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About William Scraba
- William Scraba (March 4, 1907 – April 18, 1971) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1945 to 1949 as a representative of the Liberal-Progressive Party.He was born in Dominion City, Manitoba, the son of Peter Scraba and Tena Procopchuk.
- Before his career in provincial politics, Scraba served on the Winnipeg City Council as a member of the conservative Civic Election Committee and on the Winnipeg School Board.
- He was a businessman in the city and was a member of the Ukrainian Professional Businessmen's Club.Scraba was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1945 provincial election, in the ten-member constituency of Winnipeg.
- During this period, Winnipeg elected ten members to the legislative assembly by a single transferable ballot.
- Scraba finished ninth on the first count, and secured the tenth and final seat on the fifteenth count, narrowly edging out Progressive Conservative Morley Lougheed.
- He served as a backbench supporter of Premiers Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell over the next four years. Winnipeg's electoral map was changed for the 1949 provincial election, as the single ten-member constituency was replaced with three separate four-member constituencies.
- Scraba ran for re-election as an "Independent Liberal-Progressive" in Winnipeg North, but was defeated.
- He finished sixth on the first count, and was eliminated on the seventh count. Scraba moved to Toronto in 1960 and died there eleven years later.
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