Manitou—Morden is a former provincial electoral division in
Manitoba
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, Canada. It was established for the
1949 provincial election by combining parts of
Manitou
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and
Morden-Rhineland, and eliminated by redistribution before the
1958 election. Manitou—Morden was located in the south of the province, and included the community of
Morden
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.
The constituency had two representatives in its nine-year history. The first was
Hugh Morrison, who was elected in 1949 as an independent Progressive Conservative opposing Manitoba's
coalition government of Liberal-Progressives, Progressive Conservatives and independents. The Progressive Conservatives left the governing coalition in 1950, and Morrison served with the official party caucus in the legislature after this time. He died in 1957, and was succeeded in a
by-election
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by
Maurice Ridley
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. Following redistribution, Ridley was re-elected in
Pembina in 1958.
Provincial representatives
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Former provincial electoral districts of Manitoba