[2] Bardal was also a member of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and a director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
He finished sixteenth out of twenty-one candidates on the first ballot, and was eliminated on the seventh count.
The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation polled well in Winnipeg in the 1945 provincial election, and helped to push Bardal to fifteenth place out of twenty candidates on the first ballot.
In March 1953, the Liberal-Progressive Party announced that it would nominate three candidates in Winnipeg Centre.
Bardal declared himself a candidate, but could not attend the nomination meeting due to an illness.