Manitoba votes 2019: McPhillips riding profile

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• Voting history
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This will be the first election for the new northernWinnipeg riding of McPhillips, which was created when riding boundaries were redrawn in 2018 to capturethe projected population growth in thearea. The new constituency took pieces of the St. Paul riding to itsnorth as well as Kildonanto itssoutheast and The Maples to its southwest.

The riding is bounded on the north by Winnipeg city limits and on the south by Leila Avenue, Inkster Boulevard, McPhillips Street and the CP rail line. Its western boundary is Pipeline Road and Winnipeg city limits, and its eastern boundary is the Red River, city limits, Chief Peguis Trail and Main Street.

The riding includes the Winnipeg neighbourhoods of Elmsville, West Kildonan and Garden City, as well as the
Rural Municipality of West St. Paul.

Its population is 22,240, according to the province's 2018 riding profile.

Themedian age of the riding is above the overall provincial median, at42.5 in McPhillips, compared to38.3provincewide,according to the 2018 riding profileand the 2016 census. The census found themedian household income is $76,170.

More facts about McPhillips:

• The riding has a diverse language base, with 16 per cent of residents reporting they spoke languages other than English most often at home.
• That includesfive per cent who reported theyspeak Tagalog most often at home, and four per cent speaking Punjabi, plus a smattering of other languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish and Indigenous languages.
• Just over nine per cent of residents identified as Indigenousin the 2016 census.
• Just over 31 per cent of residents identified as immigrants in the 2016 census.

Voting history

The new riding has no official voting history of its own. The former St. Paul riding and the Kildonan riding, which both contributed to McPhillips, voted Progressive Conservative in the 2016 election, while The Maples part of which was also taken into McPhillips voted NDP.

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Meet the candidates

The nominated candidates for the 2019 election are:

• John Cacayuran (Liberal).
• Shannon Martin (Progressive Conservative).
• Greg McFarlane (NDP).
• Jason Smith (Green Party).
• Dave Wheeler (Manitoba First).

Candidates become official when they meet criteria set out in the province'sElections Act, including providing a statement of disclosure. In McPhillips, all candidatesare official.

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