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1927 Manitoba general election

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{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1927 Manitoba general election

| country = Manitoba

| flag_year = 1953

| flag_image = Flag of Manitoba.svg

| type = parliamentary

| previous_election = 1922 Manitoba general election

| previous_year = 1922

| next_election = 1932 Manitoba general election

| next_year = 1932

| election_date = June 28, 1927

| seats_for_election = 55 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

| majority_seats = 27

| image_upright =

| image1 = John Bracken circa 1941.jpg

| image1_size = x150px

| colour1 = {{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|nohash}}

| leader1 = {{nowrap|John Bracken}}

| leader_since1 = {{nowrap|August 8, 1922}}

| party1 = {{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|name}}

| leaders_seat1 = {{nowrap|The Pas}}

| last_election1 = 28

| seats1 = 29

| seat_change1 = {{increase}}1

| popular_vote1 = 52,805

| percentage1 = 32.4%

| swing1 = {{decrease}}0.4pp

| image2 =

| colour2 = {{Canadian party colour|MB|PC|nohash}}

| leader2 = {{nowrap|Fawcett Taylor}}

| leader_since2 = {{nowrap|April, 1922}}

| party2 = Conservative

| leaders_seat2 = {{nowrap|Portage la Prairie}}

| last_election2 = 7

| seats2 = 15

| seat_change2 = {{increase}}8

| popular_vote2 = 44,320

| percentage2 = 27.2%

| swing2 = {{increase}}11.7pp

| image4 = Hugh Amos Robson - 1916.jpg

| image4_size = x150px

| colour4 = {{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|nohash}}

| leader4 = {{nowrap|Hugh Robson}}

| leader_since4 = {{nowrap|1927}}

| party4 = {{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|name}}

| leaders_seat4 = {{nowrap|Winnipeg}}

| last_election4 = 8

| seats4 = 7

| seat_change4 = {{decrease}}1

| popular_vote4 = 33,852

| percentage4 = 20.7%

| swing4 = {{decrease}}2.5pp

| image5 =

| colour5 = {{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF|nohash}}

| leader5 = {{nowrap|John Queen}}

| leader_since5 = {{nowrap|1923}}

| party5 = Independent Labour

| leaders_seat5 = {{nowrap|Winnipeg}}

| last_election5 = 6

| seats5 = 3

| seat_change5 = {{decrease}}3

| popular_vote5 = 17,133

| percentage5 = 10.5%

| swing5 = {{decrease}}0.6pp

| map_image =

| map_size =

| map_alt =

| map =

| map_caption =

| title = Premier

| before_election = John Bracken

| before_party = {{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|name}}

| posttitle = Premier after election

| after_election = John Bracken

| after_party = {{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|name}}

| ongoing =

}}

The 1927 Manitoba general election was held on 28 June 1927 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. The result was a second consecutive victory for Manitoba farmers, following its 1922 win.

This was the first election in Manitoba history to elect MLAs through casting of ranked ballots in all districts. Ten MLAs were elected in Winnipeg through Single transferable vote, as they had done since 1920. The other districts now began to elect MLAs through Instant-runoff voting.

The Progressive Party of Manitoba, led by Premier John Bracken, won a second consecutive majority government in 1927. Progressive candidates won twenty-nine seats out of fifty-five to win their second majority government. During the campaign, the Progressives stressed that they were not a party in the traditional sense and promised "A business (not a party) government". Many Progressive candidates simply described themselves as Bracken supporters. The Progressive Party was supported by the powerful United Farmers of Manitoba organization.

The Conservatives won fifteen seats under the leadership of Fawcett Taylor, an improvement from seven in the election of 1922. This election re-established the Conservatives as the leading opposition party in Manitoba, and made the party a credible challenger for government in the next election.

The Manitoba Liberal Party was unable to regain the support it had lost to the Progressive Party in the previous election. The Liberals won seven seats under the new leadership of Hugh Robson, down one from their 1922 total. After the election, many senior Liberals began to work for an electoral alliance with the Progressives. Robson, who opposed this plan, was persuaded to resign as leader in 1930. The alliance was formalized in 1932.

