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1962 Manitoba General Election
The 1962 Manitoba general election was held on December 16, 1962 to elect 57 members to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a majority victory for the incumbent Progressive Conservatives under the leadership of Premier Dufferin Roblin, securing a third term for the party. Roblin's Tories won 36 seats versus 13 for the Liberals led by Gildas Molgat, 7 for the social democratic New Democrats led by Russell Paulley, and 1 seat for the Social Credit Party led by Jacob Froese. The Communist Party ran two candidates, neither being successful. Detailed Results Summary Northern Manitoba , - , style="background:whitesmoke;", Churchill , , , Gordon Beard2,170 , , Francis Jobin1,973 , , , , , John Ingebrigtson , - , style="background:whitesmoke;", Flin Flon , , , Charles Witney2,375 , , Eli Ross1,175 , , Fred Ledieu448 , , , Charles Witney , - , style="background:whitesmoke;", Rupertsland , , , Joseph Jeannotte2,329 , , Reginald McKay515 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Manitoba
The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (french: Assemblée législative du Manitoba) is the deliberative assembly of the Manitoba Legislature in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly at provincial general elections, all in single-member constituencies with first-past-the-post voting. Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly are given royal assent by the King of Canada in Right of Manitoba, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. The Manitoba Legislative Building is located in central Winnipeg. The Premier of Manitoba is Heather Stefanson and the current Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba is Myrna Driedger; both of whom belong to the Progressive Conservative Party. Historically, the Legislature of Manitoba had another chamber, the Legislative Council of Manitoba, but this was abolished in 1876, just six years after the province was formed. Current members * Members in bold are in the Cabinet of Manitoba * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic
Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal-democratic polity and a capitalist-oriented mixed economy. The protocols and norms used to accomplish this involve a commitment to representative and participatory democracy, measures for income redistribution, regulation of the economy in the general interest, and social welfare provisions. Due to longstanding governance by social democratic parties during the post-war consensus and their influence on socioeconomic policy in Northern and Western Europe, social democracy became associated with Keynesianism, the Nordic model, the social-liberal paradigm, and welfare states within political circles in the late 20th century. It has been described as the most common form of Western or modern soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Jeannotte
Joseph Ernest Jeannotte (December 25, 1902 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, St. Boniface, Manitoba – November 16, 1988) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1969. The son of Aime Jeannotte and Delia Cote, Jeannotte was educated in Saskatchewan, and worked as a rancher before entering political life. In 1941, he married Annette Burelle. They raised three daughters, Janet, Dolores, and Irene, in Meadow Portage, Manitoba. Joseph befriended novelist Gabrielle Roy during her sojourn near his home and was depicted in the novel Where Nests the Waterhen as Monsieur Bessette. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 Manitoba general election, 1958 provincial election, defeating Manitoba Liberal Party, Liberal-Progressive incumbent Roy Brown (Manitoba politician), Roy Brown, 2342 votes to 511 in the vast northern constituency of Ruper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupertsland (Manitoba Riding)
Keewatinook is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The riding existed previously under the name Rupertsland. Starting with the 2011 Manitoba general election, 2011 election, the riding was renamed Kewatinook which means "from the north" in Cree. Effective with the 2019 Manitoba general election, the spelling was corrected to Keewatinook. It was created in 1915 from territories that were added to the province four years earlier and has existed continuously since that time. The area had been part of the Grand Rapids (electoral district), Grand Rapids and Churchill and Nelson electoral districts for the 1914 Manitoba general election. Originally named Rupertsland, its name was changed as part of the 2008 riding redistribution by the Manitoba Boundaries Commission. Kewatinook is currently the largest riding in the province, a sprawling northern constituency occupying a large portion of the eastern half of Manitoba. It was a smaller constituency unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Witney
Charles Hubert (Buck) Witney (July 12, 1919 – May 21, 1991) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1969, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir. Witney was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The son of Percy Howard Witney and Winnifred Marion Herrington, Witney was educated at Technical High School in Moose Jaw, and did not attend university. During World War II, he served as a radar mechanic in the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1947, Witney married Vera Ruby Matthews. He moved to Flin Flon, Manitoba, Flin Flon in 1949. Prior to his election, he was a star personality at CFAR (AM), CFAR, at the time the only radio station in Flin Flon. Known as a populism, populist, he first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 Manitoba general election, 1958 provincial election, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flin Flon (Manitoba Riding)
Flin Flon is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1957, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1958. At about 80,000 square kilometers, Flin Flon occupies roughly 20% of Manitoba's total area, and is the second largest riding in the province after Rupertsland. It was a smaller riding before 1989, when it gained a significant amount of territory from the former riding of Churchill. It is a mostly rural and sparsely populated riding, located in the province's northwestern corner. Flin Flon is bordered by Saskatchewan to the west, Nunavut to the north, the ridings of Rupertsland and Thompson to the east, and the riding of The Pas to the south. The actual city of Flin Flon is located in the southwestern corner of the riding, and is its only urban centre. The riding's population in 1996 was 14,470. In 1999, the average family income was $55,113, and the unemployment rate was 9.70%. Manuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ingebrigtson
