Gladstone (electoral district)

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Gladstone is a former provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created in 1879 in what was then the province's western tip, with the expansion of the province's western boundary, and eliminated by redistribution in 1881. It was re-established in 1903 (primarily from the old riding of Westbourne), and was not abolished again until 1999. When it was eliminated, its territory was distributed into the ridings of Carman and Turtle Mountain. The riding was named after British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

The Gladstone riding was primarily rural, and its MLAs, regardless of party affiliation, were generally regarded as representatives of the farming community. It was dominated by the Manitoba Liberal Party until that party lost most of its rural base in 1969; after this, it was effectively safe for the Progressive Conservative Party.

MLA William Morton was re-elected without opposition in every provincial election from 1941 to 1953.

[edit] List of provincial representatives

Name	Party	Took Office	Left Office
Corydon Brown	Governing Coalition/Liberal	1879	1883
David Wilson	Cons	1903	1907
James Armstrong	Lib	1907	1922
Albert McGregor	Prog	1922	1927
William Morton	Prog	1927	1932
	Lib-Prog	1932	1958
Nelson Shoemaker	Lib-Prog	1958	1961
	Lib	1961	1969
James Ferguson	PC	1969	1981
Charlotte Oleson	PC	1981	1990
Denis Rocan	PC	1990	1999