St. Boniface (provincial electoral district)

St. Boniface (French: Saint-Boniface) is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It should not be confused with the federal electoral division of the same name, which includes most of the provincial riding's territory but has expanded boundaries and a larger population base. The riding has existed, in one form or another, since the province's creation.

St. Boniface

Manitoba electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
MLA	Dougald Lamont Liberal
District created	1870
First contested	1870
Last contested	2019
Demographics
Census divisions	Division No. 11
Census subdivisions	Winnipeg

In Manitoba's first general election (1870), the riding was divided into St. Boniface East and St. Boniface West. It became a single constituency in 1874, and has existed continuously since then.

The riding elected two members by preferential balloting in 1949 and 1953. On all other occasions, it has been a single-member constituency.

St. Boniface is located in the central-eastern Winnipeg. Its boundaries roughly correspond with the historical community of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, which was a distinct civic jurisdiction before being amalgamated with the City of Winnipeg in 1971.

The riding's population in 1996 was 19,646. The average family income in 1999 was $45,193, with an unemployment rate of 10.50%. The service sector accounts for 18% of the riding's industry, with a further 15% in health and social services.

St. Boniface has historically been home to the largest francophone community in the Winnipeg area. According to a 1999 census, 34% of the riding's residents speak French as their first language—the highest rate in the province. The riding's aboriginal population is 8%, and almost 19% of the population is over 65 years of age.

For many years after the introduction of partisan politics in 1882, St. Boniface was a hotly contested battleground riding between the provincial Liberals and Conservatives (although candidates of the parliamentary left were also elected in the 1930s and 1940s). During the 1950s and 1960s, it was generally regarded as a safe seat for the Liberals.

In 1969, St. Boniface MLA Laurent Desjardins decided to sit as a Liberal Democrat, supporting the New Democratic Party government of Edward Schreyer. He formally joined the NDP in 1971, and aside from an overturned election result in 1973, continued to represent the area until 1988.

The provincial Liberals recaptured the seat in 1988, during a period of resurgence for that party in the province. After Neil Gaudry's death in 1999, Greg Selinger recaptured the seat for the NDP. He was reelected in 2003 with about 75 percent of the popular vote, and was named premier of Manitoba in 2009.

Selinger left politics two years after the NDP was heavily defeated at the 2016 provincial election, and newly elected Liberal leader Dougald Lamont won the seat at the ensuing by-election.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

St. Boniface East (1870-1874)

Name	Party	Took Office	Left Office
Marc-Amable Girard	Governing Coalition/Cons	1870	1874

St. Boniface West (1870-1874)

Name	Party	Took Office	Left Office
Louis Schmidt	Governing Coalition/Cons	1870	1874

St. Boniface (single-member riding, 1874-1949)

Name	Party	Took Office	Left Office
Marc-Amable Girard	Governing Coalition/Cons	1874	1878
Alphonse LaRiviere	Governing Coalition/Lib-Cons	1878	1888
Roger Marion	Cons	1888	1892
James Prendergast	Cons-Lib, then Lib	1892	1896
Jean-B. Lauzon	Cons	1897	1899
S.A.D. Bertrand	Lib	1899	1900
Joseph Bernier	Cons	1900	1903
Horace Chevrier	Lib	1903	1907
Joseph Bernier	Cons	1907	1915
Joseph Dumas	Lib	1915	1920
Joseph Bernier	Independent	1920	1926
	Cons	1927	1932
Harold Lawrence	ILP	1932	1941
Austin Clarke	Lib-Prog	1941	1945
Edwin Hansford	CCF	1945	1949

St. Boniface (two-member riding, 1949-1958)

Name	Party	Took Office	Left Office
Joseph Van Belleghem	Lib-Prog	1949	1953
Edwin Hansford	CCF	1949	1953
Roger Teillet	Lib-Prog	1953	1958
L. Raymond Fennell	Lib-Prog	1953	1958

St. Boniface (single-member riding, 1958-)

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
25th	1958-1959		Roger Teillet	Liberal-Progressive
26th	1959-1961		Laurent Desjardins
	1961-1962			Liberal
27th	1962-1966
28th	1966-1969
29th	1969-1971			Liberal-Democrat
	1971-1973			New Democratic
30th	1973-1974		J. Paul Marion	Liberal
	1974-1977		Laurent Desjardins	New Democratic
31st	1977-1981
32nd	1982-1985
33rd	1985-1988
34th	1988-1990		Neil Gaudry	Liberal
35th	1990-1995
36th	1995-1999
37th	1999-2003		Greg Selinger	New Democratic
38th	2003-2007
39th	2007-2011
40th	2011-2016
41st	2016-2018
	2018–2019		Dougald Lamont	Liberal
42nd	2019-present

Electoral results

2019 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dougald Lamont	4,077
	New Democratic	Laurissa Sims	2,939
	Progressive Conservative	Megan Hoskins	1,889
	Green	Jaclyn Jeanson	840
	Manitoba	Simone Fortier	76
Total valid votes				100.0
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters

