The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba is the presiding officer of the provincial legislature.
List of speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
editNo. | Portrait | Name Electoral district (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Legislature | ||
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Term start | Term end | ||||||
1 | Joseph Royal MLA for St. Francois Xavier West (1837–1902) |
March 15, 1871 |
March 14, 1872 |
Government | 1st | ||
2 | Curtis James Bird MLA for St. Pauls (1838–1876) |
February 5, 1873 |
December 22, 1874 |
Government | |||
3 | Joseph Dubuc MLA for St. Norbert (1840–1914) |
March 31, 1875 |
December 1878 |
Government | 2nd | ||
4 | John Wright Sifton MLA for St. Clements (1833–1912) |
February 1, 1879 |
December 1879 |
Government | 3rd | ||
5 | Gilbert McMicken MLA for Cartier (1813–1891) |
January 21, 1880 |
December 1882 |
Liberal-Conservative | 4th | ||
6 | Alexander Murray MLA for Assiniboia (1839–1913) |
April 17, 1883 |
December 1886 |
Conservative | 5th | ||
7 | David Glass MLA for St. Clements (1830–1906) |
April 14, 1887 |
June 1888 |
Independent | 6th | ||
8 | William Winram MLA for Manitou (1830–1906) |
August 28, 1888 |
February 12, 1891 |
Liberal | 7th | ||
9 | Samuel Jacob Jackson MLA for Rockwood (1848–1942) |
February 25, 1891 |
January 15, 1895 |
Liberal | |||
8th | |||||||
10 | Finlay McNaughton Young MLA for Killarney (1852–1916) |
February 14, 1895 |
December 1899 |
Liberal | |||
9th | |||||||
11 | William Hespeler MLA for Rosenfeld (1830–1921) |
March 29, 1900 |
December 1903 |
Independent Conservative | 10th | ||
12 | James Johnson MLA for Turtle Mountain (1855–1929) |
January 7, 1904 |
January 6, 1916 |
Independent Conservative | 11th | ||
Conservative | 12th | ||||||
13th | |||||||
14th | |||||||
13 | James Bryson Baird MLA for Mountain (1859–1939) |
January 6, 1916 |
January 24, 1922 |
Liberal | 15th | ||
16th | |||||||
14 | Philippe Adjutor Talbot MLA for La Verendrye (1879–1967) |
January 18, 1923 |
June 12, 1936 |
United Farmers | 17th | ||
Progressive | 18th | ||||||
Liberal-Progressive | 19th | ||||||
15 | Robert Hawkins MLA for Dauphin (1879–1962) |
February 18, 1937 |
September 29, 1949 |
Liberal-Progressive | 20th | ||
21st | |||||||
22nd | |||||||
16 | Wallace C. Miller MLA for Rhineland (1896–1959) |
February 14, 1950 |
August 15, 1950 |
Progressive Conservative | 23rd | ||
17 | Nicholas Bachynsky MLA for Fisher (1887–1969) |
November 7, 1950 |
October 23, 1958 |
Liberal-Progressive | |||
24th | |||||||
18 | Abram Harrison MLA for Rock Lake (1898–1979) |
October 23, 1958 |
February 27, 1963 |
Progressive Conservative | 25th | ||
26th | |||||||
19 | Thelma Forbes MLA for Cypress (1910–2012) |
February 28, 1963 |
December 5, 1966 |
Progressive Conservative | 27th | ||
20 | James Bilton MLA for Swan River (1908–1988) |
December 5, 1966 |
August 14, 1969 |
Progressive Conservative | 28th | ||
21 | Ben Hanuschak MLA for Burrows (born 1930) |
August 14, 1969 |
August 20, 1970 |
New Democratic | 29th | ||
22 | Peter Fox MLA for Kildonan (1921–1989) |
August 7, 1971 |
November 24, 1977 |
New Democratic | |||
30th | |||||||
23 | Harry Graham MLA for Birtle-Russell (1921–2006) |
November 24, 1977 |
October 13, 1981 |
Progressive Conservative | 31st | ||
24 | Jim Walding MLA for St. Vital (1937–2007) |
February 25, 1982 |
February 11, 1986 |
New Democratic | 32nd | ||
25 | Myrna Phillips MLA for Wolseley (born 1942) |
May 8, 1986 |
March 9, 1988 |
New Democratic | 33rd | ||
26 | Denis Rocan MLA for Turtle Mountain (until 1990) MLA for Gladstone (from 1990) (born 1949) |
July 21, 1988 |
May 22, 1995 |
Progressive Conservative | 34th | ||
35th | |||||||
27 | Louise Dacquay MLA for Seine River (born 1940) |
May 23, 1995 |
August 17, 1999 |
Progressive Conservative | 36th | ||
28 | George Hickes MLA for Point Douglas (born 1946) |
November 18, 1999 |
October 20, 2011 |
New Democratic | 37th | ||
38th | |||||||
39th | |||||||
29 | Daryl Reid MLA for Transcona (born 1950) |
October 20, 2011 |
March 16, 2016 |
New Democratic | 40th | ||
30 | Myrna Driedger MLA for Charleswood (until 2019) MLA for Roblin (from 2019) (born 1952) |
May 18, 2016 |
November 9, 2023 |
Progressive Conservative | 41st | ||
42nd | |||||||
31 | Tom Lindsey MLA for Flin Flon) |
November 9, 2023 |
Incumbent | New Democratic | 43rd |