Events in Manitoba History: Canadian Federal Election (1972)

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The Canadian federal election of 1972 was held on 30 October. The results were as follows:

Riding	Candidate	Party	Votes
Brandon-Souris	Walter Gilbert Dinsdale (1916-1982)	Progressive Conservative	17,923
	Gary Belecki	Liberal	5,968
	Kenneth John Singleton	New Democratic	5,501
	William Lea	Independent	190
Churchill	Charles Keith Taylor	Progressive Conservative	9,462
	Don Duff	New Democratic	9,059
	William Bruce Dunlop (1924-2018)	Liberal	8,536
	R. Jim Henry	Independent	327
Dauphin	William Gordon David Ritchie (1918-1998)	Progressive Conservative	12,584
	Bernhard Dirauf	New Democratic	6,234
	Ferdinand A. Guiboche	Liberal	4,305
Lisgar	Jack Burnett Murta	Progressive Conservative	17,253
	Richard Spink Bowles (1912-1988)	Liberal	4,469
	John M. Bucklaschuk	New Democratic	1,627
	John L. Harms	Social Credit	943
Marquette	Craig Stewart (1928-2009)	Progressive Conservative	16,155
	Ken Houston	New Democratic	4,917
	Sidney N. Lachter	Liberal	4,572
Portage	Peter Paul Masniuk (1920-1995)	Progressive Conservative	9,781
	Gerald Richard Joseph Cobbe (1927-2004)	Liberal	7,474
	Nick Manchur	New Democratic	4,036
	Travis I. Fitch	none	199
Provencher	Arthur Jacob “Jake” Epp	Progressive Conservative	11,262
	Mark Gerald Smerchanski (1914-1989)	Liberal	6,489
	Alf Chorney	New Democratic	6,304
	Jake Wall	Social Credit	784
St. Boniface	Joseph-Philippe Guay (1915-2001)	Liberal	22,200
	Joseph F. Sherwood	New Democratic	13,857
	Peter Hillcoff	Progress Conservative	13,033
	Gilles J. Ouellet	Social Credit	643
	Russ Maley	none	241
Selkirk	Doug Rowland	New Democratic	17,872
	Dean Whiteway	Progressive Conservative	17,842
	Svein Olafur Sigfusson (1912-1992)	Liberal	8,709
	Robert Luining	Social Credit	418
Winnipeg North	David Orlikow (1919-1998)	New Democratic	15,931
	Serge Radchuk	Liberal	11,150
	Anne Steen	Progressive Conservative	9,446
	William Cecil Ross (c1911-1998)	Communist	587
	C. Aili Waldman	none	114
Winnipeg North Centre	Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)	New Democratic	13,263
	Frank W. Crockett	Progressive Conservative	7,050
	Norman Frederick Turner	Liberal	6,984
	Don Hawryluk	Social Credit	440
	Don Currie	none	186
	Barry John Carlson	none	134
Winnipeg South	James Armstrong Richardson (1922-2004)	Liberal	25,534
	Boyd Robertson	Progressive Conservative	17,022
	James Gilbert Burrows	New Democratic	7,413
	Diane Lynne Waldman	none	205
Winnipeg South Centre	Alvin Daniel “Dan” McKenzie (1924-1989)	Progressive Conservative	25,550
	Edmund Boyd Osler (1919-1987)	Liberal	20,516
	Harvey H. Moats	New Democratic	10,460

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Members of the Twenty-Ninth Canadian Parliament (1973-1974)

Sources:

History of Federal Ridings Since 1867, Parliament of Canada.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 3 September 2022