Elmwood (electoral district)

For other uses, see Elmwood (disambiguation).

Elmwood

Manitoba electoral district
The 2011- boundaries for Elmwood highlighted in red
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
MLA	Jim Maloway New Democratic
District created	1957
First contested	1958
Last contested	2016
Demographics
Census division(s)	Winnipeg

Elmwood is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

1914-1920

The original Elmwood riding existed from 1914 to 1920, in what was then a suburban community in the north of Winnipeg. Its provincial Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) were:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
14th	1914-1915		Harry Mewhirter	Conservative
15th	1915–1920		Thomas Hamilton	Liberal

1958-present

The modern Elmwood riding was created by redistribution in 1957, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1958. It is located in the northeastern section of the amalgamated City of Winnipeg; the Red River forms its western and part of its southern boundary. The Elmwood riding existing from 1958 to 1969 was confined to the actual Elmwood area of the city of Winnipeg. In the redistribution of 1969 part of East Kildonan was added. Since 1981 the Elmwood riding has moved further north into East Kildonan taking in much of the old Kildonan riding (existing between 1958 and 1981) while the eastern part of the Elmwood area has been removed and added to the Concordia riding created in 1981.

Elmwood is mostly working-class and industrial. According to the 1999 Canadian census, manufacturing accounted for 18% of all industry in the riding. Thirty-one per cent of the riding's residents are listed as low-income. The average family income in Elmwood was $41,842, and the unemployment rate was 9.40%.

The riding has a significant immigrant population, including 9% of German background and 8% of Ukrainian background. 18% of the riding's residents over age 65.

The New Democratic Party of Manitoba (and its predecessor, the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) have won Elmwood in every provincial election since the riding's creation. It was one of just four Winnipeg seats retained by the NDP in the disastrous 1988 general election.

List of provincial representatives

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Winnipeg North and Kildonan-Transcona
25th	1958–1959		Steve Peters	Co-operative Commonwealth
26th	1959–1961
	1961–1962			New Democratic
27th	1962–1966
28th	1966–1969		Russell Doern	New Democratic
29th	1969–1973
30th	1973–1977
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1984
	1984–1986			Independent
33rd	1986–1988		Jim Maloway	New Democratic
34th	1988-1990
35th	1990-1995
36th	1995-1999
37th	1999-2003
38th	2003-2007
39th	2007–2008
	2008–2011		Bill Blaikie	New Democratic
40th	2011-2016		Jim Maloway	New Democratic
41st	2016-2019
42nd	2019-

Election results

2016 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jim Maloway	2,993	46.35	-8.26	$29,589.01
	Progressive Conservative	Sarah Langevin	2,886	44.69	10.79	$6,843.54
	Manitoba	Albert Ratt	579	8.97	–	$619.01
Total valid votes			6,458	–	–
Rejected			234	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			12,171	54.98	2.43
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (2016). Statement of Votes for the 41st Provincial General Election, April 19, 2016 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba. "Election Returns: 41st General Election". Elections Manitoba. 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

1981 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Russell Doern	5,140	67.83
	Progressive Conservative	Eveline Holtmann	1,910	25.20
	Liberal	Eric Wood	347	4.58
	Progressive	Curtis Bloodworth	181	2.39

Previous boundaries

The 1998-2011 boundaries for Elmwood highlighted in red.