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Canadian Federal Election (1949) | Canadian Federal Election (1957)
The Canadian federal election of 1953 was held on 10 August. The results were as follows:
Riding |
Candidate |
Party |
Votes |
Brandon |
Walter Gilbert Dinsdale (1916-1982) |
Progressive Conservative |
13,915 |
James Albert “Jimmy” Creighton (1905-1990) |
Liberal |
8,456 |
Baden-Powell Hathaway |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
1,277 |
Dorothy Jessie Johnson |
Labor-Progressive Party |
323 |
Churchill |
George Dyer Weaver (1908-1986) |
Liberal |
4,984 |
William George Thompson |
Progressive Conservative |
2,567 |
Delbert Leroy Downs |
Social Credit |
2,490 |
Ronald Stewart Moore (1913-2003) |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
2,293 |
Dauphin |
Frederick Samuel “Fred” Zaplitny (1913-1964) |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
6,839 |
Alfred Hallam Parker (1905-1970) |
Liberal |
5,050 |
Richard Elmer Forbes (1894-1978) |
Progressive Conservative |
2,136 |
Sherman Stanley Hunt |
Social Credit |
1,866 |
Lisgar |
William Albert Pommer (1895-1971) |
Liberal |
6,581 |
William Henry Sharpe |
Progressive Conservative |
4,780 |
Ivan Andrew Langtry |
Social Credit |
3,096 |
Marquette |
Stuart Sinclair Garson (1898-1977) |
Liberal |
9,900 |
Ernest Arthur Bates |
Progressive Conservative |
4,676 |
David Lyall Clink |
Social Credit |
3,509 |
Portage-Neepawa |
William Gilbert “Gib” Weir (1896-1971) |
Liberal Progressive |
8,958 |
James Cowan (1914-1997) |
Progressive Conservative |
5,604 |
Hugh Roy Collver |
Social Credit |
3,223 |
Provencher |
René Norbert Jutras (1913-1995) |
Liberal |
6,632 |
Abram Jacob Thiessen (1910-2002) |
Progressive Conservative |
2,151 |
Wilbert Tinkler |
Social Credit |
1,269 |
St. Boniface |
Fernand Viau (1909-2000) |
Liberal |
8,051 |
Leonard Salusbury “Len” Evans (1929-2016) |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
5,568 |
George Campbell MacLean (1887-1957) |
Progressive Conservative |
4,994 |
Selkirk |
Robert James Wood (1886-1954) |
Liberal |
6,265 |
William “Scottie” Bryce (1888-1963) |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
6,076 |
Michael Baryluk (1915-1998) |
Progressive Conservative |
898 |
Walter Yanchyshyn (1922-1997) |
Social Credit |
586 |
Constantine Kostaniuk |
Labor Progressive |
307 |
Walter John Griffin |
Independent |
141 |
Springfield |
Anton Bernard Weselak (1918-1989) |
Liberal |
6,240 |
Frank Jacob de Graff (1910-1994) |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
1,878 |
Paul Gottfried Trapp |
Social Credit |
1,221 |
Joseph Slogan |
Progressive Conservative |
1,201 |
John-Sylvestre Alloysius Sinnott (1905-1960) |
Independent Liberal |
1,068 |
Andrew Bileski [Bilecki] (1903-1992) |
Labor Progressive |
469 |
Ladislaus Biberovich |
Independent |
293 |
Winnipeg North |
Alistair McLeod Stewart (1905-1970) |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
15,005 |
Frank Leslie Chester (1901-1966) |
Liberal |
9,094 |
John Kereluk |
Progressive Conservative |
3,876 |
Joseph “Joe” Zuken (1912-1986) |
Labor Progressive |
2,515 |
Winnipeg North Centre |
Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997) |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
12,713 |
Peter Stanley Taraska (1907-1984) |
Liberal |
7,535 |
Charles D. Lee |
Progressive Conservative |
1,760 |
William Cecil Ross (c1911-1998) |
Labor Progressive |
1,606 |
Winnipeg South |
Owen C. Trainor (1894-1956) |
Progressive Conservative |
12,597 |
Charles Russell Simonite |
Liberal |
12,277 |
Ernest Richard Draffin (1909-1982) |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
6,247 |
Martin Joseph “Joe” Forkin (1899-1962) |
Labor Progressive |
470 |
Winnipeg South Centre |
Gordon Minto Churchill (1898-1985) |
Progressive Conservative |
12,489 |
Alfred William “Bill” Hanks (1894-1985) |
Liberal |
9,752 |
Gordon Richard Fines (1911-1990) |
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
6,506 |
Ronald Penner |
Labor Progressive |
504 |
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Members of the Twenty-Second Canadian Parliament (1953-1957)
Sources:
History of Federal Ridings Since 1867, Parliament of Canada.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 December 2021
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