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They cut it close to the deadline, but each of the three major parties has official candidates running in all 14 of Manitoba’s federal ridings.
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They cut it close to the deadline, but each of the three major parties has official candidates running in all 14 of Manitoba’s federal ridings.
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They cut it close to the deadline, but each of the three major parties has official candidates running in all 14 of Manitoba’s federal ridings.
Last-minute approvals were being granted Monday and Tuesday after candidates scrambled to submit their nomination documents to Elections Canada, including a minimum of 100 signatures from residents of their riding, by the deadline of Monday at 2 p.m.
For example, throughout most of Monday, Dan Mazier, the incumbent Conservative Party of Canada MP in Riding Mountain, was the only approved candidate who would be on the election ballot. The riding is one of two in Manitoba — the other is Churchill-Keewatinook Aski — that require only 50 signatures because of their large geographic size and difficulty getting to constituents.
On Monday evening, Elections Canada announced four more candidates had been officially confirmed for that riding — candidates for the Liberal party, the NDP, the Green party, and the People’s Party of Canada.
Marie-France Kenny, Election Canada’s regional spokesperson, said each nomination form submitted by a candidate has to be checked for mistakes.
“The list of electors will be verified to ensure all listed electors are eligible to vote in the electoral district where the candidate is running,” Kenny said.
“Names will not be counted if their address is outside the electoral district, missing or unreadable. They will also not be counted if the candidate’s name does not appear at the top of all signature pages or if a witness has not signed the page.”
Elections Canada has until Wednesday to confirm all official candidates.
Neither Mazier nor his campaign manager could be reached for comment.
Mazier announced on March 28 he had been confirmed as an official candidate by Elections Canada.
“Thanks to everyone who signed my nomination papers,” he posted on social media. “Because of your support, I was the first candidate to make it on the ballot. Now, back to the campaign trail.”
Winnipeg Centre NDP MP Leah Gazan said she made sure she submitted her nomination form early in the campaign before it got busy.
“It is part of the process,” Gazan said. “There is a lot that goes on during the election so we got ours done early.”
Churchill-Keewatinook Aski is another riding in which a candidate was approved on Monday. Liberal candidate Rebecca Chartrand, who was nominated by the party on April 1, was approved by Elections Canada.
Despite PPC Leader Maxime Bernier running in a byelection in Portage-Lisgar in 2023, it didn’t have an official candidate until late Monday when Kevin Larson was approved.
Unless there are more late approvals, the PPC will not field candidates in two ridings — Brandon-Souris and Winnipeg West. The Green party won’t have a candidate in four ridings: Brandon-Souris, Churchill-Keewatinook Aski, Kildonan-St. Paul, and Saint Boniface-Saint Vital.
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Kevin Rollason is a general assignment reporter at the Free Press. He graduated from Western University with a Masters of Journalism in 1985 and worked at the Winnipeg Sun until1988, when he joined the Free Press. He has served as the Free Press’s city hall and law courts reporter and has won several awards, including a National Newspaper Award. Read more about Kevin.
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Confirmed candidates
Confirmed candidates in Manitoba’s 14 ridings as of April 8 are:
Brandon-Souris:
- Liberal Party of Canada: Ghazanfar Ali
- Conservative Party of Canada: Grant Jackson
- New Democratic Party: Quentin Robinson
Churchill-Keewatinook Aski:
- Liberal: Rebecca Chartrand
- Conservative: Lachlan De Nardi
- NDP: Niki Ashton (incumbent)
- People’s Party of Canada: Dylan Young
Elmwood-Transcona:
- Liberal: Ian MacIntyre
- Conservative: Colin Reynolds
- NDP: Leila Dance (incumbent)
- Green: Nicolas Geddert
- PPC: Collin Watson
Kildonan-St. Paul:
- Liberal: Thomas Naaykens
- Conservative: Raquel Dancho (incumbent)
- NDP: Emily Clark
- PPC: Erik Holmes
Portage-Lisgar:
- Liberal: Robert Kreis
- Conservative: Branden Leslie (incumbent)
- NDP: Lisa Tessier
- Green: Janine G. Gibson
- PPC: Kevin Larson
Provencher:
- Liberal: Trevor Kirczenow
- Conservative: Ted Falk (incumbent)
- NDP: Brandy Schmidt
- Green: Blair Mahaffy
- PPC: Noel Gautron
Riding Mountain:
- Liberal: Terry Hayward
- Conservative: Dan Mazier (incumbent)
- NDP: Andrew Douglas Maxwell
- Green: Liz Clayton
- PPC: Jim Oliver
Selkirk-Interlake-Eastman:
- Liberal: Rhonda Nichol
- Conservative: James Bezan (incumbent)
- NDP: Josef Estabrooks
- Green: Wayne James
- PPC: Byron Gryba
- United Party of Canada: Chris Riddell
Saint Boniface-Saint Vital:
- Liberal: Ginette Lavack
- Conservative: Shola Agboola
- NDP: Thomas Linner
- PPC: Gilles Pelletier
Winnipeg Centre:
- Liberal: Rahul Walia
- Conservative: Tom Bambrick
- NDP: Leah Gazan (incumbent)
- Green: Gary Gervais
- PPC: Donald Grant
- Animal Protection Party of Canada: Debra Wall
Winnipeg North:
- Liberal: Kevin Lamoureux (incumbent)
- Conservative: Rachel Punzalan
- NDP: Adebayo Akinrogunde
- Green: Angela Brydges
- PPC: Jessica Bailon
- Communist Party of Canada: Sarah Borbridge
Winnipeg South:
- Liberal: Terry Duguid (incumbent)
- Conservative: Janice Morley-Lecomte
- NDP: Joanne Bjornson
- Green: Manjit Kaur
- PPC: Johann Rempel Fehr
Winnipeg South Centre:
- Liberal: Ben Carr (incumbent)
- Conservative: Royden Brousseau
- NDP: Jorge Requena Ramos
- Green: Chris Petriew
- PPC: Jaclyn Cummings
- Communist Party of Canada: Cam Scott
- Independent: Tait Palsson
Winnipeg West:
- Liberal: Doug Eyolfson
- Conservative: Marty Morantz (incumbent)
- NDP: Avery Selby-Lyons
- Green: Dennis Bayomi
Kevin Rollason
Reporter
Kevin Rollason is a general assignment reporter at the Free Press. He graduated from Western University with a Masters of Journalism in 1985 and worked at the Winnipeg Sun until1988, when he joined the Free Press. He has served as the Free Press’s city hall and law courts reporter and has won several awards, including a National Newspaper Award. Read more about Kevin.
Every piece of reporting Kevin produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.
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