The Independent Labour Party fell to three seats, down from six in the previous election. All three members, including party leader John Queen, were elected in the city of Winnipeg. Candidates of four separate parties - Liberal, Conservative, ILP and Progressive - plus an Independent - were elected to fill that city's ten seats. Winnipeg seats were filled using a form of proportional representation, Single transferable voting.

Jacob Penner ran in Winnipeg as a Communist candidate, but was not successful. He lasted 19 rounds of transfers but picked up very few votes so was eliminated.

Independent candidate John Edmison was re-elected in Brandon.

The proportion of the vote received by the Progressive Party (based on first-preference votes) was enough to assure a functioning government, but it was one of lowest in Canadian history.{{cite book |editor-last= Madden|editor-first= Wayne D.|author-link= |date= 1998|title= Canadian Guide of Leadership and Electoral History - Analytical Supplement|url= https://parl-gc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CALP_INST/iqbkma/alma9922078602616|location= Fort McMurray|publisher= W.D. Madden|isbn=}}

The Legislature experienced a significant turnover of members, with 23 seats electing new MLAs. Twelve incumbents (one in Winnipeg, and 11 more in other ridings) went down in defeat, six failed to be renominated, and five chose not to stand for reelection.{{cite news |author= |date= July 4, 1927|title= 18th Legislature Will Have Many New Faces|url= https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm:1645904|work= |location= The Winnipeg Tribune|pages=1-2}}

Under the instant-runoff voting used to elect 45 MLAs, the leader in the first count of the district's votes was the one elected in all but three districts,so the final results in the districts outside Winnipeg were almost the same as under First-past-the-post voting .

Of the 45 single-member ridings, two MLAs were returned by acclamation. Twenty-one were decided solely on first-preference votes, with no vote transfers conducted. The remainder (22) went to runoff counts. There were only three "turn-overs" where the first count leader did not win due to vote transfers - in Minnedosa, Morden & Rhineland and Springfield. The Progressive candidate was leading on the first count in all three districts but after vote transfers, Conservatives won two of them and Liberals won one.

Seventeen seats in the single-member districts went to parties different from the previous election. Eleven rural incumbents running for re-election under their old party label were defeated. Three other incumbents changed their party label and were re-elected. Three open seats flipped to another party.

Results

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"

|+Manitoba general election (June 29, 1927){{cite web |url= https://www.electionsmanitoba.ca/downloads/HistoricalResultsSummaries/1927.pdf|title= Eighteenth General Election Held June 28, 1927 - Summary of Results|author= |date= |website= electionsmanitoba.ca|publisher= Elections Manitoba|access-date= January 25, 2023}} - valid for first-preference totals by riding

rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Party

! rowspan="2"|Leader

! colspan="2"|First-preference votes

! colspan="4"|Seats

style="text-align:right; background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center"

! Votes

! % {{abbr|FPv|First-preference votes}}

! {{abbr|Cand.|Total candidates standing for each party}}

! 1922

! Elected

! Change

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|row-name}}includes Robert Curran, who campaigned as a Liberal-Progressive

| style="text-align:left;"|John Bracken

|52,423

|32.12

|44

|28

|26

|2{{decrease}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;"|Fawcett Taylor

|44,320

|27.15

|40

|7

|15

|8{{increase}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;"|Hugh Robson

|33,852

|20.74

|40

|8

|7

|1{{decrease}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF|row}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Independent Labourafter consolidation in the labour movement

| style="text-align:left;"|John Queen

|15,987

|9.80

|10

|6

|3

|3{{decrease}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;"|

|8,495

|5.20

|12

|4

|1

|3{{decrease}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent-Moderationist|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;"|

|3,200

|1.96

|2

|1

|–

|1{{decrease}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Communist|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;"|

