Winnipeg South

This article is about federal riding. For the historic provincial riding, see Winnipeg South (provincial electoral division).

Winnipeg South (French: Winnipeg-Sud) is a Canadian federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1979, and since 1988. It covers the southernmost part of the city of Winnipeg.

Winnipeg South

Manitoba electoral district
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Terry Duguid Liberal
District created	1987
First contested	1988
Last contested	2025
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	85,540
Electors (2015)	62,156
Area (km²)[2]	105
Pop. density (per km²)	814.7
Census division(s)	Winnipeg
Census subdivision(s)	Winnipeg (part)

The riding is a bellwether, electing an MP from the party that formed government nationally in every election since it was re-formed in 1988. In its earlier incarnation, it only elected opposition MPs three times, in 1925, 1953, and 1965.

History

The electoral district was created in 1914 from parts of the ridings of Winnipeg, Provencher, and Macdonald. It first elected a Member of Parliament in 1917.

In 1976, it was abolished when it was redistributed into the ridings of Winnipeg—Assiniboine and Winnipeg—Fort Garry, which took effect at the election of 1979.

In 1987, it was re-created from parts of Winnipeg—Assiniboine and Winnipeg—Fort Garry, which were abolished, and has been contested since 1988.

Some observers expected Winnipeg South to be a close race in 2011,^[3] though these predictions were later proven wrong. This race was close in 2006, when Conservative challenger Rod Bruinooge defeated four-term Liberal incumbent Reg Alcock by just 111 votes. In 2008, Bruinooge improved his plurality to nearly 6,000 votes. His Liberal challenger was businessperson, party activist, and former Winnipeg City Council member Terry Duguid.

This riding lost territory to Winnipeg South Centre and Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, and gained territory from the latter, during the 2012 electoral redistribution. Bruinooge chose not to contest the 2015 election, and Duguid won the seat for the Liberal Party.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding will lose the neighbourhood of Minnetonka to St. Boniface—St. Vital and the neighbourhoods of Whyte Ridge and Linden Ridge to Winnipeg South Centre. These changes will come into effect upon the calling of the 2025 Canadian federal election.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Winnipeg South Riding created from Macdonald, Provencher and Winnipeg
13th	1917–1921		George William Allan Jr	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		Albert Hudson	Liberal
15th	1925–1926		Robert Rogers	Conservative
16th	1926–1930		John Stewart McDiarmid	Liberal
17th	1930–1935		Robert Rogers	Conservative
18th	1935–1940		Leslie Mutch	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1956		Owen Trainor	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1957–1958		Gordon Chown
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965		Margaret Konantz	Liberal
27th	1965–1968		Bud Sherman	Progressive Conservative
28th	1968–1972		James Armstrong Richardson	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1978
	1978–1979			Independent
Riding dissolved into Winnipeg—Assiniboine and Winnipeg—Fort Garry
Riding re-created from Winnipeg—Assiniboine and Winnipeg—Fort Garry
34th	1988–1993		Dorothy Dobbie	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Reg Alcock	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008		Rod Bruinooge	Conservative
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019		Terry Duguid	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present

Current member of Parliament

Terry Duguid has represented Winnipeg South since the 2015 election. He was re-elected in 2019, 2021, and 2025.

Demographics

Panethnic groups in Winnipeg South (2011−2021)

Panethnic group	2021[4]		2016[5]		2011[6]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
European[a]	53,420	47.59%	55,645	56.69%	57,055	67.82%
South Asian	16,365	14.58%	10,055	10.24%	6,030	7.17%
East Asian[b]	14,665	13.07%	11,495	11.71%	6,655	7.91%
African	8,645	7.7%	5,725	5.83%	3,090	3.67%
Indigenous	7,430	6.62%	6,770	6.9%	5,345	6.35%
Southeast Asian[c]	5,115	4.56%	3,630	3.7%	2,660	3.16%
Middle Eastern[d]	3,520	3.14%	2,450	2.5%	1,335	1.59%
Latin American	1,240	1.1%	840	0.86%	975	1.16%
Other/multiracial[e]	1,845	1.64%	1,555	1.58%	980	1.16%
Total responses	112,245	99.01%	98,160	98.48%	84,125	98.35%
Total population	113,370	100%	99,678	100%	85,540	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

