The CCF's 1953 platform contained fourteen points, foremost of which was a plan for a provincial hospital scheme similar to that undertaken by Tommy Douglas in neighbouring Saskatchewan.
Party leader Lloyd Stinson later argued that the election was essentially about three things: hospitalization, education and electoral redistribution.
There were 57 seats in the Manitoba legislature, so a majority government for the CCF was mathematically impossible to win.
Alvin H. Mackling served in the Manitoba legislature from 1969 to 1973 and again from 1981 to 1988, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the governments of Edward Schreyer and Howard Pawley.
during his nomination meeting, the Dauphin CCF affirmed its support for a provincial hospital scheme and state automobile insurance.
Wilson was a young farmer in Grandview at the time of the election, and was also known as a skilled baseball player.
Wilson finished a strong second on the first count with 989 votes (31.57%), but lost to Liberal-Progressive candidate Ray Mitchell on transfers.
He won the CCF nomination over sitting MLA George Olive in early April 1953.
Perchaluk contested Roblin again in the 1959 provincial election, and finished a second against Progressive Conservative candidate Keith Alexander with 1,569 votes.
He finished second on the first count with 1,190 votes (28.83%), and lost to Independent Liberal-Progressive candidate Rodney S. Clement on transfers.
He ran for the national New Democratic Party in the 1963 federal election, and finished fourth in Marquette with 981 votes.
This was the closest he ever came to winning, finished a close second against Progressive Conservative candidate Harry Graham.
He argued that the average wage-earner's housing problems were ignored under the Liberal-Progressive government, and that there was insufficient hospital space available.
He narrowly missed election to the second position on the sixth and final count, losing to Liberal-Progressive candidate L. Raymond Fennell by 389 votes.
She served as secretary of the CCF for the Ontario riding of Kenora—Rainy River, and was a member of the World Government Association.
He had been a member of the Ontario Labour Party from 1927 to 1933, and joined the national Cooperative Commonwealth Federation upon its founding.
Fines's chances for re-election in 1953 were hurt by the independent candidacies of Stephen Juba and Lewis Stubbs.
He later overtook second-place candidate Bill Kardash of the Labour Progressive Party and was elected for the second position on the seventh count with 4,793 votes (22.18%).
The CCF initially planned to nominate a fourth candidate in Winnipeg North, but did not follow up on this.
Israels was the vice-president of the Manitoba CCF at the time of the 1953 election, and was active in the Winnipeg labour movement.
At his nomination meeting, he criticized the tax status of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Winnipeg.
Israels delivered the cleverest line of the campaign shortly before election day,[citation needed] when he said that Progressive Conservative leader Errick Willis had been "too recently in Mr. Campbell's arms to be now at his throat".
After the election, Israels was named as labour's representative on the Winnipeg Wage Survey Board.