What to know about the Burrows riding for Manitoba's 2023 election

• About the riding
• Voting history
• News stories from Burrows
• Meet the candidates
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The Burrows riding has been around since 1958. This Winnipeg riding takes up an older part of the city's North end, bounded by Keewatin Street, Selkirk Avenue and the CP Railway in the west, the CPR main line in the south, Arlington Street, Inkster Boulevard and McPhillips Street in the east and Jefferson Avenue and Adsum Drive in the north.

The riding includes the Inkster Industrial Park, Shaughnessy Heights and Burrows Central neighbourhoods.

Its population is 24,825 according to the province's riding profile.

Half of the riding's residents identified as immigrants in the 2021 census.

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The median age of the riding's population is 37.2, according to the profile prepared by the Manitoba Bureau of Statistics, based on information from the 2021 census.

More facts about Burrows

• The riding's language makeup is diverse, with many residents speaking languages other than English most of the time at home.
• Nearly 60 per cent of residents spoke English most of the time at home, with Tagalog (18.3 per cent) and Punjabi (roughly six cent) making up the majority of single-language, non-English speaking homes, in addition to almost 12 per cent of respondents who said they speak more than one language at home, according to the profile, which is based on information from the 2021 census.
• Just over 13 per cent of residents identify as Indigenous, according to the 2021 census.

Voting history

The riding has leaned left for decades. It was represented by the precursor to the NDP, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, from 1958 until 1962, and has bounced between the Liberals and the NDP ever since. Most recently, voters elected NDP MLA Diljeet Brar in the 2019 election.

• 1958, 1959 elections: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
• 1962: Liberal.
• 1966, 1969, 1973, 1977: NDP.
• 1988: Liberal.
• 1990, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007: NDP.
• 2011: Melanie Wight (NDP).
• 2016: Cindy Lamoureux (Liberal).
• 2019: Diljeet Brar (NDP).

Burrows in the news

• 'A happy day': Inkster Park neighbours toast renamed park honouring history of Komagata Maru
• Winnipeg's Red River Ex expands security measures after shooting at last year's fair
• Winnipeg man, 29, dead after assault near Arlington Street beer vendor

Meet the candidates

As of Sept. 11, the nominated candidates for the 2023 election are:

• DiljeetBrar (NDPincumbent).
• Navraz Brar (Progressive Conservative).
• Gary Alejo (Liberal).

Candidates become official when they meet criteria set out in the province's Elections Act, including providing a statement of disclosure, after the election has been called. In Burrows, the candidates are listed as official.

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