Portage la Prairie (electoral district)

For the current provincial electoral district, see Portage La Prairie (provincial electoral district).

Portage la Prairie was a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1949.

This riding was created in 1903 from parts of Macdonald riding.

It was abolished in 1947 when it was redistributed into Norquay, Portage—Neepawa and Selkirk ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

1. John Crawford, Liberal (1904–1908)
2. Arthur Meighen, Conservative (1908–1921)
3. Harry Leader, Progressive (1921–1925)
4. Arthur Meighen, Conservative (1925–1926)
5. Ewen Alexander McPherson, Liberal (1926–1930)
6. William Herbert Burns, Conservative (1930–1935)
7. Harry Leader, Liberal (1935–1946)
8. Calvert Charlton Miller, Progressive Conservative (1946–1949)

Election results

Canadian federal election, 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	CRAWFORD, John	3,048
	Conservative	BOYD, Nathaniel	2,663

Canadian federal election, 1908
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	MEIGHEN, Arthur	3,144
	Liberal	CRAWFORD, John	2,894

Canadian federal election, 1911
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	MEIGHEN, Arthur	3,267
	Liberal	PATERSON, Robert	2,592

By-election: On Mr. Meighen being appointed Solicitor General, 26 June 1913

By-election on 19 July 1913
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	MEIGHEN, Hon. Arthur	acclaimed

Canadian federal election, 1917
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Government	MEIGHEN, Hon. Arthur	4,611
	Opposition	SHIRTLIFF, Frederick	976

Canadian federal election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	LEADER, Harry	4,314
	Conservative	MEIGHEN, Right Hon. Arthur	4,137
	Independent	BANNERMAN, Alexander Melville	139

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	MEIGHEN, Rt. Hon. Arthur	5,817
	Progressive	LEADER, Harry	4,966

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	MCPHERSON, Ewen Alexander	6,394
	Conservative	MEIGHEN, Right Hon. Arthur	5,966

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	BURNS, William Herbert	6,372
	Liberal	MCPHERSON, Ewen Alexander	6,230

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	LEADER, Harry	5,516
	Conservative	BURNS, William Herbert	4,043
	Reconstruction	METCALFE, Wilfred	1,375

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	LEADER, Harry	7,442
	National Government	JONES, George Herbert	4,835

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	LEADER, Harry	5,457
	Progressive Conservative	MCCALLISTER, Allen	3,592
	Co-operative Commonwealth	OGLETREE, Charles Francis	2,306
	Social Credit	BAILEY, Charles Eric	857

By-election: On Mr. Leader's death, 9 May 1946

By-election on 21 October 1946
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	MILLER, Calvert Charlton	4,805
	Unknown	WOOD, Jaffray Smith	4,137
	Unknown	COULTHARD, Sidney	2,821

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history for Portage la Prairie (1903–1947) from the Library of Parliament