Jeff Wharton is a Canadian politician and member of the

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, formerly serving as the Minister of Economic Development, Investment and Trade. A member of the

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, he was first elected in the 2016 provincial election as MLA for Gimli, and re-elected in

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as MLA for Red River North. Wharton initially ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate for Gimli in the 2011 provincial election, but lost to incumbent

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Peter Bjornson Peter Bjornson is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a cabinet minister in the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, NDP government of Premier Greg Selinger. Bjornson has lived for his entire life in the community of Gimli, Manitoba. He wor ...

. When Bjornson retired in 2015, Wharton ran and was elected MLA for Gimli in the 2016 Manitoba election. On August 17, 2017, Premier Brian Pallister appointed Wharton as Minister of Municipal Relations. Following electoral boundary changes implemented in 2019, Gimli was dissolved and Wharton successfully sought election in the new constituency of Red River North. Wharton was appointed Minister of Crown Services on September 26, 2019. He was succeeded by the Honourable Jamie Moses with the election of the NDP government in 2023. On October 24, 2023, he was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Investment and Trade.

Electoral record

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