| Election Name: | 1966 Manitoba general election |
| Country: | Manitoba |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1962 Manitoba general election |
| Previous Year: | 1962 |
| Next Election: | 1969 Manitoba general election |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
| Seats For Election: | 57 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba 29 seats were needed for a majority |
| Election Date: | June 23, 1966 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Wolseley |
| Last Election1: | 36 |
| Seats1: | 31 |
| Seat Change1: | 5 |
| Popular Vote1: | 130,102 |
| Percentage1: | 39.96% |
| Swing1: | 4.74pp |
| Leaders Seat2: | Ste. Rose |
| Last Election2: | 13 |
| Seats2: | 14 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 107,841 |
| Percentage2: | 33.13% |
| Swing2: | 2.97pp |
| Image4: | NDP |
| Leader4: | Russell Paulley |
| Leaders Seat4: | Radisson |
| Last Election4: | 7 |
| Seats4: | 11 |
| Seat Change4: | 4 |
| Popular Vote4: | 75,333 |
| Percentage4: | 23.14% |
| Swing4: | 8.94pp |
| Image5: | SC |
| Leader5: | Jacob Froese |
| Leaders Seat5: | Rhineland |
| Last Election5: | 1 |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seat Change5: | 0 |
| Popular Vote5: | 11,538 |
| Percentage5: | 3.54% |
| Swing5: | 1.22pp |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after the election |
| Before Election: | Dufferin Roblin |
| After Election: | Dufferin Roblin |
The 1966 Manitoba general election was held on June 23, 1966, to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a third consecutive majority win for the Progressive Conservative Party led by Dufferin Roblin. Roblin's Tories won 31 seats, against 14 for the Liberal Party, 11 for the New Democratic Party and one for Social Credit.
| Party | Party Leader |
| Seats | Popular Vote | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Elected | % Change | % | % Change | Progressive Conservative | Dufferin Roblin | 57 | 36 | 31 | -13.9% | 130,102 | 39.96% | Liberal | Gildas Molgat | 56 | 13 | 14 | +7.7% | 107,841 | 33.13% | New Democratic | Russell Paulley | 53 | 7 | 11 | +57.1% | 75,333 | 23.14% | Jacob Froese | 16 | 1 | 1 | - | 11,538 | 3.54% | William Cecil Ross | 2 | - | - | - | 638 | 0.20% | Independent | 1 | align="right" | - | – | align="right" | - | 97 | 0.03% | ||||||||
| Total | 185 | 57 | 57 | - | 325,549 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Party key:
Brandon
Churchill (deferred to July 7, 1966):
Ethelbert Plains
Rockwood-Iberville
St. Matthews
Souris-Lansdowne
Note: These by-election results are taken from newspaper reports, and may not exactly match the official returns.
Gordon Beard (PC) became (Ind) in 1968.
Turtle Mountain (results overturned and seat declared vacant, January 30, 1968), March 4, 1968:
Four seats became vacant in 1968:
By-elections for all four ridings were called for February 20, 1969. The Progressive Conservative, Liberal, and New Democratic parties fielded candidates in all four ridings, and there was also an independent candidate in Churchill. The Social Credit Party intended to field a candidate in Morris, but ultimately did not do so.[1]
The results for Birtle-Russell, Morris and Wolseley are taken from the Winnipeg Free Press, 21 February 1969. The result from Churchill reflects the findings of a judicial review, and is taken from the Winnipeg Free Press, 19 March 1969.