Winnipeg Centre, a single-member constituency, was turned into a two-member dual-ballot district prior to the 1914 election.
Daniel Hunter McMillan was a cabinet minister in Thomas Greenway's government, and later served as the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1911 to 1916.
All three constituencies elected four members to the legislature, with electors choosing representatives by a single transferable ballot.
The electorate of Winnipeg Centre included supporters of the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the Liberal-Progressive and the Progressive Conservative Party.
Boyce left the NDP to join the newly formed Progressive Party prior to the 1981 election.