[1] Running for the Liberal Party, he easily defeated Conservative candidate J.P. Laycock in the constituency of Russell.
The Liberals were defeated in the 1922 provincial election, and Wilson lost his seat to Isaac Griffiths of the United Farmers of Manitoba.
[4] He was re-elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1941 provincial election, following a nineteen-year absence.
Wilson ran as a Liberal-Progressive, and defeated Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidate H.J.
He again served as a government backbencher, supporting the administrations of John Bracken and, after 1943, Stuart Garson.