Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba is the presiding officer of the provincial legislature.

Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

Independent Speakers

• Joseph Royal (March 15, 1871 to March 14, 1872)
• Curtis Bird (February 5, 1873 to December 22, 1874)
• Joseph Dubuc (March 31, 1875 to December 1878)
• John Sifton (February 1, 1879 to December 1879)
• Gilbert McMicken (January 21, 1880 to December 1882)
• Alexander Murray (April 17, 1883 to December 1886)
• David Glass (April 14, 1887 to June 1888)

Liberal Speakers

• William Winram (August 28, 1888 to February 25, 1891)
• Samuel Jackson (February 25, 1891 to January 15, 1895)
• Finlay Young (February 14, 1895 to December 1899)

Conservative Speakers

• William Hespeler (March 29, 1900 to December 1903)
• James Johnson (January 7, 1904 to January 6, 1916)

Liberal Speaker

• James Baird (January 6, 1916 to January 24, 1922)

Progressive Speaker

• Philippe Adjutor Talbot (January 18, 1923 to 1932)

Liberal-Progressive Speakers

• Philippe Adjutor Talbot (1932 to June 12, 1936)
• Robert Hawkins (February 18, 1937 to September 29, 1949)

Independent Liberal-Progressive Speaker

• Wallace Miller (February 14, 1950 to August 15, 1950)

Liberal-Progressive Speaker

• Nicholas Bachynsky (November 7, 1950 to April 30, 1958)

Progressive Conservative Speakers

• Abram Harrison (October 23, 1958 to February 27, 1963)
• Thelma Forbes (February 28, 1963 to December 5, 1966)
• James Bilton (December 5, 1966 to August 14, 1969)

New Democrat Speakers

• Ben Hanuschak (August 14, 1969 to August 20, 1970)
• Peter Fox (August 7, 1971 to November 24, 1977)

Progressive Conservative Speaker

• Harry Graham (November 24, 1977 to 1981)

New Democrat Speakers

• Jim Walding (February 25, 1982 to February 11, 1986)
• Myrna Phillips (May 8, 1986 to March 9, 1988)

Progressive Conservative Speakers

• Denis Rocan (July 21, 1988 to May 22, 1995)
• Louise Dacquay (May 23, 1995 to August 17, 1999)

New Democrat Speakers

• George Hickes (November 18, 1999 to October 20, 2011)
• Daryl Reid (October 20, 2011 to May 2, 2016)

Progressive Conservative Speaker

• To be chosen on the first day of the first sitting of mew legislature