Events in Manitoba History: Canadian Federal Election (1962)

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The Canadian federal election of 1962 was held on 18 June. The results were as follows:

Riding	Candidate	Party	Votes
Brandon-Souris	Walter Gilbert Dinsdale (1916-1982)	Progressive Conservative	17,813
	John Cameron “Cam” Brown (1929-2013)	Liberal	6,143
	Reginald Pearen	Social Credit	4,229
	Leslie Victor Robson (1893-1977)	New Democratic	1,438
Churchill	Robert “Bud” Simpson (1910-1990)	Progressive Conservative	10,943
	Francis Laurence “Bud” Jobin (1914-1995)	Liberal	6,511
	Florence Antoinette Matthews (c1930-2012)	New Democratic	3,858
Dauphin	Richard Elmer Forbes (1894-1978)	Progressive Conservative	7,158
	Sigurdur Thorberg Sigurdson	Liberal	4,620
	Frederick Samuel “Fred” Zaplitny (1913-1964)	New Democratic	4,619
	Lawrence A. Milner	Social Credit	1,665
Lisgar	George Robson Muir (1903-1970)	Progressive Conservative	9,352
	Kenneth Hartwell	Liberal	5,394
	Roger H. Poiron	Social Credit	3,492
	Sidney E. Varcoe	New Democratic	449
Marquette	John Nicholas “Nick” Mandziuk (1902-1969)	Progressive Conservative	11,366
	Harris Taylor Huston (1914-1972)	Liberal	6,494
	Jim McKeand	Social Credit	2,256
	Stuart Barber	New Democratic	1,553
Portage-Neepawa	Siegfried John “Sig” Enns (1924-2020)	Progressive Conservative	11,125
	Charles Lemington “Lem” Shuttleworth (1910-2006)	Liberal	7,615
	Douglas Alfred Duncan	New Democratic	2,285
	Richard D. Hughes	Social Credit	1,425
	Harold Lloyd Henderson (1907-1993)	Independent	1,144
Provencher	Warner Herbert Jorgenson (1918-2005)	Progressive Conservative	6,214
	Stanley Carl Roberts (1927-1990)	Liberal	5,290
	John P. Loewen	Social Credit	2,504
	Peter Kruszelnicki	New Democratic	263
St. Boniface	Roger Joseph Teillet (1912-2002)	Liberal	12,084
	Laurier Arthur Regnier (1903-1990)	Progressive Conservative	9,483
	Graham Murray Campbell (1932-2019)	New Democratic	7,508
	Joseph-E. St. Hilaire	Social Credit	2,773
Selkirk	Eric Stefanson (1913-1977)	Progressive Conservative	8,797
	John Crawford McMillan (1915-2011)	Liberal	6,272
	Valdimar M. Arnason	New Democratic	4,198
	Terence P. J. Tergesen	Social Credit	920
Springfield	Joseph “Joe” Slogan	Progressive Conservative	8,052
	Archie Warren	Liberal	5,248
	Jacob “Jake” Schulz (1901-1983)	New Democratic	4,960
	Bernie Rempel	Social Credit	1,669
Winnipeg North	David Orlikow (1919-1998)	New Democratic	18,236
	Paul Parashin	Liberal	14,270
	William Murray Smith	Progressive Conservative	14,000
	John De Fehr	Social Credit	1,733
	William Cecil Ross (c1911-1998)	Communist	1,504
Winnipeg North Centre	Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)	New Democratic	12,797
	John Maclean	Progressive Conservative	9,231
	Barry Eugene Krawchuk	Liberal	5,443
	David C. Webster	Social Credit	864
	Don Currie	Communist	649
Winnipeg South	Gordon Campbell Chown (1922-2002)	Progressive Conservative	21,743
	Margaret MacTavish Rogers Konantz (1899-1967)	Liberal	21,351
	Sidney “Sid” Green	New Democratic	7,993
	James C. MacPherson	Social Credit	1,834
Winnipeg South Centre	Gordon Minto Churchill (1898-1985)	Progressive Conservative	16,547
	Edgar Stanford “Ed” Russenholt (1890-1991)	Liberal	14,306
	A. N. Robertson	New Democratic	6,357
	Asta Austmann Oddson (1893-1974)	Social Credit	1,298

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Members of the Twenty-Fifth Canadian Parliament (1962-1963)

Sources:

History of Federal Ridings Since 1867, Parliament of Canada.

Obituary [Graham Murray Campbell], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 September 2019.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 February 2023