Transcona is a provincial electoral division in the

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. The riding was created by redistribution in 1968, and has formally existed since the 1969 provincial election. The riding is named after and contains

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, a neighbourhood in the easternmost tip of the city of

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. It is bordered to the west by

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, Southdale, and

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, and in all other directions by the rural riding of

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. The population in 1996 was 19,648. The average family income in 1999 was $50,089, with an unemployment rate of 6.70%. There is a significant

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population in the riding, about 7% of the total. The riding is primarily working-class, and includes the

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rail yards. Fifteen percent of the riding's industry is in the manufacturing sector, with a further 14% in retail trade. The former

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(NDP) party leader

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represented the riding for eight years. Candidates from the NDP have won Transcona in all but two of the provincial elections ( 1988 and 2016, both of which coincided with large provincewide declines in NDP support) in which it has participated since 1969.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Electoral results

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Previous boundaries

References

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