Douglas Stanes
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Douglas Moncrieff Stanes (February 28, 1917 in England
England
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 – April 29, 2001) was a politician
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 in Manitoba
Manitoba
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, Canada
Canada
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. He was a Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba
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 member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
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 from 1958 to 1969.

Stanes was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Middlesex Regiment, and served in southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. In 1945-46, he served as Senior Official on Industrial Rehabilitation with the British Economic Mission in Greece
Greece
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. During the 1950s, he served as a councillor for the City of St. James, which later became a part of Winnipeg
Winnipeg
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.

He was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 1958 election
Manitoba general election, 1958
Manitoba's general election of June 16, 1958 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This election was the first to be held in Manitoba after a comprehensive electoral redistribution in 1956...

, defeating Liberal
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 incumbent Reginald Wrightman by 476 votes in the riding of St. James. He was re-elected by a comfortable margin in the 1959 election
Manitoba general election, 1959
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 (defeating future NDP
New Democratic Party of Manitoba
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 cabinet minister Alvin Mackling), and by fairly comfortable margins in the elections of 1962
Manitoba general election, 1962
Manitoba's general election of December 16, 1962 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a second majority victory for the Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Dufferin Roblin...

 and 1966
Manitoba general election, 1966
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. On the latter occasion, he defeated Liberal candidate Lloyd Axworthy
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, later a prominent federal cabinet minister, by 790 votes. Despite his background, Stanes was never appointed to cabinet.

He was defeated in the 1969 provincial election
Manitoba general election, 1969
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, losing to Alvin Mackling of the NDP by almost 1,000 votes. He did not seek a return to the provincial legislature after this time, but was elected to the united Winnipeg city council in the municipal elections of 1971, 1974 and 1977.
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