Election results

1988–present

Graph of election results in Winnipeg South (since 1988, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or did not run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Terry Duguid	27,287	58.78	+10.63
	Conservative	Janice Morley-Lecomte	16,315	35.14	+2.44
	New Democratic	Joanne Bjornson	2,093	4.51	–9.83
	People's	Johann Rempel Fehr	427	0.92	–2.42
	Green	Manjit Kaur	301	0.65	–0.83
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			46,423	72.23
Eligible voters			64,271
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+4.10
Source: Elections Canada[7][8]

2021 federal election redistributed results[9]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	19,251	48.15
	Conservative	13,074	32.70
	New Democratic	5,733	14.34
	People's	1,336	3.34
	Green	590	1.48

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Terry Duguid	22,423	47.46	+5.32	$101,968.67
	Conservative	Melanie Maher	15,967	33.79	-4.92	$70,925.37
	New Democratic	Aiden Kahanovitch	6,632	14.03	+0.09	$0.00
	People's	Byron Curtis Gryba	1,542	3.26	+2.36	$4,177.84
	Green	Greg Boettcher	681	1.44	-2.88	$436.79
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,245	–	–	$106,465.61
Total rejected ballots			346
Turnout			47,591	67.65
Eligible voters			69,825
Source: Elections Canada[10]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Terry Duguid	20,182	42.14	-16.15	$82,362.08
	Conservative	Melanie Maher	18,537	38.71	+4.04	$102,498.79
	New Democratic	Jean-Paul Lapointe	6,678	13.94	+8.95	$41.24
	Green	Paul Bettess	2,073	4.32	+2.27	$6,744.38
	People's	Mirwais Nasiri	419	0.9	+0.9	$3,076.22
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,889	100.0
Total rejected ballots			303	0.63	–
Turnout			48,192	69.92
Eligible voters			68,922
	Liberal hold		Swing		-10.10
Source: Elections Canada[11][12]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Terry Duguid	28,096	58.29	+26.30	$131,358.55
	Conservative	Gordon Giesbrecht	16,709	34.67	-17.07	$130,109.13
	New Democratic	Brianne Goertzen	2,404	4.99	-9.15	$2,235.01
	Green	Adam Smith	990	2.05	-0.08	$837.96
Total valid votes/expense limit			48,199	100.00		$198,589.24
Total rejected ballots			203	0.42	–
Turnout			48,402	75.87	–
Eligible voters			63,798
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+21.68
Source: Elections Canada[13][14]

2011 federal election redistributed results[15]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	20,509	51.73
	Liberal	12,684	32.00
	New Democratic	5,604	14.14
	Green	846	2.13

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rod Bruinooge[16]	22,840	52.24	+3.41	$74,282.37
	Liberal	Terry Duguid	14,296	32.70	-2.10	$65,648.93
	New Democratic	Dave Gaudreau	5,693	13.02	+1.59	$8,116.60
	Green	Caitlin McIntyre	889	2.03	-2.47	$564.35
Total valid votes/expense limit			43,718	100.00		–
Total rejected ballots			187	0.43	-0.01
Turnout			43,905	69.80	+4.17
Eligible voters			62,902	–	–

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rod Bruinooge	19,954	48.83	+7.42	$74,312
	Liberal	John Loewen	14,221	34.80	-6.35	$73,677
	New Democratic	Sean Robert	4,673	11.43	-2.29	$9,507
	Green	David Cosby	1,839	4.50	+1.42	$3,312
	Christian Heritage	Heidi Loewen-Steffano	173	0.42	-0.19	$804
Total valid votes/expense limit			40,860	100.00		$78,463
Total rejected ballots			179	0.44	+0.1
Turnout			41,039	65.63	-3.78
	Conservative hold		Swing		+6.9