Manitoba provincial by-election, 17 July 2018: St. Boniface Resignation of Greg Selinger
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dougald Lamont	2,625	42.03	+22.57	$22,666.27
	New Democratic	Blandine Tona	1,770	28.34	-14.07	$33,576.88
	Green	Francoise Therrien Vrignon	1,017	16.28	+4.02	$9,318.95
	Progressive Conservative	Mamadou Ka	834	13.35	-12.52	$23,227.71
Total valid votes/Expense limit			6,246	99.62	-	$43,782.00
Total rejected and declines votes			24	0.38	-1.24
Turnout			6,270	48.38	-15.29
Electors on the lists			13,356
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+18.32
Source: Elections Manitoba[1][2]

2016 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Greg Selinger	3,624	42.41	-26.47	$10,697.28
	Progressive Conservative	Mamadou Ka	2,211	25.87	+7.97	$18,430.93
	Liberal	Alain Landry	1,663	19.46	+12.40	$3,387.94
	Green	Signe Knutson	1,048	12.26	+6.09	$0.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit			8,546	98.38	-	$45,064.00
Total rejected ballots			141	1.62	+1.18
Turnout			8,687	63.67	+4.17
Eligible voters			13,644
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-17.22
Source: Elections Manitoba[3][4]

2011 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Greg Selinger	5,914	68.87	+2.53	$25,356.02
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Clark	1,537	17.90	+4.94	$6,094.72
	Liberal	Brad Gross	606	7.06	−6.58	$641.00
	Green	Alain Landry	530	6.17	−0.74	$96.10
Total valid votes			8,587	99.56
Rejected and declined ballots			38	0.44
Turnout			8,625	59.50
Electors on the lists			14,496

2007 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Greg Selinger	5,090	66.04	−8.30	$16,599.60
	Liberal	Gilbert Laberge	1,049	13.61	−0.82	$3,582.87
	Progressive Conservative	Jennifer Tarrant	993	12.88	+1.65	$722.42
	Green	Alain Landry	530	6.88	+6.88	$378.57
	Communist	Thane-Dominic Carr	45	0.58	+0.58	$373.97
Total valid votes			7,707	100.00
Rejected and declined ballots			38
Turnout			7,745	59.56
Electors on the lists			13,004

2003 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Greg Selinger	4,904	74.34	+17.77	$18,257.78
	Liberal	Dougald Lamont	952	14.43	-16.71	$5,020.72
	Progressive Conservative	Dan Zahari	741	11.23	-1.05	$769.27
Total valid votes			6,597	100.00
Rejected and declined ballots			38
Turnout			6,635	52.19
Electors on the lists			12,712

1999 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Greg Selinger	5,439	56.57	+24.56
	Liberal	Jean-Paul Boily	2,994	31.14	-14.34
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Olson	1,181	12.28	-6.79
Total valid votes			9614	100.00
Rejected and declined ballots			63
Turnout			9677	74.35
Electors on the lists			13,015

1995 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Neil Gaudry	4,021	45.48	-9.92
	New Democratic	Rachel Massicotte	2,829	32.00	+9.00
	Progressive Conservative	Kim F. Sigurdson	1,686	19.07	-2.53
	Independent	Yvan Lecuyer	306	3.46	n/a
Total valid votes			8,883	100.00
Rejected and declined ballots			41
Turnout			8,924	71.3
Electors on the lists			12,459

1990 Manitoba general election: St. Boniface
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Neil Gaudry	4,928	55.40	-5.76
	New Democratic	Robert Gooding	2,046	23.00	+1.05
	Progressive Conservative	Henri Marcoux	1,921	21.60	-0.35
Total valid votes			8,895	100.00	-
Rejected ballots				–
Turnout
Eligible voters
Source: Elections Manitoba[5]

1988 Manitoba general election: St. Boniface
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Neil Gaudry	5,743	61.16	+37.34
	New Democratic	Lorette Beaudry-Ferland	2,061	21.95	-38.82
	Progressive Conservative	Guy Savoie	1,586	16.89	+3.29
Total valid votes			9,390	100.00	-
Rejected ballots				–	–
Turnout
Eligible voters
Source: Elections Manitoba[6]

1986 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Laurent Desjardins	4,978	60.77	-2.61
	Liberal	Georges Bohemier	1,951	23.82	+2.94
	Progressive Conservative	Wes Rowson	1,114	13.60	-1.37
	Progressive	James Jackson	149	1.82	+0.67
Turnout			8,220	69.73
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-2.78
Source: Elections Manitoba[7]

Previous boundaries

The 1999-2011 boundaries for St. Boniface highlighted in red

References

1. "Candidates: St Boniface By-Election Expenditure Returns". Elections Manitoba. 25 November 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
2. "Candidates: St Boniface By-Election Expenditure Limit" (PDF). Elections Manitoba. 25 November 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
3. "Candidates: 41st General Election". Elections Manitoba. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
4. "41ST GENERAL ELECTION, APRIL 19, 2016 - OFFICIAL RESULTS". Elections Manitoba. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
5. "Candidates: 35th General Election" (PDF). Elections Manitoba. September 11, 1990. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
6. "Candidates: 34th General Election" (PDF). Elections Manitoba. April 26, 1988. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
7. "Candidates: 34th General Election" (PDF). Elections Manitoba. April 26, 1988. Retrieved 26 September 2018.