Events in Manitoba History: Canadian Federal Election (1930)

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The Canadian federal election of 1930 was held on 28 July. The results were as follows:

Riding

Candidate

Party

Votes

Brandon

David Wilson Beaubier (1864-1938)

Conservative

8,512

Thomas Alexander Crerar (1876-1975)

Liberal

6,457

Beatrice Alice Brigden (1888-1977)

Labour

1,331

Dauphin

James Langstaff Bowman (1879-1951)

Conservative

7,083

William John Ward (1880-1971)

Liberal

6,399

Lisgar

John Livingstone Brown (1867-1953)

Liberal Progressive

5,162

Robert Thomas Hewitt

Conservative

4,990

Macdonald

William Gilbert “Gib” Weir (1896-1971)

Liberal Progressive

6,100

John Ernest Woods

Conservative

5,601

Marquette

Henry Alfred Mullins (1861-1952)

Conservative

8,663

James Allison Glen (1877-1950)

Liberal Progressive

5,979

Neepawa

Thomas Gerow Murphy (1883-1971)

Conservative

5,638

Robert Milne (1881-1953)

Progressive

5,161

Nelson

Bernard Monroe “Barney” Stitt (1880-1942)

Conservative

4,741

Thomas William Bird (1883-1958)

Progressive

4,067

Portage la Prairie

William Herbert Burns (1878-1964)

Conservative

6,372

Ewan Alexander MacPherson [McPherson] (1879-1954)

Liberal

6,230

Provencher

Arthur Lucien Beaubien (1879-1971)

Liberal Progressive

4,562

Joseph-Arthur Belanger

Conservative

2,274

Wasyl Kobzar

Independent Conservative

715

Alexandre “Buffalo” Ayotte (1859-1932)

Liberal

321

St. Boniface

John Power Howden (1879-1959)

Liberal

7,045

Edgar Honwell Cook

Conservative

4,630

Edwin Arnold Hansford (1895-1959)

Labour

1,943

Selkirk

James Herbert Stitt (1891-1958)

Conservative

6,581

Leland Payson Bancroft (1880-1951)

Liberal Progressive

6,098

John Nawizowsky

Communist

1,709

Souris

Errick French Willis (1896-1967)

Conservative

6,252

James Steedsman (1864-1959)

Progressive

5,780

Springfield

Thomas Hay (1872-1939)

Conservative

5,446

Edgar Douglass Richmond Bissett (1889-1990)

Liberal Progressive

3,617

Frederick William Lange

Labour

1,106

Donald Andrew Ross (1856-1938)

Independent Liberal

511

Stanley Grabowski

Independent Liberal

307

Winnipeg North

Abraham Albert Heaps (1885-1954)

Labour

6,907

Matthew Robert Blake (1876-1937)

Conservative

5,011

Leslie Morris

Liberal

2,164

Winnipeg North Centre

James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942)

Labour

8,265

Thomas Gargan

Independent Liberal

2,028

Martin “Joe” Forkin Jr. (1899-1962)

Communist

492

Winnipeg South

Robert Rogers (1864-1936)

Conservative

10,117

John Stewart McDiarmid (1882-1965)

Liberal

9,774

Charles Albert Tanner (1887-1970)

Independent Labour

256

Winnipeg South Centre

William Walker Kennedy (1882-1963)

Conservative

17,355

Joseph Thorarinn Thorson (1889-1978)

Liberal

13,637

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Members of the Seventeenth Canadian Parliament (1930-1935)

Sources:

History of Federal Ridings Since 1867, Parliament of Canada.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 8 February 2021