Manitoba votes 2019: Riding Mountain riding profile
CBC News | Posted: August 21, 2019 1:05 AM | Last Updated: August 21, 2019
- About the riding
- Voting history
- News stories from Riding Mountain
- Meet the candidates
- More riding profiles from CBC Manitoba
The southwest Manitoba riding of Riding Mountain was created in 2008 from the former ridings of Russell and Minnedosa.
Its boundaries were changed again in 2018, gaining a chunk of territory in the southwest from the former Arthur-Virden. It's bounded on the west by the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border. Riding Mountain National Park makes up much of its northern and part of its eastern boundary.
The riding includes Birtle, Virden, Reston, Erickson, Sioux Valley, Minnedosa, Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, Rolling River First Nation and Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation.
The riding's population is 24,255, according to the province's 2018 riding profile (compiled from the 2016 census).
The median age of the riding is older than the overall provincial median, at 44 in Riding Mountain 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 $60,688.
More facts about Riding Mountain:
- Roughly 17 per cent of residents identified as Indigenous in the 2016 census, according to the 2018 riding profile.
- Six per cent of residents identified as immigrants, the profile says, and two per cent identified as visible minorities.
- Three-quarters reported they own their homes, the profile says.
- The largest single employment group is agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, employing more than 19 per cent of the total labour force aged 15 and older. That group is followed by health care and social assistance at 13.5 per cent.
Voting history
The riding has voted Progressive Conservative in both provincial elections it has participated in.
- 2011 and 2016 elections: Progressive Conservative.
Riding Mountain in the news
Meet the candidates
The nominated candidates for the 2019 election are:
- Wayne Chacun (NDP).
- Jordan Fleury (Liberal).
- Greg Nesbitt (Progressive Conservative).
Candidates become official when they meet criteria set out in the province's Elections Act, including providing a statement of disclosure. In Riding Mountain, all candidates are official.
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