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
PartyParty Leader# ofcandidatesSeatsPopular Vote1962Elected% Change#%% Change Progressive Conservative Dufferin Roblin5736 31 -13.9%130,10239.96% Liberal Gildas Molgat561314+7.7%107,84133.13% New Democratic Russell Paulley537 11+57.1%75,33323.14% Jacob Froese1611 -11,5383.54% William Cecil Ross2 - - -6380.20% Independent1- –-970.03% Total18557 57-325,549100%
See also List of Manitoba political parties
Riding results
Party key: PC: Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba L: Manitoba Liberal Party NDP: New Democratic Party of Manitoba SC: Manitoba Social Credit Party Comm: Communist Party of Canada - Manitoba Ind: Independent
Arthur: (incumbent)James Douglas Watt (PC) 1902 Frank Patmore (L) 1807 C.M. Robson (NDP) 494
Assiniboia: (incumbent)Stephen Patrick (L) 5168 Stewart Millett (PC) 4800 Charles Norman (NDP) 2943
Birtle-Russell: Rod Clement (L) 2223 (incumbent)Robert G. Smellie (PC) 2078 Ronald Kostesky (NDP) 446
Brandon: (incumbent)Reginald Lissaman (PC) 3863 Terry Penton (L) 3696 Harold Weitman (NDP) 1452 Ben Van Hoffen (SC) 508
Brokenhead: Sam Uskiw (NDP) 1889 George Mulder (PC) 1315 Stanley Copp (Ind L) 669 Ken Skiba (SC) 365
Burrows: Ben Hanuschak (NDP) 2415 (incumbent)Mark Smerchanski (L) 1487 Walter Paschak (PC) 1301
Churchill (deferred to July 7, 1966): (incumbent)Gordon Beard (PC) 3159 W.L. Hudson (L) 2192
Cypress: (incumbent)Thelma Forbes (PC) 2331 Duncan Campbell (L) 1888
Dauphin: (incumbent)Stewart McLean (PC) 3149 Edward Demkiw (L) 1512 Michael Sotas (NDP) 236
Dufferin: (incumbent)Homer Hamilton (PC) 2135 Cam Johnston (L) 1280 Walter Taylor (SC) 583
Elmwood: Russell Doern (NDP) 2765 Tom Snowden (PC) 1816 John Kozoriz (L) 1458 Walter Bowden (SC) 744
Emerson: (incumbent)John Tanchak (L) 2180 Gabriel Girard (PC) 2015
Ethelbert Plains: Michael Kawchuk (NDP) 1246 William Paziuk (L) 1182 Melvin Pipe (SC) 884 John Tycholis (PC) 548
Fisher: Peter Masniuk (PC) 1480 Peter Wagner (NDP) 1368 Arthur Devlin (L) 712 John Palamarchuk (Ind) 97
Flin Flon: (incumbent)Charles Witney (PC) 1750 Scott Day (NDP) 1090 Mickey Perepeluk (L) 1071
Fort Garry: (incumbent)Sterling Lyon (PC) 6131 Peter Stokes (L) 2435 Vic Ratsma (NDP) 1769
Fort Rouge: (incumbent)Gurney Evans (PC) 3767 Frank Muldoon (L) 2451 Leonard Green (NDP) 1845
Gimli: (incumbent)George Johnson (PC) 1981 Gunnar Eggerston (L) 1021 Zado Zator (NDP) 767
Gladstone: (incumbent)Nelson Shoemaker (L) 2926 John McPhedran (PC) 1787 William Yuel (NDP) 236
Hamiota: Earl Dawson (L) 2194 (incumbent)Barry Strickland (PC) 2043 M.S. Antonation (NDP) 412
Inkster: Sidney Green (NDP) 3644 Olga Fuga (PC) 1713 Ray Babick (L) 1557 William Cecil Ross (Comm) 312
Kildonan: Peter Fox (NDP) 4644 (incumbent)James Mills (PC) 3808 Jim Smith (L) 2966 Henry Redekopp (SC) 1331
Lac Du Bonnet: (incumbent)Oscar Bjornson (PC) 1342 James Desilets (L) 1262 Walter Zarecki (NDP) 1151 Ruben Thomas (SC) 474
Lakeside: (incumbent)Douglas Campbell (L) 1780 Frank Sims (PC) 1428 Francis Mason (NDP) 272
La Verendrye: (incumbent)Albert Vielfaure (L) 1807 Stan Bisson (PC) 860
Logan: (incumbent)Lemuel Harris (NDP) 1975 Wally Fox-Decent (PC) 1657 W.M. Suystun (L) 1019
Minnedosa: (incumbent)Walter Weir (PC) 2136 Don McNabb (L) 1615 Gilbert V. Hutton (SC) 774 John Lee (NDP) 648
Osborne: (incumbent)Obie Baizley (PC) 3363 Bob Murdoch (NDP) 2189 Howard Loewen (L) 2141
