Winnipeg South Centre

Winnipeg South Centre

Manitoba electoral district
Winnipeg South Centre in relation to other federal electoral districts in Winnipeg
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Joyce Bateman Conservative
District created	1987
First contested	1988
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2006)	78,286
Electors (2011)	59,444
Area (km²)	34
Pop. density (per km²)	2,302.5
Census divisions	Winnipeg
Census subdivisions	Winnipeg

Winnipeg South Centre is a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1979 and since 1988.

Geography

The district includes the neighbourhoods of Old Tuxedo, Central Tuxedo, South Tuxedo, Sir John Franklin, North River Heights, Central River Heights, South River Heights, Wellington Crescent, Osborne Village, Crescentwood, Earl Grey, Rockwood, Grant Park, Riverview, Lord Roberts, Beaumont, Wildwood, Fort Garry, Maybank, and the western half of the Pembina Strip in the City of Winnipeg.

History

The electoral district was originally created in 1924 from Winnipeg South and Winnipeg Centre ridings. It generally consisted of the part of the city west of the Red River and north of the Assiniboine River. In 1952, it gained parts the Rural Municipality (and later city) of St. James. In 1966, it gained parts the municipalities of Assiniboia, and Charleswood, and the Town of Tuxedo.

In 1976, it was abolished with part transferred to Selkirk—Interlake, Winnipeg—Assiniboine, Winnipeg—St. James and Winnipeg North Centre ridings.

The electoral district was re-created in 1987 from Winnipeg North Centre, Winnipeg—Assiniboine and Winnipeg—Fort Garry ridings.

The district's boundaries were redistributed in 1996 and 2004.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Winnipeg South and Winnipeg Centre prior to 1924
15th	1925–1926		William Walker Kennedy	Conservative
16th	1926–1930		Joseph Thorarinn Thorson	Liberal
17th	1930–1935		William Walker Kennedy	Conservative
18th	1935–1940		Ralph Maybank	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1951
	1951–1953		Gordon Churchill	Progressive Conservative
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972		Edmund Boyd Osler	Liberal
29th	1972–1974		A. Daniel McKenzie	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979
Selkirk—Interlake, Winnipeg—Assiniboine, Winnipeg—St. James and Winnipeg North Centre from 1976 to 1987
34th	1988–1993		Lloyd Axworthy	Liberal
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004		Anita Neville	Liberal
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present		Joyce Bateman	Conservative

Current Member of Parliament

Joyce Bateman was elected to the House of Commons in the 2011 General Election.

Election results

1988 - present

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Conservative	Joyce Bateman	15,506	38.82	+2.56
	Liberal	Anita Neville	14,784	37.02	-5.24
	New Democratic	Dennis Lewycky	7,945	19.89	+5.78
	Green	Joshua McNeil	1,383	3.46	-3.89
	Independent	Matt Henderson	218	0.55	–
	Independent	Lyndon B. Froese	103	0.26	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,939	100.00	-
Total rejected ballots			154	0.38	-0.01
Turnout			40,093	70.80	+5.12
Eligible voters			56,628	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Anita Neville	16,438	42.26	+3.02	$74,911
	Conservative	Trevor Kennerd	14,103	36.26	+4.77	$74,675
	New Democratic	Rachel Heinrichs	5,490	14.11	-7.69	$10,465
	Green	Vere Scott	2,860	7.35	+2.90	$1,774
Total valid votes/Expense limit			38,891	100.00	$77,552
Total rejected ballots			151	0.39
Turnout			39,042	65.68	–

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Anita Neville	16,296	39.24	-7.4	$71,377
	Conservative	Michael Richards	13,077	31.49	+4.5	$72,385
	New Democratic	Mark Wasyliw	9,055	21.80	+0.6	$19,492
	Green	Vere H. Scott	1,848	4.45	+0.6	$1,237
	Progressive Canadian	Dale Swirsky	934	2.24	–	$11,137
	Independent	Jeffrey Anderson	246	0.59	–	$3,204
	Canadian Action	Magnus Thompson	66	0.15	-0.1	$2,750
Total valid votes			41,522	100.00
Total rejected ballots			150	0.36	0.0
Turnout			41,672	69.49	+6.9

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Anita Neville	18,133	46.6	+6.1	$70,382
	Conservative	Raj Joshi	10,516	27.0	+7.2	$62,453
	New Democratic	James Allum	8,270	21.3	+1.3	$29,392
	Green	Ian Scott	1,508	3.9	–	$1,030
	Marijuana	Andy Caisse	293	0.8	-1.0
	Canadian Action	Magnus Thompson	114	0.3	-0.2	$1,617
	Communist	Andrew Dalgliesh	81	0.2	-0.3	$654
Total valid votes			38,915	100.0
Total rejected ballots			139	0.4
Turnout			39,054	62.6

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Anita Neville	15,231	40.5	-15.4
	Progressive Conservative	David Newman	10,675	28.4	+14.4
	New Democratic	James Allum	7,501	19.9	+4.0
	Alliance	Betty Granger	3,210	8.5	-3.9
	Marijuana	Chris Buors	640	1.7
	Canadian Action	Magnus Thompson	202	0.5
	Communist	David Allison	181	0.5
Total valid votes			37,640	100.0

