1903 Manitoba general election
The 1903 Manitoba general election was held on July 20, 1903 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.
The result was a second consecutive majority government for the Conservative Party of Manitoba, now led by Premier Rodmond Roblin. Roblin's electoral machine won a landslide thirty-two seats, while the opposition Manitoba Liberal Party under former premier Thomas Greenway won only eight. The Winnipeg Labour Party also contested two constituencies.
Results
Party | Party Leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular Vote | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1899 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
Conservative | Rodmond Roblin | 39 | 31 | 26,074 | 48.98% | ||||
Liberal-Conservative | Rodmond Roblin | 1 | 1 | 855 | 1.61% | ||||
Liberal | Thomas Greenway | 40 | 8 | 23,740 | 44.60% | ||||
Labour | 2 | 0 | 1,013 | 1.90% | |||||
Prohibition | 4 | 0 | 955 | 1.79% | |||||
Independents | 3 | 0 | 595 | 1.12% | |||||
Total | 89 | 40 | 53,232 | 100% |
Constituency Results
Arthur:
- (x)Allen Thompson (C) 547
- John Williams (L) 499
Assiniboia:
- Joseph Prefontaine (L) 415
- Charles Caron (C) 398
Avondale:
- (x)James Argue (C) 641
- Cornelius Miller (L) 435
Beautiful Plains:
- (x)John Andrew Davidson (C) 838
- James McRae (L) 710
Birtle:
- (x)Charles Mickle (L) 584
- John Leich (C) 293
Brandon City:
- (x)Stanley McInnis (C) 765
- Alexander Fraser (L) 723
Carillon:
- Albert Prefontaine (C) 399
- Arthur Hebert (L) 308
Cypress:
- (x)George Steel (LC) 855
- William Little (L) 756
Dauphin:
- John Gunne (C) 797
- John A. Campbell (L) 656
Deloraine:
- Edward Briggs (C) 457
- H.L. Montgomery (Proh) 437
- George Patterson (L) 429
Dufferin:
- (x)Rodmond Roblin (C) 1150
- (x)James Riddell (L) 731
Emerson:
- (x)David H. McFadden (C) 436
- George Walton (L) 417
- W.R. Mulock (Proh) 77
Gilbert Plains:
- Glenlyon Campbell (C) 598
- Thomas Young (L) 396
Gimli:
- (x)Baldwin Baldwinson (C) accl.
Gladstone:
- David Wilson (C) 829
- (x)Thomas Morton (L) 693
Hamiota:
- David Jackson (L) 762
- (x)William Ferguson (C) 740
Kildonan and St. Andrews:
- Martin O'Donohoe (L) 718
- (x)Orton Grain (C) 713
Killarney:
- (x)George Lawrence (C) 713
- Reuben Cross (Proh) 299
- G.B. Monteith (L) 282
Lakeside:
- Edwin Lynch (C) 537
- William Fulton (L) 469
Lansdowne:
- Harvey Hicks (C) 915
- (x)Tobias Norris (L) 899
La Verendrye:
- (x)William Lagimodiere (L) 348
- Jean Lauzon (C) 337
Manitou:
- (x)Robert Rogers (C) 923
- Donald Campbell (L) 548
Minnedosa:
- William B. Waddell (C) 751
- Neil Cameron (L) 670
- (x)John Ruddell (C) 616
- G.H. Bradshaw (L) 528
Morris:
- (x)Colin H. Campbell (C) 620
- Napoleon Comeault (L) 500
Mountain:
- (x)Thomas Greenway (L) 911
- Daniel A. McIntyre (C) 567
- M. Wilson (Ind) 254
Norfolk:
- (x)Robert Lyons (C) 941
- J.D. Hunt (L) 753
Portage la Prairie:
- (x)Hugh Armstrong (C) 742
- Edward Brown (L) 711
Rhineland:
- (x)Valentine Winkler (L) 355
- H.P. Hansen (C) 284
- Hermann Dirks (Ind) 148
Rockwood:
- (x)Isaac Riley (C) 616
- Alexander Leonard (L) 516
Russell:
- W.J. Doig (L) 475
- Angus Bonnycastle (C) 351
St. Boniface:
- Horace Chevrier (L) 593
- (x)Joseph Bernier (C) 592
South Brandon:
- Alfred Carroll (C) 508
- John Watson (L) 496
Springfield:
- William Henry Corbett (C) 353
- (x)Thomas H. Smith (L) 245
- Donald Ross (Ind) 193
Swan River:
- James Wells Robson (C) 503
- A.J. Cotton (L) 272
Turtle Mountain:
- (x)James Johnson (C) 741
- J.S. McEwan (L) 475
- J.F. Hunter (Proh) 142
Virden:
- John Agnew (C) 674
- F.W. Clinigan (L) 649
Winnipeg Centre:
- (x)Thomas Taylor (C) 1276
- J.A. McArthur (L) 1123
- William Scott (Winnipeg Labor Party) 422
Winnipeg North:
- Sampson Walker (C) 1106
- J.W. Cockburn (L) 1057
- Robert Thoms (Winnipeg Labor Party) 591
Winnipeg South:
- (x)James Gordon (C) 1807
- John D. Cameron (L) 1633