|2,015

|1.23

|1

|–

|–

|–

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|row}}

| style="text-align:left;"|Independent-Progressive

| style="text-align:left;"|

|1,618

|0.99

|3

|–

|2

|2{{increase}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Farmer|row}}

| style="text-align:left;"|Independent-Farmer

| style="text-align:left;"|

|1,302

|0.80

|1

|1

|1

|{{no change}}

colspan=3 style="text-align:left;"| Valid

| 163,212

| 100.00

| 153

| 55

| 55

| –

colspan=3 style="text-align:left;"| Rejected

| n/a

| colspan=5 |

colspan=3 style="text-align:left;"| Total votes cast

| 163,212

| colspan=5 |

colspan=3 style="text-align:left;"| Registered voters/Turnoutnumber is for contested ridings only

| 233,453

| 69.9

| colspan=4 |

{{reflist|group=a}}{{Bar box|title=Popular vote|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars={{Bar percent|Progressive|{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive}}|32.12}}

{{Bar percent|Conservative|{{Canadian party colour|MB|PC}}|27.15}}

{{Bar percent|Liberal|{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal}}|20.74}}

{{Bar percent|Independent Labour|{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF}}|9.80}}

{{Bar percent|Others|{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent}}|10.18}}}}{{Bar box|title=Seats summary|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars={{Bar percent|Progressive|{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive}}|50.91}}

{{Bar percent|Conservative|{{Canadian party colour|MB|PC}}|27.27}}

{{Bar percent|Liberal|{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal}}|12.73}}

{{Bar percent|Independent Labour|{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF}}|5.45}}

{{Bar percent|Others|{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent}}|3.64}}}}

=Results by riding=

Bold names indicate members returned by acclamation. Incumbents are marked with *.

{{col-begin}}{{col-break}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Arthur: Duncan Lloyd McLeod*}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Assiniboia: Joseph Cotter}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Beautiful Plains: Adalbert Poole}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Birtle: John Pratt}}

{{legend|#DCDCDC|Brandon: John H. Edmison}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Carillon: Albert Prefontaine*}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Cypress: William H. Spinks*}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Dauphin: Robert Ferguson}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Deloraine: Hugh McKenzie}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Dufferin: John Munn}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Emerson: Robert Curran ({{abbr|Lib-Prog|Liberal-Progressive}})}}

{{legend|#B9E5B9|Ethelbert: Nicholas Hryhorczuk* ({{abbr|Ind-Frm|Independent-Farmer}})}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Fairford: Stuart Garson}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Fisher: Nicholas Bachynsky*}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Gilbert Plains: Arthur Berry*}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Gimli: Ingimar Ingaldson}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Gladstone: William Morton}}

{{legend|#EA6D6A|Glenwood: James Breakey*}}

{{col-break}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Hamiota: Thomas Wolstenholme*}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Iberville: Arthur R. Boivin* ({{abbr|Ind-Prog|Independent-Progressive}})}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Kildonan & St. Andrews: James McLenaghen}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Killarney: John Laughlin}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Lakeside: Douglas Campbell*}}

{{legend|#EA6D6A|Lansdowne: Tobias Norris*}}

{{legend|#66CC00|La Verendrye: Philippe Adjutor Talbot*}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Manitou: Joseph Lusignan}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Minnedosa: George Compton}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Morden & Rhineland: Hugh McGavin}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Morris: William Clubb*}}

{{legend|#EA6D6A|Mountain: Irving Cleghorn}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Norfolk: John Muirhead*}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Portage la Prairie: Fawcett Taylor*}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Roblin: Frederic Newton*}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Rockwood: William McKinnell*}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Rupertsland: Herbert Beresford ({{abbr|Ind-Prog|Independent-Progressive}})}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Russell: Isaac Griffiths*}}

{{col-break}}

{{legend|#9999FF|St. Boniface: Joseph Bernier}}

{{legend|#66CC00|St. Clements: Robert Hoey}}

{{legend|#EA6D6A|St. George: Skuli Sigfusson*}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Ste. Rose: Maurice Dane MacCarthy*}}

{{legend|#EA6D6A|Springfield: Murdoch Mackay}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Swan River: Andrew McCleary}}

{{legend|#66CC00|The Pas: John Bracken*}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Turtle Mountain: Richard G. Willis*}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Virden: Robert Mooney*}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Winnipeg: William Major}}

