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

• About the riding
• Voting history
• News stories from Transcona
• Meet the candidates
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East Winnipeg's Transcona riding has been around since 1969, though its boundaries changed significantly in the 2018 riding redistribution when it gained a large portion of the nearby Radisson riding.

The Transcona riding now runs between Gunn Road to the north and Fermor Avenue and St. Boniface Road to the south. Its eastern boundary runs along the Perimeter Highway, Murdock Road and Plessis Road, while its western boundary runs along Day Street, Plessis Road and Lagimodire Boulevard.

Its population is 23,565, according to Elections Manitoba's riding profile,compiled using data from the 2021 census.

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The median age in the Transcona riding is 38.4 the same as the provincial median age while its median household income is $88,000.

More facts about Transcona

• A total of 14.5 per cent of residents in the riding identified as Indigenous, according to the riding's profile.
• Just over 18 per cent of the riding's residents identify as visible minorities.
• Roughly 81 per cent of residents in the riding said they owned their own home. The median value of homes in the riding has risen from $250,654 in 2016 to $300,000 in 2021 a nearly 20 per cent jump.
• More than half the homes in the riding were built before 1980. Of those homes, almost one-quarter were built in 1960 or earlier, according to the riding's profile.

Voting history

The riding has been an NDP stronghold for decades, but it's also at times gone to the Progressive Conservatives or Liberals.

• 1969-1986 elections (five general elections): NDP.
• 1988: Liberal.
• 1990-2011 (six general elections): NDP.
• 2011: Daryl Reid (NDP).
• 2016: Blair Yakimoski (Progressive Conservative).
• 2019: Nello Altomare (NDP).

Transcona in the news

• Olive Garden employee repeatedly stabbed in 'unprovoked and random' attack at Winnipeg restaurant: police
• Manitoba restaurant owner lends kitchen to Ukrainian refugees to sell traditional food
• East of the Red Rec Plex cost rises $7M since 2020, now pegged to start construction in 2026

Meet the candidates

The nominated candidates for the 2023 election, as of Sept. 2, are:

• Nello Altomare (NDP incumbent).
• Arthur Bloomfield (Liberal).
• Titi Tijani (Progressive Conservative).

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 Transcona, all candidates are official.

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