The Social Credit Party of Canada fielded 230 candidates in the 1962 Canadian federal election, and unexpectedly won 30 seats to become the third-largest party in the House of Commons of Canada. Most of the party's success came in the province of Quebec, where Real Caouette led a populist campaign under the Social Credit banner. Information about the party's candidates may be found on this page.

Manitoba

Lisgar: Roger H. Poiron

Roger H. Poiron was a farmer,[1] and had previously been an "Independent Social Credit" candidate in a 1955 provincial by-election. Social Credit had not planned to field a candidate on that occasion, but Poiron entered the race without consulting the party; although not technically an official candidate, he nonetheless received support from its organization. He was described as a young man in a 1955 newspaper report.[2]

Poiron continued to farm in Somerset after 1962. In 1993, he expressed skepticism about provincial Agriculture Minister Harry Enns's declaration that Manitoba farm incomes would reach an all-time high that year.[3]

Electoral record
Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner
provincial by-election, 27 June 1955 Mountain Independent Social Credit 201 5.56 3/3 Walter Clark, Liberal-Progressive
1962 federal Lisgar Social Credit 3,492 3/4 George Muir, Progressive Conservative

References

  1. ↑ History of Federal Ridings since 1867: LISGAR (1962/06/18), Parliament of Canada, accessed 20 September 2009.
  2. ↑ Winnipeg Free Press, 28 June 1955, pp. 1, 4.
  3. ↑ Larry Kusch, "Forecast of record income sows anger on farm", Winnipeg Free Press, 10 November 1993.
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