List of premiers of Manitoba

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This is a list of the premiers of the province of Manitoba, Canada, since it was created in 1870. Manitoba uses a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the Legislative Assembly. The premier, sometimes called the prime minister, acts as Manitoba's head of government, while the Queen of Canada acts as its head of state and is represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. The premier picks a cabinet from the elected members to form the Executive Council of Manitoba, and presides over that body.

Members are first elected to the legislature during general elections. General elections must be conducted every five years from the date of the last election, but the premier may ask for early dissolution of the legislative assembly. An election may also happen if the Governing party loses the confidence of the legislature, by the defeat of a supply bill or tabling of a confidence motion.

This article only covers the time since the province was created in 1870. Prior to that, the territory was loosely controlled by the British Crown.

Until 1888, Manitoba did not use a party system. After that date in the table, red bordered images denote the Liberal Party of Manitoba, blue denotes the various parties that led to the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, pink denotes the Progressive Party of Manitoba, and orange denotes the Manitoba New Democratic Party.

Premiers of Manitoba

	Name	Party	Term
	Alfred Boyd1	Non-party²	1870–1871
	Marc-Amable Girard1	Non-party²	1871–1872
	Henry Hynes Clarke1	Non-party²	1872–1874
	Marc-Amable Girard (again)	Non-party²	1874
	Robert A. Davis	Non-party	1874–1878
	John Norquay	Non-party²	1878–1887
	David H. Harrison	Non-party²	1887–1888
	Thomas Greenway	Liberal	1888–1900
	Sir Hugh John Macdonald	Conservative	1900
	Sir Rodmond P. Roblin	Conservative	1900–1915
	Tobias C. Norris	Liberal	1915–1922
	John Bracken	United Farmers/Progressive³	1922–1932
	John Bracken	Liberal-Progressive³	1932–1943
	Stuart S. Garson	Liberal-Progressive³	1943–1948
	Douglas L. Campbell	Liberal-Progressive4	1948–1958
	Dufferin Roblin	Progressive Conservative	1958–1967
	Walter Weir	Progressive Conservative	1967–1969
	Edward Schreyer	NDP	1969–1977
	Sterling Lyon	Progressive Conservative	1977–1981
	Howard Pawley	NDP	1981–1988
	Gary Filmon	Progressive Conservative	1988–1999
	Gary Doer	NDP	1999–

• ¹ Not actually government leaders. Sometimes referred to as "Chief Ministers".
• ² Prior to 1888 governments in Manitoba were non-partisan; however, these chief ministers and premiers were personally identified with the Conservative Party.
• ³The United Farmers of Manitoba party became the Progressive Party in 1928. After 1932 the government was a Liberal-Progressive coalition, and during the war the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Social Credit and Conservatives joined the coalition. The CCF left in 1943, while the Social Credit Party largely disintegrated in the 1940s. The Conservatives remained in the coalition until 1950.
• ⁴In coalition with the Conservatives until 1950.

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