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rod Bruinooge	17,328	41.42	$68,461.08
	Liberal	Reg Alcock	17,217	41.15	$57,453.38
	New Democratic	Robert Page	5,743	13.73	$1,973.24
	Green	Wesley Owen Whiteside	1,289	3.08	–
	Christian Heritage	Heidi Loewen-Steffano	259	0.62	$503.33
Total valid votes			41,836	100.00
Total rejected ballots			111
Turnout			41,947	70.39
Electors on the lists			59,594
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Reg Alcock	19,270	51.31	$63,885.73
	Conservative	Rod Bruinooge	12,770	34.00	$67,207.73
	New Democratic	Catherine Green	4,217	11.23	$6,919.66
	Green	Ron Cameron	1,003	2.67	$702.79
	Christian Heritage	Jane MacDiarmid	296	0.79	$4,202.05
Total valid votes			37,556	100.00
Total rejected ballots			110
Turnout			37,666	63.23
Electors on the lists			59,572
Percentage change figures are factored for redistribution. Conservative Party percentages are contrasted with the combined Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative percentages from 2000.
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Reg Alcock	21,433	50.94	$61,348.98
	Alliance	Bill Hancock	12,638	30.04	$32,684.49
	New Democratic	Duane Nicol	4,224	10.04	$2,006.24
	Progressive Conservative	Geoffrey Lambert	3,599	8.55	$4,149.75
	Independent	Didz Zuzens	183	0.43	$355.12
Total valid votes			42,077	100.00
Total rejected ballots			145
Turnout			42,222	66.43
Electors on the lists			63,562
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Reg Alcock	18,800	49.57	$53,378
	Reform	Greg Yost	7,510	19.80	$35,545
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Mackness	6,547	17.26	$38,748
	New Democratic	Iris Taylor	4,629	12.21	$3,062
	Rhinoceros	M. Rhino Olito	191	0.50	$0
	Natural Law	Larry Decter	153	0.40	$582
	Marxist–Leninist	Diane Zack	94	0.25	$11
Total valid votes			37,924	100.00
Total rejected ballots			252
Turnout			38,176	67.37
Electors on the lists			56,670
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Reg Alcock	25,950	49.60	$39,157
	Reform	Mark Hughes	14,822	28.33	$49,384
	Progressive Conservative	Dorothy Dobbie	6,432	12.29	$23,095
	National	Shirley Loewen	2,512	4.80	$21,347
	New Democratic	Rose Buss	2,180	4.17	$424
	Natural Law	Richard Lepinsky	197	0.38	$231
	Rhinoceros	Mike Olito	113	0.22	$728
	Marxist–Leninist	Rubin Kantorovich	68	0.13	$216
	Canada Party	Bill Martens	44	0.08	$140
Total valid votes			52,318	100.00
Total rejected ballots			214
Turnout			52,532	72.35
Electors on lists			72,611
Source: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada.

v t e 1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Dorothy Dobbie	22,865	45.9
	Liberal	Allan Kaufman	22,150	44.5
	New Democratic	Len Van Roon	3,151	6.3
	Reform	Gary Cummings	1,428	2.9
	Libertarian	Jim Weidman	168	0.3
Total valid votes			49,762	100.0

1917–1979

Graph of election results in Winnipeg South (1917-1974, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or did not run consistently are omitted)

Location of Winnipeg South within Winnipeg between the 1966 and 1976 representation orders

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Armstrong Richardson	23,297	45.9	-5.0
	Progressive Conservative	Sterling Lyon	22,031	43.4	+9.5
	New Democratic	Jill Oliver	5,016	9.9	-4.9
	Social Credit	William Frank Zemianski	141	0.3
	Independent	Ross F. Clancy Smith	86	0.2
	Marxist–Leninist	Glen A. Brown	80	0.2
	Communist	Harold James Dyck	79	0.2
Total valid votes			50,730	100.0

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Armstrong Richardson	25,534	50.9	-2.2
	Progressive Conservative	Boyd Robertson	17,022	33.9	-0.5
	New Democratic	James Gilbert Burrows	7,413	14.8	+2.3
	Independent	Diane Lynne Waldman	205	0.4
Total valid votes			50,174	100.0

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Armstrong Richardson	23,457	53.1	+15.6
	Progressive Conservative	Bud Sherman	15,209	34.4	-8.9
	New Democratic	William John Hutton	5,499	12.5	-6.6
Total valid votes			44,165	100.0

Location of Winnipeg South within Winnipeg between the 1952 and 1966 representation orders

