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	Kevin Chief New Democratic
District created	1968
First contested	1968
Last contested	2016

Point Douglas is a part of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, surrounded by a bend in the Red River. It is the namesake of a larger city ward, represented by a member of Winnipeg City Council. With different boundaries, it is also eponymous of a provincial electoral division of Manitoba.

History

The division was created by redistribution for the 1969 provincial election, eliminated in 1978, and re-established in 1989 from parts of Burrows, Logan and St. Johns. 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 Fort Rouge, 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. The current Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Point Douglas is Kevin Chief, an Aboriginal candidate who grew up in Point Douglas. Chief is also Minister of Child and Youth Opportunities.

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

Name		Party	Took Office	Left Office	Donald Malinowski	New Democratic Party	1969	1981					George Hickes	New Democratic Party	1990	2011	Kevin Chief	New Democratic Party	2011	current

Electoral history

2016 Manitoba general election
The 2016 general election will be held on April 19.
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Kevin Chief	–	–	–
	Liberal	Althea Guiboche	–	–	–
	Communist	Frank Komarniski	–	–	–
	Green	Alberteen Spence	–	–	–
	Progressive Conservative	Marsha Street	–	–	–
Total valid votes			–	100.0
Eligible voters			–
Source: Elections Manitoba

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.