La Verendrye (electoral district)
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 Manitoba electoral district | |||
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Manitoba | ||
| MLA |
Progressive Conservative | ||
| District created | 1879 | ||
| First contested | 1879 | ||
| Last contested | 2016 | ||
La Verendrye is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1879, and has existed since that time.
La Verendrye is located southeastern region of Manitoba. It is bordered to the west by Dawson Trail, Emerson, Steinbach, and St. Paul, to the north by Lac Du Bonnet, and to the east by the province of Ontario.
Communities in the riding include Falcon Lake, Gardenton, Grunthal, Hadashville, Piney, Pointe du Bois, Sprague, Stuartburn, Sundown, and West Hawk Lake. The Whiteshell Provincial Park and Sandilands Provincial Forest are also in the riding.
The riding's population in 1996 was 19,558. In 1999, the average family income was $49,308, and the unemployment rate was 5.90%. Manufacturing accounts for 12% of the riding's industry, followed by the service sector at 11%.
Before the electoral boundaries redistricting done prior to the 2011 election, La Verendrye had the second-highest francophone population in Manitoba (after St. Boniface), at 23% of the total population. Nine per cent of the riding's residents were German, and 7% were aboriginal.
La Verendrye was a hotly contested riding between the Liberals and Conservatives in its earliest years. After 1922, it became dominated by the Progressives, who later became the Liberal-Progressives before metamorphosising into the Liberals again. It remained with the Liberals even as the party dwindled to third-party status in the 1960s. The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba seized the riding in 1973 and held it for the next three decades, during which time it was usually fairly safe for the Tories.
In the 1999 election, Ron Lemieux became the first New Democrat to be elected for the constituency. He was re-elected in the 2003 election with almost 60% of the popular vote. The boundary changes of 2008 greatly changed the borders of the riding, which contributed to the decisive victory of PC candidate Dennis Smook in the 2011 election. Ron Lemieux was personally re-elected to the newly created riding of Dawson Trail.
List of provincial representatives
| Name | Party | Took Office | Left Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxime Goulet | Government/Conservative | 1879 | 1882 |
| Louis Prud'homme | Cons | 1882 | 1883 |
| Maxime Goulet | Independent Conservative | 1883 | 1884 |
| Louis Prud'homme | Cons | 1884 | 1885 |
| James Prendergast | Conservative-Liberal | 1885 | 1888 |
| Lib | 1888 | 1888 | |
| William Lagimodiere | Lib | 1888 | 1892 |
| Theophile Pare | Cons | 1892 | 1899 |
| William Lagimodiere | Lib | 1899 | 1907 |
| Jean Lauzon | Cons | 1907 | 1910 |
| William Molloy | Lib | 1910 | 1914 |
| Jean Lauzon | Cons | 1914 | 1915 |
| Philippe Talbot | Lib, later Independent | 1915 | 1920 |
| Independent | 1920 | 1922 | |
| Prog | 1922 | 1932 | |
| Lib-Prog | 1932 | 1936 | |
| Sauveur Marcoux | Lib-Prog | 1936 | 1951 |
| Edmond Brodeur | Lib-Prog | 1952 | 1958 |
| Stan Roberts | Lib-Prog | 1958 | 1961 |
| Lib | 1961 | 1962 | |
| Albert Vielfaure | Lib | 1962 | 1969 |
| Leonard Barkman | Lib | 1969 | 1973 |
| Robert Banman | PC | 1973 | 1986 |
| Helmut Pankratz | PC | 1986 | 1990 |
| Ben Sveinson | PC | 1990 | 1999 |
| Ron Lemieux | NDP | 1999 | 2011 |
| Dennis Smook | PC | 2011 |
Electoral results
| 2016 Manitoba general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dennis Smook | 5,262 | 71.23 | 7.16 | ||||
| Green | Janine Gibson | 724 | 9.80 | 5.02 | ||||
| New Democratic | Echo Asher | 705 | 9.54 | -16.59 | ||||
| Liberal | Bill Paulishyn | 696 | 9.42 | 4.41 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 7,387 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected | 78 | – | ||||||
| Eligible voters / Turnout | 13,494 | 55.32 | 1.71 | |||||
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. | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±%
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Progressive Conservative | Ben Sveinson | 3,731 | 44.49 | -10.00 |
| Liberal | Clair Noel | 2,718 | 32.41 | -4.29 | |||||
| New Democratic | Ronald Fiola | 1,938 | 23.11 | +14.30 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 8,033 | ||||||||
| Rejected votes | 26 | ||||||||
| Turnout | 8,413 | 66.68 | |||||||
| Electors on the lists | 12,617 | ||||||||
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Previous boundaries
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - 2007 Results - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - 2003 Results - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - 1999 Results