Manitoba votes 2019: St. Vital riding profile

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The St. Vital riding has been around since 1958, flipping more or less between the Progressive Conservatives and the NDP throughout its history the lone exception being the 1988 election, when the riding voted Liberal.

Its boundaries changed significantly when they were redrawn last year, expanding to include almost half of the northern part of the Riel riding to the west while losing portions of its previous territory to Riel and Saint Boniface.

Thesouth-central Winnipegriding is bounded by the Red River to the west and the Seine River and St. Mary's Avenue to the east. To the north, the riding ends just south of Ellesmere Avenue and it's bounded by Bishop Grandin Boulevard to the south.

The riding includes the Winnipeg neighbourhoods of Kingston Crescent, Norberry, Worthington, Victoria Crescent and Pulberry.

Its population is 22,575, according to the province's 2018 riding profile.

Themedian age of the riding is above the overall provincial median, at40.4 in McPhillips compared to38.3provincewide,according to the 2018 riding profileand the 2016 census. The census found themedian household income in the area is $55,222.

More facts about St. Vital:

• Fourteen per cent of residents reported they speak both official languages according to the province's 2018 profile.
• More than 12 per cent of residents identified as Indigenous in the profile.
• The two largest employment areas in the riding are retail (13 per cent) and health care and social assistance (11 per cent), followed by education (8.5 per cent), accommodation and food services (7.9 per cent) and construction (7.7 per cent).

Voting history

The St. Vital riding

• 1958, 1962, 1966 and1969 elections: Progressive Conservative.
• 1971 byelection, 1973, 1977, 1981 and 1986 elections:NDP.
• 1988:Liberal.
• 1990 and1995 elections: Progressive Conservative.
• 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections:NDP.
• 2016 election:Progressive Conservative.

St. Vitalin the news

Meet the candidates

The nominated candidates for the 2019 election are:

• Jeffrey Anderson(Liberal).
• ElizabethDickson (Green Party).
• Colleen Mayer (Progressive Conservative).
• Jamie Moses (NDP).
• BaljeetSharma (Independent).
• DavidSutherland (Manitoba First).

Candidates become official when they meet criteria set out in the province's Elections Act, including providing a statement of disclosure. In St. Vital, all sixcandidates are official.

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