Winnipeg South was a provincial electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, which existed on two separate occasions.
It was initially created for the 1883 provincial election, and abolished with the 1920 election and merged with Winnipeg Centre and Winnipeg North into a single ten-member constituency known as Winnipeg. It was re-established out of Winnipeg for the elections of 1949 and 1953 as a four-member constituency, and was divided into the ridings of River Heights, Fort Rouge, Osborne, Wolseley, and Winnipeg Centre in 1958.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Original constituency The original Winnipeg South constituency was created for the 1883 election, when the Winnipeg constituency was divided into two sections: Winnipeg North and Winnipeg South. It was created a single-member constituency, and remained this way until the 1914 election when it returned two members. From 1914 to 1920, electors were allowed to cast ballots for two seats, which were called "Winnipeg South A" and "Winnipeg South B".
Winnipeg South covered the most affluent and middle-class areas of Winnipeg, and usually supported the winning party in provincial elections. Premier Hugh John Macdonald represented the constituency from 1899 to 1900.
Winnipeg South This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: NamePartyTook officeLeft officeAlbert Killam Liberal 1883 1885 Charles Hamilton Conservative 1885 1886 William Luxton Liberal 1886 1888 Isaac Campbell Liberal 1888 1891 John Cameron Liberal 1891 1899 Hugh John Macdonald Conservative 1899 1900 James Thomas Gordon Conservative 1900 1910 Lendrum McMeans Conservative 1910 1914
Winnipeg South A NamePartyTook officeLeft officeAlbert B. Hudson Liberal 1914 1920
Winnipeg South B NamePartyTook officeLeft officeWilliam L. Parrish Liberal 1914 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.
By this time, Winnipeg South had become well-established as the most conservative and middle-class section of Winnipeg. It was dominated by the Civic Election Committee at the municipal level, and regularly returned pro-business candidates at the provincial level. The division returned a total of five representatives, all of whom were prominent figures. Liberal-Progressives John Stewart McDiarmid and Ronald Turner served as cabinet ministers in the administration of Douglas Campbell. Dufferin Roblin became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1954 and Premier of Manitoba in 1958, and included Gurney Evans in his cabinet. Lloyd Stinson was Winnipeg South's sole representative from the left, winning election for the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in both 1949 and 1953. He was named as the Manitoba CCF's leader in 1953.
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 South (1949–1958) NamePartyTook officeLeft officeJohn Stewart McDiarmid 1949 1953 Ronald Turner 1949 1958 Lloyd Stinson CCF 1949 1958 Dufferin Roblin Independent Progressive Conservative 1949 1950 Progressive Conservative 1950 1958Gurney Evans Progressive Conservative 1953 1958
Election results
1883
1885 by-election
1886
1888
1892 by-election
1892
1896
1899
1900 by-election
1901 by-election
1903
1907
1910
1914
Winnipeg South A
Winnipeg South B
1915
Winnipeg South A
Winnipeg South B
1949
1953 The election in this district used single transferable vote. Shown here is the first round of voting only, as the official report only shows this round.
See also List of Manitoba provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts
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