Point Douglas is a provincial electoral district in

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, Canada. It is named for a part of the city that is surrounded by a bend in the Red River. The riding covers the neighbourhoods of William Whyte, Dufferin Industrial,

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, Lord Selkirk Park and South Point Douglas plus parts of St. John's Park, St. John's, Inkster-Faraday,

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, Dufferin,

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and the

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. It was also Winnipeg's only government supported red light district.

History

The division was created by redistribution for the 1969 provincial election, eliminated in 1978 into Burrows,

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and St. Johns. It was re-established in 1989 from parts of Burrows,

, St. Johns and a small part of Seven Oaks. It is located in north-central

, and includes the Point Douglas neighbourhood. Point Douglas is bordered to the east by

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and Elmwood, to the south by

, to the north by St. Johns, and to the west by Burrows,

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and

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. Different parts of the division are included in the federal ridings of

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and

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. Point Douglas is named after Thomas Douglas, the 5th Earl of Selkirk, who established the

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in 1812. His namesake, twentieth-century politician

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, also lived in the Point Douglas neighbourhood in the early 1910s.Bill Blaikie, Address to the Premier's Dinner
29 October 2004. The

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has won every election in the constituency.

Demographics

Source:
2003 CBC Profile

List of provincial representatives

Electoral history

1990 to present

^ Change is not based on redistributed results ^ Change is not based on redistributed results

1969 to 1981

All electoral information is taken from Elections Manitoba. Expenditures refer to individual candidate expenses.

Previous boundaries

References

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