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Gimli (electoral district)

Coordinates: 50°45′50″N 97°03′50″W / 50.764°N 97.064°W / 50.764; -97.064
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Gimli
Manitoba electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Manitoba
District created1889
First contested1889
Last contested2016

Gimli was a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1899, and existed continuously until the 2019 election.

Gimli was located to the immediate north of the City of Winnipeg. It was bordered to the north by Interlake, to the west by Interlake and Lakeside, and to the east by Lake Winnipeg and Selkirk.

Communities in the riding included Gimli, Winnipeg Beach, Petersfield, Clandeboye and Matlock.

The riding's population in 1996 was 19,700. In 1999, the average family income was $58,790, and the unemployment rate was 7.90%. The service sector accounts for 15% of industry in the riding, with a further 11% each in manufacturing and the retail trade. There is also a significant fishing and tourism economy in the riding.

Gimli is home to the largest Icelandic community in the world outside Iceland, and many of its MLAs have been from this background. It also has significant Ukrainian and German communities, at 12% and 6% respectively.

Gimli was a "bellwether" riding, and has elected a candidate from a governing party in all but five elections since its establishment (the exceptions were 1907, 1920, 1922, 1936 and 1999).

List of provincial representatives

Name Party Took Office Left Office
Baldwin Baldwinson Cons 1899 1907
Sigtryggur Jonasson Lib 1907 1910
Baldwin Baldwinson Cons 1910 1913
Edmund Taylor Cons 1913 1914
Sveinn Thorvaldson Cons 1914 1915
Taras Ferley Lib 1915 1920
Gudmundur Fjelsted Farmer 1920 1922
Michael Rojeski Lib, later Independent 1922 1927
Ingimar Ingaldson Prog 1927 1932
Einar Jonasson Lib-Prog 1932 1935
Joseph Wawrykow ILP/CCF 1936 1945
Steinn Thompson Lib-Prog 1945 1958
George Johnson PC 1958 1969
John Gottfried NDP 1969 1977
Keith Cosens PC 1977 1981
John Bucklaschuk NDP 1981 1988
Ed Helwer PC 1988 2003
Peter Bjornson NDP 2003 2015
Jeff Wharton PC 2016 2019

Electoral results

2016 Manitoba general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Jeff Wharton 5,614 60.53 17.25
New Democratic Armand Bélanger 2,579 27.81 -23.72
Green Dwight Harfield 843 9.09 5.91
Manitoba Ed Paquette 239 2.58
Total valid votes 9,275
Rejected 108
Eligible voters / Turnout 14,226 65.96 -0.03
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.

Template:Manitoba provincial election, 2011/Electoral District/Gimli (electoral district) Template:Manitoba provincial election, 2007/Electoral District/Gimli (electoral district)[1]

June 2003:

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Template:Manitoba provincial election, 1999/Electoral District/Gimli (electoral district)[3]

Previous boundaries

The 1998-2011 boundaries for Gimli highlighted in red

References

  1. ^ http://www.electionsmanitoba.ca/en/Results/39_division_results/39_gimli_summary_results.html Archived 2012-03-21 at the Wayback Machine - 2007 results
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-12-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ http://www.electionsmanitoba.ca/apps/results/37gen/pbp.asp?ED=16 Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine - 1999 Results

50°45′50″N 97°03′50″W / 50.764°N 97.064°W / 50.764; -97.064