{{legend|#66CC00|Winnipeg: Edward Montgomery}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Winnipeg: William Sanford Evans*}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Winnipeg: John Thomas Haig*}}

{{legend|#9999FF|Winnipeg: William Tobias}}

{{legend|#EA6D6A|Winnipeg: Hugh Robson}}

{{legend|#EA6D6A|Winnipeg: Edith Rogers*}}

{{legend|#EEDDAA|Winnipeg: Seymour Farmer*}}

{{legend|#EEDDAA|Winnipeg: William Ivens*}}

{{legend|#EEDDAA|Winnipeg: John Queen*}}

{{col-end}}

=Seats changing hands=

In the single-member ridings, 17 seats changed allegiance:

{{col-begin}}{{col-break}}

; Progressive to Conservative

; Progressive to Liberal

; Progressive to Independent-Farmer

{{col-break}}

; Progressive to Independent-Progressive

; Liberal to Progressive

; Liberal to Conservative

{{col-break}}

; ILP to Conservative

; Independent to Progressive

; Independent to Conservative

; Independent-Farmer to Progressive

{{col-end}}

:(Italics indicate that incumbent changed allegiance)

In Winnipeg, the seat distribution was changed as follows:

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"

|+ Winnipeg - distribution of seats (1927 vs 1922)

colspan="2"| Party

! 1922

! 1927

! change

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|row-name}}

|1

|2

|1{{increase}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

|2

|3

|1{{increase}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

|2

|2

|{{no change}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF|background}}| 

|style="text-align:left;"|ILP

|4

|3

|1{{decrease}}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent-Moderationist|row-name}}

|1

|–

|1{{decrease}}

colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Total

|10

|10

=Turnovers on runoff=

In the single-member ridings, there were three cases where the first-place candidate on first-preference votes failed to win:

{{Election table|title=Minnedosa - Summary of results (1927)}}

|-

! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Party

! rowspan="2"|Candidate

! colspan="2"|First-preference votes

! colspan="3"|Maximum votes

|- style="text-align:right; background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center"

! Votes

! % {{abbr|FPv|First-preference votes}}

! Votes

! Round

! Initial vs transfer votes mix

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Norman W.P. Shuttleworth

| 1,405

| 41.89

| 1,581

| 2

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1581 | r1votes=1405 |fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |George Compton

| 1,377

| 41.06

| 1,595

| 2

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1595 | r1votes=1377 |fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Walter Cooper Richardson

| 572

| 17.05

| 572

| 1

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=572 | r1votes=572 | fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

|-

| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |Total

|3,354

|100.00

|colspan="3"|  

|-

| colspan="5" style="text-align:left;" |Exhausted votes

|178

|5.31%

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=178 | r1votes=0 | fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

|}

{{Election table|title=Morden & Rhineland - Summary of results (1927)}}

|-

! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Party

! rowspan="2"|Candidate

! colspan="2"|First-preference votes

! colspan="3"|Maximum votes

|- style="text-align:right; background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center"

! Votes

! % {{abbr|FPv|First-preference votes}}

! Votes

! Round

! Initial vs transfer votes mix

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |John Henry Black

| 1,075

| 41.20

| 1,132

| 2

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1132|r1votes=1075|fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Hugh McGavin

| 1,016

| 38.94

| 1,252

| 2

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1252 | r1votes=1016 |fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Peter Buerckert

| 518

| 19.85

| 518

| 1

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=518 | r1votes=572 | fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

|-

| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |Total

|2,609

|100.00

|colspan="3"|  

|-

| colspan="5" style="text-align:left;" |Exhausted votes

|225

|8.62%

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=225 | r1votes=0 | fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

|}

{{Election table|title=Springfield - Summary of results (1927)}}

|-

! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Party

! rowspan="2"|Candidate

! colspan="2"|First-preference votes

! colspan="3"|Maximum votes

|- style="text-align:right; background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center"

