The Workers Party ran three candidates in Winnipeg for Manitoba's 1922 provincial election: Mathew Popovitch, Arthur Henderson and William Hammond.

These candidates frequently disrupted rallies for George Armstrong, a Socialist Party incumbent.

In the 1932 election, Penner and Leslie Morris ran in Winnipeg as "United Front Workers" candidates.

[3] The Communist Party (once again legal) ran only one candidate in the provincial election of 1936: James Litterick in Winnipeg.

In a period of increased support for the party, Litterick placed second on first-preference votes and received enough transfers from first-place candidate Lewis Stubbs to gain an easy victory.

Kardash led the provincial LPP from its founding in 1943 until December 1948, when he was replaced by William Cecil Ross.

Ross served as leader until his retirement in 1981, and ran for provincial and federal office several times.

Frank Goldspink subsequently served as the party's provincial organizer, and may have been its political leader as well.

Goldspink left the Communist Party in 1991, and the CPC-M does not appear to have had a regular leader for the next five years (although its provincial organization continued to meet on an occasional basis).

Darrell Rankin moved from Ontario to Manitoba in 1995, and became the provincial organizer of the CPC-M before the year was over.

Organizer Andrew Taylor, a former anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist and professor,[6] ran for the Communist Party in Winnipeg North during the 2019 federal election.

According to a statement from the CPC-M, "free market ideologues have escalated a foreseeable second wave in pursuit of profit, creating the perfect conditions for a public health disaster.