Gilles Roch joins the Manitoba Liberal Party (1988)

What the record says

Gilles Roch changed from Progressive Conservative to Liberal while serving as an MLA on September 8, 1988. His earlier party-support change before the 1986 election was not a floor crossing, and no Cabinet appointment is attributed to this event.

Participants

1. Gilles Roch

   CTF-EP-000277-01

   Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba→ToManitoba Liberal PartyTo 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

   September 8, 1988

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

How rare is this?

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1. Gilles Roch changed from Progressive Conservative to Manitoba Liberal while serving as an MLA on September 8, 1988.

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   affiliation_change

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   Official-source deterministic verifier

   Concerns a living person

   • Debates and Proceedings — reference to the 1988 Gilles Roch crossing

     Legislative Assembly of Manitoba · record 1988 when Gilles Roch crossed the floor · EN

     Later Hansard explicitly refers to the 1988 floor crossing.

     Archived copy — April 19, 2025

     CTF-S-MB-HANSARD-ROCH-2006 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

   • Debates and Proceedings — September 8, 1988

     Legislative Assembly of Manitoba · September 8, 1988 · record 1988-09-08 sitting; members, constituencies and political affiliation; Gilles Roch listed Liberal · EN

     The September 8 sitting roster records Roch as Liberal.

     Archived copy — July 20, 2017

     CTF-S-MB-HANSARD-1988-09-08 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

   • Thirty-Third Legislature — member roster

     Legislative Assembly of Manitoba · record Thirty-Third Legislature; Gilles Roch; PC caucus roster · EN

     The preceding official roster records Roch as Progressive Conservative.

     Archived copy — June 3, 2025

     CTF-S-MB-33-ROSTER · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

What happened afterwards

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No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

Corrections to this record

• Permanent citation address did not resolve

  The permanent URI published for this record was https://crossingthefloor.ca/id/events/CTF-E-000277. This site has never served a language-prefixed route and has no /id/ route, so that address returned HTTP 404: any citation made against it did not resolve to the record. The permanent URI is now https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/gilles-roch-1988, the canonical record address. The record's facts, dates, parties, participants, sources and public identifier (CTF-E-000277) are unchanged; only the stored address was corrected.

  September 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-URI-000277

Linked records

• corrects Withdrawn: pre-election Gilles Roch party change (1986)The verified 1988 in-term change corrects the withdrawn pre-election 1986 record.

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• fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

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1. r2 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /id/events/CTF-E-000277, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/gilles-roch-1988, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

2. r1 created

   Created the source-bound 1988 Progressive Conservative-to-Liberal Gilles Roch crossing.

   August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier