5th Manitoba Legislature
# 5th Manitoba Legislature

The members of the 5th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in January 1883. The legislature sat from May 17, 1883, to November 11, 1886.

Premier John Norquay formed a majority government. This is believed to be the first Manitoba provincial election where candidates ran for election purely on party lines.

Thomas Greenway was Leader of the Opposition.

Alexander Murray served as speaker for the assembly.

There were four sessions of the 5th Legislature:

| Session | Start | End |
| - | - | - |
| 1st | May 17, 1883 | July 7, 1883 |
| 2nd | March 13, 1884 | June 3, 1884 |
| 3rd | March 19, 1885 | May 2, 1885 |
| 4th | March 4, 1886 | May 28, 1886 |

James Cox Aikins was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.

## Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1883:

| Member | Electoral district | Party |
| - | - | - |
| Alexander Murray | Assiniboia | Conservative |
| Joseph Woodworth | Brandon | Conservative |
| Edward Leacock | Birtle | Conservative |
| Edward Fairbanks | Baie St. Paul | Conservative |
| Isaiah Mawhinney | Burnside | Conservative |
| Joseph Lecomte | Cartier | Conservative |
| John Andrew Davidson | Dauphin | Conservative |
| David H. Wilson | Dufferin North | Conservative |
| William Winram | Dufferin South | Liberal |
| Frederick Ernest Burnham | Emerson | Liberal |
| William Crawford | High Bluff and Poplar Point | Conservative |
| Alexander Sutherland | Kildonan and St. Paul | Conservative |
| Maxime Goulet | La Verendrye | Conservative |
| David Howard Harrison | Minnedosa | Conservative |
| Henry Tennant | Morris | Conservative |
| Thomas Greenway | Mountain | Liberal |
| Charles Hay | Norfolk | Liberal |
| Joseph Martin | Portage la Prairie | Liberal |
| Samuel Jacob Jackson | Rockwood | Liberal |
| James Andrews Miller | Rat Portage | Conservative |
| John Norquay | St. Andrews | Conservative |
| Alphonse Larivière | St. Boniface | Conservative |
| John Beresford Allan | St. Clements | Conservative |
| Edward Gigot | St. Francois Xavier | Conservative |
| Alexander Kittson | Ste. Agathe | Conservative |
| John Hedley Bell | Springfield | Liberal |
| Finlay Young | Turtle Mountain | Liberal |
| Corydon Partlow Brown | Westbourne | Conservative |
| Elias George Conklin | Winnipeg North | Liberal |
| Albert Clements Killam | Winnipeg South | Liberal |
| William Wagner | Woodlands | Conservative |

Notes:

* ↑ Election held September 21, 1883, because part of division was located in disputed territory; division dissolved in 1884 after Privy Council of Canada ruled against Manitoba's claim

## By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

| Electoral district | Member elected | Affiliation | Election date | Reason |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Portage la Prairie | Joseph Martin | Liberal | May 26, 1883 | J Martin unseated after election declared invalid |
| Ste. Agathe | Joseph Cyr | Conservative | June 15, 1883 | A Kittson died |
| Emerson | Charles Douglas | Conservative | June 23, 1883 | FE Burnham unseated after election declared invalid |
| La Verendrye | Louis Prud'homme | Conservative | January 15, 1884 | M Goulet unseated after election declared invalid |
| Kildonan and St. Paul | John MacBeth | Conservative | April 8, 1884 | A Sutherland died |
| Dufferin North | David H. Wilson | Conservative | May 13, 1884 | DH Wilson ran for reelection upon appointment as Provincial Secretary |
| Winnipeg South | Charles Edward Hamilton | Conservative | February 24, 1885 | AC Killam named to Supreme Court of Canada |
| La Verendrye | James Prendergast | Conservative | August 24, 1885 | L Prud'homme named a county court judge |

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