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Winnipeg South was a provincial electoral division 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

Winnipeg South A

Winnipeg South B

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)

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.

1953 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Elected
	Liberal–Progressive	Ronald Turner	8,007	27.49	+7.47	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Dufferin Roblin	6,045	20.75	+8.28	Y
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lloyd Stinson	4,934	16.94	-6.05	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Gurney Evans	4,221	14.49		Y
	Progressive Conservative	Jane Dagg McGovern "Maude" McCreery	1,820	6.25
	Liberal–Progressive	George Peterkin MacLeod	1,806	6.20
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Abraham Montague "Monty" Israels	1,117	3.83
	Social Credit	Doreen Benjamin	612	2.10	–
	Social Credit	Jemina Webster	566	1.94	–
Total valid votes			29,128	98.92	–
Rejected			319	1.08	+0.52
Turnout			29,447	52.52	+0.87
Eligible voters			56,065
Source(s) Source: Sayers, A.M. (2017). "1953 Manitoba Election". Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved June 12, 2024.

References

• Former provincial electoral districts of Manitoba