Henry Smalley Rungay (October 14, 1888[1] in London, UK – November 23, 1955[2] in Brandon, MB) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
[2] Rungay first campaigned for the Manitoba legislature in the 1936 provincial election, but lost to Conservative candidate Earl J. Rutledge by 273 votes in Minnedosa.
Rutledge resigned from the legislature in 1948, and Rungay was elected to take his place,[1] defeating a candidate of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in a by-election held on July 13 of the same year.
[1] The Liberal-Progressives and Progressive Conservatives were cooperating in a coalition government during this period, and did not always challenge one another in constituency elections.
He unexpectedly lost to Gilbert Hutton of the Manitoba Social Credit Party in the 1953 provincial election,[1] by thirty-two votes.