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Lloyd Axworthy	20,006	55.9	-5.2
	New Democratic	Sara Malabar	5,717	16.0	+7.3
	Progressive Conservative	Andrea Rolstone	5,011	14.0	+4.8
	Reform	Gary Hollingshead	4,457	12.5	-0.1
	Natural Law	Ron Decter	224	0.6	+0.1
	Independent	Jim Blomquist	202	0.6
	Marxist–Leninist	Karen Naylor	180	0.5	+0.3
Total valid votes			35,797	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Lloyd Axworthy	25,667	61.1	+2.6
	Reform	Vern A. Hannah	5,292	12.6	+10.9
	Progressive Conservative	Mike Radcliffe	3,878	9.2	-19.7
	New Democratic	Lloyd Penner	3,630	8.6	-1.7
	National	Bill Loewen	3,104	7.4
	Natural Law	Elizabeth Innes	225	0.5
	Independent	Karen Naylor	90	0.2
	Libertarian	Clancy Smith	88	0.2	-0.1
	Canada Party	Ben J. Fulawka	54	–
Total valid votes			42,028	100.0	0.1

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Lloyd Axworthy	26,191	58.4
	Progressive Conservative	Garth Dawley	12,960	28.9
	New Democratic	Les Campbell	4,637	10.3
	Reform	Ross Malabar	777	1.7
	Libertarian	Clancy Smith	154	0.3
	Independent	Ken Kalturnyk	111	0.2
Total valid votes			44,830	100.0

1925 - 1979

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Dan McKenzie	32,277	57.1	+11.9
	Liberal	Doug McEwen	15,956	28.2	-8.1
	New Democratic	Andy Robertson	7,823	13.8	-4.7
	Social Credit	Monty A. McDonald	365	0.6
	Marxist–Leninist	Marnie Frain	102	0.2
Total valid votes			56,523	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Dan McKenzie	25,550	45.2	+16.3
	Liberal	E. B. Osler	20,516	36.3	-15.5
	New Democratic	Harvey H. Moats	10,460	18.5	+0.6
Total valid votes			56,526	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	E. B. Osler	23,775	51.8	+15.5
	Progressive Conservative	Duff Roblin	13,268	28.9	-12.9
	New Democratic	Frances Thompson	8,240	17.9	-1.8
	Independent Conservative	John McDowell	632	1.4
Total valid votes			45,915	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Churchill	15,296	41.8	-0.7
	Liberal	Fred Douglas	13,262	36.3	-3.2
	New Democratic	Philip Petursson	7,234	19.8	+4.8
	Social Credit	Walter Hatch	764	2.1	-0.9
Total valid votes			36,556	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Churchill	17,092	42.6	-0.4
	Liberal	Fred Douglas	15,849	39.5	+2.3
	New Democratic	Alistair Stewart	6,011	15.0	-1.5
	Social Credit	Harold Bathgate	1,182	2.9	-0.4
Total valid votes			40,134	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Churchill	16,547	43.0	-23.6
	Liberal	Ed Russenholt	14,306	37.2	+18.1
	New Democratic	A.N. Robertson	6,357	16.5	+2.2
	Social Credit	Asta Oddson	1,298	3.4
Total valid votes			38,508	100.0

Note: NDP vote is compared to CCF vote in 1958 election.

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Churchill	27,722	66.6	+16.5
	Liberal	Ronald Gillies	7,927	19.0	-6.2
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gordon Fines	5,975	14.4	-3.5
Total valid votes			41,624	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Churchill	19,022	50.1	+7.4
	Liberal	Roy Richardson	9,592	25.3	-8.1
	Co-operative Commonwealth	A.H. Mackling	6,778	17.9	-4.4
	Social Credit	Asa Caswell	2,561	6.7
Total valid votes			37,953	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Churchill	12,489	42.7	-0.9
	Liberal	A.W. Hanks	9,752	33.3	-4.9
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gordon R. Fines	6,506	22.2	+4.1
	Labor-Progressive	Roland Penner	504	1.7
Total valid votes			29,251	100.0

By-election on 25 June 1951 On Mr. Maybank's resignation, 30 April 1951
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Churchill	6,009	43.6	+19.2
	Liberal	Norman Wright	5,273	38.3	-16.4
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Charles Biesick	2,497	18.1	-2.8
Total valid votes			13,779	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Ralph Maybank	14,747	54.7	+10.7
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Minto Churchill	6,593	24.4	+1.7
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Andrew N. Robertson	5,632	20.9	-12.4
Total valid votes			26,972	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Ralph Maybank	16,389	44.0	-10.5
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lloyd Cleworth Stinson	12,393	33.3	+17.7
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Edward Womersley	8,461	22.7	-7.2
Total valid votes			37,243	100.0

Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election.

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Ralph Maybank	19,486	54.5	+18.1
	National Government	William Walker Kennedy	10,698	29.9	-0.4
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Julius Swanson	5,576	15.6	-5.6
Total valid votes			35,760	100.0

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Ralph Maybank	11,264	36.4	-7.6
	Conservative	William Walker Kennedy	9,382	30.3	-25.7
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Stanley Knowles	6,573	21.2
	Reconstruction	Alfred James Susans	2,642	8.5
	Social Credit	Arthur Brown	1,114	3.6
Total valid votes			30,975	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Conservative	William Walker Kennedy	17,355	56.0	+7.2
	Liberal	Joseph Thorarinn Thorson	13,637	44.0	-7.2
Total valid votes			30,992	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Joseph Thorarinn Thorson	12,315	51.2	+20.0
	Conservative	William Walker Kennedy	11,737	48.8	-4.1
Total valid votes			24,052	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Walker Kennedy	12,094	52.9
	Liberal	Joseph Fergus Davidson	7,132	31.2
	Labour	Alexander Henry	3,643	15.9
Total valid votes			22,869	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

Sources

• Riding history for Winnipeg South Centre (1924–1976) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for Winnipeg South Centre (1987–2003) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for Winnipeg South Centre (2003– ) from the Library of Parliament
• Expenditures - 2008
• Expenditures - 2004