! Votes

! % {{abbr|FPv|First-preference votes}}

! Votes

! Round

! Initial vs transfer votes mix

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Clifford Barclay

| 1,459

| 43.70

| 1,489

| 2

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1489 | r1votes=1459 |fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Murdoch Mackay

| 1,389

| 41.60

| 1,507

| 2

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1507 | r1votes=1389 |fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Theo Stefanik

| 491

| 14.70

| 491

| 1

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=491 | r1votes=491 | fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

|-

| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |Total

|3,339

|100.00

|colspan="3"|  

|-

| colspan="5" style="text-align:left;" |Exhausted votes

|343

|10.27%

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=343 | r1votes=0 | fullwidthvotes=2000 }}

|}

=First-preference votes by riding=

:{{Color box|lightgreen|border=silver}} = won on first-preference votes, by receiving majority of valid votes in the first count.

The candidate in the winning position in the first count won in the end in every district, except in the Minnedosa, Morden and Springfield districts, where the winner is indicated with vote tally in bold.

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
rowspan="2"|Riding

!Prog

!Con

!Lib

!ILP

!Ind

!Ind-Frm

!Ind-Mod

!Ind-Prog

!Comm

!rowspan="2"|Total

style="background:{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive}} |

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative}} |

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal}} |

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF}} |

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent}} |

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|MB|Farmer}} |

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent}} |

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive}} |

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|MB|Communist}} |

colspan="11"|Rural single-member ridings
style="text-align:left;"|Arthur

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,226

9022,128
style="text-align:left;"|Assiniboia

|471

1,3805201,3205664,257
style="text-align:left;"|Beautiful Plains

|1,360

9655112,836
style="text-align:left;"|Birtle

|1,134

6357422,511
style="text-align:left;"|Brandon City

|489

1,288style="background-color:lightgreen;"|3,5265,303
style="text-align:left;"|Carillon

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,604

4582,062
style="text-align:left;"|Cypress

|1,091

1,2353112,637
style="text-align:left;"|Dauphin

|920

1,0226472,589
style="text-align:left;"|Deloraine

|1,174

1,0143692,557
style="text-align:left;"|Dufferin

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,790

1,0473073,144
style="text-align:left;"|Emersonmultiple Independent candidates

|795

3136528142,574
style="text-align:left;"|Ethelbert

|

917style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,3022,219
style="text-align:left;"|Fairford

|437

2963581,091
style="text-align:left;"|Fisher

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|754

310179121,255
style="text-align:left;"|Gilbert Plains

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,021

5923151,928
style="text-align:left;"|Gimli

|1,026

1988018462,871
style="text-align:left;"|Gladstone

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,311

6241,935
style="text-align:left;"|Glenwood

|721

5441,0722,337
style="text-align:left;"|Hamiota

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,086

5204622,068
style="background-color:#FFFF99;"

|style="text-align:left;"|Iberville

|colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" |Acclaimed

style="text-align:left;"|Kildonan and St. Andrews

|1,134

1,3871,1593,680
style="text-align:left;"|Killarney

|934

style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,1892,123
style="text-align:left;"|Lakeside

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,442

1,2742,716
style="text-align:left;"|Lansdowne

|

550style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,9472,497
style="text-align:left;"|La Verendrye

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,074

4405812,095
style="text-align:left;"|Manitou

|1,097

1,3305412,968
style="text-align:left;"|Minnedosa

|1,405

1,3775723,354
style="text-align:left;"|Morden and Rhineland

|1,075

1,0165182,609
style="text-align:left;"|Morris

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,663

2851,948
style="text-align:left;"|Mountain

|1,494

style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,5783,072
style="text-align:left;"|Norfolk

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,341

1,3072,648
style="text-align:left;"|Portage la Prairie

|

style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,5807952,375
style="text-align:left;"|Roblin

|734

style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,0572702,061
style="text-align:left;"|Rockwood

