La Verendrye (electoral district)

La Verendrye (electoral district)

La Verendrye is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1879, and has existed since that time.

La Verendrye is located southeastern region of Manitoba. It is bordered to the south by Emerson and Steinbach, to the west by Morris and the City of Winnipeg, to the north by Springfield and Lac Du Bonnet, and to the east by the province of Ontario.

Communities in the riding include Ste. Anne, Iles des Chenes, Lorette, St-Genevieve, Landmark and Hadashville. The Whiteshell Provincial Park is also in the riding.

The riding's population in 1996 was 19,558. As of 1999, the average family income was $49,308, and the unemployment rate was 5.90%. Manufacturing accounts for 12% of the riding's industry, followed by the service sector at 11%.

La Verendrye has the second-highest francophone population in Manitoba (after St. Boniface), at 23% of the total population. Nine per cent of the riding's residents are German, and 7% are aboriginal.

La Verendrye was a hotly-contested riding between the Liberals and Conservatives in its earliest years. After 1922, it became dominated by the Progressives, who later became the Liberal-Progressives before metamorphosising again into the Manitoba Liberal Party. With the decline of the provincial Liberal Party in the 1970s, the riding became relatively safe for the Progressive Conservative party.

In the 1999 election, Ron Lemieux became the first New Democrat to be elected for the constituency. He was re-elected in the 2003 election with almost 60% of the popular vote. It is too early to tell if the seat has become safe for the NDP.

List of provincial representatives

Name Party Took Office Left Office

Maxime GouletGovernment/Conservative18791882
Louis Prud'hommeCons18821883
Maxime Goulet"Independent Conservative"18831884
Louis Prud'hommeCons18841885
James Prendergast"Conservative-Liberal"18851888
Lib18881888
William LagimodiereLib18881892
Theophile PareCons18921899
William LagimodiereLib18991907
Jean LauzonCons19071910
William MolloyLib19101914
Jean LauzonCons19141915
Philippe TalbotLib, later Independent19151920
Independent19201922
Prog19221932
Lib-Prog19321936
Sauveur MarcouxLib-Prog19361951
Edmond BrodeurLib-Prog19521958
Stan RobertsLib-Prog19581961
Lib19611962
Albert VielfaureLib19621969
Leonard BarkmanLib19691973
Robert BanmanPC19731986
Helmut PankratzPC19861990
Ben SveinsonPC19901999
Ron LemieuxNDP1999"present"


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