Withdrawn: pre-election Gilles Roch party change (1986)

What the record says

The 1986 change occurred before Gilles Roch became an MLA and is not an in-term floor crossing. The corrected canonical record is the September 8, 1988 Progressive Conservative-to-Liberal change.

Participants

1. Gilles Roch

   CTF-EP-000167-01

   Manitoba Liberal Party→ToProgressive Conservative Party of ManitobaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   1986year only

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

How rare is this?

Claims and the sources cited for them

Every statement this record makes is stored as a separate claim with its own review state and its own citations. A claim with no citation is shown as such rather than omitted.

1. The reported 1986 change preceded Gilles Roch’s election as an MLA and is not an in-term floor crossing.

   Withdrawn

   Field:

   affiliation_change

   Confidence:

   High

   Signed by:

   Not signed by a named contributor

   Concerns a living person

   No source is cited for this claim.

What happened afterwards

Recorded outcomes only. An absence here means nothing has been recorded, not that nothing happened, and no causal link to the affiliation change is asserted unless a source establishes one.

No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

Corrections to this record

• Gilles Roch year and direction

  The inherited 1986 entry was a pre-election party change, not an in-term crossing. It is withdrawn and linked to the verified 1988 Progressive Conservative-to-Liberal event.

  August 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-OUTCOME-000167

Linked records

• corrects Gilles Roch joins the Manitoba Liberal Party (1988)The verified 1988 in-term change corrects the withdrawn pre-election 1986 record.

Editorial review passes

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• fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.

1. r3 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/gilles-roch-1986, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/gilles-roch-1986, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

2. r2 withdrawn

   Withdrew the pre-election 1986 Gilles Roch entry and linked the verified 1988 in-term crossing.

   August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier

3. r1 created

   Imported from the legacy archive as an unpublished research lead. Historical narrative, motive labels, and benefit scores were not treated as verified claims.

   July 31, 2026 · Crossing the Floor project maintainer