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,486

719474662,745
style="text-align:left;"|Rupertsland

|

81145216442
style="text-align:left;"|Russell

|1,227

9369032543,320
style="text-align:left;"|St. Boniface

|1,188

1,9901,7901,4696,437
style="text-align:left;"|St. Clements

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|2,146

4401,4364,022
style="text-align:left;"|St. George

|524

4668141,804
style="text-align:left;"|Ste. Rose

|1,055

8313582,244
style="text-align:left;"|Springfield

|1,459

4911,3893,339
style="text-align:left;"|Swan River

|1,213

7975462,556
style="text-align:left;"|The Pas

|style="background-color:lightgreen;"|582

4541,036
style="text-align:left;"|Turtle Mountain

|946

1,1672,113
style="background-color:#FFFF99;"

|style="text-align:left;"|Virden

|colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" |Acclaimed

colspan="11"|Winnipeg (multi-member riding)
style="text-align:left;"|Winnipeg

|8,794

13,36211,02911,4703,2008362,01550,706
colspan="16"|Provincewide
style="text-align:left;"|Total

|52,423

44,32033,85215,9878,4951,3023,2001,6182,015163,212

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=Winnipeg=

Eligible voters 67,124 Valid votes 50,706 Turnout: 76%

10 seats. Quota: 4,610

Elected: 2 Progressive Party, 3 Conservatives, 2 Liberals, 3 ILP (listed in same order as in above table)

Rogers and Ivens passed quota in Round 21. Their surpluses were not transferred as they could not possibly have bridged the gap between the least-popular remaining candidate and the other two remaining contenders. With their election, there were only three remaining candidates and two remaining open seats.

Downes was then declared defeated - his votes were not transferred as Tobias and Montgomery were the only ones still standing and there were two seats left to be filled

Tobias and Montgomery were elected with partial quota, as the field of candidates had been thinned to the number of remaining open seats.Winnipeg Tribune, June 30, 1927

{{Election table|title=Winnipeg - Summary of results (1927){{cite news |author= |date= July 2, 1927|title= As Winnipeg Votes Were Counted|url= https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1646356|work=The Winnipeg Tribune|page=2}}}}

|-

! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Label

! rowspan="2"|Candidate

! colspan="2"|First-preference votes

! colspan="3"|Maximum votes

|- style="text-align:right; background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center"

! Votes

! % {{abbr|FPv|First-preference votes}}

! Votes

! Round

! Initial vs transfer votes mix

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |John Thomas Haig*

| 5,108

| 10.07

| 5,108

| 1

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=5108 | r1votes=5108 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Hugh Robson

| 4,862

| 9.59

| 4,862

| 1

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=4862 | r1votes=4862 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |William Sanford Evans*

| 4,551

| 8.98

| 4,800

| 3

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=4800 | r1votes=4551 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF|row}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Independent Labour Party

| style="text-align:left;" |John Queen*

| 3,985

| 7.86

| 4,631

| 9

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=4631 | r1votes=3985 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive Party|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |William Major

| 3,713

| 7.32

| 5,142

| 14

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=5142 | r1votes=3713 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF|row}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Independent Labour Party

| style="text-align:left;" |Seymour Farmer*

| 3,497

| 6.90

| 5,376

| 13

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=5376 | r1votes=3497 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive Party|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Edward Montgomery

| 2,236

| 4.41

| 3,960

| 22

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=3960 | r1votes=2236 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent-Moderationist|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |John K. Downes*

| 2,047

| 4.04

| 3,411

| 21

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=3411 | r1votes=2047 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Communist Party|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Jacob Penner

| 2,015

| 3.97

| 2,229

| 19

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=2229 | r1votes=2015 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |William Tobias

| 1,687

| 3.33

| 4,114

| 22

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=4114 | r1votes=1687 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive Party|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Royal Burritt

| 1,604

| 3.16

| 1,791

| 16

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1791 | r1votes=1604 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Edith Rogers*

| 1,582

| 3.12

| 4,764

| 21

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=4764 | r1votes=1582 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF|row}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Independent Labour Party

| style="text-align:left;" |William Ivens*

| 1,435

| 2.83

| 4,700

| 21

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=4700 | r1votes=1435 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |W.J. Lindal

| 1,362

| 2.69

| 1,669

| 13

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1669 | r1votes=1362 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Duncan Cameron

