Voters in Portage-Lisgar go to the polls on June 19
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This article was published 14/06/2023 (1205 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A federal byelection will be held in the riding of Portage-Lisgar to elect a member of Parliament to replace Candice Bergen of the Conservative Party of Canada, who resigned her seat on Feb. 1 after serving as MP since 2008.
Here’s what you need to know:
Portage—Lisgar
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Branden Leslie, the Conservative Party of Canada candidate, previously served as a campaign manager for former Portage —Lisgar MP Candice Bergen
Boundaries: Covers 12,559 square kilometres, bounded by the ridings of Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette, Lake Manitoba, and the Selkirk-Interlake area in the north, southwest Winnipeg (St. James-Assiniboia) and Provencher to the east, the Brandon-Souris area to the west, and the Canada-United States border in the south. Includes the rural municipalities of Altona, Carman, Cartier, Gretna, Long Plain First Nation, Lorne, Macdonald, Manitou, Morden, Morris, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Pembina, Plum Coulee, Portage la Prairie, Rhineland, St. Claude, St. François Xavier, Somerset, South Norfolk, Swan Lake First Nation, Treherne, and Winkler.
Population: 100,417 (2021)
Number of electors: 45,697 (2021)
Candidates:
Max Bernier, People’s Party of Canada
Nicolas Geddert, Green Party of Canada
Branden Leslie, Conservative Party of Canada
Kerry Smith, Liberal Party of Canada
Lisa Tessier-Burch, New Democratic Party of Canada
Polling stations will be open between 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Visit Elections Canada at elections.ca for more information.
— compiled by Emma Honeybun