The 1958 Manitoba general election was held on June 16, 1958 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of

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, Canada. The election resulted in a minority victory for the Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of

Dufferin Roblin Dufferin "Duff" Roblin, (June 17, 1917 – May 30, 2010) was a Canadian businessman and politician. He served as the 14th premier of Manitoba from 1958 to 1967. Roblin was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre ...

. This election was the first in Manitoba after a comprehensive electoral redistribution in 1956. The redistribution saw the city of

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abandon its three four-member districts. St. Boniface also was broken up into two single-member districts. The old Winnipeg, St. Boniface and two suburban districts were made into 20 single-member constituencies altogether, to give the City of Winnipeg increased representation in the legislature. Elections hereafter used FPTP. As well the other districts in the province had dropped the Alternative Voting system and simply used the plurality first past the post system from here on.

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Douglas Campbell's

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lost the majority they had held since

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. The Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of

won 26 seats, three short of a majority, while the Liberal-Progressives were reduced to second-place status with 19. The

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(CCF) held the balance of power with 11 seats, and independent Stephen Juba was also elected in Winnipeg. Both

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and the Labour Progressive Party lost their legislative representation. After the election, the Liberal-Progressives attempted to form a coalition with the CCF to remain in power. The CCF rejected this offer, instead giving

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to a PC government under Roblin and ending 36 years of Progressive and Liberal-Progressive led governments in Manitoba. Although the Progressive Conservatives had been part of a

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with the Liberal-Progressives from 1940 to 1950, this was the first time since 1915 that they had formed an administration on their own. This was the last time the Liberals formed government in Manitoba. This would begin a sharp decline for the Liberals, and a concurrent rise for the CCF. Roblin's government proved unstable, and was defeated in the legislature in early 1959. Manitobans returned to the polls shortly thereafter, and gave the Tories an outright majority while the Liberals were cut down to only 11 seats.

Results

Riding results

Party key: *PC:

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (french: Parti progressiste-conservateur du Manitoba) is a centre-right political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is currently the governing party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, after winnin ...

*LP: Liberal-Progressive Party of Manitoba *CCF:

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*SC:

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*LPP: Labour Progressive Party of Manitoba *Ind: Independent (x) denotes incumbent.

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: * John Gordon Cobb (PC) 2072 *John Wilfred McRae (LP) 2032 *Walter D. Taylor (SC) 693

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Donovan Swailes Donovan Swailes (August 12, 1892 – December 10, 1984) was a Canadian politician and musician in Manitoba. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a member of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation from 1945 to 1959. Swailes was bo ...

(CCF) 2409 * George William Johnson (PC) 2278 *David McKee Graham (LP) 1165 Birtle-Russell: *(x) Rodney Stewart Clement (LP) 2232 * Robert Gordon Smellie (PC) 2102 *Eugene Caldwell (CCF) 933

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: *(x) Reginald Otto Lissaman (PC) 4442 * Robert Addison Clement (LP) 2818 *Hans Fries (CCF) 780 Brokenhead: * Edward Richard Schreyer (CCF) 1474 *Fred H. Helwer (LP) 930 *Howard Wachal (PC) 729 *(x) Stanley Copp (Ind) 641 * John William Cross (SC) 203 Burrows: *(x) John Martin Hawryluk (CCF) 2032 *(x) William Arthur Kardash (LPP) 1207 *Joseph R. Hnidan (LP) 1084 *John Kereluk (PC) 1067

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: *(x) Edmond Prefontaine (LP) 2433 *Liguori Gauthier (PC) 1047 *Henry Mueller (Ind) 608

Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1 ...

: * Edward Joseph Williams (PC) 1580 *K. Don Wray (LP) 1283 *Frank Mercer (CCF) 370 Dauphin: * Stewart Edgertson McLean (PC) 2740 * John Potoski (LP) 1389 *A. Clifford Matthews (CCF) 1067 Dufferin: *(x) Walter Clifton McDonald (LP) 1822 * William Homer Hamilton (PC) 1749 *Ivan Langtry (SC) 545 Elmwood: * Steve Peters (CCF) 2375 *(x)

Alexander Turk Alexander Turk (March 5, 1906 – January 1, 1988) was a professional wrestling promoter and politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1953 to 1958. Born in Larne, Norther ...

