Saint Boniface (electoral district)

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Saint Boniface in relation to the other Winnipeg ridings

Saint Boniface (French: Saint-Boniface) is a federal electoral district that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1925. It is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

In 1996, its English name was changed from "St. Boniface" to "Saint Boniface".

The district covers roughly the southern portion of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, east of the Red River. In particular, it contains the Franco-Manitobain community of Saint Boniface. The riding (as federal electoral districts are called in Canada) has a sizeable French population (16% according to the last census) and is considered a Liberal Party stronghold. It is the only riding in Western Canada that regularly elects francophone candidates to parliament.

There exists also a provincial electoral district of a similar name (St. Boniface) within Manitoba.

1 Name changes
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Name changes

The federal riding's name has undergone various changes since its creation in 1924.

Riding name
Year	English name	French name
1924-1947	St. Boniface	Saint-Boniface
1947-1952	St. Boniface	St-Boniface
1952-1996	St. Boniface	Saint-Boniface
1996-present	Saint Boniface	Saint-Boniface

[edit] Members of Parliament

The riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Springfield prior to 1924
15th	1925-1926	John Power Howden	Liberal
16th	1926-1930
17th	1930-1935
18th	1935-1940
19th	1940-1945
20th	1945-1949	Fernand Viau	Liberal
21st	1949-1953
22nd	1953-1957
23rd	1957-1958	Louis Deniset	Liberal
24th	1958-1962	Laurier Régnier	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962-1963	Roger-Joseph Teillet	Liberal
26th	1963-1965
27th	1965-1968
28th	1968-1972	Joseph-Phillippe Guay	Liberal
29th	1972-1974
30th	1974-1978
1978 By-election	1978-1978	Jack Hare	Progressive Conservative
31st	1979-1980	Robert Bockstael	Liberal
32nd	1980-1984	Robert Bockstael	Liberal
33rd	1984-1988	Léo Duguay	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988-1993	Ronald Duhamel	Liberal
35th	1993-1997
36th	1997-1999
37th	2000-2002
2002 By-election	2002-2004	Raymond Simard	Liberal
38th	2004-2006
39th	2006-

[edit] Election results

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Raymond Simard	16,417	38.60%	-8.00%	$72,056
	Conservative	Ken Cooper	14,893	35.0%	+4.03%	$57,276
	New Democrat	Mathieu Allard	9,311	21.9%	+3.89%	$23,405
	Green	Marc Payette	1,640	3.9%	+1.51%	$4,830
	Christian Heritage	Jane MacDiarmid	285	0.7%	-0.27%	$503
Total valid votes			42,546	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			163	0.38%
Turnout			42,709	66.87%

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Raymond Simard	17,989	46.60%		$64,019
	Conservative	Ken Cooper	11,956	30.97%		$71,843
	New Democrat	Mathieu Allard	6,954	18.01%		$9,928
	Green	Daniel Backé	925	2.39%		$202
	Christian Heritage	Jeannine Moquin-Perry	378	0.97%		$7,690
	Marijuana	Chris Buors	317	0.82%
	Communist	Gérard Guay	77	0.19%		$654
Total valid votes			38,596	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			130	0.34%
Turnout			38,726	60.70%

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 13 May 2002 On Mr. Duhamel being called to the Senate, 15 January 2002
	Liberal	Raymond Simard	8,862
	Canadian Alliance	Denis Simard	4,497
	Progressive Conservative	Mike Reilly	3,583
	New Democrat	John Parry	3,106
	Marijuana	Chris Buors	435
	Christian Heritage	Jean-Paul Kabashiki	210

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ronald J. Duhamel	20,173
	Canadian Alliance	Joyce M. Chilton	8,962
	New Democrat	John Parry	5,026
	Progressive Conservative	Mike Reilly	4,505

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ronald J. Duhamel	18,948
	New Democrat	Peter Carney	6,663
	Reform	Denis Simard	6,658
	Progressive Conservative	Jennifer Clark	4,555
	Marxist-Leninist	Rubin Kantorovich	171

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ronald J. Duhamel	30,041
	Reform	Alison Anderson	7,959
	Progressive Conservative	Barbara Thompson	3,404
	New Democrat	Pauline Dupont	3,354
	National	Marcelle Marion	2,008
	Canada Party	Don Dumesnil	329
	Natural Law	Ginette Robert	250
	Marxist-Leninist	Sharon Segal	59

