| Election Name: | 1962 Manitoba general election |
| Country: | Manitoba |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1959 Manitoba general election |
| Previous Year: | 1959 |
| Next Election: | 1966 Manitoba general election |
| Next Year: | 1966 |
| Seats For Election: | 57 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba 29 seats were needed for a majority |
| Election Date: | December 16, 1962 |
| Leader1: | Duff Roblin |
| Leaders Seat1: | Wolseley |
| Last Election1: | 36 |
| Seats1: | 36 |
| Popular Vote1: | 134,208 |
| Percentage1: | 45.0% |
| Swing1: | 2.0pp |
| Last Election2: | 11 |
| Seats2: | 13 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Popular Vote2: | 103,283 |
| Percentage2: | 36.3% |
| Swing2: | 6.0pp |
| Image4: | NDP |
| Leader4: | Russell Paulley |
| Leaders Seat4: | Radisson |
| Last Election4: | 10 |
| Seats4: | 7 |
| Seat Change4: | 3 |
| Popular Vote4: | 47,304 |
| Percentage4: | 15.8% |
| Swing4: | 6.0pp |
| Image5: | SC |
| Leader5: | Jacob Froese |
| Leaders Seat5: | Rhineland |
| Last Election5: | - |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 6,930 |
| Percentage5: | 2.3% |
| Swing5: | 2.3pp |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after the election |
| Before Election: | Dufferin Roblin |
| After Election: | Dufferin Roblin |
The 1962 Manitoba general election was held on December 16, 1962 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, securing a third term for the party.
Roblin's Tories won 36 seats versus 13 for the Liberals led by Gildas Molgat, 7 for the social democratic New Democrats led by Russell Paulley, and 1 seat for the Social Credit Party led by Jacob Froese.
The Communist Party ran two candidates, neither being successful.
| Party | Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Elected | % | % Change | Dufferin Roblin | 57 | 36 | 36 | 134,208 | 45.0% | Gildas Molgat | 57 | 11 | 13 | 108,283 | 36.3% | Russell Paulley | 40 | 10 | 7 | 47,304 | 15.8% | Jacob Froese | 11 | align="right" | - | 1 | 6,930 | 2.3% | William Cecil Ross | 2 | align="right" | - | - | 816 | 0.3% | Independent | 3 | align="right" | - | - | 960 | 0.3% | ||||||||||||
| Total | 170 | 57 | 57 | 298,501 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Churchill|||Gordon Beard
2,170||Francis Jobin
1,973|||||John Ingebrigtson|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Flin Flon|||Charles Witney
2,375||Eli Ross
1,175||Fred Ledieu
448|||Charles Witney|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Rupertsland|||Joseph Jeannotte
2,329||Reginald McKay
515||Thomas Hamilton
461|||Joseph Jeannotte|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|The Pas|||John Carroll
2,484||Adam Deminick
1,497||Rachael Schewchuk
430|||John Carroll|}
|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Arthur|||J. Douglas Watt
2,629||Harry Patmore
1,861|||||||J. Douglas Watt|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Birtle-Russell|||Robert Smellie
2,676||Victor Fulton
1,701||Arnold Minish
704|||||Robert Smellie|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Brandon|||Reginald Lissaman
4,771||James Creighton
3,182||Hans Fries
1542||Harold Wright
535|||Reginald Lissaman|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Brokenhead||Richard Mulder
1,314||Max Dubas
971|||Ed Schreyer
1,910|||||Ed Schreyer|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Carillon||Peter Thiessen
1,278|||Leonard Barkman
2,116||||Edward Dubois
811|||Edmond Prefontaine|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Cypress|||Thelma Forbes
2,746||Welland Stonehouse
1,928||||Charles Turner
267|||Thelma Forbes|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Dauphin|||Stewart McLean
3,247||John Seale
1,801|||||||Stewart McLean|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Dufferin|||William Homer Hamilton
2,542||R.G. Douglas
1,309|||||||William Homer Hamilton|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Emerson||Michael Sokolyk
1,964|||John Tanchak
2,545|||||||John Tanchak|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Ethelbert Plains||James Crowe
1,376|||Michael Hryhorczuk
1,930||A. Clifford Matthews
706|||||Michael Hryhorczuk|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Fisher|||Emil Moeller
1,410||Arthur Dublin
1,076||Peter Wagner
1,323|||||Peter Wagner|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Gimli|||George Johnson
2,316||Don Martin
794||Magnus Eliason
917|||||George Johnson|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Gladstone||Jack McPhedran
2,020|||Nelson Shoemaker
2,868||Fred Cooks
249|||||Nelson Shoemaker|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Hamiota|||Barry Strickland
2,573||Frank Taylor
2,015||M.S. Antonation
329|||||Barry Strickland|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Lac du Bonnet|||Oscar Bjornson
1,740||John Ateah
1,264||John Bracken
843|||||Oscar Bjornson|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Lakeside||John Frederick Bate
1,452|||Douglas Campbell
2,009||H.C. Alfen
207|||||Douglas Campbell|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|La Verendrye||Rene Prefontaine
1,086|||Albert Vielfaure
1,394||||Raymond Thuot
719|||Stan Roberts|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Minnedosa|||Walter Weir
2,828||Frank Anderson
1,536||John Lee
472||C.V. Hutton
