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Saint Boniface

2008 Results

Saint Boniface
Party Candidate Votes Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST 187/187 polls
CON Shelly Glover 19,440 Elected
LIB Raymond Simard 14,728
NDP Matt Schaubroeck 5,502
GRN Marc Payette 2,104
CHP Justin Gregoire 195

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This is an urban riding in Winnipeg bounded by the Red River on the west, Mission Street in the north, Plessis Road in the east and the southeast limit of Winnipeg.

Saint Boniface is home to a hospital, a university college (Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface, affiliated with the University of Manitoba) and the Royal Canadian Mint. It also has railway yards, packing industries, an oil refinery and an industrial park, giving the riding an economic base of manufacturing and service-sector employment.

This is a multicultural riding and boasts a large francophone community. In the 2006 census, 15 per cent of residents reported French as their mother tongue. There is an immigrant population of almost 12 per cent. Only 23 per cent of the population cited Canadian as their ethnic origin. Slightly more than 23 per cent over age 25 have a university certificate or degree.

The average family income is $80,776 and the unemployment rate is 4.3 per cent.

Saint Boniface riding was established in 1924. In 1996, 17 per cent of Winnipeg South Centre was added.

Population: 84,473 (2006 census; an increase of 4.0% since 2001)

Political History

Liberal Raymond Simard has held this riding since 2002. Simard beat Conservative Ken Cooper in the 2006 election by 1,524 votes. In 2004, Simard defeated Cooper by 6,003 votes. Simard was first elected in a 2002 byelection after sitting MP Ron Duhamel was appointed to the Senate. Duhamel died in office just eight months later. Duhamel had served as the Liberal MP since 1988 and was minister of veterans affairs from 2000 to 2002.

The riding was Liberal from 1925 to 1957, but went Progressive Conservative in 1958. In 1962, the Liberals took it back, and Joe Guay won the elections of 1968, 1972 and 1974. In a 1978 byelection, PC Jack Hare defeated Liberal Robert Bockstael. But in 1979, Bockstael defeated Hare. Bockstael was re-elected in 1980, but was defeated by PC Leo Duguay in 1984.

  • 1925-57 inclusive - LIB

  • 1958 - PC

  • 1962-74 inclusive - LIB

  • 1978 byelection - PC

  • 1979, 1980 - LIB

  • 1984 - PC

  • Since 1988 - LIB