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The Manitoba provincial election of 1879 was held on 16 December. The results were as follows:
Party
Leader
Votes
Seats
Government
John Norquay (1841-1889)
21
Independent
-
2
Opposition
Thomas Scott (1841-1915)
1
Totals
24
The voting results for individual constituencies were as follows:
Constituency
Returning Officer
Candidate
Party
Votes
Assiniboia
?
Alexander “Sandy” Murray (1839-1913)
Independent
187
John Taylor (1834-1925)
?
106
Baie St. Paul
?
Marc Amable Girard (1822-1892)
Government
Acclaim
Burnside
?
John Smith (1817-1889)
Government
121
Isaiah Mawhinney (1830-1913)
?
120
Cartier
?
Gilbert McMicken (1813-1891)
Government
108
Joseph Octave Lemay (1829-1892)
?
67
Pierre Delorme (1832-1912)
?
52
Dufferin North
?
Andrew Laughlin (1844-1916)
Government
143
George Leary
?
138
Dufferin South
?
William James Winram (1838-1891)
Government
Acclaim
Emerson
?
William Hill Nash (1846-1917)
Government
154
Isaac Casson
?
37
Frederick Ernest Burnham (1847-?)
?
29
Gladstone
?
Corydon Partlow Brown (1848-1891)
Government
Acclaim
High Bluff & Poplar Point
?
John Aldham Kyte Drummond (1847-1913)
Government
96
William Crawford (1847-1897)
?
66
Kildonan & St. Paul
?
Alexander MacBeth Sutherland (1849-1884)
Government
107
John Sutherland (1837-1922)
?
69
La Verendrye
?
Maxime Goulet (1855-1932)
Government
219
J. Desautels
?
176
Morris
?
Joseph Noel Taillefer (1828-1897)
Government
153
Stewart Mulvey (1834-1908)
?
118
Alphonse Fortunat Martin (1849-1905)
?
36
Mountain
?
Thomas Greenway (1838-1908)
Government
Acclaim
Portage la Prairie
?
James Cowan (1831-1910)
Government
Acclaim
Rockwood
?
John Somerset Aikins (1850-1911)
Government
125
Thomas Lusted (1841-1904)
?
96
H. J. Clarke
?
65
Ste. Agathe
?
Alexander Kittson (1853-1883)
Government
62
Joseph-Alfred-Norbert Provencher (1843-1887)
?
32
St. Andrews
?
John Norquay (1841-1889)
Government
Acclaim
St. Boniface
?
Alphonse Alfred Clement LaRivière (1842-1925)
Government
122
Joseph-Alfred-Norbert Provencher (1843-1887)
?
3
St. Clements
?
Edward Henry George Gunson Hay (1840-1918)
Independent
120
John Gunn (1826-?)
?
81
John Wright Sifton (1833-1912)
?
60
St. Francois Xavier
?
Patrice Breland (1837-1908)
Government
Acclaim
Springfield
?
Arthur Wellington Ross (1846-1901)
Government
222
A. Barnard
?
3
Westbourne
?
David Marr Walker (1835-1920)
Government
139
Walter J. N. Pratt (c1852-1924)
Opposition
110
Winnipeg
?
Thomas Scott (1841-1915)
Opposition
387
Daniel Hunter McMillan (1846-1933)
?
321
Woodlands
?
Francis Wesley Lipsett (1850-1889)
Government
Acclaim
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Fourth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1879-1883)
“Local elections,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 December 1879, page 1.
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
