Winnipeg Centre

This article is about federal riding. For the historic provincial riding, see Winnipeg Centre (provincial electoral division). For other uses, see Winnipeg Centre (disambiguation).

Winnipeg Centre

Manitoba electoral district
File:Winnipeg-Centre 2013 Riding.png Winnipeg Centre 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
MP	Robert-Falcon Ouellette Liberal
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	82,026
Electors (2015)	54,719
Area (km²)	28.42
Pop. density (per km²)	2,886.2
Census divisions	Winnipeg
Census subdivisions	Winnipeg

Winnipeg Centre (French: Winnipeg-Centre) is a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1925 and since 1997.

History

This riding was originally created in 1914 from Winnipeg and Selkirk ridings.

In 1924, it was abolished, and parts transferred to Winnipeg North Centre and Winnipeg South Centre ridings.

In 1997, it was re-created from Winnipeg North Centre and Winnipeg South Centre.

This riding was left unchanged after the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Winnipeg Centre Riding created from Winnipeg and Selkirk
13th	1917–1921		George William Andrews	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		J.S. Woodsworth	Independent Labour
Riding dissolved into Winnipeg North Centre and Winnipeg South Centre
Riding re-created from Winnipeg North Centre, Winnipeg St. James, Winnipeg North and Winnipeg South Centre
36th	1997–2000		Pat Martin	New Democratic
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present		Robert-Falcon Ouellette	Liberal

Current Member of Parliament

Its Member of Parliament is Robert-Falcon Ouellette, a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Election results

1997–present

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Robert-Falcon Ouellette	18,471	54.51	+43.44	–
	New Democratic	Pat Martin	9,490	28.01	-25.65	–
	Conservative	Allie Szarkiewicz	4,189	12.36	-15.28	–
	Green	Don Woodstock	1,379	4.07	-2.98	–
	Christian Heritage	Scott Miller	221	0.65	n/a	–
	Communist	Darrell Rankin	135	0.40	-0.19	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			33,885	100.00		$191,132.58
Total rejected ballots			281	0.82	–
Turnout			34,166	61.41	–
Eligible voters			55,633
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+34.59
Source: Elections Canada

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Pat Martin	13,928	53.66	+4.74	–
	Conservative	Bev Pitura	7,173	27.64	+5.99	–
	Liberal	Allan Wise	2,872	11.07	-4.55	–
	Green	Jacqueline Romanow	1,830	7.05	-4.01	–
	Communist	Darrell Rankin	152	0.59	+0.12	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			25,955	100.00		–
Total rejected ballots			248	0.95	+0.05
Turnout			26,203	49.02	+6
Eligible voters			53,452	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Pat Martin	12,285	48.92	+0.5	$42,608
	Conservative	Kenny Daodu	5,437	21.65	+2.1	$20,177
	Liberal	Daniel Hurley	3,922	15.62	-8.7	$37,980
	Green	Jessie Klassen	2,777	11.06	+4.0	$2,733
	Independent	Joe Chan	226	0.90	–	–
	First Peoples National	Lyle Morrisseau	212	0.84	–	–
	Independent	Ed Ackerman	135	0.54	–	–
	Communist	Darrell Rankin	119	0.47	-0.2	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			25,113	100.00		$77,206
Total rejected ballots			227	0.90	+0.1
Turnout			25,340	43	-6

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Pat Martin	13,805	48.4	+3.0	$58,778
	Liberal	Ray St. Germain	6,940	24.3	-10.4	$27,375
	Conservative	Helen Sterzer	5,554	19.5	+5.9	$37,740
	Green	Gary Gervais	2,010	7.1	+2.8	$2,651
	Communist	Anna-Celestrya Carr	199	0.7	+0.3	$295
Total valid votes			28,508	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			231	0.8	+0.1
Turnout			28,739	49	+4

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Pat Martin	12,149	45.4	+4.1	$51,914
	Liberal	David Northcott	9,285	34.7	+0.6	$67,134
	Conservative	Robert Eng	3,631	13.6	-8.0	$7,572
	Green	Robin (Pilar) Faye	1,151	4.3	+1.7	$2,087
	Marijuana	John M. Siedleski	346	1.3	–	–
	Communist	Anna-Celestrya Carr	114	0.4	-0.1	$654
	Independent	Douglas Edward Schweitzer	92	0.3	–	–
Total valid votes			26,768	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			188	0.7
Turnout			26,956	45.1

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Pat Martin	11,263	41.3	+0.4
	Liberal	Kevin Lamoureux	9,310	34.1	-2.7
	Alliance	Reg Smith	3,975	14.6	+3.0
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Allard	1,915	7.0	-2.1
	Green	Mikel Magnusson	698	2.6	–
	Communist	Harold Dyck	134	0.5	–
Total valid votes			27,295	100.0

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Pat Martin	10,979	40.9
	Liberal	David Walker	9,895	36.9
	Reform	Reginald A. Smith	3,095	11.5
	Progressive Conservative	Campbell Alexander	2,442	9.1
	Independent	Greg Krawchuk	148	0.6
	Marxist–Leninist	Glenn Michalchuk	136	0.5
	Independent	Darrell Rankin	108	0.4
	Independent	Didz Zuzens	44	0.2
Total valid votes			26,847	100.0

1917–1925

Canadian federal election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Labour	James Shaver Woodsworth	7,774	40.1	–
	Conservative	Norman Kitson McIvor	4,034	20.8	-63.8
	Liberal	John W. Wilton	4,032	20.8	+5.4
	Independent	Harriet S. Dick	2,314	11.9	–
	Independent	George William Andrews	1,220	6.3	–
Total valid votes			19,374	100.0

Note: Conservative vote is compared to Unionist vote in 1917 election.

Canadian federal election, 1917
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Government (Unionist)	George William Andrews	25,580	84.6
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Robert Sinclair Ward	4,650	15.4
Total valid votes			30,230	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history for Winnipeg Centre (1914–1924) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for Winnipeg Centre (1997– ) from the Library of Parliament
• Expenditures - 2008
• Expenditures - 2004
• Website of the Parliament of Canada
• Canada Votes 2006 - Winnipeg Centre