Winnipeg_South

Winnipeg South

Federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg South (French: Winnipeg-Sud) is a Canadian federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1979, and since 1988. It covers the southernmost part of the city of Winnipeg.

This article is about federal riding. For the historic provincial riding, see Winnipeg South (provincial electoral division).

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Winnipeg South

Manitoba electoral district

Winnipeg South in relation to other Manitoba federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order. Dotted line shows Winnipeg city limits.

Federal electoral district

Legislature

House of Commons

Terry Duguid
Liberal

District created

1987

First contested

1988

Last contested

2021

District webpage

profile, map

Demographics

Population (2011)^[1]

85,540

Electors (2015)

62,156

Area (km²)^[2]

105

Pop. density (per km²)

814.7

Census division(s)

Winnipeg

Census subdivision(s)

Winnipeg

History

The electoral district was created in 1914 from parts of the ridings of Winnipeg, Provencher, and Macdonald. It first elected a Member of Parliament in 1917.

In 1976, it was abolished when it was redistributed into the ridings of Winnipeg—Assiniboine and Winnipeg—Fort Garry, which took effect at the election of 1979.

In 1987, it was re-created from parts of Winnipeg—Assiniboine and Winnipeg—Fort Garry, which were abolished, and has been contested since 1988.

Some observers expected Winnipeg South to be a close race in 2011,^[3] though these predictions were later proven wrong. This race was close in 2006, when Conservative challenger Rod Bruinooge defeated four-term Liberal incumbent Reg Alcock by just 111 votes. In 2008, Bruinooge improved his plurality to nearly 6,000 votes. His Liberal challenger was businessperson, party activist, and former Winnipeg City Council member Terry Duguid.

This riding lost territory to Winnipeg South Centre and Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, and gained territory from the latter, during the 2012 electoral redistribution. Bruinooge chose not to contest the 2015 election, and Duguid won the seat for the Liberal Party.

In federal politics, the riding has been a bellwether, electing an MP from the party that formed government nationally, since it was re-formed in 1988. In its earlier incarnation, it only elected opposition MPs three times, in 1925, 1953, and 1965.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons:

More information Parliament, Years ...

Parliament	Years		Party
Winnipeg South Riding created from Macdonald, Provencher and Winnipeg
13th	1917–1921	George William Allan Jr	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925	Albert Hudson	Liberal
15th	1925–1926	Robert Rogers	Conservative
16th	1926–1930	John Stewart McDiarmid	Liberal
17th	1930–1935	Robert Rogers	Conservative
18th	1935–1940	Leslie Mutch	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1956	Owen Trainor	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1957–1958	Gordon Chown
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965	Margaret Konantz	Liberal
27th	1965–1968	Bud Sherman	Progressive Conservative
28th	1968–1972	James Armstrong Richardson	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1978
30th	1978–1979		Independent
Riding dissolved into Winnipeg—Assiniboine and Winnipeg—Fort Garry
Riding re-created from Winnipeg—Assiniboine and Winnipeg—Fort Garry
34th	1988–1993	Dorothy Dobbie	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Reg Alcock	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008	Rod Bruinooge	Conservative
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019	Terry Duguid	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Current member of Parliament

Terry Duguid has represented Winnipeg South since the 2015 election. He was re-elected in 2019 and 2021.

Demographics

More information Panethnic group, Pop. ...

Panethnic groups in Winnipeg South (2011−2021)
Panethnic group	2021^[4]		2016^[5]		2011^[6]
Panethnic group	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
European^{[lower-alpha 1]}	53,420	47.59%	55,645	56.69%	57,055	67.82%
South Asian	16,365	14.58%	10,055	10.24%	6,030	7.17%
East Asian^{[lower-alpha 2]}	14,665	13.07%	11,495	11.71%	6,655	7.91%
African	8,645	7.7%	5,725	5.83%	3,090	3.67%
Indigenous	7,430	6.62%	6,770	6.9%	5,345	6.35%
Southeast Asian^{[lower-alpha 3]}	5,115	4.56%	3,630	3.7%	2,660	3.16%
Middle Eastern^{[lower-alpha 4]}	3,520	3.14%	2,450	2.5%	1,335	1.59%
Latin American	1,240	1.1%	840	0.86%	975	1.16%
Other/multiracial^{[lower-alpha 5]}	1,845	1.64%	1,555	1.58%	980	1.16%
Total responses	112,245	99.01%	98,160	98.48%	84,125	98.35%
Total population	113,370	100%	99,678	100%	85,540	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

Election results

1988–present

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Graph of election results in Winnipeg South (since 1988, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or did not run consistently are omitted)