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Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1879)
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The Manitoba provincial election of 1879 was held on 16 December. The results were as follows:
Party
Leader
Votes
Seats
Government
John Norquay (1841-1889)
21
Independent
-
2
Opposition
Thomas Scott (1841-1915)
1
Totals
24
The voting results for individual constituencies were as follows:
Constituency
Candidate
Party
Votes
Assiniboia
Alexander “Sandy” Murray (1839-1913)
Independent
187
John Taylor (1834-1925)
?
106
Baie St. Paul
Marc Amable Girard (1822-1892)
Government
Acclaim
Burnside
John Smith (1817-1889)
Government
121
Isaiah Mawhinney (1830-1913)
?
120
Cartier
Gilbert McMicken (1813-1891)
Government
108
Joseph Octave Lemay (1829-1892)
?
67
Pierre Delorme (1832-1912)
?
52
Dufferin North
Andrew Laughlin (1844-1916)
Government
143
George Leary
?
138
Dufferin South
William James Winram (1838-1891)
Government
Acclaim
Emerson
William Hill Nash (1846-1917)
Government
154
Isaac Casson
?
37
Frederick Ernest Burnham (1847-?)
?
29
Gladstone
Corydon Partlow Brown (1848-1891)
Government
Acclaim
High Bluff & Poplar Point
John Aldham Kyte Drummond (1847-1913)
Government
96
William Crawford (1847-1897)
?
66
Kildonan & St. Paul
Alexander MacBeth Sutherland (1849-1884)
Government
107
John Sutherland (1837-1922)
?
69
La Verendrye
Maxime Goulet (1855-1932)
Government
219
J. Desautels
?
176
Morris
Joseph Noel Taillefer (1828-1897)
Government
153
Stewart Mulvey (1834-1908)
?
118
Alphonse Fortunat Martin (1849-1905)
?
36
Mountain
Thomas Greenway (1838-1908)
Government
Acclaim
Portage la Prairie
James Cowan (1831-1910)
Government
Acclaim
Rockwood
John Somerset Aikins (1850-1911)
Government
125
Thomas Lusted (1841-1904)
?
96
H. J. Clarke
?
65
Ste. Agathe
Alexander Kittson (1853-1883)
Government
62
Joseph-Alfred-Norbert Provencher (1843-1887)
?
32
St. Andrews
John Norquay (1841-1889)
Government
Acclaim
St. Boniface
Alphonse Alfred Clement LaRivière (1842-1925)
Government
122
Joseph-Alfred-Norbert Provencher (1843-1887)
?
3
St. Clements
Edward Henry George Gunson Hay (1840-1918)
Independent
120
John Gunn (1826-?)
?
81
John Wright Sifton (1833-1912)
?
60
St. Francois Xavier
Patrice Breland (1837-1908)
Government
Acclaim
Springfield
Arthur Wellington Ross (1846-1901)
Government
222
A. Barnard
?
3
Westbourne
David Marr Walker (1835-1920)
Government
139
Walter J. N. Pratt (c1852-1924)
Opposition
110
Winnipeg
Thomas Scott (1841-1915)
Opposition
387
Daniel Hunter McMillan (1846-1933)
?
321
Woodlands
Francis Wesley Lipsett (1850-1889)
Government
Acclaim
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Fourth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1879-1883)
Sources:
“Local elections,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 December 1879, page 1.
Manitoba Election Records (December 1870 to November 1957, June 1958 to June 1969), Manitoba Legislative Library.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 September 2019
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