Events in Manitoba History: Canadian Federal Election (1953)

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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