1966 Manitoba general election

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox election The 1966 Manitoba general election was held on June 23, 1966, 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. Roblin's Tories won 31 seats, against 14 for the Liberal Party, 11 for the New Democratic Party and one for Social Credit.

Results

Party Party Leader # of
candidates 		Seats Popular Vote
1962 Elected % Change # % % Change

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Progressive Conservative Dufferin Roblin 57 36 31 -13.9% 130,102 39.96%  

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Liberal Gildas Molgat 56 13 14 +7.7% 107,841 33.13%  

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New Democratic Russell Paulley 53 7 11 +57.1% 75,333 23.14%  

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Jacob Froese 16 1 1 - 11,538 3.54%  

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William Cecil Ross 2 - - - 638 0.20%  

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Independent 1 - – - 97 0.03%  
Total 185 57 57 - 325,549 100%  

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Preceded by
{{#if:1962 Manitoba election|1962 Manitoba election|—}} 		List of Manitoba elections{{#if:|
{{{curr}}}}} 		Succeeded by
{{#if:1969 Manitoba election|1969 Manitoba election|—}}

See also

Riding results

Party key:

Arthur:

Assiniboia:

Birtle-Russell:

Brandon:

Brokenhead:

Burrows:

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Churchill (deferred to July 7, 1966):

Cypress:

Dauphin:

Dufferin:

Elmwood:

Emerson:

Ethelbert Plains:

Fisher:

Flin Flon:

Fort Garry:

Fort Rouge:

Gimli:

Gladstone:

Hamiota:

Inkster:

Kildonan:

Lac Du Bonnet:

Lakeside:

La Verendrye:

Logan:

Minnedosa:

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Osborne:

Pembina:

Portage la Prairie:

Radisson:

Rhineland:

River Heights:

Roblin:

Rock Lake:

Rockwood-Iberville:

Rupertsland:

St. Boniface:

St. George:

St. James:

St. Johns:

St. Matthews:

St. Vital:

Ste. Rose:

Selkirk:

Seven Oaks:

Souris-Lansdowne:

Springfield:

Swan River:

The Pas:

  • (incumbent)John Carroll (PC) 2278
  • Calvin Gibson (L) 1769
  • Glen Allen (NDP) 288

Turtle Mountain:

Virden:

  • (incumbent)Donald Morris McGregor (PC) 2092
  • Roland Tolton (L) 1245
  • Donald Rowan (SC) 743
  • Vernon Mazawasicuna (NDP) 256

Wellington:

Winnipeg Centre:

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Post-election changes

Note: These by-election results are taken from newspaper reports, and may not exactly match the official returns.

Gordon Beard (PC) became (Ind) in 1968.

Turtle Mountain (results overturned and seat declared vacant, January 30, 1968), March 4, 1968:

  • Edward Dow (L) 2443
  • Allan Rose (PC) 2240
  • Peter Sawatsky (SC) 610

Four seats became vacant in 1968:

By-elections for all four ridings were called for February 20, 1969. The Progressive Conservative, Liberal, and New Democratic parties fielded candidates in all four ridings, and there was also an independent candidate in Churchill. The Social Credit Party intended to field a candidate in Morris, but ultimately did not do so.<ref>Winnipeg Free Press, 4 February 1969, p. 14.</ref>

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The results for Birtle-Russell, Morris and Wolseley are taken from the Winnipeg Free Press, 21 February 1969. The result from Churchill reflects the findings of a judicial review, and is taken from the Winnipeg Free Press, 19 March 1969.

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References

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Further reading

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