| 1,271

| 2.51

| 2,173

| 18

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=2173 | r1votes=1271 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Progressive Party|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Max Steinkopf

| 1,241

| 2.45

| 1,291

| 10

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1291 | r1votes=1241 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Ralph Maybank

| 1,191

| 2.35

| 1,410

| 11

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1410 | r1votes=1191 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent-Moderationist|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Arthur Moore

| 1,153

| 2.27

| 1,218

| 9

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1218 | r1votes=1153 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Theodore A. Hunt

| 1,075

| 2.12

| 2,408

| 20

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=2408 | r1votes=1075 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF|row}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Independent Labour Party

| style="text-align:left;" |Sam Cartwright

| 999

| 1.97

| 1,049

| 7

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1049 | r1votes=999 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF|row}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Independent Labour Party

| style="text-align:left;" |R. Durward

| 993

| 1.96

| 1,691

| 14

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1691 | r1votes=993 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Conservative|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |R.A. Gillespie

| 941

| 1.86

| 1,116

| 8

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=1116 | r1votes=941 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Independent-Progressive Party|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |F. Sedziak

| 836

| 1.65

| 842

| 6

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=842 | r1votes=836 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|Liberal|row-name}}

| style="text-align:left;" |J. MacLean

| 761

| 1.50

| 792

| 5

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=792 | r1votes=762 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

{{Canadian party colour|MB|CCF|row}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Independent Labour Party

| style="text-align:left;" |W.A. James

| 561

| 1.11

| 562

| 4

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=562 | r1votes=561 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

|-

| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |Total

|50,706

|100.00

|colspan="3"|  

|-

| colspan="5" style="text-align:left;" |Exhausted votes

|5,508

|10.86%

| style="text-align:left;" |{{Election box ranked choice bar | maxvotes=5508 | r1votes=0 | fullwidthvotes=6000 }}

|}

Transfers of surplus votes belonging to elected Conservatives Haig and Evans went in large numbers to Tobias, helping him take a seat although he was not in top ten in the first count.

Communist candidate Penner's vote tally was not large enough for him to win a seat and he received few vote transfers, but many of his votes were transferred to help elect Ivens, the last ILP member to be elected.

The Independent-Moderationist candidate Downes received some vote transfers from supporters of candidates running under other labels, but not enough to maintain a lead over party candidates (Rogers and Ivens) who although initially lower ranking compared to Downes, received many vote transfers from elected or eliminated candidates of the same party.

In each party the most popular candidates maintained their position visa vis other candidates of the same party all the way through. The question was how many quota each party had at the start (taking all the party candidates together) and how many they would pick up from cross-party transfers - this set up how many seats each party would take. The seats were filled by the candidates in popularity order set by the voters. Party lists, if they had been used as in Party-list proportional representation, might have dictated that different persons would have filled the seats that were indirectly allocated to each party than were the choice of voters in this election.

Sources

The first ballot results for Winnipeg and results for all other constituencies are taken from an official Manitoba government publication entitled "Manitoba elections, 1920–1941", cross-referenced with the 1928 Canadian Parliamentary Guide, and an appendix to the Manitoba government's report of the 2003 provincial election.

All ballot results for Winnipeg after the first count are taken from reports in the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper. It is possible that some errors appeared in the original publication.

Post-election changes

Birtle (John Pratt leaves the government side, early in the parliament).

Lansdowne (res. Tobias Norris, 1928), 10 November 1928:

Morris (William Clubb to new cabinet post, 18 May 1929), 30 May 1929:

Turtle Mountain (dec. Richard G. Willis, February 1929), 22 June 1929:

Winnipeg (res. Hugh Robson, January 1930)

Mountain (dec. Irving Cleghorn, 1930), 20 January 1930:

The Liberals formed an alliance with the governing Progressives in 1932.

Brandon City (dec. John H. Edmison, 22 March 1932)

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Hopkins |editor1-first=J. Castell |title=The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1926–27 |date=1927 |publisher=The Annual Review Company |location=Toronto |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_x4e0}}

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