Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1903)

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The Manitoba general election of 1903 was held on 20 July. The results were as follows:

Party	Leader	Votes	Seats
Conservative	Rodmond Palen Roblin (1853-1937)	25,333	31
Liberal	Thomas Greenway (1838-1908)	23,740	8
Prohibition	?	?	1
Other	?	?	0
Totals		53,232	40

The voting results for individual constituencies were as follows:

Constituency	Candidate	Party	Votes
Arthur	Allen Edwin Thompson (1855-1910)	Conservative	547
	John Williams (1860-1931)	Liberal	499
Assiniboia	Joseph H. Prefontaine (1859-1937)	Liberal	415
	Charles George Caron (c1851-1912)	Conservative	398
Avondale	James Henthorne Argue (1848-1927)	Conservative	641
	Cornelius W. Miller	Prohibition	435
Beautiful Plains	John Andrew Davidson (1852-1903)	Conservative	838
	James R. McRae	Liberal	710
Birtle	Charles Julius Mickle (1848-1919)	Liberal	584
	John Hillyard Leech (1866-1930)	Conservative	293
Brandon City	Stanley William McInnis (1865-1907)	Conservative	765
	Alexander Cumming Fraser (1849-1944)	Liberal	723
Carillon	Albert Prefontaine (1861-1935)	Conservative	399
	Arthur Hebert	Liberal	308
Cypress	George Steel (1858-1940)	Conservative	855
	William Little	Prohibition	756
Dauphin	John Robert Gunne (1870-1935)	Conservative	797
	John Archibald “Jack” Campbell (1872-1963)	Prohibition	656
Deloraine	Edward Briggs (1854-1941)	Conservative	457
	H. L. Montgomery	Labour	437
	George Paterson (1857-1923)	Liberal	429
Dufferin	Rodmond Palen Roblin (1853-1937)	Conservative	1,150
	James Riddell (1850-1926)	Liberal	731
Emerson	David Henry McFadden (1856-1935)	Conservative	436
	George Walton (1854-1925)	Liberal	417
	William Redford Mulock (1850-1930)	Prohibition	77
Gilbert Plains	Glenlyon Archibald Campbell (1863-1917)	Conservative	598
	Thomas Young	Liberal	396
Gimli (nomination on 27 July)	Baldwin Larus Baldwinson (1856-1936)	Conservative	Acclaim
Gladstone	David Wilson (1858-1927)	Conservative	829
	Thomas Lewis Morton (1846-1914)	Liberal	693
Hamiota	David Jackson (1852-1925)	Prohibition	762
	William Ferguson (1862-1936)	Conservative	740
Kildonan and St. Andrews	Martin J. O’Donohoe (1868-1909)	Liberal	718
	Orton Irwin Grain (1863-1930)	Conservative	713
Killarney	George Lawrence (1857-1924)	Conservative	713
	Reuben Cross	Prohibition	299
	George Bertram Monteith (1868-1952)	Liberal	282
Lakeside	Edwin David Lynch (1860-1941)	Conservative	537
	William Fulton (1846-1920)	Liberal	469
Lansdowne	Harvey Elgin Hicks (1865-1940)	Conservative	915
	Tobias Crawford Norris (1861-1936)	Liberal	899
La Verendrye	William Lagimodiere (1859-1930)	Liberal	348
	Jean Baptiste Lauzon (1858-1944)	Conservative	337
Manitou	Robert Rogers (1864-1936)	Conservative	923
	Donald D. Campbell (1850-1934)	Prohibition	548
Minnedosa	William Bramwell Waddell (1857-1942)	Conservative	751
	Neil Cameron (1863-1935)	Prohibition	670
Morden	John Henry Ruddell (1859-1906)	Conservative	616
	G. H. Bradshaw	Prohibition	528
Morris	Colin Howell Campbell (1859-1914)	Conservative	620
	Napoleon Comeault (1859-1915)	Liberal	500
Mountain	Thomas Greenway (1838-1908)	Liberal	911
	Daniel A. McIntyre (1866-1941)	Conservative	567
	Richard Milner “Dick” Wilson (1855-1916)	Independent	254
Norfolk	Robert Fern Lyons (1856-1926)	Conservative	941
	John D. Hunt (1861-1940)	Liberal	753
Portage la Prairie	Hugh Armstrong (1858-1926)	Conservative	742
	Edward Brown (1865-1947)	Liberal	711
Rhineland	Valentine Winkler (1864-1920)	Liberal	355
	Henry Peter Hansen (c1856-1931)	Conservative	284
	Hermann Dirks	Independent	148
Rockwood	Isaac Riley (1853-1926)	Conservative	616
	Alexander Robert Leonard (1869-1942)	Liberal	516
Russell	William James Doig (1867-1924)	Liberal	475
	Angus Lorne Bonnycastle (1873-1941)	Conservative	351
St. Boniface	Horace Chevrier (1875-1935)	Liberal	593
	Joseph Bernier (1874-1951)	Conservative	592
South Brandon	Alfred Henry Carroll (1846-1924)	Conservative	508
	John Watson	Liberal	496
Springfield	William Henry Corbett (1847-1941)	Conservative	353
	Thomas Henry Smith (1848-1919)	Liberal	245
	Donald Andrew Ross (1856-1938)	Independent	193
Swan River (election on 3 August)	James Wells Robson (1867-1941)	Conservative	503
	Almon James Cotton (1858-1942)	Prohibition	272
Turtle Mountain	James Johnson (1855-1929)	Conservative	741
	J. S. McEwen	Liberal	475
	J. F. Hunter	Prohibition	142
Virden	John Hume Agnew (1863-1908)	Conservative	674
	Fleming W. Clingan	Liberal	649
Winnipeg Centre	Thomas William Taylor (1852-1924)	Conservative	1,276
	Dr. John A. McArthur	Liberal	1,123
	William Scott	Labour	422
Winnipeg North	Sampson Walker (1843-1933)	Conservative	1,106
	John Wesley Cockburn (1856-1924)	Prohibition	1,057
	Robert Thoms	Labour	591
Winnipeg South	James Thomas Gordon (1858-1919)	Conservative	1,807
	John Donald Cameron (1858-1923)	Liberal	1,633

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Eleventh Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1903-1907)

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial By-Elections (1903-1906)

Sources:

“Candidates in the field,” Winnipeg Tribune, 2 July 1903, page 3.

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: 12 April 2022