Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

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

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No.  | 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

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