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Bud Sherman	23,576	43.4	+3.7
	Liberal	Margaret Konantz	20,396	37.5	-6.0
	New Democratic	Sidney Green	10,371	19.1	+5.1
Total valid votes			54,343	100.0

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Margaret Konantz	24,467	43.6	+3.2
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Chown	22,316	39.7	-1.4
	New Democratic	Lloyd Stinson	7,867	14.0	-1.1
	Social Credit	James C. MacPherson	1,515	2.7	-0.8
Total valid votes			56,165	100.0

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Chown	21,743	41.1	-22.1
	Liberal	Margaret Konantz	21,351	40.3	+15.9
	New Democratic	Sidney Green	7,993	15.1	+2.8
	Social Credit	James C. MacPherson	1,834	3.5
Total valid votes			52,921	100.0

Note: NDP vote is compared to CCF vote in 1958 election.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Chown	32,308	63.2	+11.3
	Liberal	Charlie Avery	12,524	24.5	-3.1
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Fred Paulley	6,305	12.3	-3.1
Total valid votes			51,137	100.0

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Chown	23,855	51.8	+12.0
	Liberal	Edward H. Crawford	12,713	27.6	-11.2
	Co-operative Commonwealth	David A. Mulligan	7,112	15.5	-4.3
	Social Credit	Gordon Charles Smith	2,332	5.1
Total valid votes			46,012	100.0

Location of Winnipeg South within Winnipeg between the 1947 and 1952 representation orders

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Owen C. Trainor	12,597	39.9	+10.6
	Liberal	Charles Russell Simonite	12,277	38.9	-9.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ernest R. Draffin	6,247	19.8	-3.1
	Labor–Progressive	Martin Joseph Forkin	470	1.5
Total valid votes			31,591	100.0

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Leslie Alexander Mutch	16,235	47.8	+8.8
	Progressive Conservative	Gunnar Solmundur Thorvaldson	9,942	29.3	-2.1
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Frederick George Tipping	7,765	22.9	-6.7
Total valid votes			33,942	100.0

Location of Winnipeg South within Winnipeg between the 1933 and 1947 representation orders

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Leslie Alexander Mutch	11,921	39.0	-16.5
	Progressive Conservative	Frederick George Thompson	9,589	31.4	+1.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Frederick George Tipping	9,033	29.6	+15.5
Total valid votes			30,543	100.0

Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election.

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Leslie Alexander Mutch	15,461	55.6	+11.6
	National Government	Phipps Baker	8,445	30.4	+1.4
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Dave Mulligan	3,912	14.1	-0.9
Total valid votes			27,818	100.0

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Leslie Alexander Mutch	10,871	43.9	-4.6
	Conservative	Edwin Godfrey Phipps Baker	7,158	28.9	-21.3
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Campbell	3,690	14.9
	Reconstruction	Robert Alexander Gillespie	2,216	9.0
	Social Credit	Percy Black Hayward	800	3.2
Total valid votes			24,735	100.0

Location of Winnipeg South within Winnipeg between the 1924 and 1933 representation orders

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Rogers	10,117	50.2	+3.8
	Liberal	John Stewart McDiarmid	9,774	48.5	-5.0
	Independent Labour	Charles Albert Tanner	256	1.3
Total valid votes			20,147	100.0

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Stewart McDiarmid	8,809	53.6	+19.0
	Conservative	Robert Rogers	7,638	46.4	+1.5
Total valid votes			16,447	100.0

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Rogers	7,017	44.9	+5.3
	Liberal	Tobias Crawford Norris	5,400	34.6	-25.8
	Labour	John Kelly	3,206	20.5
Total valid votes			15,623	100.0

Location of Winnipeg South within Winnipeg between the 1914 and 1924 representation orders

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Albert Hudson	10,570	54.3	+42.6
	Conservative	George Nelson Jackson	7,704	39.6	-48.7
	Liberal	William Robert Hogarth	1,185	6.1
Total valid votes			19,459	100.0

Note: Conservative vote is compared to Government vote in 1917 election. Liberal vote is compared to Opposition vote in 1917 election.

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Government (Unionist)	George William Allan	19,031	88.3
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Neil Thomas MacMillan	2,516	11.7
Total valid votes			21,547	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada