The 1986 Manitoba general election was held on March 18, 1986 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of

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, Canada. It was won by the

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, which took 30 seats out of 57. The Progressive Conservative Party won 26 seats and formed the official opposition. The

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, which had not been represented in the previous legislature, won one seat.

Opinion polls

Results

¹ "Before" refers to standings in the Legislature at dissolution, and not to the results of the previous election. These numbers therefore reflect changes in party standings as a result of by-elections and members crossing the floor.

Riding results

Party key: *PC:

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*Ind: Independent *M-L: Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada - Manitoba (see by-elections) *WCC: Western Canada Concept Party of Manitoba *CoR: Confederation of Regions Party of Manitoba *Lbt: Libertarian Party of Manitoba (The Libertarian Party nominated four candidates in this election. As the party was not officially recognized, they ran as independents. Two of these candidates were Clancy Smith (who was probably the party's leader) and C. Dennis Owens; the other two have not yet been identified.)

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: *(incumbent) Jim Downey (PC) 4569 *Peter Neufeld (CoR) 1198 *Steve Bobiak (NDP) 1009 *Moira Bonar (L) 701

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: *(incumbent) Charlotte Oleson (PC) 3402 *Les Sendull (CoR) 1754 *Edna Mattson (L) 879 *Fred Tait (NDP) 872 Inkster: *(incumbent) Don Scott (NDP) 5480 *Bayani Morcilla (PC) 1726 *Eric Hope (L) 938 *Lester Landry (P) 256 *Lajpat Sharma (Ind) 101 *Cathy Plowman (Comm) 49 Kirkfield Park: *(incumbent) Gerrie Hammond (PC) 5497 *Cliff Hodgins (NDP) 2191 *Irene Friesen (L) 1932 Niakwa: *(incumbent) Abe Kovnats (PC) 6437 *Allan MacDonald (NDP) 4831 *James Radford (L) 2300 Osborne: *(incumbent) Muriel Smith (NDP) 4747 *Jack McGuinness (PC) 2348 *Chris Sturgeon (L) 1259 *Alex MacKenzie (P) 217

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: *(incumbent) Arnold Brown (PC) 3037 *Albert St. Hilaire (NDP) 1549 *John Kuhl (L) 1329 Riel: * Gerry Ducharme (PC) 4479 *(incumbent)

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(NDP) 3710 * Chris Sigurdson (L) 1133 *Al Fostey (CoR) 187 River East: * Bonnie Mitchelson (PC) 6598 *(incumbent) Phil Eyler (NDP) 5848 *Robert Shelton (L) 696 *Al MacDonald (CoR) 280 *Katharina Cameron (WCC) 76 Roblin-Russell: * Len Derkach (PC) 3241 *Fred Embryk (NDP) 3203 *Garry Gaber (L) 2065 St. Johns: *

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(NDP) 3753 *John Baluta (PC) 1949 *Joyce Popkes (L) 632 *Cyril Fogel (P) 142 *William Hawryluk (Ind) 115 * Frank Goldspink (Comm) 65

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: *(incumbent) Wilson Parasiuk (NDP) 4631 *Earl Swayzie (PC) 1966 *Bob Lee (L) 1200 Virden: * Glen Findlay (PC) 4251 *Phil Schwarz (NDP) 1750 *Alex Gabrielle (CoR) 1497 *Lyman Smith (L) 524 Wolseley: *(incumbent) Myrna Phillips (NDP) 4099 *John Campbell (PC) 2218 *Tom Harrison (L) 1132 *Sidney Green (P) 347 *Donald Oliver (CoR) 115 *Barry Marchand (Ind) 60

Post-election changes

Early in 1988, Laurent Desjardins announced his retirement from the legislature. Soon after this, NDP backbencher Jim Walding voted against his party's budget, causing the government to fall.

Opinion polls

Results

Riding results

Post-election changes

See also

References

Further reading