The Saint Boniface–Saint Vital riding has elected Liberal and Conservative candidates, but never NDP. There is no incumbent in this election, as former MP Shelly Glover has retired from her post.

Candidates:

Conservative: François Catellier
Green: Glenn Zaretski
Liberal: Dan Vandal
NDP: Erin Selby

Last Election

Conservative Shelly Glover won her second consecutive seat in the riding, defeating Liberal Raymond Simard by almost 8,500 votes.

First elected in 2008, Glover decided to retire in April 2015. François Catellier will represent the incumbent party this election.

History

  • St. Boniface emerged in 1924 and was Liberal and Conservative, but not NDP.
  • Liberal Robert Bakstael was MP from 1979 until 1984.
  • Tory Leo Duguay defeated Bakstael in that vote, but the PC lasted only one term and then Ronald J. Duhamel won it back for the Liberals in 1988.
  • Duhamel served as minister of veterans affairs from 2000 to 2002, when he was appointed to the Senate. He died in office eight months later.
  • Liberal Raymond Simard was elected in a 2002 byelection, after Duhamel’s appointment.
  • Simard had a big margin in 2004, won by just a few hundred votes in 2006 and lost in 2008 to Conservative Shelly Glover. She won again in 2011.

Boundaries

  • The once separate local downtown of St. Boniface faces Winnipeg’s downtown west across the Red River.
  • The Red River borders this riding on the north-west side.
  • The southeast portion extends almost to the Red River Floodway.
  • The home of famed Metis leader Louis Riel is here.

Industries

  • Its north and central areas has the old city hall, the cathedral and historic Fort Gibraltar along with boutiques and restaurants.
  • The Royal Canadian Mint makes circulation coins for 74 countries.
  • Housing is low-income to the east with Tissot, Defresne and Archwood bordering railyards, an oil refinery, stockyards and Australia’s Ridley FeedRite animal food and OlyWest food processing.
  • There are a dozen middle-income neighbourhooods.
  • St. Vital to the south has a poor section as have northern Meadowood and Vista.
  • There is upscale housing in the east with Niakwa Place, Southdale and Southland Park.
  • In the south are very upscale Royal Wood, Island Lakes and new development, Sage Creek.
  • The riding has Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface and St. Boniface Hospital.

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