River East

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River East

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 08/31/2011 1:39 PM | Comments: 0

A geographically small riding on the northeast corner of Winnipeg, River East includes the neighbourhoods of River East and Springfield North.

It is a middle- and upper-middle class riding and one of the oldest in the province.

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About a quarter of residents don’t list English as their first language. More than one in 10 people are immigrants, with German and Ukrainian heritages the most common.

Stats

Population: 20,555

Median age: 43.6 per cent

Immigrants: 13.2 per cent

Aboriginal population: 7.4 per cent

Living in poverty: 9.3 per cent

Median income: $31,142

Politics

River East is one of four ridings the Tories held onto in Winnipeg in the last election but just barely. Bonnie Mitchelson, who has been the MLA here since 1986, won by just 52 votes. It was the closest the NDP have ever come to winning here. The riding has only been in existence since 1981 and Mitchelson has held it for all but the first four years. The Liberals held it before that. It had one of the highest turnouts of the 2007 election.

2007 results

Bonnie Mitchelson, PC 4,361

Kurt Penner, NDP 4,309

Margaret vonLau, LIB 639

Turnout: 67.60 per cent

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