Shuttleworth actually won a plurality of votes over Rutledge on the first count, but lost the seat following transfers from the third-place candidate.
(Manitoba elections were determined by preferential balloting during this period.)
Rutledge was returned again in the 1932 election,[1] defeating Liberal-Progressive candidate Neil Cameron by the increased margin of sixteen votes.
He won his first convincing victory in the 1936 provincial election,[1] defeating Liberal-Progressive candidate Henry Rungay by almost 300 votes.
[1] He again defeated Henry Rungay in the 1941 provincial election, again by an increased margin.