Paul Bardal (November 5, 1889 in
Winnipeg
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,
Manitoba
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– February 6, 1966) was a politician in Manitoba,
Canada
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. He served in the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
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as a
Liberal-Progressive
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MLA from 1941 to 1945, and again from 1949 to 1953.
Bardal was born to Paul Bardal and Dora Bjornson,
Iceland
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ic immigrants living in Winnipeg, and was educated in the city. He became the director of A.S. Bardal, Funeral Directors, and was an
alderman
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in the City of Winnipeg from 1931 to 1941. He married Oddny Bergson in 1926.
Bardal was also a member of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and a director of the
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
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.
He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the
1936 provincial election, in the constituency of
Winnipeg
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(which elected ten members by a
single transferable ballot
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). He finished sixteenth out of twenty-one candidates on the first ballot, and was eliminated on the seventh count.
He ran again in the
1941 election, and this time finished twelfth out of twenty-seven candidates on the first count. He did well on transfers, and was elected
to the eighth seat in the city. From 1941 to 1945, he was a backbench supporter of the ministries of
John Bracken
John Bracken (June 22, 1883 – March 18, 1969) was a Canadian agronomist and politician who was the 11th and longest-serving premier of Manitoba (1922–1943) and later the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–19 ...
and
Stuart Garson
Stuart Sinclair Garson (December 1, 1898 – May 5, 1977) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He served as the 12th premier of Manitoba from 1943 to 1948, and later became a Federal cabinet minister.
Life and career
Born in St. Catharine ...
.
The
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
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polled well in Winnipeg in the
1945 provincial election, and helped to push Bardal to fifteenth place out of twenty candidates on the first ballot. He was eliminated
on the eleventh count.
Winnipeg's electoral map was redrawn prior to the
1949 provincial election, and the city's single ten-member constituency was replaced with three four-member constituencies. Bardal sought a return to the legislature in
Winnipeg Centre
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History
This riding was originally created in 1914 f ...
. Although he finished fifth out of nine candidates on the first ballot, he did well enough to transfers to defeat
Progressive Conservative candidate
Hank Scott
Henry Baird Scott (December 21, 1898 – September 21, 1972) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1953 to 1958, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Scott was born in Wi ...
for the final seat, by a margin of only 200 votes. For the next four years, he served as a backbench supporter to
Douglas Campbell's government.
In March 1953, the Liberal-Progressive Party announced that it would nominate three candidates in Winnipeg Centre. Bardal declared himself a candidate, but could not attend the nomination meeting due to an illness. He was defeated by three other candidates, and left the legislature after serving out the remainder of his term.
His brother
Sigurgeir was a prominent physician in Manitoba.
References
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1889 births
1966 deaths
Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs
Politicians from Winnipeg
Canadian people of Icelandic descent
Canadian funeral directors