The Progressive Party of Manitoba, led by Premier John Bracken, won a second consecutive majority government in 1927.

Progressive candidates won twenty-nine seats out of fifty-five to win their second majority government.

The Conservatives won fifteen seats under the leadership of Fawcett Taylor, an improvement from seven in the election of 1922.

All three members, including party leader John Queen, were elected in the city of Winnipeg.

Candidates of four separate parties - Liberal, Conservative, ILP and Progressive - plus an Independent - were elected to fill that city's ten seats.

Winnipeg seats were filled using a form of proportional representation, Single transferable voting.

Twelve incumbents (one in Winnipeg, and 11 more in other ridings) went down in defeat, six failed to be renominated, and five chose not to stand for reelection.

There were only three "turn-overs" where the first count leader did not win due to vote transfers - in Minnedosa, Morden & Rhineland and Springfield.

In Winnipeg, the seat distribution was changed as follows: In the single-member ridings, there were three cases where the first-place candidate on first-preference votes failed to win: The candidate in the winning position in the first count won in the end in every district, except in the Minnedosa, Morden and Springfield districts, where the winner is indicated with vote tally in bold.

Downes was then declared defeated - his votes were not transferred as Tobias and Montgomery were the only ones still standing and there were two seats left to be filled Tobias and Montgomery were elected with partial quota, as the field of candidates had been thinned to the number of remaining open seats.

[4] Transfers of surplus votes belonging to elected Conservatives Haig and Evans went in large numbers to Tobias, helping him take a seat although he was not in top ten in the first count.

Tobias Norris, 1928), 10 November 1928: Morris (William Clubb to new cabinet post, 18 May 1929), 30 May 1929: Turtle Mountain (dec. Richard G. Willis, February 1929), 22 June 1929: Winnipeg (res.