Federal Election 2025
Leah Gazan has held her Winnipeg Centre seat in a tough battle with Liberal challenger Rahul Walia. Gazan, an Indigenous and anti-poverty activist first elected in 2019, took nearly 40 per cent of the vote, five points more than Walia. In winning Winnipeg Centre, Gazan kept true to the NDP… Read More
It’s out with the old and in with the former as Liberal candidate Dr. Doug Eyolfson, an emergency room physician at Grace Hospital, took this renamed riding back from the Tories. Eyolfson, who had held the former Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingley seat from 2015 to 2019, defeated two-term Tory MP Marty Morantz. Read More
The ballots in Winnipeg West were still being counted around 10:15 p.m. and the two major candidates were neck and neck around 10:15 p.m., although Tory incumbent Marty Morantz had a slight lead. Through Winnipeg West, Morantz and Liberal contender Dr. Doug Eyolfson appeared to take different approaches to Election… Read More
Liberal MP Ben Carr — who won the seat in a 2023 byelection after his father, MP Jim Carr, died — appears set to hold Winnipeg South Centre. Carr has twice as many votes as Tory Royden Brousseau and 63.1 per cent of the vote with half the polls counted. Read More
Voters in Winnipeg South are keeping true to the riding’s reputation as a reliable bellwether. With Liberal Mark Carney projected to remain as the prime minister, it appears Liberal incumbent Terry Duguid will also remain as the riding’s MP. With nearly a third of the riding’s polls counted, Duguid has… Read More
A duo dressed up in pro-Trump attire to visit a Kildonan-St. Paul polling station at the eleventh hour on Monday to promote their support for Manitoba joining the United States. Dan Kohanchuk, 39, wore a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap to a polling station in Garden City Shopping… Read More
Winnipeg North looks to join Canada’s renewed red wave as incumbent Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux takes the lead. Lamoureux held 57.1 per cent of the vote with 60 of 152 polls reporting. Conservative candidate Rachel Punzalan is coming up second with 35 per cent of the vote. Also running are… Read More
Conservative MP Branden Leslie appears to have easily secured a second term as the MP for the Tory stronghold of Portage-Lisgar. With more than a third of polls reporting, Leslie has nearly 70 per cent of the vote. Liberal Robert Kreis is well back with 21.6 per cent of the… Read More
Conservative MP James Bezan appears to be a lock on winning his eighth race to represent the rural riding. With 55 polls counted, Bezan has 61.3 per cent of the vote, well in front of Liberal challenger Ronda Nichols, who is at 27.4 per cent. The former rancher has been… Read More
By 9:45 p.m., about 50 Liberal volunteers had gathered at Nicolino’s, an Italian restaurant off Pembina Highway, to show their support for Winnipeg South candidate Terry Duguid. Drinks were being poured and the mood was high, as the room filled up. As initial polls rolled in, volunteers energetically boo-ed or… Read More