456|||Walter Weir|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Morris|||Harry Shewman
1,648||Phil Perron
1,126||||Wilbur Tinkler
609|||Harry Shewman|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Pembina|||Carolyne Morrison
2,436||Charles Cousins
2,225|||||||Carolyne Morrison|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Portage la Prairie||John Christianson
2,124|||Gordon Johnston
2,414||Francis Mason
220|||||John Christianson|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Rhineland||A.J. Thissen
1,478||J.H. Pennber
791|||||Jacob Froese
1,511|||Jacob Froese|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Roblin|||Keith Alexander
2,205||Charles Filowich
1,530||Ray Taylor
645|||||Keith Alexander|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Rock Lake|||Abram Harrison
2,444||Harry Parsonage
2,015||J.A. Potter
257|||||Abram Harrison|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Rockwood-Iberville|||George Hutton
2,594||C.E. Crawford
1,256||Samuel Cranston
471|||||George Hutton|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|St. George||John Hjalmasson
1,210|||Elman Guttormson
2,451|||||||Elman Guttormson|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Ste. Rose||J.A. Fletcher
1,467|||Gildas Molgat
2,648||Leon Hoefer
147|||||Gildas Molgat|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Selkirk||Ben Massey
1,527|||Thomas P. Hillhouse
2,104||Robert Luining
579|||||Thomas P. Hillhouse|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Souris-Lansdowne|||Malcolm McKellar
2,471||D.L. Barclay
1,532|||||||Malcolm McKellar|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Springfield|||Fred Klym
1,993||William Lucko
1,562||||Harold Patzer
429|||Fred Klym|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Swan River|||James Bilton
2,350||Elmir Simms
1,004||M.G. Hofford
718|||||Albert H.C. Corbett|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Turtle Mountain|||Peter J. McDonald
2,788||Edward Dow
1,973||||C.R. Baskerville
691|||Edward Dow|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Virden|||Donald McGregor
2,828||Malcolm McGregor
1,323||||J.J. Morton
450|||John Thompson|-|}
|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Assiniboia||George Johnson
2,993|||Stephen Patrick
3,232||Al Mackling
1,978|||||George Johnson|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Burrows||Peter Okrainec
747|||Mark Smerchanski
1,791||John Hawryluk
1,502||Andrew Bileski (Comm.)
517|||John Hawryluk|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Elmwood||Don Thompson
1,737||John Kozoriz
1,815|||Steve Peters
2,024|||||Steve Peters|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Fort Garry|||Sterling Lyon
4,721||David Bowles
2,828||Cliff Brownridge
1,168|||||Sterling Lyon|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Fort Rouge|||Gurney Evans
3,507||Brock McArthur
2,128||William Reid
990|||||Gurney Evans|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Inkster||Mary Wayrykaw
1,497||John Shanski
2,081|||Morris Gray
2,658|||||Morris Gray|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Kildonan|||James Mills
3,176||Ernie Rudolph
2,751||A.J. Reid
3,172||John De Fehr (SC)
452|||A.J. Reid|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Logan||Uberta Blackburn
1,126||Thomas Blaine
1,006|||Lemuel Harris
1,462|||||Lemuel Harris|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Osborne|||Obie Baizley
3,025||Robert E. Moffat
1,871||Jim Buchanan
1,523|||||Obie Baizley|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Radisson||Nelson McLean
2,712||Nick Slotek
3,169|||Russell Paulley
4,032|||||Russell Paulley|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|River Heights|||Maitland Steinkopf
5,044||Roy Matas
3,941|||||||W.B. Scarth|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|St. Boniface||Brunelle Leveille
1,937|||Laurent Desjardins
4,175||Ian Wright
662|||||Laurent Desjardins|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|St. James|||Douglas Stanes
2,707||Dave Johnston
2,202||William Hardy
1,239|||||Douglas Stanes|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|St. Johns||M. Baryluk
1,236||Ed Pollack
1,229|||Saul Cherniack
1,796||Saul Simkin (Comm.)
299
F.P. Bashchak (Ind.-Lib.-Lab.)
111
Sam Bordman (Ind.)
54|||David Orlikow|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|St. Matthews|||William Martin
2,485||Don Cook
1,771||Gordon Fines
1,386|||||William Martin|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|St. Vital|||Fred Groves
3,626||Doug Honeyman
2,605||Clare Martineau
1,023||Fred Brennan (Ind.)
795|||Fred Groves|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Seven Oaks||Jack Chapman
2,635||Calvin Scarfe
1,600|||Arthur E. Wright
3,095|||||Arthur E. Wright|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Wellington|||Richard Seaborn
2,422||Gurzon Havey
1,391||Lloyd Stinson
2,202|||||Richard Seaborn|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Winnipeg Centre|||James Cowan
2,779||Frank Lamont
1,684||Donovan Swailes
1,016|||||James Cowan|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Wolseley|||Dufferin Roblin
3,207||Russ Davis
1,559||Ed Stefaniuk
798|||||Dufferin Roblin|-|}
|- style="background-color:white"! style="text-align:right;" colspan=3 |Total valid votes ! style="text-align:right;" |9,441! style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 |100