Gimli (electoral district)
Gimli was a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1899, and existed continuously until the 2019 election.
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| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Manitoba |
| District created | 1889 |
| First contested | 1889 |
| Last contested | 2016 |
Gimli was located to the immediate north of the City of Winnipeg. It was bordered to the north by Interlake, to the west by Interlake and Lakeside, and to the east by Lake Winnipeg and Selkirk.
Communities in the riding included Gimli, Winnipeg Beach, Petersfield, Clandeboye and Matlock.
The riding's population in 1996 was 19,700. In 1999, the average family income was $58,790, and the unemployment rate was 7.90%. The service sector accounts for 15% of industry in the riding, with a further 11% each in manufacturing and the retail trade. There is also a significant fishing and tourism economy in the riding.
Gimli is home to the largest Icelandic community in the world outside Iceland, and many of its MLAs have been from this background. It also has significant Ukrainian and German communities, at 12% and 6% respectively.
Gimli was a "bellwether" riding, and has elected a candidate from a governing party in all but five elections since its establishment (the exceptions were 1907, 1920, 1922, 1936 and 1999).
List of provincial representatives
| Name | Party | Took Office | Left Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Baldwinson | Cons | 1899 | 1907 |
| Sigtryggur Jonasson | Lib | 1907 | 1910 |
| Baldwin Baldwinson | Cons | 1910 | 1913 |
| Edmund Taylor | Cons | 1913 | 1914 |
| Sveinn Thorvaldson | Cons | 1914 | 1915 |
| Taras Ferley | Lib | 1915 | 1920 |
| Gudmundur Fjelsted | Farmer | 1920 | 1922 |
| Michael Rojeski | Lib, later Independent | 1922 | 1927 |
| Ingimar Ingaldson | Prog | 1927 | 1932 |
| Einar Jonasson | Lib-Prog | 1932 | 1935 |
| Joseph Wawrykow | ILP/CCF | 1936 | 1945 |
| Steinn Thompson | Lib-Prog | 1945 | 1958 |
| George Johnson | PC | 1958 | 1969 |
| John Gottfried | NDP | 1969 | 1977 |
| Keith Cosens | PC | 1977 | 1981 |
| John Bucklaschuk | NDP | 1981 | 1988 |
| Ed Helwer | PC | 1988 | 2003 |
| Peter Bjornson | NDP | 2003 | 2015 |
| Jeff Wharton | PC | 2016 | 2019 |
Electoral results
| 2016 Manitoba general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jeff Wharton | 5,614 | 60.07% | +16.79 | ||||
| New Democratic | Armand Bélanger | 2,579 | 27.60% | -23.92 | ||||
| Green | Dwight Harfield | 843 | 9.02% | +5.84 | ||||
| Manitoba | Ed Paquette | 239 | 2.56% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 9,275 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | – | |||||||
| Source: Elections Manitoba[1] | ||||||||
| 2011 Manitoba general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Peter Bjornson | 5,012 | 51.52 | $37,146.57 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jeff Wharton | 4,210 | 43.28 | $34,709.30 | ||||
| Green | Glenda Whiteman | 309 | 3.18 | $1,012.25 | ||||
| Liberal | Lawrence Einarsson | 197 | 2.03 | $0.00 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 9,728 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 17 | 0.17 | ||||||
| Turnout | 9,745 | 65.98 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 14,769 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Manitoba[2] | ||||||||
| 2007 Manitoba general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Peter Bjornson | 5,946 | 58.43 | $24,714.95 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Chris Bourgeois | 3,450 | 33.90 | $27,803.47 | ||||
| Liberal | Lynn Greenberg | 727 | 7.14 | – | $763.27 | |||
| Total valid votes | 10,123 | 99.48 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 53 | |||||||
| Turnout | 10,176 | 62.92 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 16,174 | |||||||
June 2003:
- Peter Bjornson (NDP) 5500
- Vern Sabeski (PC) 3651
- Lynn Clark (L) 574
| 1999 Manitoba general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Ed Helwer | 5,488 | 47.10 | $29,615.58 | ||||
| New Democratic | Fran Frederickson | 5,086 | 43.65 | $29,695.00 | ||||
| Liberal | Pat Carroll | 1,019 | 8.75 | – | $10,777.10 | |||
| Total valid votes | 11,593 | 99.50 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 58 | |||||||
| Turnout | 11,651 | 77.96 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 14,944 | |||||||
Previous boundaries
References
- "Candidates: 41st General Election". Elections Manitoba. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- "Election Returns: 40th General Election". Elections Manitoba. 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- http://www.electionsmanitoba.ca/en/Results/39_division_results/39_gimli_summary_results.html Archived 2012-03-21 at the Wayback Machine - 2007 results
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-12-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.electionsmanitoba.ca/apps/results/37gen/pbp.asp?ED=16 Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine - 1999 Results