This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian

Canada

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 province of Manitoba

Manitoba

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's unicameral legislative body, the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

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. The number of seats has increased over time, to the present 57.

The chart on the upper right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections towards the right. It show the dominance of the Conservative party

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

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 (blue) and Liberal party

Manitoba Liberal Party

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 (red) prior to World War I

World War I

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; the inter-war wins of the United Farmers

Progressive Party of Manitoba

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 party (yellow); and the post-World War II

World War II

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 rise of the NDP

New Democratic Party of Manitoba

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 (orange), which mirrors the decline of the Liberal Party. The narrow wins of the Progressive Conservative Party (blue) in the 1960s and 1980s can be also be made out.

Summary of results

The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. The winning party's total is shown in bold. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

Year		NDP New Democratic Party of Manitoba The New Democratic Party of Manitoba is a social-democratic political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is the provincial wing of the federal New Democratic Party, and is a successor to the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...	Conservative Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is the only right wing political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is also the official opposition party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.-Origins and early years:...	Liberal Manitoba Liberal Party The Manitoba Liberal Party is a political party in Manitoba, Canada. Its roots can be traced to the late nineteenth-century, following the province's creation in 1870.-Origins and early development :...	Social Credit Manitoba Social Credit Party The Manitoba Social Credit Party was a political party in the Canadian province of Manitoba. In its early years, it espoused the monetary reform theories of social credit....	United Farmers United Farmers of Canada The United Farmers of Canada was a radical farmers organization. It was established in 1926 as the United Farmers of Canada as a merger of the Farmers' Union of Canada and the Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association...	Independent	Other Parties		Total Seats
2011 Manitoba general election, 2011 The 40th general election of Manitoba was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. It took place on October 4, 2011, due to the new fixed-date election laws...		37	19	1						57
2007 Manitoba general election, 2007 The Manitoba general election held on May 22, 2007 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the New Democratic Party, which won 36 seats out of 57. The Progressive Conservative Party finished second with nineteen seats. The Liberal...		36	19	2						57
2003 Manitoba general election, 2003 The Manitoba general election held on June 3, 2003 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the New Democratic Party, which won 35 seats out of 57. The Progressive Conservative Party finished second with twenty seats...		35	20	2						57
1999 Manitoba general election, 1999 The Manitoba general election of September 21, 1999 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada....		32	24	1						57
1995 Manitoba general election, 1995 The Manitoba general election of April 25,1995 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative Party, which won 31 seats out of 57...		23	31	3						57
1990 Manitoba general election, 1990 The Manitoba general election of September 11, 1990 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative Party, which took 30 out of 57 seats...		20	30	7						57
1988 Manitoba general election, 1988 The Manitoba general election of April 26, 1988 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a minority government...		12	25	20						57
1986 Manitoba general election, 1986 The Manitoba general election of March 18, 1986 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the New Democratic Party, which took 30 seats out of 57. The Progressive Conservative Party won 26 seats and formed the official opposition...		30	26	1						57
1981 Manitoba general election, 1981 The Manitoba general election of November 17, 1981 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the opposition New Democratic Party, which took 34 of 57 seats. The governing Progressive Conservative Party took the remaining 23, while the...		34	23							57
1977 Manitoba general election, 1977 The Manitoba general election of October 11, 1977 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative Party, which took 33 seats out of 57...		23	33	1						57
1973 Manitoba general election, 1973 The Manitoba General Election of June 28, 1973 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the social-democratic New Democratic Party, which took 31 of 57 seats...		31	21	5						57
1969 Manitoba general election, 1969 The Manitoba General Election of June 25, 1969 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was a watershed moment in the province's political history. The social-democratic New Democratic Party emerged for the first time as the largest party in...		28	22	5	1		1			57
1966 Manitoba general election, 1966 The Manitoba general election held on June 23, 1966, was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a third consecutive majority win for the Progressive Conservative Party led by Dufferin Roblin...		11	31	14	1					57
1962 Manitoba general election, 1962 Manitoba's general election of December 16, 1962 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a second majority victory for the Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Dufferin Roblin...		7	36	13	1					57
1959 Manitoba general election, 1959 Manitoba's general election of May 14, 1959 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a majority victory for the Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Dufferin Roblin...		10	36	11						57
1958 Manitoba general election, 1958 Manitoba's general election of June 16, 1958 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This election was the first to be held in Manitoba after a comprehensive electoral redistribution in 1956...		11	26	19			1			57
