Winnipeg North (provincial electoral district)

This article is about an historical electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. For the current federal riding, see Winnipeg North.

Winnipeg North was a provincial electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, covering part of the city of Winnipeg. It existed on two separate occasions.

It was initially created for the 1883 provincial election, and abolished with the 1920 election when Winnipeg became a single, ten-member constituency. At first it had one MLA elected using first past the post. In 1914 and 1915 it elected two MLAs in separate contests using first past the post.

Winnipeg North was re-established for the elections of 1949 and 1953 as a four-member constituency electing MLAs using STV. In 1958, it was divided into several single-member constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Original constituency

The Winnipeg North constituency was created for the 1883 election, when the original Winnipeg constituency was divided into two sections: Winnipeg North and Winnipeg South. It was a single-member constituency until the 1914 election, when it returned two members. In 1914 and 1915 elections, electors of Winnipeg North were allowed to cast one vote for each of the two seats, which were called "Winnipeg North A" and "Winnipeg North B". This "post" system ended in 1920 when the district was rolled into a new single city wide district electing ten through STV.

In the early 20th century, Winnipeg North became known for its large working-class and immigrant communities. Many electors were recent immigrants from Eastern Europe, who profoundly changed the area's political character.

Solomon Hart Green, elected in 1910, was the first Jewish Canadian to serve in a Canadian provincial legislature. Richard Rigg, returned in 1915 for Winnipeg North "B", was the first Social Democrat elected in Manitoba.

Winnipeg North

	Name	Party	Took office	Left office
	Elias Conklin	Liberal	1883	1886
	Edward Drewry	Conservative	1886	1888
	Lyman Jones	Liberal	1888	1892
	Peter McIntyre	Liberal	1892	1899
	William Neilson	Conservative	1899	1903
	Sampson Walker	Conservative	1903	1907
	John F. Mitchell	Conservative	1907	1910
	Solomon Hart Green	Liberal	1910	1914

Winnipeg North A

	Name	Party	Took office	Left office
	Joseph P. Foley	Conservative	1914	1915
	Robert Newton Lowery	Liberal	1915	1920

Winnipeg North B

	Name	Party	Took office	Left office
	Daniel McLean	Conservative	1914	1915
	Richard Rigg	Social Democrat	1915	1917
	Robert Jacob	Unionist-Liberal	1917	1920

Re-established constituency

The single constituency of Winnipeg was divided into three sections for the 1949 election: Winnipeg North, Winnipeg Centre and Winnipeg South. All three constituencies elected four members to the legislature, with electors choosing members by a single transferable ballot.

Winnipeg North had very prominent Jewish and Ukrainian communities in this period, and was by far the most left-wing section of the city. Bill Kardash, Manitoba's only Communist Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), was returned for Winnipeg North in both 1949 and 1953. The socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation was the area's dominant party, and returned two members in both elections.

The constituency was eliminated at the 1958 election, when Manitoba abolished its multi-member seats. Several single-member constituencies were created in its place.

Winnipeg North (1949–1958)

	Name	Party	Took office	Left office
	Morris Gray	CCF	1949	1958
	John Hawryluk	CCF	1949	1958
	Bill Kardash	Communist	1949	1958
	Frank Chester	Liberal–Progressive	1949	1953
	Alexander Turk	Liberal–Progressive	1953	1958

Election results

1883

1883 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Elias George Conklin	299	57.83
	Conservative	Albert Monkman	218	42.17
Total valid votes			517	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			N/A	–
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1886

1886 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Drewery	1,377	54.41	12.24
	Liberal	Elias George Conklin	1,154	45.59	-12.24
Total valid votes			2,531	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			6,073	41.68	–
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1888

1888 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lyman Melvin Jones	848	66.88	21.28
	Conservative	Justin Joseph Golden	420	33.12	-21.28
Total valid votes			1,268	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			N/A	–	–
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1892

