Gimli was a provincial electoral district of Manitoba, Canada. It was created by redistribution in 1899, and existed continuously until the 2019 election. Following this, it was redistributed into the Interlake-Gimli electoral district.
Gimli was located to the immediate north of the city of Winnipeg. It was bordered to the north by Interlake, to the west by Interlake and Lakeside, and to the east by Lake Winnipeg and Selkirk.
Communities in the riding included Gimli, Winnipeg Beach, Petersfield, Clandeboye, and Matlock.
The riding's population in 1996 was 19,700. In 1999, the average family income was $58,790, and the unemployment rate was 7.90%. The service sector accounts for 15% of industry in the riding, with a further 11% each in manufacturing and the retail trade. There is also a significant fishing and tourism economy in the riding.
Gimli is home to the largest Icelandic community in the world outside Iceland, and many of its MLAs have been from this background. It also has significant Ukrainian and German communities, at 12% and 6% respectively.
Gimli was a "bellwether" riding, and has elected a candidate from a governing party in all but five elections since its establishment (the exceptions were 1907, 1920, 1922, 1936, and 1999).
Members of the Legislative Assembly Name Party Took office Left office Baldwin Baldwinson Cons 1899 1907 Sigtryggur Jonasson Lib 1907 1910 Baldwin Baldwinson Cons 1910 1913 Edmund Taylor Cons 1913 1914 Sveinn Thorvaldson Cons 1914 1915 Taras Ferley Lib 1915 1920 Gudmundur Fjelsted Farmer 1920 1922 Michael Rojeski Lib, later Independent 1922 1927 Ingimar Ingaldson Prog 1927 1932 Einar Jonasson Lib-Prog 1932 1935 Joseph Wawrykow ILP/CCF 1936 1945 Steinn Thompson Lib-Prog 1945 1958 George Johnson PC 1958 1969 John Gottfried NDP 1969 1977 Keith Cosens PC 1977 1981 John Bucklaschuk NDP 1981 1988 Ed Helwer PC 1988 2003 Peter Bjornson NDP 2003 2015 Jeff Wharton PC 2016 2019
Electoral results
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Previous boundaries
See also List of Manitoba provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts
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