The ILP nominated Kempton McKim to contest the riding of Winnipeg West in the provincial election of 1907.
[citation needed] He was defeated by Thomas Johnson, a popular figure from the left wing of the Liberal Party.
They were opposed by another group, led by moderate reformer Fred Dixon (later a member of the provincial legislature).
The reformist faction of the ILP regrouped as the Manitoba Labour Party for the 1910 provincial election.
In 1914-15, candidates nominated by the Labour Representation Committee officially ran for the "Independent Labor Party", even though no formal organization of that name seems to have existed at the time.