Flin Flon (electoral district)

Flin Flon

Manitoba electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
MLA	Tom Lindsey New Democratic
District created	1958
First contested	1958
Last contested	2016

Flin Flon is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1957, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1958.

At about 80,000 square kilometers, Flin Flon occupies roughly 20% of Manitoba's total area, and is the second largest riding in the province after Rupertsland. It was a smaller riding before 1989, when it gained a significant amount of territory from the former riding of Churchill. It is a mostly rural and sparsely populated riding, located in the province's northwestern corner.

Flin Flon is bordered by Saskatchewan to the west, Nunavut to the north, the ridings of Rupertsland and Thompson to the east, and the riding of The Pas to the south. The actual city of Flin Flon is located in the southwestern corner of the riding, and is its only urban centre.

The riding's population in 1996 was 14,470. In 1999, the average family income was $55,113, and the unemployment rate was 9.70%. Manufacturing accounts for 17% of Flin Flon's economy, followed by mining and oil production at 16%.

Thirty-six per cent of Flin Flon's residents are aboriginal, the sixth-highest percentage in the province.

Flin Flon has been held by the New Democratic Party of Manitoba (NDP) since 1969. The current MLA is Tom Lindsey, who was elected in the provincial election of 2016. He replaced the incumbent, Clarence Pettersen who was de-selected by the NDP and decided to contest the election as an Independent.

List of provincial representatives

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
25th	1958-1959		Francis Bud Jobin	Liberal-Progressive
26th	1959-1962		Charles Witney	Progressive Conservative
27th	1962-1966
28th	1966-1969
29th	1969-1973		Thomas Barrow	New Democratic
30th	1973-1977
31st	1977-1981
32nd	1982-1985		Jerry Storie
33rd	1985-1988
34th	1988-1990
35th	1990-1995
36th	1995-1999		Gerard Jennissen
37th	1999-2003
38th	2003-2007
39th	2007-2011
40th	2011-2016		Clarence Pettersen
41st	2016-present		Tom Lindsey

Electoral results

2016 Manitoba general election

2016 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Tom Lindsey	1,106	32.85	-24.29	$43,604.96
	Progressive Conservative	Angela Enright	954	28.33	4.24	$18,686.00
	Liberal	Leslie Joan Beck	948	28.16	12.74	$19,946.62
	Independent	Clarence Pettersen	359	10.66	–	$6,320.44
Total valid votes			3,367	–	–
Rejected			36	–
Eligible voters / Turnout			9,880	34.44	-0.90
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."Candidates: 41st General Election". Elections Manitoba. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

2011 Manitoba general election

2011 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Clarence Pettersen	1,890	57.13	-20.46	$28,114.64
	Progressive Conservative	Darcy Linklater	797	24.09	–	$14,069.96
	Liberal	Thomas Heine	510	15.42	-6.98	$10,115.06
	Green	Saara Harvie	111	3.36	–	$0.00
Total valid votes			3,308	–	–
Rejected			17	–
Eligible voters / turnout			9,409	35.34	-0.91
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (2011). Statement of Votes for the 40th Provincial General Election, October 4, 2011 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

2007 Manitoba general election

2007 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gerard Jennissen	2,262	77.60	4.39	$10,879.75
	Liberal	Garry Zanzow	653	22.40	5.42	$3,607.58
Total valid votes			2,915	–	–
Rejected			33	–
Eligible voters / turnout			8,133	36.25	-2.93
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (2007). Statement of Votes for the 39th Provincial General Election, May 22, 2007 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

2003 Manitoba general election

2003 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gerard Jennissen	2,402	73.21	+8.62	$11,470.02
	Liberal	Gary Zamzow	557	16.98	–	$8,001.78	Progressive Conservative	Lloyd McDonald	322	9.81	-19.39	$210.08
Total valid votes
Rejected and declined votes			19
Turnout			3,300	39.17
Electors on the lists			8,424

Source: Elections Manitoba.

1999 Manitoba general election

1999 Manitoba general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gerard Jennissen	3,026	64.91	12.86	$18,573.00
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Therlen	1,368	29.34	-9.08	$22,044.17
	Manitoba Party	Philip Ng	268	5.75	–	$1,209.00
Total valid votes			4,662	–	–
Rejected			23	–
Eligible voters / turnout			9,078	51.61	-5.48
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.

Previous boundaries

1998-2011 boundaries for Flin Flon highlighted in red