Manitoba votes 2019: Union Station riding profile
CBC News | Posted: August 14, 2019 10:27 PM | Last Updated: August 14, 2019
- About the riding
- Voting history
- News stories from Union Station
- Meet the candidates
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Until last year, the Union Station riding was called Logan. That changed when its boundaries were redrawn to no longer include Logan Avenue. The riding was created in 2008 from pieces of the Point Douglas and Fort Rouge ridings as well as the former Wellington and Minto ridings.
The downtown Winnipeg riding is bounded by Notre Dame Avenue, Portage Avenue, Westbrook Street, Pioneer Avenue and the CN rail line in the north. To the east, it continues along the Red River, then runs west along the Assiniboine River, Osborne Street North and Broadway. Its western boundary is Maryland Street.
The riding covers most of downtown, including The University of Winnipeg, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Manitoba Legislature.
Its population is 21,885, according to the province's 2018 riding profile (compiled from the 2016 census).
The median age of the riding is slightly below the overall provincial median, at 36.1 in Union Station compared to 38.3 provincewide, according to the 2018 riding profile and the 2016 census. The census found the median household income in the area is $33,516.
More facts about Union Station:
- Just over 90 per cent of residents reported they're renters in the 2016 census, according to the province's 2018 profile.
- Just over 71 per cent of occupied private dwellings were built before 1980, just over half of which were built before 1960.
- Roughly 36 per cent of residents identified as immigrants, the profile says.
- Winnipeg's downtown contains 1,300 businesses, according to the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ.
Voting history
The Union Station riding has only ever voted for the NDP (although it was called Logan at the time).
- 2011 and 2016 elections: NDP
Union Station in the news
Meet the candidates
The nominated candidates for the 2019 election are:
- Uzoma Asagwara (NDP).
- Elsa Cubas (Communist Party of Canada - Manitoba).
- Harold Davis (Liberal).
- Tara Fawcett (Progressive Conservative).
- Andrea Shalay (Green Party of Manitoba).
- James Yau (Independent).
Candidates become official when they meet criteria set out in the province's Elections Act, including providing a statement of disclosure. In Union Station, all candidates are official.