Rossmere is a provincial electoral division in the
Canadian province
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of
Manitoba
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. It was created by redistribution in 1968, and has formally existed since the
provincial election of 1969. The riding is located in the northeastern section of the City of
Winnipeg
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Rossmere is bordered on the southeast by
Radisson, to the south by
Elmwood and
Concordia, to the north & west by
Kildonan-River East
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The riding was create ...
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Rossmere's population in 2018 was 21,150. In 2018, the average family income was $70,969, and the unemployment rate was 6.80%. According to a 2018 boundary commission, 20.8% of the riding's residents were immigrants; 25% listed German as their ethnic origin, and a further 11% are Ukrainian. The aboriginal population was 12.7%.
Rossmere is relatively affluent, and most of its residents are in the middle-income range. There is still a significant working-class presence in the riding, however: 13.8% of the riding's industry is in Health Care & Social Assistance, with a further 10.1% work in the retail trade.
Although Rossmere's first MLA was
New Democratic Party
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premier
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Edward Schreyer
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Schreyer was born and educated in Manitoba, and was first electe ...
, it was historically a swing seat between the NDP and the
Progressive Conservatives. After Schreyer's resignation in 1979, he was succeeded by the NDP's
Vic Schroeder
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, who was re-elected in the elections of
1981
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over his Conservative opposition. Schroeder was a senior cabinet minister in the government of
Howard Pawley
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, but was defeated in the
1988 election that swept the NDP from office. Progressive Conservative Harold Neufeld held the seat from 1988 to 1993, while future MP and federal cabinet minister
Vic Toews
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was the MLA from 1995 to 1999. Both served in the cabinets of
Gary Filmon
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For much of the early part of the new millennium, however, the Conservatives were not competitive in the seat. New Democrat
Harry Schellenberg, who first won the seat in a 1993 by-election before narrowly losing to Toews in the
1995 provincial election, regained the seat in the
1999 election by narrowly defeating Toews in a rematch. Schellenberg went on to win re-election in the
2003 provincial election with nearly two-thirds of the vote. Schellenberg was succeeded by fellow NDP member
Erna Braun
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, who won the seat in
2007 provincial election with 60% of the vote. Notably, the Conservatives did not nominate a candidate until after the election was called. The Tories took back the seat amid the massive Tory wave that swept through the province in
2016
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, with
Andrew Micklefield
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defeating Braun by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.
Rossmere has voted for the party that has won every general election since its creation, except 1977.
List of provincial representatives
This riding has elected the following
MLAs
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Electoral results
1969 general election
1973 general election
1977 general election
1979 by-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
References
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Manitoba provincial electoral districts
Politics of Winnipeg