List Of Manitoba General Elections
This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian province of Manitoba's unicameral legislative body, the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. 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 (blue) and Liberal party (red) prior to World War I; the inter-war wins of the United Farmers party (yellow); and the post-World War II rise of the NDP (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.
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