1959 Manitoba general election


The 1959 Manitoba general election was held on May 14, 1959 to elect 57 members to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a majority victory for the incumbent Progressive Conservatives under the leadership of Premier Dufferin Roblin. This was the first time since the 1914 election that the Tories won an outright majority in the province.
Roblin's Tories won 36 seats against 11 for the Liberal-Progressives, led by former Premier Douglas Campbell, and 10 for the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Lloyd Stinson.
The Manitoba Social Credit Party, which won 2 seats in the 1958 election, did not contest any seats during the election and only regained a foothold in the legislature during a subsequent by-election. The communist Labor-Progressive Party contested three ridings but did not win any.
This election is the last one to be fought by candidates with the 'Liberal-Progressive', 'Co-operative Commonwealth' or 'Labor-Progressive' labels in Manitoba. The Liberal-Progressives dropped the latter half in 1961 and ran all subsequent elections as "Liberals." Similarly, the Labor-Progressive candidates returned to the 'Communist' label. The CCF changed its name following the national party's re-incorporation into the New Democratic Party, running all future elections as Manitoba New Democrats.

Detailed Results

Summary

Northern Manitoba

Southern Manitoba

Winnipeg

By-elections 1958 to 1962

! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes
! style="text-align:right;" |3,995
! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 |100
! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes
! style="text-align:right;" |4,032
! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 |100
! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes
! style="text-align:right;" |3,584
! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 |100
! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes
! style="text-align:right;" |4,654
! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2|100
! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes
! style="text-align:right;" |4,934
! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 |100