Portage—Lisgar

Portage—Lisgar

Manitoba electoral district
Portage—Lisgar in relation to other Manitoba federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order.
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Candice Bergen Conservative
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	91,019
Electors (2015)	61,350
Area (km²)	12,665
Pop. density (per km²)	7.2
Census subdivisions	Portage la Prairie, Winkler, Morden, Stanley, Macdonald, Rhineland, Altona, Cartier, Carman

Portage—Lisgar is a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

Demographics

Population, 2001	92,863
Electors	60,246
Area (km²)	14236.32
Population density (people per km²)

Portage—Lisgar is the riding with the highest percentage of native German speakers (23.6% of the population) in all of Canada. Only Inuktitut (Nunavut: 66.8%) and Panjabi (Punjabi) (Newton—North Delta, in British Columbia: 33.4%) exceed this concentration of native speakers of a non-official language in a single riding.

Geography

This is a rural district that includes the cities of Portage la Prairie, Winkler, and Morden, and the towns of Carman and Altona.

History

The electoral district was created in 1996 from the former districts of Lisgar—Marquette, Portage—Interlake and Provencher.

This riding lost territory to Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa and Brandon—Souris, and gained territory from Provencher and Selkirk—Interlake during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Portage—Lisgar Riding created from Lisgar—Marquette, Portage—Interlake and Provencher
36th	1997–2000		Jake Hoeppner	Reform
	2000–2000			Alliance
37th	2000–2003		Brian Pallister
	2003–2004			Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011		Candice Bergen
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present

Current Member of Parliament

Its Member of Parliament is Candice Bergen. She was first elected in the Canadian federal election, 2008

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Candice Bergen	25,060	60.84	-14.95	–
	Liberal	Ken Werbiski	10,621	25.79	+19.81	–
	New Democratic	Dean Harder	2,554	6.20	-4.01	–
	Green	Bev Eert	1,637	3.97	-1.67	–
	Christian Heritage	Jerome Dondo	1,315	3.19		–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,187	100.00		$207,937.66
Total rejected ballots			159	0.38	–
Turnout			41,346	66.52	–
Eligible voters			62,153
	Conservative hold		Swing		-17.38
Source: Elections Canada

2011 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	25,738	75.79
	New Democratic	3,467	10.21
	Liberal	2,031	5.98
	Green	1,916	5.64
	Others	807	2.38

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Candice Hoeppner	26,899	76.0	+7.7	–
	New Democratic	Mohamed Alli	3,478	9.8	+2.5	–
	Liberal	MJ Willard	2,221	6.3	-7.3	–
	Green	Matthew Friesen	1,996	5.6	-2.5	–
	Christian Heritage	Jerome Dondo	805	2.3	-0.5	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			35,399	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			147	0.4	0.0
Turnout			35,546	60.6	+6.8
Eligible voters			58,624	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Candice Hoeppner	22,036	68.3	-1.5	$57,186
	Liberal	Ted Klassen	4,374	13.6	+2.2	$19,807
	Green	Charlie Howatt	2,606	8.1	+3.0	$3,649
	New Democratic	Mohamed Alli	2,353	7.3	-4.1	$2,873
	Christian Heritage	Len Lodder	911	2.8	+0.1	$8,429
Total valid votes/Expense limit			32,280	100.0		$83,296
Total rejected ballots			116	0.4	0.0
Turnout			32,396	53.8	–

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Brian Pallister	25,719	69.8	+3.9	$44,321
	Liberal	Garry McLean	4,199	11.4	-6.3	$13,875
	New Democratic	Daren Van Den Bussche	4,072	11.0	+1.7	$2,450
	Green	Charlie Howatt	1,880	5.1	+2.6	$4,073
	Christian Heritage	David Reimer	987	2.7	-1.5	$9,372
Total valid votes			36,857	100.00		–
Total rejected ballots			123	0.3	-0.1
Turnout			36,980	62	–

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Brian Pallister	22,939	65.9	+0.1	$55,524
	Liberal	Don Kuhl	6,174	17.7	-0.1	$70,474
	New Democratic	Daren Van Den Bussche	3,251	9.3	+3.3	$13,159
	Christian Heritage	David Reimer	1,458	4.2	–	$10,620
	Green	Marc Payette	856	2.5	–	$649
	Communist	Allister Cucksey	117	0.3	–	$741
Total valid votes			34,795	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			146	0.4	+0.1
Turnout			34,941	57.4	-4.2

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Brian Pallister	17,318	50.3	+10.1	$44,417
	Liberal	Gerry J.E. Gebler	6,133	17.8	+3.2	$44,267
	Progressive Conservative	Morley McDonald	5,339	15.5	-20.4	$16,872
	Independent	Jake Hoeppner	3,558	10.3	–	$40,395
	New Democratic	Diane Beresford	2,073	6.0	-1.2	$3,880
Total valid votes			34,421	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			101	0.3	-0.2
Turnout			34,522	61.6	+0.9

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Reform	Jake Hoeppner	13,532	40.2	–	$55,221
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Pallister	12,083	35.9	–	$52,473
	Liberal	Heather Mack	4,913	14.6	–	$14,412
	New Democratic	Glen Hallick	2,420	7.2	–	$9,391
	Christian Heritage	Martin Dewit	517	1.5	–	$2,674
	Canadian Action	Roy Lyall	159	0.5	–	$1,210
Total valid votes			33,624	100.0		–
Total rejected ballots			149	0.4	–
Turnout			33,773	60.6	–

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

References

• Riding history for Portage—Lisgar (1996– ) from the Library of Parliament
• Expenditure - 2008
• Expenditures - 2004
• Expenditures - 2000
• Expenditures - 1997
• 2008 Results