John Evinn Ingebrigtson (October 20, 1919 in Elvebakken, Norway – November 27, 1998) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1959 to 1962. Ingebrigtson's family moved from Norway to Manitoba shortly after his birth, and settled in the northern community of The Pas. He later moved to the community of Churchill and worked as a shipper, hunter and trapper. After serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Pacific during World War II, he returned to Ottawa, where he worked for the National Research Board. Ingebrigtson married Lorraine Helen Murtagh in 1942. Later, he returned to Churchill to start a family business. Ingebrigtson was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1959 provincial election, defeating Liberal-Progressive candidate Kenneth Wray by 261 votes in the sprawling northern constituency of Churchill. Due to the logistical difficulties of c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Jobin
Francis Lawrence "Bud" Jobin (August 14, 1914 – August 25, 1995) was a politician and the List of lieutenant governors of Manitoba#Lieutenant Governors of Manitoba, 1870-present, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, Canada. Jobin was born in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba. He moved to Flin Flon, Manitoba, Flin Flon, in the northern part of the province, in 1935. He worked for Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting as a labourer, miner and surveyor, later working in the company's purchasing department. Jobin was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 1949 Manitoba general election, 1949 provincial election, as a Manitoba Liberal Party, Liberal candidate supporting the government of Premier (Canada), Premier Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Douglas Campbell. Running in The Pas (Manitoba riding), The Pas, he easily defeated independent incumbent Beresford Richards, who opposed the governing Manitoba Liberal Party, Liberal-Progressive Conserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Beard
Gordon Wilbert Beard (September 27, 1921 – November 12, 1972) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Manitoba Legislature from 1963 to 1968, and an independent member from 1969 to 1972. Born in 1921, Beard was educated at Neepawa schools, and worked in a variety of projects in northern Manitoba. He served as President of Norrec Ltd., and Secretary of Arctic Investments Ltd., as well as becoming President of the Northern Restaurants Association through a hotel project that he owned. He served in the Canadian Army from 1942 to 1945, attaining the rank of Sergeant. In 1960, he moved to Thompson. Beard was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in January 1963, in a deferred race from the 1962 general election. Running in the vast northern constituency of Churchill, he defeated Liberal candidate Francis Bud Jobin by 197 votes. He was re-elected by a greater margin in the 1966 election. Beard resigned from the Progressive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churchill (Manitoba Riding)
Churchill is a former provincial electoral division in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1956, and eliminated in 1999. During its existence, Churchill encompassed the northernmost region of the province, a vast and sparsely populated area with no major urban centres. Most of the riding's residents were aboriginal, many living in isolated communities. Elections in this riding were frequently deferred for logistical reasons prior to 1969. When the riding was abolished, its territory was divided between the ridings of Rupertsland (Manitoba riding), Rupertsland, Flin Flon (Manitoba riding), Flin Flon and Thompson (Manitoba riding), Thompson. List of provincial representatives Election results 1958 general election 1959 general election 1962 general election 1966 general election 1969 by-election 1969 general election 1973 general election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cecil Ross
William Cecil Ross (May 11, 1911 – June 4, 1998) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada, the leader of the Young Communist League and later the leader of that province's Communist Party from 1948 until his retirement in 1981. Ross was raised in a secular Jewish family that moved from the Ukraine to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1917. He was originally named Cecil Zuken, but legally changed his name in 1936 (in part to protect his family from anti-Communist harassment). His brother Joseph Zuken also became a Communist politician, and was for many years a prominent alderman from Winnipeg's working-class North End. With the editorial backing of '' Dos Yiddishe Vort'' (a local Jewish newspaper), Ross was elected to the Winnipeg school board in 1936 and served in that capacity until 1939. He was also active in labour organization outside the city, and was imprisoned for six months on sedition charges after leading a strike in Flin Flon. In 1940, Ross campaigned for Leslie Morris in the federal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Manitoba General Election
The 1959 Manitoba general election was held on May 14, 1959 to elect 57 members to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a majority victory for the incumbent Progressive Conservatives under the leadership of Premier Dufferin Roblin. It was the first time since the 1914 election that the Tories won an outright majority in the province. Roblin's Tories won 36 seats against 11 for the Liberal-Progressives, led by former Premier Douglas Campbell, and 10 for the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Lloyd Stinson. The Tories took 25 percent more votes than it had received in the previous election just one year beforenbut took 40 percent more seats than it had won in 1958. They had won 117,822 votes in 1958, compared to 147,000 in 1959. The Manitoba Social Credit Party, which won 2 seats in the 1958 election, did not contest any seats during the election and regained a foothold in the legislature only during a subsequent by-election. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
