When the provincial Liberals merged with John Bracken's Progressives in 1932, Campbell led a group of dissident, anti-merger Liberals into the subsequent election.
[2] The group was known as the "Continuing Liberals", and ran candidates in 13 seats.
Shortly before election day, the party claimed they would hold the balance of power in the next parliament.
This prediction proved incorrect; they failed to win any seats, and Campbell finished a poor fourth in St. Boniface (despite being the city's mayor at the time).
The "Continuing Liberals" ceased to exist after the election, and the "Liberal-Progressives" remained in government until 1958.