Conservative Premier Gary Filmon won a slim majority in the Manitoba provincial election September 11, taking 30 seats. Liberal leader Sharon Carstairs saw her part fall to third place, shrinking from 21 seats to seven.

The final tally

1990 1988

Tories              30        25

NDP                20        12

Liberals           7         20

Popular vote

Tories              204,870 (42%)

NDP                139,853 (29%)

Liberals           137,248 (28%)

Other                 5,179 ( 2%)

Pro-life concerns were not an issue because at the time of the election, Manitoba had no pro-life political action groups. Recently, however, Campaign Life Coalition, set up an organization in that province.