Point Douglas

This article is about a provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. For the ghost town in Minnesota, see Point Douglas, Minnesota.

Point Douglas

Manitoba electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
MLA	Bernadette Smith New Democratic
District created	1968
First contested	1968
Last contested	2019
Demographics
Population (2016)	21,606
Electors (2017)	10,761
Census division(s)	Division No. 11
Census subdivision(s)	Winnipeg

Point Douglas is a provincial electoral district in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is named for a part of the city that is surrounded by a bend in the Red River. The riding covers the neighbourhoods of William Whyte, Dufferin Industrial, North Point Douglas, Lord Selkirk Park and South Point Douglas plus parts of St. John's Park, St. John's, Inkster-Faraday, Burrows Central, Robertson, Dufferin, Logan C.P.R., Civic Centre and the Exchange District.

History

The division was created by redistribution for the 1969 provincial election, eliminated in 1978 into Burrows, Logan and St. Johns. It was re-established in 1989 from parts of Burrows, Logan, St. Johns and a small part of Sevenoaks. It is located in north-central Winnipeg, and includes the Point Douglas neighbourhood.

Point Douglas is bordered to the east by St. Boniface and Elmwood, to the south by Logan, to the north by St. Johns, and to the west by Burrows, Wellington and Minto. Different parts of the division are included in the federal ridings of Winnipeg Centre and Winnipeg North.

Point Douglas is named after Thomas Douglas, the 5th Earl of Selkirk, who established the Red River Colony in 1812. His namesake, twentieth-century politician Tommy Douglas, also lived in the Point Douglas neighbourhood in the early 1910s.

The Manitoba New Democratic Party has won every election in the constituency.

Demographics

Population	19,941 (1996)
Average family income	$24,715 (1999)
Unemployment	25% (1999)
Industries	Manufacturing (25%), Other services (22%) (1999)
Other	Point Douglas has the lowest average family income of any electoral division in the province. Three-quarters of the riding's residences are rented, and 37% of families are single-parent households. The division is ethnically diverse, with significant aboriginal (33%), Filipino (10%) and Ukrainian populations (6%).

Source: 2003 CBC Profile

List of provincial representatives

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Burrows, St. Johns, Elmwood, Logan and Winnipeg Centre
29th	1969-1973		Donald Malinowski	New Democratic
30th	1973-1977
31st	1977-1981
Riding abolished from 1981-1990
35th	1990-1995		George Hickes	New Democratic
36th	1995-1999
37th	1999-2003
38th	2003-2007
39th	2007-2011
40th	2011-2016		Kevin Chief
41st	2016-2017
	2017–present		Bernadette Smith
42nd	2019–present

Electoral history

1990 to present

2019 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bernadette Smith	3,002	62.13	+17.78	$19,767.20
	Progressive Conservative	Michelle Redmond	757	15.67	-0.58	$521.28
	Liberal	Richard Sanderson	565	11.69	-17.39	$0.00
	Green	Jenn Kess	398	8.24	3.99	$0.00
	Manitoba	Michael Wenuik	66	1.37	-3.86	$0.00
	Communist	Fagie Fainman	44	0.91	+0.07	$310.80
Total valid votes				100.0
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters

Manitoba provincial by-election, 13 June 2017 Resignation of Kevin Chief
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bernadette Smith	1,568	44.35	-13.46	$35,313.48
	Liberal	John Cacayuran	1,006	29.08	+9.62	$19,478.56
	Progressive Conservative	Jodi Moskal	562	16.25	-0.27	$35,068.27
	Manitoba	Gary Marshall	181	5.23		$5,528.56
	Green	Sabrina Koehn Binesi	147	4.25	-0.78	$2,230.86
	Communist	Frank Komarniski	27	0.84	-0.34	$9.44
Total valid votes/Expense limit			3,491	100.00	-	$37,179.00
Total rejected and declines votes			23	0.72	-0.45
Turnout			3,514	32.38	-10.16
Electors on the lists			11,207
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-11.54
Source: Elections Manitoba

Results by polling division, 2016

2016 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Kevin Chief	2,839	57.81	-15.47	$24,493.23
	Liberal	Althea Guiboche	956	19.47	+14.52	$10,557.41
	Progressive Conservative	Marsha Street	811	16.51	-1.14	$9,380.15
	Green	Alberteen Spence	247	5.03	+1.64	$0.00
	Communist	Frank Komarniski	58	1.18	+0.45	$
Total valid votes/expense limit			4,911	100.00	-	$36,863.00
Total rejected and declines votes			58	1.17	+0.63
Turnout			4,969	42.53	-1.51
Registered electors			11,683
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-14.99
Source: Elections Manitoba

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1969 to 1981

All electoral information is taken from Elections Manitoba. Expenditures refer to individual candidate expenses.

Previous boundaries

The 1999-2011 boundaries for Point Douglas highlighted in red.