Keewatinook is a provincial electoral division in the
Canadian province of
Manitoba
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. The riding existed previously under the name Rupertsland. Starting with the
2011 election, the riding was renamed Kewatinook which means "from the north" in Cree. Effective with the
2019 Manitoba general election
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, the spelling was corrected to Keewatinook.
It was created in 1915 from territories that were added to the province four years earlier and has existed continuously since that time. The area had been part of the
Grand Rapids and
Churchill and Nelson
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electoral districts for the
1914 Manitoba general election The 1914 Manitoba general election was held on July 10, 1914 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.
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. Originally named Rupertsland, its name was changed as part of the 2008 riding redistribution by the Manitoba Boundaries Commission. Kewatinook is currently the largest riding in the province, a sprawling northern constituency occupying a large portion of the eastern half of Manitoba. It was a smaller constituency until 1989 when it gained a significant amount of territory from the former riding of
Churchill
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.
The current Kewatinook riding stretches from the
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border in the southeast to the
Nunavut border in the north; it is also bordered by
Lac Du Bonnet to the south and
Flin Flon
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The Pas
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and
Thompson
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to the west.
Churchill, Manitoba is the most significant community in this wide region.
Elections in Kewatinook before 1966 were usually deferred until a later date than the rest of the province, due to the increased time it took to run elections in the region.
Kewatinook's population in 2006 was 15,560.
In 1999, the average family income was $33,787 (the fourth-lowest in Manitoba), and the unemployment rate was 25%. Over 34% of the riding's population have less than a Grade 9 education, the highest such rate in the province. Government services account for 21% of the riding's industry, followed by education services at 17%.
Eighty-seven per cent of Kewatinook's residents are aboriginal, the highest percentage in the province. Over half the population list
Cree as their mother tongue. In 1999, there was only a 1% immigrant population.
Prior to the 2016 election, the
New Democratic Party represented the riding from 1969 to 2016, when
Judy Klassen of the
Liberal Party
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defeated longtime MLA
Eric Robinson. The current MLA is
Ian Bushie
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of the New Democratic Party. Bushie defeated Jason Harper of the Liberal Party to take the seat in 2019.
List of provincial representatives
Electoral results
1916 by-election
1920 general election
1922 general election
1927 general election
1932 general election
1936 general election
1941 general election
1945 general election
1949 general election
1953 general election
1958 general election
1959 general election
1962 general election
1966 general election
1969 general election
1973 general election
1977 general election
1981 general election
1986 general election
1988 general election
1990 general election
1993 by-election
1995 general election
1999 general election
2003 general election
2007 general election
2011 general election
2016 general election
2019 general election
Previous boundaries
References
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Manitoba provincial electoral districts
Churchill, Manitoba