2nd Manitoba Legislature

The members of the 2nd Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in December 1874. The legislature sat from March 31, 1875, to November 11, 1878.
Premier Robert Atkinson Davis with the support of Joseph Royal was able to form a minority government. Davis offered a cabinet seat to John Norquay, which won him the support of moderate English-speaking members.
The Legislative Council of Manitoba was abolished. In 1874, representatives of the provincial government requested additional funding from the federal government in Ottawa. The federal cabinet agreed on the condition that the legislative council be abolished. The council itself rejected two bills calling for its abolition. Finally, in 1876, a sufficient number of members of the council were persuaded by the lieutenant-governor to support the bill.
Joseph Dubuc served as speaker for the assembly.
There were four sessions of the 2nd Legislature:

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1874:

	Member	Electoral district	Affiliation	First elected / previously elected	No.# of term	Notes
Felix Chenier	Baie St. Paul	Independent	1874	1st term		-
John Taylor	Headingly	Independent	1870, 1874	2nd term*		-
James Cowan	High Bluff	Opposition	1874	1st term		-
John Sutherland	Kildonan	Opposition	1870	2nd term		-
Angus McKay	Lake Manitoba	Independent	1870	2nd term		-
James McKay	Lake Manitoba	Independent	1877	1st term		-
Francis Evans Cornish	Poplar Point	Opposition	1874	1st term		-
Kenneth McKenzie	Portage la Prairie	Opposition	1874	1st term		-
William Fisher Luxton	Rockwood	Opposition	1874	1st term		-
John Gunn	St. Andrews North	Independent	1874	1st term		-
John Norquay	St. Andrews South	Government	1870	2nd term		-
Marc-Amable Girard	St. Boniface	Government	1870	2nd term		-
Alexander Murray	St. Charles	Independent	1874	1st term		-
Thomas Howard	St. Clements	Independent	1870	2nd term		-
Maxime Lépine	St. Francois Xavier East	Government	1874	1st term		-
Joseph Royal	St. Francois Xavier West	Government	1870	2nd term		-
Edwin Bourke	St. James	Government	1870	2nd term		-
Joseph Dubuc	St. Norbert	Government	1870	2nd term		-
Curtis Bird	St. Pauls	Independent	1870	2nd term		-
Alexander Black	St. Pauls	Government	1876	1st term		-
Joseph Lemay	St. Vital	Government	1870	2nd term		-
Alphonse-Fortunat Martin	Ste. Agathe	Opposition	1874	1st term		-
Charles Nolin	Ste. Anne	Government	1874	1st term		-
William Dick	Springfield	Independent	1874	1st term		-
Corydon Partlow Brown	Westbourne	Independent	1874	1st term		-
Robert Atkinson Davis	Winnipeg	Government	1874	2nd term		-

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By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

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