1959 Manitoba general election

Dufferin Roblin Progressive Conservative Dufferin Roblin Progressive Conservative The 1959 Manitoba general election was held on May 14, 1959 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.

Roblin's PCs won 36 seats against 11 for the Liberal-Progressives, led by former Premier Douglas Campbell, and 10 for the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Lloyd Stinson.

The election is the last one to be fought by candidates with the "Liberal-Progressive," "Co-operative Commonwealth," or "Labor-Progressive" labels in Manitoba.

The Liberal-Progressives dropped the latter half in 1961 and ran all subsequent elections as "Liberals."