1953 Manitoba general election, 1953 Manitoba's general election of June 8, 1953 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. This was the first election held in Manitoba after the breakup of a ten-year coalition government led by the Liberal-Progressives and Progressive Conservatives...		5	12	35	2		2	1	Labour Progressive	57
1949 Manitoba general election, 1949 Manitoba's general election of November 10, 1949 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This election pitted the province's coalition government, made up of the Liberal-Progressive Party and the Progressive Conservative Party, against a variety of...		7	9	31			9	1	Labour Progressive	57
1945 Manitoba general election, 1945 Manitoba's general election of October 15, 1945 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.The 1945 provincial election was extremely different from the previous election, which was held in 1941...		9	13	25	2		5	1	Labour Progressive	55
1941 Manitoba general election, 1941 Manitoba's general election of April 22, 1941 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This election was held shortly after the formation of a coalition government in December 1940...		3	12	27	3		7	3	Anti-coalition Conservative	55
1936 Manitoba general election, 1936 Manitoba's general election of July 27, 1936 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.The was the second election in Manitoba after the formation of a Liberal-Progressive alliance in 1932...		7	16	23	5		3	1	Communist Communist Party of Canada (in Manitoba) The Communist Party of Canada was founded in 1921. It was an illegal organization for several years, and its meetings were conducted with great secrecy. Until 1924, the "Workers Party" functioned as its public, legal face...	55
1932 Manitoba general election, 1932 Manitoba's general election of June 16, 1932 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This was the second election in Manitoba where the single transferable ballot was used in all electoral divisions...		5	10	38			2			55
1927 Manitoba general election, 1927 Manitoba's general election of 28 June 1927 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This was the first election in Manitoba history to elect members through a single transferable ballot in all constituencies...		3	15	7		29	1			55
1922 Manitoba general election, 1922 Manitoba's general election of July 18, 1922 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.As in the previous election of 1920, the city of Winnipeg elected ten members by the single transferable ballot...		6	7	8		28	5	1	Ind. Labourers Social Democratic Party of Canada (in Manitoba) When the Social Democratic Party of Canada broke away from the Socialist Party of Canada in 1911, many Winnipeg SPC members joined the new organization...	55
1920 Manitoba general election, 1920 Manitoba's general election of 29 June 1920 was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.-Background:...		11	8	21		12	3			55
1915 Manitoba general election, 1915 Manitoba's general election of August 6, 1915 was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This election was held only one year after the previous general election of 1914. In that election, the governing Conservatives of premier Rodmond P. Roblin were...		1	5	40			1			47
1914 Manitoba general election, 1914 Manitoba's general election of July 10, 1914 was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.The result was a fifth consecutive majority government for the Conservative Party, led by premier Rodmond P. Roblin...			28	20			1			49
1910 Manitoba general election, 1910 Manitoba's general election of July 11, 1910 was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.The result was a fourth consecutive majority government for the Conservative Party of Manitoba, led by premier Rodmond Palen Roblin. Roblin's electoral machine won...			28	13						41
1907 Manitoba general election, 1907 Manitoba's general election of March 7, 1907 was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.The result was a third consecutive majority government for the Conservative Party of Manitoba, led by premier Rodmond Palen Roblin...			28	13						41
1903 Manitoba general election, 1903 Manitoba's general election of July 20, 1903 was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.The result was a second consecutive majority government for the Conservative Party of Manitoba, now led by Premier Rodmond Palen Roblin...			32	8						40
1899 Manitoba general election, 1899 This was the tenth Manitoba general election and was held on December 7, 1899....			18	17				5	Independent Conservative (2) Liberal-Conservative (3)	40
1896 Manitoba general election, 1896 This was the ninth Manitoba general election and was held on January 15, 1896....			5	32			1	2	Patrons of Industry Patrons of Industry The Grand Association of the Patrons of Industry in Ontario was a Canadian farmers' organization formed in 1890 that cooperated with the urban labour movement to address the political frustrations of both groups with big business....	40
1892 Manitoba general election, 1892 This was the eighth Manitoba general election and was held on July 23, 1892....			9	28			1	2	Independent Liberal	40
1888 Manitoba general election, 1888 This was the seventh Manitoba general election and was held on July 11, 1888....			4	33			1			38
1886 Manitoba general election, 1886 This was the sixth Manitoba general election and was held on December 9, 1886....			20	15						35
1883 Manitoba general election, 1883 This was the fifth Manitoba general election and was held on January 23, 1883....			20	10						30
1879 Manitoba general election, 1879 This was the fourth Manitoba general election and was held on December 16, 1879....			6	2			5	11	Liberal-Conservative(7), Independent Conservative (2), Independent Liberal, National	24

Elections prior to provincial political parties

Until the 1879 election, political parties were not active in the province. However, some candidates declared their support for (or opposition to) the administration of the time. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

Year	Seats	Government	Opposition	Other
1878 Manitoba general election, 1878 The third Manitoba general election was held on December 18, 1878 to elect representatives to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba....	24	16	8
1874 Manitoba general election, 1874 This was the second Manitoba general election and was held on December 30, 1874.Persons elected:...	24	9	6	9
1870 Manitoba general election, 1870 Manitobas first general election resulted in a victory for Lieutenant Governor Adams George Archibald's governing coalition...	24	17	5	2

See also

• Timeline of Canadian elections
  Timeline of Canadian elections
  This article provides a timeline of elections in Canada, including all the provincial, territorial and federal elections. The information starts from when each province was formed or entered the Confederation, and continues through to the present day. The background colour indicates which party won...
  
  
• List of political parties in Manitoba