(LP) 1519 *Joseph Stepnuk (PC) 1084 * Michael Baryluk (Ind C) 689 Emerson: *(x) John Peter Tanchak (LP) 2897 *Frank Caspar (PC) 1918 *Joseph Lambert (Ind) 200 Ethelbert Plains: *(x) Michael Nicholas Hryhorczuk (LP) 2308 * Peter Burtniak (CCF) 1327 *Isadore Syrnyk (PC) 835

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: * Peter Wagner (CCF) 1437 *(x) Nicholas Volodymir Bachynsky (LP) 1381 *John O. Olsen (PC) 1140

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Francis Lawrence Jobin Francis Lawrence "Bud" Jobin (August 14, 1914 – August 25, 1995) was a politician and the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, Canada. Jobin was born in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba. He moved to Flin Flon, i ...

(LP) 1935 * Charles Hubert Witney (PC) 1563 *J. Conrad W. Kerr (CCF) 637

Fort Garry Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1822 on or near the site of the North West Company's ...

: * Sterling Rufus Lyon (PC) 3731 *(x) Leslie Raymond Fennell (LP) 2408 *Nena Woodward (CCF) 1035 Fort Rouge: *(x) Edwrd Gurney Vaux Evans (PC) 3647 * James Edward Wilson (LP) 1862 * Ernest Richard Draffin (CCF) 1143 Gimli: * George Johnson (PC) 1988 *(x) Steinn Olafur Thompson (LP) 1374 *Sigurdur Wopnford (CCF) 954

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: * Nelson Shoemaker (LP) 2570 *Clayton Gault (PC) 1677 *Melvin Batters (CCF) 455 Hamiota: * Barry Peill Strickland (PC) 2261 *William T. Wherrett (LP) 1859 *Arthur Nicholson (CCF) 416 Inkster: *(x)

Morris Gray Morris Abraham Gray (May 16, 1889-January 22, 1966) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a member of the provincial legislature from 1941 to 1966, and was a prominent figure in the province's social-democratic Cooperative Commonweal ...

(CCF) 3083 *Peter Okrainec (PC) 1584 * Peter Stanley Taraska (LP) 1516 Kildonan: * Anthony John Reid (CCF) 2776 * John Ernest Willis (PC) 2665 * George Nordland Suttie (LP) 1808 Lac Du Bonnet: * Arthur A. Trapp (LP) 1526 *Glen A. Stewart (PC) 1350 *Harry Olensky (CCF) 569 *Lawrence P Schlamp (SC) 299 Lakeside: *(x) Douglas Campbell (LP) 2119 *John F. Bate (PC) 1582 La Verendrye: * Stanley Carl Roberts (LP) 1565 *Stan Bisson (PC) 1395 Logan: *(x) Stephen Juba (Ind) 2234 *

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(CCF) 1669 Minnedosa: *(x) Charles Lemington Shuttleworth (LP) 2117 *Sidney Paler (PC) 1983 *(x)Gilbert Alexander Hutton (SC) 634 *William A. Yuel (CCF) 443

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: *(x) Harold Proctor Shewman (PC) 1762 *Bruce McKenzie (LP) 1014 *August Recksiedler (SC) 370

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: *(x) Lloyd Cleworth Stinson (CCF) 3215 *John Howorth (PC) 2813 * Keith N. Routley (LP) 1654 Pembina: *(x) Maurice Evans Ridley (PC) 2683 *Kenneth C Hartwell (LP) 1510

Portage la Prairie Portage la Prairie () is a small city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. As of 2016, the population was 13,304 and the land area of the city was . Portage la Prairie is approximately west of Winnipeg, along the Trans-Canada Hig ...