1892 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter McIntyre	840	60.00	-6.88
	Conservative	George Huestis Campbell	560	40.00	6.88
Total valid votes			1,400	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			1,895	73.88	–
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1896

1896 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter McIntyre	906	57.56	-2.44
	Conservative	Thomas William Taylor	668	42.44	2.44
Total valid votes			1,574	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			2,160	72.87	-1.01
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1899

1899 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Neilson	1,247	55.06	12.62
	Liberal	Peter McIntyre	1,018	44.94	-12.62
Total valid votes			2,265	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			3,454	65.58	-7.29
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1903

1903 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sampson Walker	1,106	40.16	-14.90
	Liberal	John Wesley Cockburn	1,057	38.38	-6.56
	Labour	Robert Thoms	591	21.46	–
Total valid votes			2,754	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			3,675	74.94	9.36
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1907

1907 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John F. Mitchell	2,244	54.49	14.33
	Independent	Alexander Macdonald	1,874	45.51	–
Total valid votes			4,118	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			4,576	89.99	15.05
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1910

1910 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Solomon Hart Green	2,175	47.06	–
	Conservative	John F. Mitchell	1,555	33.64	-20.85
	Socialist	Edmund Fulcher	892	19.30	–
Total valid votes			4,622	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			5,055	91.43	1.44
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1914

Winnipeg North A

1914 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Joseph P. Foley	3,135	39.82
	Liberal	James Willoughby	2,816	35.77
	Labour	Arthur Beech	1,921	24.40
Total valid votes			7,872	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			9,400	83.74
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

Winnipeg North B

1914 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Daniel McLean	3,268	40.95
	Liberal	Robert Newton Lowery	2,645	33.14
	Labour	Herman Saltzman	2,068	25.91
Total valid votes			7,981	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			9,400	84.90
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1915

Winnipeg North A

1915 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Newton Lowery	2,443	39.52	3.75
	Labour	Arthur Beech	2,248	36.37	11.97
	Conservative	Joseph P. Foley	1,490	24.11	-15.72
Total valid votes			6,181	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			8,093	76.37	-7.37
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

Winnipeg North B

1915 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Rigg	2,494	41.53	15.62
	Liberal	Solomon Hart Green	2,263	37.69	4.54
	Conservative	Elias R. Levinson	1,248	20.78	-20.16
Total valid votes			6,005	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			8,093	74.20	-10.70
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1918 by-election

Manitoba provincial by-election, 1918
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Union	Robert Jacob	2,912	55.22	–
	Independent	Elias R. Levinson	2,361	44.78	–
Total valid votes			5,273	–	–
Rejected			N/A	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			N/A	–	–
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1949

1949 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal–Progressive	Frank Chester	5,660	18.34	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Morris Gray	4,917	15.94	–
	Labor–Progressive	Bill Kardash	4,704	15.25	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Hawryluk	4,485	14.54	–
	Liberal–Progressive	John Michael "Big John" Kozoriz	2,809	9.10	–
	Liberal–Progressive	Abraham L. "Abe" Simkin	2,411	7.81	–
	Independent Liberal	William Scraba	2,046	6.63	–
	Progressive Conservative	Stan Carrick	1,384	4.49	–
Total valid votes			28,416	–	–
Rejected			329	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			46,649	61.62	–
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

1953

1953 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Hawryluk	4,783	17.08	-13.39
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Morris Gray	4,642	16.58	-13.89
	Labor–Progressive	Bill Kardash	4,271	15.25	0.01
	Liberal–Progressive	Alexander Turk	3,134	11.19	-24.07
	Liberal–Progressive	John Michael "Big John" Kozoriz	3,082	11.01	-24.25
	Progressive Conservative	Stanley Carrick	2,373	8.47	3.99
	Independent Liberal	Ernest A. Brotman	2,042	7.29	0.66
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Leonard Aylen	1,325	4.73	-25.74
Total valid votes			25,652	–	–
Rejected			503	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			44,887	58.27	-3.35
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

See also

• List of Manitoba provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts