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Manitoba general election, 1969

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The Manitoba General Election of June 25, 1969 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. 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 the legislature, winning 28 out of 57 seats. The governing Progressive Conservative Party fell to 22, and the once-dominant Liberal Party fell to an historical low of five. The Social Credit Party won one seat, and there was also one Independent elected.

It was not clear what form the government would take in the days immediately following the election. There were negotiations among the Liberal and Progressive Conservatives to form a minority coalition government, supported by the Social Credit and Independent members; under this scenario, former Liberal leader Gildas Molgat would have become Premier. These plans came to nothing when Liberal MLA Laurent Desjardins announced that he would sit as a "Liberal Democrat" supporting the NDP. Edward Schreyer became the province's first social democratic Premier shortly thereafter.

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Results

Party Party Leader # of
candidates 		Seats Popular Vote
1966 Elected % Change # % % Change |- |bgcolor="sandybrown"|     New Democratic
Edward Schreyer
  11 28 align="right"
154.5%
  38.1%   |- |bgcolor="#9999FF"|     Progressive Conservative
Walter Weir
  31 22 -29.0%%   35.4%   |- |bgcolor="lightcoral"|     Liberal
Robert Bend
  14 5 align="right"
  23.9%   |- |bgcolor="lightgreen"|     Social Credit
Jacob Froese (?)
  1 1 align="right"
  1.4%   |- |bgcolor="tomato"|     Communist
William Cecil Ross
  align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
      |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|     Independent   align="right"
1        
Total   57 57 -   100%  


Preceded by:
1966 Manitoba election 		List of Manitoba elections Followed by:
1973 Manitoba election

See also

Riding results

Party key:

(x) denotes incumbent.

Arthur:

Assiniboia:

Birtle-Russell:

Brandon East:

Brandon West:

Burrows:

Charleswood:

Churchill:

Crescentwood:

Dauphin:

Elmwood:

Emerson:

Flin Flon:

Fort Garry:

Fort Rouge:

Gimli:

Gladstone:

Inkster:

Kildonan:

Lac Du Bonnet:

Lakeside:

La Verendrye:

Logan:

Minnedosa:

Morris:

Osborne:

Pembina:

Point Douglas:

Party Candidate Votes % |- |bgcolor="sandybrown"|     New Democratic Party Donald Malinowski 2,253 52.54 |- |bgcolor="#9999FF"|     Progressive Conservative Slaw Rebchuk 1,088 25.36 |- |bgcolor="lightcoral"|     Liberal Roger Garrity 528 12.31 |- |bgcolor="tomato"|     Communist William A. Kardash 421 9.81
Total valid votes 4,290 100.00
Rejected and discarded votes 62
Turnout 4,352 46.37

Portage La Prairie:

Radisson:

Rhineland:

Riel:

River Heights:

Roblin:

Rock Lake:

Rossmere:

Rupertsland:

St. Boniface:

St. George:

St. James:

St. Johns:

St. Matthews:

St. Vital:

Ste. Rose:

Selkirk:

Seven Oaks:

Souris-Killarney:

Springfield:

Sturgeon Creek:

Swan River:

The Pas:

Thompson:

Transcona:

Virden:

Wellington:

Winnipeg Centre:

Wolseley:

Post-election changes

St. Vital (res. Jack Hardy, February 16, 1971), April 5, 1971:

Ste. Rose (res. Gildas Molgat, October 7, 1970), April 5, 1971:

Minnedosa (res. Walter Weir, September 1971), November 16, 1971:

Laurent Desjardins formally joined the NDP in 1971.

Wolseley (dec. Leonard Claydon, 1971), June 16, 1972:

Jean Allard left the NDP to sit as an Independent on April 7, 1972. Joseph Borowski left the NDP caucus on June 25, 1972.

 

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