20th Manitoba Legislature

The members of the 20th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in July 1936. The legislature sat from February 18, 1937, to March 12, 1941.^[1]

The Liberal-Progressive Party led by John Bracken formed a minority government with the support of Social Credit members.^[2]

Errick Willis of the Conservatives was Leader of the Opposition.^[3]

Robert Hawkins served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

There were five sessions of the 20th Legislature:^[1]

Session	Start	End
1st	February 18, 1937	April 17, 1937
2nd	December 9, 1937	March 23, 1938
3rd	February 20, 1939	April 17, 1939
4th	February 20, 1940	April 5, 1940
5th	November 18, 1940	December 17, 1940

William Johnston Tupper was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba until November 1, 1940, when Roland Fairbairn McWilliams became lieutenant governor.^[4]

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1936:^[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party[5]	First elected / previously elected
	John R. Pitt	Arthur	Liberal-Progressive	1935
	James Aiken	Assiniboia	ILP-CCF	1936
	John Poole	Beautiful Plains	Conservative	1936
	Francis Campbell Bell	Birtle	Liberal-Progressive	1936
	George Dinsdale	Brandon City	Conservative	1932
	Edmond Prefontaine	Carillon	Liberal-Progressive	1935
	James Christie	Cypress	Liberal-Progressive	1932
	Robert Hawkins	Dauphin	Liberal-Progressive	1932
	Errick Willis	Deloraine	Conservative	1936
	John Munn	Dufferin	Liberal-Progressive	1927
	Herbert Wright	Emerson	Independent Liberal	1936
	William Lisowsky	Ethelbert	Social Credit	1936
	Stuart Garson	Fairford	Liberal-Progressive	1927
	Nicholas Bachynsky	Fisher	Liberal-Progressive	1922
	Stanley Fox	Gilbert Plains	Social Credit	1936
	Joseph Wawrykow	Gimli	ILP-CCF	1936
	William Morton	Gladstone	Liberal-Progressive	1927
	James Breakey	Glenwood	Liberal-Progressive	1914, 1922
	Norman Turnbull	Hamiota	Social Credit	1936
	John Salmon Lamont	Iberville	Liberal-Progressive	1936
	James McLenaghen	Kildonan and St. Andrews	Conservative	1927
	John Laughlin	Killarney	Conservative	1927, 1936
	Douglas Lloyd Campbell	Lakeside	Liberal-Progressive	1922
	Matthew Sutherland	Lansdowne	Liberal-Progressive	1936
	Sauveur Marcoux	La Verendrye	Liberal-Progressive	1936
	Hugh Morrison	Manitou	Conservative	1936
	Earl Rutledge	Minnedosa	Conservative	1927
	Wallace C. Miller	Morden and Rhineland	Conservative	1936
	William Clubb	Morris	Liberal-Progressive	1920
	Ivan Schultz	Mountain	Liberal-Progressive	1930
	John Lawrie	Norfolk	Conservative	1936
	Toby Sexsmith	Portage la Prairie	Conservative	1933
	Sydney Rogers	Roblin	Social Credit	1936
	Mungo Lewis	Rockwood	Conservative	1936
	Oddur Olafson	Rupertsland[nb 1]	Independent Liberal	1936
	Isaac Griffiths	Russell	Liberal-Progressive	1922
	Harold Lawrence	St. Boniface	Independent Labour	1932
	Herbert Sulkers	St. Clements	Independent Labour	1936
	Salome Halldorson	St. George	Social Credit	1936
	Maurice Dane MacCarthy	Ste. Rose	Liberal-Progressive	1927
	Evelyn Shannon	Springfield	Liberal-Progressive	1936
	George Renouf	Swan River	Conservative	1932
	John Bracken	The Pas[nb 2]	Liberal-Progressive	1922
	Alexander Welch	Turtle Mountain	Conservative	1929
	Robert Mooney	Virden	Liberal-Progressive	1922
	James Alexander Barry	Winnipeg	Conservative	1936
	Seymour Farmer		Independent Labour	1922
	Marcus Hyman		Independent Labour	1932
	Huntly Ketchen		Conservative	1932
	James Litterick		Communist	1936
	William Major	Liberal-Progressive	1927
	John Stewart McDiarmid	Liberal-Progressive	1932
	John Queen	Independent Labour	1920
	Lewis Stubbs	Independent	1936
	Ralph Webb	Conservative	1932

Notes:

1. Election held August 22, 1936
2. Election held August 26, 1936

By-elections

None.