse Fortunat Martin (1849-1905)
Government
94
Cotton W. Almon
?
58
William Dease (1827-1913)
?
2
St. Andrews North
?
John Gunn (1825-1898)
Independent
83
Alex McPherson
?
36
St. Andrews South
?
John Norquay (1841-1889)
Opposition
67
Edward Henry George Gunson Hay (1840-1918)
?
34
Ste. Anne
?
Charles Nolin (1823-1907)
Government
69
Alphonse Alfred Clement LaRivière (1842-1925)
?
29
St. Boniface
?
Marc Amable Girard (1822-1892)
Government
Acclaim
St. Charles
?
Alexander “Sandy” Murray (1839-1913)
Independent
84
Louis Schmidt (1844-1935)
?
44
R. P. Mulligan
?
9
St. Clements
?
Thomas Howard (1845-1903)
Opposition
62
William Leask
?
35
St. Francois Xavier East
?
Maxime Lépine (c1837-1897)
Government
Acclaim
St. Francois Xavier West
?
Joseph Royal (1837-1902)
Government
Acclaim
St. James
?
Edwin Bourke (1836-1915)
Independent
44
Frederick Edward Molyneux St. John (1838-1904)
?
42
Robert Tait (1830-1912)
?
3
St. Norbert
?
Joseph Dubuc (1840-1914)
Government
51
Pierre Delorme (1832-1912)
?
31
St. Pauls
?
Curtis James Bird (1838-1876)
Independent
42
Hugh Pritchard (1830-1912)
?
34
St. Vital
?
Joseph Octave Lemay (1829-1892)
Government
72
Médéric Foucher (1838-1909)
?
47
Springfield
?
William Robert Dick (1821-1904)
Opposition
84
John Scott
?
50
Westbourne
?
Corydon Partlow Brown (1848-1891)
Opposition
98
Walter Lynch (1835-1908)
?
70
Donald Leask
?
18
Winnipeg
?
Robert Atkinson Davis (1841-1903)
Government
198
Thomas Scott (1841-1915)
?
183
See also:
Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial By-Elections (1875-1877)
Memorable Manitobans: Second Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1875-1878)
“The result,” Manitoba Free Press, 2 January 1875, page 4.
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: 2 October 2023
