Editing Stan Roberts (section)

==Early years==
Roberts was born in [[St. Adolphe, Manitoba]], later farming there,<ref name="lachine">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jBUyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nKUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5377,25073 |title=Outsider Roberts at home in Lachine |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |date=August 1, 1984 |page=5 |last=Janigan |first=Karen |accessdate=2013-09-15}}</ref> and received of [[Bachelor of Science]] degree from the [[University of Manitoba]] and an [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]] from [[University of Western Ontario|Western University]].<ref name="harper"/>  He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1958, as a [[Manitoba Liberal Party|Liberal-Progressive]] candidate in the francophone riding of [[La Verendrye (electoral district)|La Verendrye]] (Roberts was himself bilingual).  Although [[Dufferin Roblin]]'s [[Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba|Progressive Conservative (PC) Party]] won the general election,<ref name="members"/> Roberts defeated his Tory opponent [[Stan Bisson]] by 1565 votes to 1395.  He was re-elected in 1959,<ref name="members"/> defeating PC candidate [[Edmond Guertin]].

When [[Douglas Lloyd Campbell|Douglas Campbell]] resigned as Liberal-Progressive leader in 1961, Roberts ran to succeed him.  He represented a "left opposition" within the party, and accused its more conservative leadership of being ineffective against Roblin's centrist/progressive government.  He was defeated by establishment candidate [[Gildas Molgat]] by 475 votes to 279 on April 20, 1961, one day after the party formally renamed itself the Manitoba Liberal Party.<ref name="adams">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLQ3Nhdnv5sC&pg=PA83 |title=Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters |page=83 |year=2008 |ISBN=0887553559 |last=Adams |first=Christopher |publisher=University of Manitoba Press |accessdate=2013-09-15}}</ref>