Events in Manitoba History: Canadian Federal Election (1949)

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The Canadian federal election of 1949 was held on 27 June. The results were as follows:

Riding	Candidate	Party	Votes
Brandon	James Ewen Matthews (1869-1950)	Liberal	11,263
	John Bracken (1883-1969)	Progressive Conservative	7,150
	Dwight Lyman Jackson	Independent	1,964
Churchill	George Dyer Weaver (1908-1986)	Liberal	6,847
	Ronald Stewart Moore (1913-2003)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	4,595
	Robert Franklin Milton	Progressive Conservative	3,570
Dauphin	William John Ward (1880-1971)	Liberal	7,896
	Frederick Samuel “Fred” Zaplitny (1913-1964)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	7,089
	Michael F. Szewczyk (1904-1999)	Progressive Conservative	2,541
Lisgar	Howard Waldemar Winkler (1891-1970)	Liberal	9,190
	Diedrich Heppner	Progressive Conservative	5,684
	Gordon Morris Atkins	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	1,470
Marquette	Stuart Sinclair Garson (1898-1977)	Liberal	10,144
	James Jackson	Progressive Conservative	4,016
	Bessie Keating	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	2,984
Norquay	Robert James Wood (1886-1954)	Liberal	8,430
	Philip Markus Petursson (1902-1988)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	4,776
	Walter Koshowski	Progressive Conservative	807
Portage-Neepawa	William Gilbert Weir (1896-1971)	Liberal Progressive	9,192
	Harold Alexander Nelson	Progressive Conservative	6,819
	Albert Clifford Matthews	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	2,269
Provencher	René N. Jutras (1913-1995)	Liberal	6,834
	Bruce Mackenzie	Independent	4,008
St. Boniface	Fernand Viau (1909-2000)	Liberal	10,766
	Andrew Russell “Russ” Paulley (1909-1984)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	5,455
	Louis Leger	Progressive Conservative	2,557
Selkirk	William “Scottie” Bryce (1888-1963)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	7,819
	Laurier Arthur Regnier (1903-1990)	Liberal	7,593
	John McDowell (1894-1980)	Progressive Conservative	6,158
Souris	James Arthur Ross (1893-1958)	Progressive Conservative	6,108
	Edward Ingo Dow (1904-1992)	Liberal	5,495
	George Thomas Watson	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	1,083
Springfield	John-Sylvestre Alloysius Sinnott (1905-1960)	Liberal	8,253
	Harry Wasylyk	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	4,418
	John Leslie Bodie (1909-1997)	Progressive Conservative	3,494
	Andrew Bileski [Bilecki] (1903-1992)	Labour-Progressive	1,117
Winnipeg North	Alistair McLeod Stewart (1905-1970)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	12,432
	Peter Stanley Taraska (1907-1984)	Liberal	11,962
	Joseph “Joe” Zuken (1912-1986)	Labour-Progressive	5,406
	John Hunter “Jack” Restall (1916-1983)	Progressive Conservative	1,816
Winnipeg North Centre	Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	15,389
	William Austin Molloy (1917-1988)	Liberal	9,010
	Richard Randolph Pattinson (1878-1954)	Progressive Conservative	3,434
	Stephen “Steve” Juba (1914-1993)	Independent	694
Winnipeg South	Leslie Alexander Mutch (1897-1977)	Liberal	16,235
	Gunnar Solmunder Thorvaldson (1901-1969)	Progressive Conservative	9,942
	Frederick George “Fred” Tipping (1885-1973)	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	7,765
Winnipeg South Centre	Ralph Maybank (1890-1965)	Liberal	14,747
	Gordon Minto Churchill (1898-1985)	Progressive Conservative	6,593
	Andrew N. Robertson	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	5,632

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Members of the Twenty-First Canadian Parliament (1949-1953)

Sources:

History of Federal Ridings Since 1867, Parliament of Canada.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 November 2017