Events in Manitoba History: Canadian Federal Election (1974)

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The Canadian federal election of 1974 was held on 8 July. The results were as follows:

Riding	Candidate	Party	Votes
Brandon-Souris	Walter Gilbert Dinsdale (1916-1982)	Progressive Conservative	16,624
	John W. McRae	Liberal	5,988
	Cam Connor	New Democratic	5,616
	John William Gross (1914-1994)	Social Credit	540
Churchill	Cecil Morris Smith	Progressive Conservative	11,225
	Dan Reagan	New Democratic	8,415
	J. R. Allard	Liberal	7,212
	Ed Heinrichs	Social Credit	577
Dauphin	William Gordon David Ritchie (1918-1998)	Progressive Conservative	11,439
	Laverne Mitchell Lewycky (1946-2020)	New Democratic	7,743
	Ronald Hale	Liberal	5,300
Lisgar	Jack Burnett Murta	Progressive Conservative	16,465
	Norm Dashevsky	Liberal	4,414
	Frank Froese	New Democratic	1,278
	Jacob M. Froese (1917-2003)	Social Credit	1,164
Marquette	Craig Stewart (1928-2009)	Progressive Conservative	15,933
	Allan Lytle	Liberal	4,498
	Maude A. Lelond	New Democratic	3,094
	Kenneth B. Morrison	Independent	286
Portage	Peter Paul Masniuk (1920-1995)	Progressive Conservative	11,829
	Joseph Gerald Omichinski (1916-2002)	Liberal	6,671
	Rens Renooy	New Democratic	2,857
	Ted Bezan	Social Credit	179
	Travis Fitch	none	97
Provencher	Arthur Jacob “Jake” Epp	Progressive Conservative	13,405
	Thomas F. “Tom” Copeland (1925-1998)	Liberal	5,558
	Jack Feely	New Democratic	4,907
	Jake Wall	Social Credit	613
St. Boniface	Joseph-Philippe Guay (1915-2001)	Liberal	21,853
	John Harold “Jack” Hare (1920-2009)	Progressive Conservative	18,604
	Jim Garwood	New Democratic	10,364
	Thomas L. Cruickshank	Social Credit	536
Selkirk	Dean Whiteway	Progressive Conservative	22,441
	Doug Rowland	New Democratic	20,667
	Eddie Coutu	Liberal	7,239
	Bill Kalturnyk	Marxist-Leninist	148
Winnipeg North	David Orlikow (1919-1998)	New Democratic	15,026
	Anne Steen	Progressive Conservative	12,196
	Robert Parashin	Liberal	8,677
	William Hawryluk	Social Credit	410
	William Cecil Ross (c1911-1998)	Communist	390
	Avrum Rosner	Marxist-Leninist	80
Winnipeg North Centre	Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)	New Democratic	12,023
	Frank W. Crockett	Progressive Conservative	8,521
	Alan Travers Sweatman (1920-2012)	Liberal	5,883
	Ed Storozuk	Social Credit	225
	Mary Kardash	Communist	198
	Murry Smith	none	79
	Aili C. Waldman	Marxist-Leninist	67
Winnipeg South	James Armstrong Richardson (1922-2004)	Liberal	23,297
	Sterling Rufus Lyon (1927-2010)	Progressive Conservative	22,031
	Jill Oliver	New Democratic	5,016
	William Frank Zemianski	Social Credit	141
	Ross F. Clancy Smith	none	86
	Glen A. Brown	Marxist-Leninist	80
	Harold James Dyck	Communist	79
Winnipeg South Centre	Alvin Daniel “Dan” McKenzie (1924-1989)	Progressive Conservative	32,277
	Doug McEwen	Liberal	15,956
	Andy Robertson	New Democratic	7,823
	Monty A. McDonald	Social Credit	365
	Marnie Frain	Marxist-Leninist	102

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Members of the Thirtieth Canadian Parliament (1974-1979)

Sources:

History of Federal Ridings Since 1867, Parliament of Canada.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 January 2022