Jeff Wharton is a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for

Red River North Red River North is a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Manitoba that will come into effect at the 2019 Manitoba general election. It will elect one member to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. The riding was created b ...

, currently serving as the Minister of Economic Development, Investment and Trade. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, 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 NDP MLA

Peter Bjornson Peter Bjornson is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a cabinet minister in the NDP government of Premier Greg Selinger. Bjornson has lived for his entire life in the community of Gimli, Manitoba. He worked as a teacher before entering ...

. 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.

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