Point Douglas is a part of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, surrounded by a bend in the Red River. It is the namesake of a larger city ward, represented by a member of Winnipeg City Council. With different boundaries, it is also eponymous of a provincial electoral division of Manitoba.
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The division was created by redistribution for the 1969 provincial election, eliminated in 1978, and re-established in 1989 from parts of Burrows, Logan and St. Johns. It is located in north-central Winnipeg, and includes the Point Douglas neighbourhood.
Point Douglas is bordered to the east by St. Boniface and Elmwood, to the south by Fort Rouge, to the north by St. Johns, and to the west by Burrows, Wellington and Minto. Different parts of the division are included in the federal ridings of Winnipeg Centre and Winnipeg North.
Point Douglas is named after Thomas Douglas, the 5th Earl of Selkirk, who established the Red River Settlement in 1812. His namesake, twentieth-century politician Tommy Douglas, also lived in the Point Douglas neighbourhood in the early 1910s.[1]
The Manitoba New Democratic Party has won every election in the consitituency. The current Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Point Douglas is George Hickes, who was returned with almost 75% of the vote in 2003. Hickes has been Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1999.
| Population | 19,941 (1996) |
| Average family income | $24,715 (1999) |
| Unemployment | 25% (1999) |
| Industries | Manufacturing (25%), Other services (22%) (1999) |
| Other | Point Douglas has the lowest average family income of any electoral division in the province. Three-quarters of the riding's residences are rented, and 37% of families are single-parent households. The division is ethnically diverse, with significant aboriginal (33%), Filipino (10%) and Ukrainian populations (6%). |
Source: 2003 CBC Profile
| Name | Party | Took Office | Left Office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donald Malinowski |
New Democratic Party | 1969 | 1981 | |
| George Hickes |
New Democratic Party | 1990 | 2011 |
| 2011 Manitoba provincial election : Point Douglas edit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | Expenditures | |
| New Democrat | Kevin Chief | |||||
| Liberal | Mary Lou Bourgeois | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | ||||||
| Green | Teresa Pun | 176 | 3.39 | |||
| Total valid votes | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | ||||||
| Turnout | ||||||
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| 2007 Manitoba provincial election : Point Douglas edit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | Expenditures | |
| New Democrat | (x)George Hickes | 2,665 | 66.36 | -8.50 | $12,892.59 | |
| Liberal | Mary Lou Bourgeois | 591 | 14.72 | +0.49 | $11,443.44 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Alexa Rosentreter | 481 | 11.98 | +3.21 | $1,180.30 | |
| Green | Kristen Andrews | 213 | 5.30 | $84.55 | ||
| Communist | Darrell Rankin | 66 | 1.64 | -0.49 | $373.89 | |
| Total valid votes | 4,016 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected and declined ballots | 29 | |||||
| Turnout | 4,045 | 40.16 | -0.08 | |||
| Electors on the lists | 10,073 | |||||
| 2003 Manitoba provincial election : Point Douglas edit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | Expenditures | |
| New Democrat | (x)George Hickes | 2,877 | 74.86 | +21.52 | $10,189.54 | |
| Liberal | Mary Lou Bourgeois | 547 | 14.23 | -7.12 | $7,991.06 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Wyatt McIntyre | 337 | 8.77 | -10.79 | $10.68 | |
| Communist | Darrell Rankin | 82 | 2.13 | $376.06 | ||
| Total valid votes | 3,843 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected and declined ballots | 55 | |||||
| Turnout | 3,898 | 40.24 | -18.84 | |||
| Electors on the lists | 9,687 | |||||
| 1999 Manitoba provincial election : Point Douglas edit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | Expenditures | |
| New Democrat | (x)George Hickes | 3,338 | 53.34 | $21,952.00 | ||
| Liberal | Ajay Chopra | 1,336 | 21.35 | $21,013.00 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Mary Richard | 1,224 | 19.56 | $20,221.11 | ||
| Independent | Peter Juba | 360 | 5.75 | $2,113.33 | ||
| Total valid votes | 6,258 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected and declined ballots | 59 | |||||
| Turnout | 6,317 | 59.08 | ||||
| Electors on lists | 10,693 | |||||
| 1995 Manitoba provincial election : Point Douglas | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||
| New Democrat | (x)George Hickes | 3,095 | 63.03 | $15,378.00 | ||
| Liberal | Linda Cantiveros | 1,132 | 23.05 | $15,916.74 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Claire Riddle | 578 | 11.77 | $13,389.05 | ||
| Ind. (First Peoples Party) | Lyle Morrisseau | 105 | 2.14 | no report filed | ||
| Total valid votes | 4,910 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected and discarded ballots | 55 | |||||
| Turnout | 4,965 | 58.23 | ||||
| Electors on lists | 8,527 | |||||
| 1990 Manitoba provincial election : Point Douglas edit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | ||
| New Democrat | George Hickes | 2,778 | 54.72 | |||
| Liberal | Errol Lewis | 1,550 | 30.53 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Calvin Pompana | 575 | 11.33 | |||
| Independent | William Hawryluk | 108 | 2.13 | |||
| Independent | Roy Price | 66 | 1.30 | |||
| Total valid votes | 5,077 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected ballots | 71 | |||||
| Turnout | 5,148 | 60.92 | ||||
| Electors on lists | 8,450 | |||||
| 1977 Manitoba provincial election : Point Douglas edit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | ||
| New Democrat | (x)Donald Malinowski | 3,116 | 63.32 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Margaret Didenko | 915 | 18.59 | |||
| Liberal | Don Marks | 769 | 15.63 | |||
| Communist | Harold Dyck | 62 | 1.26 | |||
| Social Credit | Peter Stevens | 59 | 1.20 | |||
| Total valid votes | 4,921 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected votes | 85 | |||||
| Turnout | 5,006 | 61.10 | ||||
| Electors on the lists | 8,193 | |||||
| 1973 Manitoba provincial election : Point Douglas edit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | ||
| New Democrat | (x)Donald Malinowski | 3,676 | 65.55 | |||
| Independent | (x)Joseph Borowski | 1,127 | 20.10 | |||
| Liberal | Lawrence Belanger | 569 | 10.15 | |||
| Independent | George Munroe | 236 | 4.21 | |||
| Total valid votes | 5,608 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected and discarded votes | 100 | |||||
| Turnout | 5,708 | 65.56 | ||||
| Electors on the lists | 8,706 | |||||
| 1969 Manitoba provincial election : Point Douglas edit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | ||
| New Democrat | Donald Malinowski | 2,253 | 52.52 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Slaw Rebchuk | 1,088 | 25.36 | |||
| Liberal | Roger Garrity | 528 | 12.31 | |||
| Communist | William A. Kardash | 421 | 9.81 | |||
| Total valid votes | 4,290 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected and discarded votes | 62 | |||||
| Turnout | 4,352 | 46.37 | ||||
| Electors on the lists | 9,385 | |||||
All electoral information is taken from Elections Manitoba. Expenditures refer to individual candidate expenses.
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