: *(x) Charles Edwin Greenlay (LP) 1978 *Robert Ernest Burke (PC) 1528 *Albert R. Barrett (CCF) 541 Radisson: *(x) Andrew Russell Paulley (CCF) 3504 * Bernard Rodolph Wolfe (LP) 2334 *Harold Huppe (PC) 2116

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: *(x) William Conrad Miller (LP) 1687 *Oscar Martel (PC) 854 *Abe Enns (SC) 758 River Heights: * William Blakeman Scarth (PC) 3945 * William John McKeag (LP) 2884 *Andrew Moore (Ind) 803 Roblin: * Arnold Keith Alexander (PC) 1884 *(x) Raymond Mitchell (LP) 1686 *Monty A. Miller (CCF) 1031 Rock Lake: *(x) Abram William Harrison (PC) 2465 *

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(LP) 2227 Rockwood-Iberville: *(x) Robert William Bend (LP) 2450 * George Henry Wilson Huttonn (PC) 1731 *Samuel Cranston (CCF) 434 Rupertsland: * Joseph Ernest Jeannotte (PC) 2342 *(x) Francis Roy Brown (LP) 511 *Asta Oddson (Ind) 364 St. Boniface: *(x) Roger Joseph Teillet (LP) 3178 *Harry DeLeeuw (PC) 2616 *Ben Cyr (CCF) 1256

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: *(x) Elman Keisler Guttormson (LP) 2144 *Dan McFayden (PC) 970 *Douglas S. Stefanson (CCF) 593 *Mahlin J.G. Magunsson (Ind Con) 274 St. James: * Douglas Moncreiff Stanes (PC) 2646 *(x) Reginald Frederick Wightman (LP) 2170 *Alvin H. Mackling (CCF) 2136 St. Johns: *

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(CCF) 2495 *Stan Carrick (PC) 1295 * Jaroslaw Rebchuk (LP) 922 St. Matthews: * William George Martin (PC) 2848 * Gordon Richard Fines (CCF) 2026 * Anne Ethel Murphy (LP) 1854 *(x) Henry Baird Scott (IC) 260 * George Albert Frith (Ind) 149 St. Vital: * Frederick Groves (PC) 3616 *William R. Appleby (LP) 2331 *Leslie C. Foden (CCF) 1334 *Percy B. Hayward (Ind) 242 Ste. Rose: *(x) Gildas Laurent Molgat (LP) 2400 *Alvin Getz (PC) 1010 *Alphonse J. Bouchard (SC) 415 *Leon W. Hoefer (CCF) 354 Selkirk: *(x) Thomas Paterson Hillhouse (LP) 1850 *David B. Veitch (PC) 1493 *Frank Kuzemski (CCF) 591 *Fred L. Luining (SC) 173 Seven Oaks: * Arthur Edgar Wright (CCF) 3641 *Maurice Gutnik (PC) 1541 * Cecil Joseph Henry Lyon (LP) 1449 Souris-Lansdowne: * Malcolm Earl McKellar (PC) 2256 *David Lloyd Barclay (LP) 1549 *Alex Shiloff (CCF) 95

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: *(x) William Lucko (LP) 1351 *Oscar Russell (PC) 1269 *Ed Kanarowski (CCF) 875 *William G. Storsley (SC) 283 Swan River: * Albert Harold C. Corbett (PC) 1421 *Hilliard Farriss (CCF) 1316 *(x) Ronald Douglas Robertson (LP) 1083 *Aldric S. Helps (SC) 285

The Pas The Pas ( ; french: Le Pas) is a town in Manitoba, Canada, located at the confluence of the Pasquia River and the Saskatchewan River and surrounded by the unorganized Northern Region of the province. It is approximately northwest of the provinc ...

: * John Benson Carroll (PC) 2325 *William E. Cudmore (LP) 898 * Howard Russell Pawley (CCF) 801 Turtle Mountain: *(x)

Errick French Willis Errick French Willis (March 21, 1896 – January 9, 1967) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as leader of the province's Conservative Party between 1936 and 1954, and was responsible for beginning and ending the party's allia ...

(PC) 2949 * Edward Ingo Dow (LP) 1880 *Clarence A. Ferguson (SC) 316 Virden: *(x) John William McLeod Thompson (PC) 2935 *(x) Francis Campbell Bell (LP) 1662

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: * Richard Harry Seaborn (PC) 2532 *James R. McIsaac (CCF) 2385 *(x) Jack St. John (LP) 1958

Winnipeg Centre Winnipeg Centre (french: Winnipeg-Centre) is a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1925 and since 1997. History This riding was originally created in 1914 f ...

: * James Cowan (PC) 3462 * Paul W. Goodman (LP) 1623 * David Adrian Mulligan (CCF) 1141 Wolseley: *(x)

(PC) 3959 * John Gurzon Harvey (LP) 1739 *Allen Denton (CCF) 1202

References

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Results

Riding results

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