First contested 1997 District webpage profile, map Elector 61,350 | District created 1996 Last contested 2015 | |
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MP Candice BergenConservative Census divisions | ||
Portage—Lisgar is a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.
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Demographics
Portage—Lisgar is the riding with the highest percentage of native German speakers (23.6% of the population) in all of Canada. Only Inuktitut (Nunavut: 66.8%) and Panjabi (Punjabi) (Newton—North Delta, in British Columbia: 33.4%) exceed this concentration of native speakers of a non-official language in a single riding.
Geography
This is a rural district that includes the cities of Portage la Prairie, Winkler, and Morden, and the towns of Carman and Altona.
History
The electoral district was created in 1996 from the former districts of Lisgar—Marquette, Portage—Interlake and Provencher.
This riding lost territory to Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa and Brandon—Souris, and gained territory from Provencher and Selkirk—Interlake during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:
Current Member of Parliament
Its Member of Parliament is Candice Bergen. She was first elected in the Canadian federal election, 2008