Lansdowne (electoral district)

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Lansdowne is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was created for the 1888 provincial election, and eliminated with the 1958 election.

Lansdowne was a rural constituency in the province's southwestern corner. For almost its entire history, it was considered safe for the Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal-Progressive Party. Only two non-Liberals were ever elected for the division, and both were defeated after a single term. Tobias C. Norris, who served as Premier of Manitoba from 1915 to 1922, represented Lansdowne in the provincial legislature for twenty-one years.

After its elimination, parts of Lansdowne were included in the new constituency of Souris-Lansdowne.

[edit] Provincial representatives

	Name	Party	Took Office	Left Office
	Edward Dickson	Liberal	1888	1896
	Tobias C. Norris	Liberal	1896	1903
	Harvey Hicks	Conservative	1903	1907
	Tobias C. Norris	Liberal	1907	1928
	Donald McKenzie	Liberal-Progressive	1928	1936
	Matthew R. Sutherland	Liberal-Progressive	1936	1949
	Thomas Seens	Progressive Conservative (Coalition)	1949	1950
		Progressive Conservative	1950	1953
	Matthew R. Sutherland	Liberal-Progressive	1953	1958

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