Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1896)

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The Manitoba general election of 1896 was held on 15 January. The results were as follows:

Party	Leader	Votes	Seats
Government (Liberal)	Thomas Greenway (1838-1908)	12,734	31
Opposition (Conservative)	?	10,297	5
Patrons of Industry	?	2,098	2
Independent	-	506	2
Totals		25,635	40

The voting results for individual constituencies were as follows:

Constituency	Candidate	Party	Votes
Avondale	Thomas Dickie (1860-1935)	Government	377
	James Harvey Hartney (1848-1924)	Opposition	283
	Thomas Alfred Martin Hughes (1868-1943)	Independent	169
Beautiful Plains	William Flowers Sirett (1848-1923)	Patrons of Industry	534
	John Andrew Davidson (1852-1903)	Opposition	496
Birtle (held 19 December)	Charles Julius Mickle (1848-1919)	Government	Acclaim
Brandon City	Charles Adams (1858-1931)	Government	501
	Andrew Kelly (1852-1930)	Opposition	402
Carillon	Roger Marion (1846-1920)	Opposition	240
	Martin Jerome (1849-1936)	Government	213
Cypress	Alfred Doig (1856-1939)	Government	498
	A. F. Andrews	Opposition	412
	James Davidson	Patrons of Industry	263
Dauphin	Theodore Arthur Burrows (1857-1929)	Government	589
	Glenlyon Archibald Campbell (1863-1917)	Opposition	577
Deloraine	Charles Alexander Young (1855-1928)	Government	482
	William Delve Drew (c1844-1916)	Opposition	273
Dennis	Watson Montgomery Crosby (1857-1897)	Patrons of Industry	393
	William James Kennedy (1857-1912)	Government	354
	James Findlay Frame (1841-1923)	Opposition	278
Emerson	David Henry McFadden (1856-1935)	Opposition	232
	G. Ross	Patrons of Industry	203
	George Christie (1853-1921)	Government	198
Kildonan	Hector Sutherland (1852-1927)	Opposition	406
	John James Bird (1844-1933)	Government	377
Killarney	Finlay McNaughton Young (1852-1916)	Government	583
	N. Clark	Opposition	332
Lakeside	John Gunion Rutherford (1857-1923)	Government	Acclaim
Lansdowne	Tobias Crawford Norris (1861-1936)	Government	591
	J. R. Todd	Opposition	352
La Verendrye	Théophile Paré (1850-1926)	Opposition	292
	William Lagimodiere (1859-1930)	Government	251
Lorne	James Riddell (1850-1926)	Government	466
	Robert George O'Malley (1857-1938)	Opposition	452
Manitou	John Donald McIntosh (1850-1902)	Government	339
	S. Cruthers	Opposition	261
	Ben Swanson	Patrons of Industry	217
Minnedosa	Robert Hill Myers (1856-1921)	Government	Acclaim
Morden	Thomas Duncan (1849-1910)	Government	360
	John Taylor Borthwick (1849-1926)	Opposition	324
Morris	Stewart Mulvey (1834-1908)	Government	555
	Alphonse Fortunat Martin (1849-1905)	Opposition	431
Mountain	Thomas Greenway (1838-1908)	Government	Acclaim
Norfolk	George Rogers (1856-1901)	Government	671
	Robert Fern Lyons (1856-1926)	Opposition	501
North Brandon	Clifford Sifton (1861-1929)	Government	434
	W. J. Sargent	Opposition	190
Portage la Prairie	Robert Watson (1853-1929)	Government	425
	William James Cooper (1860-1913)	Opposition	414
Rhineland	Valentine Winkler (1864-1920)	Government	229
	Noah Bowman	Opposition	82
Rockwood	Samuel Jacob Jackson (1848-1942)	Government	499
	J. M. Toombs	Opposition	449
Rosenfeldt	Enoch Winkler (1852-1928)	Government	170
	C. Pieper	Opposition	106
Russell	James Fisher (1840-1927)	Independent	337
	Thomas Almack	Government	315
St. Andrews	Sigtryggur Jónasson (1852-1942)	Government	447
	Baldwin Larus Baldwinson (1856-1936)	Opposition	368
St. Boniface	James Emile Pierre Prendergast (1858-1945)	Independent	357
	Jean Baptiste Lauzon (1858-1944)	Opposition	278
Saskatchewan	David McNaught (1837-1922)	Government	369
	William Ferguson (1862-1936)	Opposition	315
	James W. Shanks	Patrons of Industry	107
Souris	Archibald McIntyre Campbell (1851-1935)	Government	Acclaim
South Brandon	Herbert Clement Graham (1856-1934)	Government	482
	James Hector	Opposition	138
Springfield	Thomas Henry Smith (1848-1919)	Government	Acclaim
Turtle Mountain	John Hettle (1842-1897)	Government	475
	William Miller	Opposition	452
Westbourne	Thomas Lewis Morton (1846-1914)	Government	Acclaim
Winnipeg Centre	Daniel Hunter McMillan (1846-1933)	Government	Acclaim
Winnipeg North	Peter Campbell McIntyre (1854-1920)	Government	906
	Thomas William Taylor (1852-1924)	Opposition	668
Winnipeg South	John Donald Cameron (1858-1923)	Government	Acclaim
Woodlands	Rodmond Palen Roblin (1853-1937)	Opposition	560
	George Main	Government	221

See also:

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial By-Elections (1896-1897)

Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Ninth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1896-1899)

Sources:

“List of candidates in the field,” Winnipeg Tribune, 6 January 1896, page 5.

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: 23 April 2020