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ronald J. Duhamel	24,117
	Progressive Conservative	Léo Duguay	15,747
	New Democrat	Alan Turner	5,012
	Reform	Gordon G. Duncan	1,281
	Libertarian	Guy Beaudry	425
	Independent	Lyle H. Cruickshank	190
	Not affiliated	Rubin Kantorovich	43

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Léo Duguay	19,548
	Liberal	Robert Bockstael	16,763
	New Democrat	Armand T. Bédard	11,279
	Confederation of Regions	Dennis A. Epps	1,649

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Robert Bockstael	20,076
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Denton	13,044
	New Democrat	Marc Boily	11,191
	Marxist-Leninist	Sharon Segal	57

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Robert Bockstael	19,752
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Hare	16,987
	New Democrat	Grant Wichenko	11,455
	Marxist-Leninist	Manuel Gitterman	60
	Not affiliated	Russ Maley	56

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 16 October 1978 On Mr. Guay's resignation, 23 March 1978
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Hare	18,552
	Liberal	Robert Bockstael	13,804
	New Democrat	Grant Wichenko	9,570
	Social Credit	Lorne Reznowski	1,204
	Independent	Donald Bryan Oliver	281
	Independent	William Hawryluk	161

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-P. Guay	21,853
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Hare	18,604
	New Democrat	Jim Garwood	10,364
	Social Credit	Thomas L. Cruickshank	536

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-P. Guay	22,200
	New Democrat	Joseph F. Sherwood	13,857
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Hillcoff	13,033
	Social Credit	Gilles J. Ouellet	643
	Not affiliated	Russ Maley	241

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-P. Guay	22,032
	New Democrat	Harry Shafransky	11,566
	Progressive Conservative	Vaughan L. Baird	8,048
	Social Credit	Georges Forest	949

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Roger Teillet	13,961
	Progressive Conservative	Harry Deleeuw	10,499
	New Democrat	Harry Shafransky	8,923

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Roger Teillet	13,547
	Progressive Conservative	Laurier Régnier	9,716
	New Democrat	Graham Campbell	6,184
	Social Credit	Georges-J. Forest	3,859

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Roger Teillet	12,084
	Progressive Conservative	Laurier Régnier	9,483
	New Democrat	Graham Campbell	7,508
	Social Credit	Joseph-E St Hilaire	2,773

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Laurier Régnier	12,688
	Liberal	Louis Deniset	9,500
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Nicholas Manchur	5,759
	Social Credit	Lockie A. Miles	881

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis Deniset	7,777
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Nicholas Manchur	6,216
	Progressive Conservative	Laurier Régnier	6,040
	Social Credit	Dollard Lafrenière	3,872
	Independent Liberal	Fernand Viau	1,074

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Viau	8,051
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Leonard S. Evans	5,568
	Progressive Conservative	George Campbell MacLean	4,994

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Viau	10,766
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Andrew Russell Paulley	5,455
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Léger	2,557

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Viau	6,055
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Évariste-Rupert Gagnon	4,823
	Progressive Conservative	George Campbell MacLean	3,421
	Social Credit	Charles Anderson Bailey	1,369
	Labour-Progressive	Jules Jerome Pynoo	710

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Power Howden	7,926
	National Government	George Campbell MacLean	3,578
	Social Credit	Philippe Guay	1,839
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Henry Barefoot	1,739
	Independent	Morris Jacob	216

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Power Howden	7,353
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Edwin Arnold Hansford	2,304
	Conservative	Joseph-Placide Bertrand	2,222
	Social Credit	Victor James Gray	624
	Reconstruction	Thomas Boniface Molloy	438

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Power Howden	7,045
	Conservative	Edgar Honwell Cook	4,630
	Labour	Edwin Arnold Hansford	1,943

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Power Howden	5,903
	Conservative	Joseph Bernier	3,235
	Labour	Allan Meikle	2,427

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Power Howden	4,819
	Independent Labour	Allan Meikle	2,901
	Conservative	George Campbell MacLean	2,442

[edit] See also

St. Boniface (provincial electoral district)
List of Canadian federal electoral districts
Past Canadian electoral districts

[edit] External links

Federal Ridings in Manitoba
Conservative	Brandon—Souris \| Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia \| Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette \| Kildonan—St. Paul \| Portage—Lisgar \| Provencher \| Selkirk—Interlake \| Winnipeg South
Liberal	Churchill \| Saint Boniface \| Winnipeg South Centre
New Democratic	Elmwood—Transcona \| Winnipeg Centre \| Winnipeg North

v • d • e Federal Ridings in the Prairies
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