Manitoba votes 2019: Assiniboia riding profile
CBC News | Posted: August 15, 2019 6:09 PM | Last Updated: August 15, 2019
- About the riding
- Voting history
- News stories from Assiniboia
- Meet the candidates
- More riding profiles from CBC Manitoba
This is a longstanding Manitoba riding, first created in 1903. It covers a chunk of northwest Winnipeg, no longer including James Armstrong Richardson International Airport as of the 2018 boundary updates.
The updated riding is bounded on the north and west by city limits. Its southern boundary is Portage Avenue and the eastern boundary runs along the CP rail line, Saskatchewan Avenue, Moray Street, Ness Avenue and Sturgeon Road.
It includes the Winnipeg neighbourhoods Crestview and Sturgeon Creek.
Its population is 22,840, according to the province's 2018 riding profile (compiled from the 2016 census).
The median age of the riding is above the overall provincial median, at 42.9 in Assiniboia 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 $66,903.
More facts about Assiniboia:
- The riding has a larger percentage of older residents than the provincial distribution, with 21.1 per cent of residents being 65 and older, compared to the provincial percentage of 15.6, according to the province's 2018 profile and the 2016 census.
- Close to 90 per cent of the population identified as not a visible minority in the 2016 census, according to the province's 2018 profile.
- Nearly 14 per cent of residents identified as Indigenous in the 2016 census, according to the profile.
Voting history
The riding has flipped between parties a few times in its more than 100-year history, most recently voting for then-Progressive Conservative candidate Stephen Fletcher (later an Independent MLA after his ouster from the Progressive Conservative caucus) following 17 years with NDP MLAs.
The riding had representation from Liberal, Conservative, Labour and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the pre-cursor to the NDP) MLAs during its early history, before beginning a 15-year stint of Liberal representation in 1962.
- 1962, 1966, 1969 and 1973 elections: Liberal.
- 1977, 1981 and 1986 elections: Progressive Conservative.
- 1988 election: Liberal.
- 1990 and 1995 elections: Progressive Conservative.
- 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections: NDP.
- 2016 election: Progressive Conservative.
Assiniboia in the news
Meet the candidates
The nominated candidates for the 2019 election are:
- Jeff Anderson (Liberal).
- Scott Johnston (Progressive Conservative).
- Joe McKellep (NDP).
Candidates become official when they meet criteria set out in the province's Elections Act, including providing a statement of disclosure. In Assiniboia, all candidates are official.