- Point Douglas
Point Douglas is a provincial electoral division in
Manitoba ,Canada .History
The division was created by redistribution for the 1969 provincial election, eliminated in
1978 , and re-established in1989 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 andWinnipeg North .Point Douglas is named after Thomas Douglas, the 5th Earl of Selkirk, who established the
Red River Settlement in1812 . His namesake, twentieth-century politicianTommy Douglas , also lived in the Point Douglas neighbourhood in the early 1910s. [ [http://www.billblaikie.ca/ndp.php/209/ART419235d4a1f46 Bill Blaikie, Address to the Premier's Dinner] , 29 October 2004.]The
Manitoba New Democratic Party has won every election in the consitituency. The currentMember of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Point Douglas is George Hickes, who was returned with almost 75% of the vote in2003 . Hickes has beenSpeaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since1999 .Demographics
Source: [http://www.cbc.ca/manitobavotes2003/riding/029/ 2003 CBC Profile]
List of provincial representatives
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! width="30%"|Name ! width="30%"|Party! width="20%"|Took Office! width="20%"|Left OfficeDonald Malinowski
New Democratic Party
1969
1981 ||
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George Hickes
New Democratic Party
1990
Electoral history
All electoral information is taken from Elections Manitoba. Expenditures refer to individual candidate expenses.
Footnotes
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