What to know about the Red River North riding for Manitoba's 2023 election

• About the riding
• Voting history
• News stories from Red River North
• Meet the candidates
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Red River North was called Selkirk before the 2018 redistribution removed the city of Selkirk from the riding.

The updated riding, just northeast of Winnipeg, runs in a strip east of the Red River from Winnipeg city limits in the south to Grand Beach on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg in the north.

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The riding contains the rural municipalities of East St. Paul and St. Clements, and includes the communities of East Selkirk, Libau, Brokenhead Ojibway Nation and Grand Beach.

The riding's population is 21,100, says the province's 2023 riding profile (compiled from the 2021 census).

The median age of the riding is nearly a decade older than the Manitoba median, at 47.6 in Red River North compared to 38.4 provincewide, the 2018 riding profile and the 2016 census say. The census found the median household income in the area was $112,000.

More facts about Red River North:

• Just over 14.1 per cent of residents identified as Indigenous in the 2021 census, the 2023 riding profile says.

• Just under five per cent of residents identified as visible minorities.

• Just over 94 per cent of residents reported they own their homes.

• The median value of a home in the riding is more than $448,000.

Voting history

The riding voted Progressive Conservative in the only election for which it's existed:

• 2019: JeffreyWharton (Progressive Conservative).

Red River North in the news

• Booming sales, barren shelves: Manitoba liquor strike spills into long weekend

• Small plane crashes while trying to take off near Selkirk: Manitoba RCMP

• Speed limit reduced on stretch of Highway 59 after fatal hit-and-run in Brokenhead Ojibway Nation

Meet the candidates

As of Sept. 11, the nominated candidates for the 2023 election are:

• Alicia Hill (NDP).
• Jeffrey Wharton (Progressive Conservative incumbent).

Candidates become official when they meet criteria set out in the province's Elections Act, including providing a statement of disclosure, after an election has been called. In Red River North, all candidates are official.

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