1910 Manitoba general election

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The 1910 Manitoba general election was held on July 11, 1910 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.

The result was a fourth consecutive majority government for the Conservative Party of Manitoba, led by premier Rodmond Roblin. Roblin's electoral machine won 28 seats, against 13 for the opposition Manitoba Liberal Party under new leader Tobias Norris.

The

's decision to field a candidate against him. The Socialists ran two other candidates in Winnipeg, and both were defeated.

All the members were elected through First-past-the-post voting in single member districts. This was the last election to be conducted that way in Manitoba for 40 years. The next 11 elections involved the election of some MLAs in multi-member districts.^[1]

Results

Party		Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
				1907	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
	Conservative	Rodmond Roblin		28	28		38046	50.7
	Liberal	Tobias Norris		13	13		35353	47.1
	Labour		1	0	0		1939
	Socialist				0		1237	1.6
	Independent				0		287	0.4
Total				41	41			100

Popular vote Conservative   49.50% Liberal   46.00% Others   4.50%

Seats summary Conservative   68.29% Liberal   31.71%

Riding results

(incumbent) or boldface denotes incumbent.

:

• Amos Lyle (C) 777
• (incumbent)John Williams (L) 602

Assiniboia:

• (incumbent)
  Aime Benard
  (C) 924
• R.A. Bonnar (L[?]) 322
• John Colvin (Ind-L-Lab) 66

Avondale:

• (incumbent)James Argue (C) 708
• J. Madill (L) 626

Beautiful Plains:

• (incumbent)James H. Howden (C) accl.

:

• (incumbent)George Malcolm (L) 758
• E. Graham (C) 648

:

• (incumbent)
  George Coldwell
  (C) 1402
• S.H. McKay (L) 1150

:

• (incumbent)Albert Prefontaine (C) 619
• Horace Chevrier (L) 544

:

• (incumbent)George Steel (C) 875
• F.H. Mitchell (L) 699

:

• James G. Harvey (C) 1107
• (incumbent)John A. Campbell (L) 1054

Deloraine:

• John C.W. Reid
  (C) 743
• (incumbent)
  Robert S. Thornton
  (L) 737

:

• (incumbent)Rodmond Roblin (C) 1267
• W.F. Osborne (L) 811

:

• David McFadden
  (C) 766
• (incumbent)George Walton (L) 757

:

• Sam Hughes (C) 970
• W. Shaw (L) 865

:

• Baldwin Baldwinson (C) 900
• Wilhelm Paulson (L) 450
• X.J. Solmundson (Ind) 287

:

• (incumbent)
  James W. Armstrong
  (L) 957
• W. McKelvey (C) 777

:

• (incumbent)William Ferguson (C) 848
• E. Henry (L) 751

:

• (incumbent)Orton Grain (C) 1131
• A.R. Bredin (L) 1043

:

• (incumbent)George Lawrence (C) 726
• G. Robinson (L) 519

:

• Charles Duncan McPherson (L) 570
• (incumbent)Edwin D. Lynch (C) 502

:

• (incumbent)Tobias Norris (L) 1196
• W. Fenwick (C) 944

La Veredrye:

• William Molloy (L) 439
• (incumbent)Jean-Baptiste Lauzon (C) 430

:

• (incumbent)
  Robert Rogers
  (C) 1065
• J.E. Gayton (L) 610

:

• John Thompson
  (L) 971
• (incumbent)William B. Waddell (C) 937

Morden:

• (incumbent)Benjamin McConnell (L) 630
• J.A. Hobbs (C) 586

:

• (incumbent)
  Colin Campbell
  (C) 746
• R.L. Ross (L) 573

:

• (incumbent)James Bryson Baird (L) 1086
• E.L. Taylor (C) 804

Norfolk:

• (incumbent)
  Robert Lyons
  (C) 822
• Frank Avery (L) 647

Portage la Prairie:

• (incumbent)Hugh Armstrong (C) 912
• Ewan McPherson (L) 711

:

• (incumbent)Valentine Winkler (L) 520
• Hugh McGavin (C) 387

:

• (incumbent)Isaac Riley (C) 792
• Ira Stratton (L) 738

:

• (incumbent)Angus Bonnycastle (C) 900
• W.V. Valens (L) 892

South Brandon:

• (incumbent)Alfred Carroll (C) 535
• E.H. Dewart (L) 525

:

• (incumbent)Donald A. Ross (L) 807
• C.P. Fullerton (C) 661

Swan River:

• Daniel D. McDonald (L) 465
• (incumbent)
  James W. Robson
  (C) 436

St. Boniface:

• (incumbent)Joseph Bernier (C) 1022
• A. Dubuc (L) 760

Turtle Mountain:

• (incumbent)James Johnson (C) 742
• W. Hanley (L) 580

:

• (incumbent)Harvey Simpson (C) 985
• D. McDonald (L) 800

:

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	(incumbent) Thomas Taylor	2,012	49.68%
	Labour	Fred Dixon	1,939	47.88%
	Socialist	W.S. Cummings	99	2.44%
Total valid votes			4,050	100.00%
Turnout				76.4%

:

• Solomon Hart Green (L) 2175
• (incumbent)John F. Mitchell (C) 1555
• Ed. Fulcher (SPC) 892

:

• Lendrum McMeans (C) 2545
• Edward Brown (L) 2496

:

• (incumbent)Thomas Herman Johnson (L) 2578
• A.J. Andrews
  (C) 2538
• George Armstrong (SPC) 246

Post-election changes

, 1911), February 4, 1911:

• Frederic Newton (C) 916
• William Valens (L) 651

(George Lawrence appointed to cabinet, October 11, 1911), October 23, 1911:

• George Lawrence (C) accl.

, October 10, 1911), October 31, 1911:

• James Morrow (C) accl.

(new constituency), October 12, 1912:

• Robert Orok (C) accl.

, 1913), May 12, 1913:

• Edmund Taylor (C) 1674
• A. Eggerston (L) 832

St. Boniface (Joseph Bernier appointed to cabinet, 1913), May 22, 1913:

• Joseph Bernier (C) accl.

, 1913), November 29, 1913:

• Walter Humphries Montague (C) 1123
• A.N. Bredin (L) 753

Notes and references

Further reading

• Hopkins, J. Castell (1911). The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1910. Toronto: The Annual Review Publishing Company.