Union Station is a provincial electoral district (riding) in the
Canadian province
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of
Manitoba
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that was first contested at the
2019 Manitoba general election
The 2019 Manitoba general election was held on September 10, 2019, to elect the 57 members to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
The incumbent Progressive Conservatives, led by Premier Brian Pallister, were re-elected to a second majority g ...
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Uzoma Asagwara
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of the
New Democratic Party
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was elected its first representative to the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
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History
The riding was created by the 2018 provincial redistribution out of parts of
Logan
Logan may refer to:
Places
* Mount Logan (disambiguation)
Australia
* Logan (Queensland electoral district), an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly
* Logan, Victoria, small locality near St. Arnaud
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Wolseley and
Minto
Minto may refer to:
Places Antarctica
*Mount Minto (Antarctica)
Australia
*Minto, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
** Minto railway station
* Minto County, Western Australia
* Parish of Minto, New South Wales
Canada
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. The riding is presumably named for
Union Station
A union station (also known as a union terminal, a joint station in Europe, and a joint-use station in Japan) is a railway station at which the tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway companies, allowing passengers to ...
and according to the boundaries commission "to recognize the important role of the railway in the establishment of Winnipeg".
Location
The riding contains most of
Downtown Winnipeg
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and parts of the neighbourhoods of West Broadway and Spence.
Election results
References
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Manitoba provincial electoral districts
Politics of Winnipeg
West End, Winnipeg