David Campbell (Manitoba politician)

For other people with the same name, see David Campbell (disambiguation).

David Campbell (1870 – 25 August 1932^[1]) was a Manitoba politician. When the provincial Liberals merged with John Bracken's Progressives in 1932, Campbell led a group of dissident, anti-merger Liberals into the subsequent election.^[2]

The group was known as the "Continuing Liberals", and ran candidates in 13 seats. Some within the new "Liberal-Progressive" alliance claimed that this new Liberal party was receiving financial support from the province's Conservatives, as a means of dividing the Liberal vote.

Shortly before election day, the party claimed they would hold the balance of power in the next parliament. This prediction proved incorrect; they failed to win any seats, and Campbell finished a poor fourth in St. Boniface (despite being the city's mayor at the time). The "Continuing Liberals" ceased to exist after the election, and the "Liberal-Progressives" remained in government until 1958.

References

↑ David Campbell (1870-1932)
↑ Ottawa Citizen , 14 Jun 1932

Leaders of the Manitoba Liberal Party

Greenway Mickle Brown Mickle Norris Robson Breakey Mackay D. Campbell Bracken Garson D. L. Campbell Molgat Bend Asper Huband Lauchlan Carstairs Edwards Hasselfield Gerrard Bokhari

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