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2003 Manitoba general election

The 2003 Manitoba general election was held on June 3, 2003 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the New Democratic Party, which won 35 seats out of 57 (net gain of 3), securing another term for premier Gary Doer.

The Progressive Conservative Party finished second with twenty seats, a net loss of 4 from 1999. The Liberal Party won two seats, a net gain of one from the previous election.

An article in The Globe and Mail attributed the NDP's strong performance to premier Doer's tenure, where he was seen as having "delivered a reasonable economic performance and a steady stream of budget surpluses."

Results

|- style="background:#ccc;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party leader !rowspan="2"|<span style="font-size: 80%;">Candidates</span> ! colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Seats ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Popular vote |- style="background:#ccc;" | style="text-align:center;"|1999 | style="text-align:center;"|<span style="font-size: 80%;">Dissol.</span> | style="text-align:center;"|2003 | style="text-align:center;"|+ / — | style="text-align:center;"|# | style="text-align:center;"|% | style="text-align:center;"|Change

|align=left|New Democratic |align=left|Gary Doer |align="right"|57 |align="right"|32 |align="right"|31 |align="right"|35 |align="right"|+3 |align="right"|195,425 |align="right"|49.47% |align="right"|+4.96%

|align=left|Progressive Conservative |align=left|Stuart Murray |align="right"|57 |align="right"|24 |align="right"|23 |align="right"|20 |align="right"|&minus;4 |align="right"|142,967 |align="right"|36.19% |align="right"|&minus;4.65%

|align=left|Liberal |align=left|Jon Gerrard |align="right"|57 |align="right"|1 |align="right"|1 |align="right"|2 |align="right"|+1 |align="right"|52,123 |align="right"|13.19% |align="right"|&minus;0.21%

|align=left|Markus Buchart |align="right"|14 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|— |align="right"|3,792 |align="right"|0.96% |align="right"|+0.76%

|align=left|Darrell Rankin |align="right"|5 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|— |align="right"|334 |align="right"|0.08% |align="right"|&minus;0.01%

|align=left|Chris Buors |align="right"|5 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|— |align="right"|248 |align="right"|0.06% |align="right"|-0.07%

| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Independents and no affiliation |align="right"|2 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|1 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|— |align="right"|167 |align="right"|0.04% |align="right"|&minus;0.19%

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"|Vacant |align="right"|2 | style="text-align:center;" colspan="5"|&nbsp; |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total | style="text-align:right;"|196 | style="text-align:right;"|57 | style="text-align:right;"|57 | style="text-align:right;"|57 | style="text-align:right;"|— | style="text-align:right;"|397,069 | style="text-align:right;"|54.17% | style="text-align:right;"|&nbsp; |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="8"|Registered Voters |align="right"|732,946 | style="text-align:center;" colspan="5"|&nbsp;

<sup>1</sup> One of the two independent candidates is a member of the federal Christian Heritage Party, while the other was formerly a candidate of the Libertarian Party.

Vote and seat summaries

Synopsis of results

= open seat
= winning candidate was in previous Legislature
= incumbent had switched allegiance
= previously incumbent in another riding
= incumbency arose from a byelection gain
= not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
= other incumbents renominated
= previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada
= multiple candidates

Turnout, winning shares and swings

Changes in party shares

Post-election changes

  • John Loewen (Fort Whyte) resigned his seat on September 26, 2005 to campaign for the House of Commons of Canada. A by-election was held on December 16, 2005, to determine his successor.

See also

References

Further reading

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