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Manitoba general election, 1977

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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. The governing New Democratic Party fell to 23 seats, while the Liberal Party won only one seat.

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Results

Party Party Leader # of
candidates 		Seats Popular Vote
1973 Elected % Change # % % Change |- |bgcolor="#9999FF"|     Progressive Conservative Sterling Lyon   21 33 +57.1%   48.6%   |- |bgcolor="sandybrown"|     New Democratic Edward Schreyer   31 23 align="right"
  38.5%   |- |bgcolor="lightcoral"|     Liberal Charles Huband   5 1 align="right"
  12.3%   |- |bgcolor="lightgreen"|     Social Credit Jacob Froese   - - -       |- |bgcolor="tomato"|     Communist William Cecil Ross   align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
      |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|     Revolutionary Workers   * – *     * |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|     Independent   1 - align="right"
     
Total   57 57 -   100%  

Note:

* Party did not nominate candidates in previous election.


Preceded by:
1973 Manitoba election 		List of Manitoba elections Followed by:
1981 Manitoba election

See also

Riding results

Party key:

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:

La Du Bonnet:

Lakeside:

La Verendrye:

Logan:

Minnedosa:

Morris:

Osborne:

Pembina:

Point Douglas:

Party Candidate Votes % ±% |- |bgcolor="sandybrown"|     New Democratic Party (x)Donald Malinowski 3,116 63.32 |- |bgcolor="#9999FF"|     Progressive Conservative Margaret Didenko 915 18.59 |- |bgcolor="lightcoral"|     Liberal Don Marks 769 15.63 |- |bgcolor="tomato"|     Communist Harold Dyck 62 1.26 |- |bgcolor="lightgreen"|     Social Credit Peter Stevens 59 1.20
Total valid votes 4,921 100.00
Rejected votes 85
Turnout 5,006 61.10

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

Rossmere (Edward Schreyer appointed Governor-General of Canada, December 7, 1978), October 16, 1979:

River Heights (res. Sidney Spivak, April 12, 1979), October 16, 1979:

Fort Rouge (res. Lloyd Axworthy, April 6, 1979), October 16, 1979:

Sidney Green (NDP) changed his party affiliation to Independent NDP on December 4, 1979.

Robert Wilson was expelled from the Progressive Conservative caucus on November 20, 1980, and from the Progressive Conservative party on November 28, 1980. On June 17, 1981, he was expelled from the legislature, having been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Ben Hanuschak (NDP) became an Independent MLA on February 26, 1981. On February 27, 1981, J.R. Bud Boyce left the NDP caucus.

On March 3, 1981, Green, Hanuschak and Boyce announced their membership in the new Progressive Party of Manitoba.

 

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