Pembina: (incumbent)Carolyne Morrison (PC) 2056 Vernon Spangelo (L) 1545 Frederick Hamm (SC) 878 Robert Wallcraft (NDP) 129
Portage la Prairie: (incumbent)Gordon Johnston (L) 2726 John Christianson (PC) 1991 Sybil Barnett (NDP) 312
Radisson: (incumbent)Russell Paulley (NDP) 7114 Joseph Guay (L) 4905 Nelson McLean (PC) 2561
Rhineland: (incumbent)Jacob Froese (SC) 1676 Bruce Gunn (PC) 1324 Alf Loewen (L) 696
River Heights: Sidney Spivak (PC) 5325 Scott Wright (L) 4083 Lionel Orlikow (NDP) 826
Roblin: Wally McKenzie (PC) 1798 Joseph Perchaluk (NDP) 1583 Jack Mitchell (L) 863
Rock Lake: Henry Einarson (PC) 1835 Ronald Gardiner (L) 1691 Jacob Harms (SC) 505 Ernest Sloane (NDP) 333
Rockwood-Iberville: Harry Enns (PC) 2091 Douglas Trick (L) 1429 Armand De Ryck (NDP) 804 Wilmer Antonius (SC) 228
Rupertsland: (incumbent)Joseph Jeannotte (PC) 1866 Jean Allard (L) 953 Douglas MacLachlan (NDP) 363
St. Boniface: (incumbent)Laurent Desjardins (L) 4040 Remi Lafreniere (PC) 1750 Maurice Paul (NDP) 1033
St. George: (incumbent)Elman Guttormson (L) 2009 Arthur Schwartz (PC) 1418 Stanley Burdett (NDP) 357
St. James: (incumbent)Douglas Stanes (PC) 3034 Lloyd Axworthy (L) 2244 Jim Rose (NDP) 1487
St. Johns: (incumbent)Saul Cherniack (NDP) 2427 Dan Zaharia (PC) 1215 Harry Meronek (L) 970 Don Currie (Comm) 326
St. Matthews: Robert Steen (PC) 2941 Andrew Robertson (NDP) 1950 Donald Cook (L) 1922
St. Vital: Donald Craik (PC) 4432 Douglas Honeyman (L) 2927 William Hutton (NDP) 2310
Ste. Rose: (incumbent)Gildas Molgat (L) 2410 Michael Posmituck (PC) 1187 David Duning (SC) 275 Harry Shafransky (NDP) 86
Selkirk: (incumbent)Thomas Hillhouse (L) 1832 Sydney Sarbitt (PC) 1792 Alan Cooper (NDP) 876 Jens Magnusson (SC) 227
Seven Oaks: Saul Miller (NDP) 5295 Nathan Nurgitz (PC) 2596 Melvin Fenson (L) 2010
Souris-Lansdowne: (incumbent)Malcolm McKellar (PC) 1919 Frank Ellis (L) 1556 Margaret Gray (SC) 387 Irene Bauman (NDP) 238
Springfield: (incumbent)Fred Klym (PC) 1697 Richard Loeb (NDP) 1274 William Lucko (L) 1113
Swan River: (incumbent)James Bilton (PC) 1591 Gerald Webb (SC) 1185 Claude Dunbar (L) 793 George Higgs (NDP) 602
The Pas: (incumbent)John Carroll (PC) 2278 Calvin Gibson (L) 1769 Glen Allen (NDP) 288
Turtle Mountain: Edward Dow (L) 2149 (incumbent)Peter J. McDonald (PC) 2144 Peter Sawatsky (SC) 690 Selwyn Burrows (NDP) 141
Virden: (incumbent)Donald Morris McGregor (PC) 2092 Roland Tolton (L) 1245 Donald Rowan (SC) 743 Vernon Mazawasicuna (NDP) 256
Wellington: Philip Petursson (NDP) 3153 (incumbent)Richard Seaborn (PC) 2447 Gurzon Harvey (L) 1117
Winnipeg Centre: (incumbent)James Cowan (PC) 2982 Ross White (L) 1917 Donald Malinowski (NDP) 1434
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: Dufferin Roblin (PC, Wolseley) and Rod Clement (Lib, Birtle-Russell) resigned to seek election to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1968 Canadian general election. Both were unsuccessful. Gordon Beard (Ind, Churchill) resigned his seat after protesting that the government was not paying sufficient attention to issues affecting northern Manitoba. Harry Shewman (PC, Morris) died in office.
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.Winnipeg Free Press, 4 February 1969, p. 14.
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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