57 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba 29 seats were needed for a majority
First party
Second party
PC
Leader
Edward Schreyer
Walter Weir
Party
New Democratic
Progressive Conservative
Leader since
June 7, 1969
November 25, 1967
Leader's seat
Rossmere
Minnedosa
Last election
11
31
Seats won
28
22
Seat change
17
9
Popular vote
128,080
119,021
Percentage
38.27%
35.56%
Swing
15.13pp
4.40pp
Third party
Fourth party
LIB
SC
Leader
Robert Bend
Jacob Froese
Party
Liberal
Social Credit
Leader since
May 10, 1969
Leader's seat
Ran in Lakeside (lost)
Rhineland
Last election
14
1
Seats won
5
1
Seat change
9
0
Popular vote
80,288
4,535
Percentage
23.99%
1.36%
Swing
9.14pp
2.18pp
Map of Election Results
Premier before election
Walter Weir
Progressive Conservative
Premier after election
Edward Schreyer
New Democratic
The 1969 Manitoba general election was held on June 25, 1969 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) of the Canadian province of Manitoba. 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.
Although the NDP had risen from third place to only one seat short of a majority, it was not clear what form the government would take in the days immediately following the election. There were negotiations among the Liberals 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, allowing the NDP to form government by one seat. Edward Schreyer became the province's first social democratic Premier shortly thereafter.
The Manitoba NDP had a total election budget of $45,000. Although very small by modern standards, this was the most the party had ever spent up to this time.[1]
The Liberals had managed to remain as the Official Opposition for a decade after losing power in 1959. However, this would be the start of almost 20 years in the political wilderness; the party would not come close to governing again until winning opposition status in 1988.
^Ian Stewart, Just One Vote: Jim Walding's nomination to constitutional defeat, (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press), 2009, p. 17.
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