Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1883)

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The Manitoba provincial election of 1883 was held on 23 January. The results were as follows:

Party	Leader	Votes	Seats
Conservative	John Norquay (1841-1889)	5,393	19
Liberal	?	4,464	10
Independent	-	?	1
Totals		9,857	30

The voting results for individual constituencies were as follows:

Constituency	Returning Officer	Candidate	Party	Votes
Assiniboia	W. F. Lane	Alexander “Sandy” Murray (1839-1913)	Conservative	95
		James Cunningham (1823-1915)	Liberal	37
Birtle	Charles Arkoll Boulton (1841-1899)	Edward Phillip “E. P.” Leacock (1853-1927)	Conservative	251
		Robert Nelson (1830-1912)	Liberal	242
Brandon	Martin McDonald	Joseph Edward Woodworth (1837-1889)	Conservative	859
		John Wright Sifton (1833-1912)	Liberal	681
Baie St. Paul	Felix Chenier (1843-1910)	Edward Lewis Fairbanks (1850-1924)	Conservative	Acclaim
Burnside	Elias Brown	Isaiah Mawhinney (1830-1913)	Conservative	185
		John Smith (1817-1889)	Liberal	124
Cartier	George Roy	Joseph Lecomte (1850-1938)	Conservative	153
		John Hargrave	Conservative	67
		J. W. Parker	Liberal	15
Dauphin	Marmaduke H. Fieldhouse (1845-1911)	John Andrew Davidson (1852-1903)	Conservative	Acclaim
Dufferin North	Herbert Inman	David Henry Wilson (1855-1926)	Conservative	304
		Henry Landerkin (c1841-1917)	Liberal	201
Dufferin South	Chris F. Collins	William James Winram (1838-1891)	Liberal	155
		John Stewart	Conservative	112
Emerson	William Hill Nash (1846-1917)	Frederick Ernest Burnham (1847-?)	Liberal	178
		Robert S. Chalmers	Conservative	168
High Bluff	A. T. Abbey	William Crawford (1847-1897)	Conservative	68
		H. J. Fox Rose	Liberal	66
Kildonan	Augustus Mills	Alexander MacBeth Sutherland (1849-1884)	Conservative	100
		John Sutherland (1837-1922)	Liberal	75
La Verendrye	Théophile Paré (1850-1926)	Maxime Goulet (1855-1932)	Independent	181
		Louis Arthur Prud’Homme (1853-1941)	Conservative	173
Minnedosa	E. A. Brisbois	David Howard Harrison (1843-1905)	Conservative	495
		David Glass (1829-1906)	Liberal	428
Morris	George Henry Ham (1847-1926)	Henry James Tennant (1839-1913)	Conservative	204
		Alphonse Fortunat Martin (1849-1905)	Liberal	138
		G. C. Wilde	Conservative	134
Mountain	John M. Fraser	Thomas Greenway (1838-1908)	Liberal	330
		John Norquay (1841-1889)	Conservative	244
Norfolk	William Cooper	Charles Hay (1843-1924)	Liberal	110
		W. R. Ross	Conservative	65
Portage la Prairie	John James Setter	Joseph “Fightin’ Joe” Martin (1852-1923)	Liberal	315
		William Ross Black (1855-1919)	Conservative	304
		Edward Henry George Gunson Hay (1840-1918)	Liberal	2
Rockwood	?	Samuel Jacob Jackson (1848-1942)	Liberal	250
		James Andrew Miller (1839-1886)	Conservative	74
Ste. Agathe	Paul Chenard	Alexander Kittson (1853-1883)	Conservative	Acclaim
St. Andrews	John Macdougall	John Norquay (1841-1889)	Conservative	Acclaim
St. Boniface	J. E. Dubord	Alphonse Alfred Clement LaRivière (1842-1925)	Conservative	97
		Edward Richard	Liberal	44
St. Clements	Joseph Williams	John Beresford Allan (1841-1927)	Conservative	94
		John Gunn (1826-?)	Liberal	78
St. Francois Xavier	Andrew Bourke (1832-1899)	Edward Francis Gigot (1847-1928)	Conservative	72
		Daniel Carey (1829-1890)	Liberal	36
Springfield	William Goodridge	John Hedley Bell (1840-1897)	Liberal	169
		Charles Bruce Edie (1842-1888)	Conservative	162
Turtle Mountain	John L. Nelson	Finlay McNaughton Young (1852-1916)	Liberal	232
		James Peterkin Alexander (1835-1912)	Conservative	145
Westbourne	John Mason	Corydon Partlow Brown (1848-1891)	Conservative	Acclaim
Winnipeg North	William John Ptolemy (1850-1920)	Elias George Conklin (1845-1901)	Liberal	299
		Albert Monkman (1850-1918)	Conservative	218
Winnipeg South	James Henderson	Albert Clements Killam (1849-1908)	Liberal	259
		Charles Richard Tuttle (1848-?)	Conservative	196
Woodlands	Copland Cowlard	William Wagner (1820-1901)	Conservative	136
		Francis Wesley Lipsett (1850-1889)	Conservative	37

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Fifth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1883-1886)

Sources:

“The campaign,” Manitoba Free Press, 22 January 1883, page 2.

Manitoba Election Records (December 1870 to November 1957, June 1958 to June 1969), Manitoba Legislative Library.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

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