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

CBC News | Posted: September 1, 2023 6:04 PM | Last Updated: September 12, 2023

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Caption: Manitobans head to the polls Oct. 3. (CBC)

This will be the second election for the riding of McPhillips, which was created when riding boundaries were redrawn in 2018 to capture the projected population growth in the area. The constituency took pieces of the St. Paul riding to its north, as well as Kildonan to its southeast and The Maples to its southwest.

The northern Winnipeg riding is bounded on the north by the city limits and on the south by Leila Avenue, Inkster Boulevard and the CPR Winnipeg Beach rail line. Its western boundary runs along Pipeline Road and Winnipeg city limits, and its eastern boundary runs along the Red River, city limits and Main Street.

McPhillips includes the Winnipeg neighbourhoods of West Kildonan and Garden City, as well as the rural municipality of West St. Paul.

Its population is 27,835, according to Elections Manitoba's riding's profile.

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The riding has gotten younger since the 2016 census, with the median age dropping from 42.5 to 38, according to the profile — which brings it closer to the provincial median age of 38.4. The median household income in the riding is $94,000, according to 2021 census data.

More facts about McPhillips

The riding has a diverse language base, with almost 25 per cent of residents reporting they spoke languages other than English most often at home, according to Elections Manitoba's riding's profile.
That includes nearly eight per cent who reported they speak Tagalog most often at home, and 10.4 per cent speaking Punjabi most often.
Less than nine per cent of residents identified as Indigenous in the 2021 census.

Voting history

The riding has no official voting history of its own before 2019. But the former St. Paul and Kildonan ridings, which both contributed to McPhillips, voted Progressive Conservative in the 2016 election, while The Maples — part of which was also taken into McPhillips — voted NDP.

In its first election in 2019, Shannon Martin won the seat for the Progressive Conservatives.

Martin said earlier this year that he did not plan to seek re-election.

McPhillips in the news

Meet the candidates

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

Jasdeep Devgan (NDP).
Sheilah Restall (Progressive Conservative).
Umar Hayat (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 McPhillips, the candidates are official.

Find more CBC Manitoba riding profiles here.