Riding profile

Winnipeg Centre

Federal riding — MB · Urban · winnipeg

The question

Winnipeg Centre: will NDP lose this seat to Liberal?

Current forecast

Liberal

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
14.3
P(close race)
1%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Liberal 51.2%
  • NDP 36.9%
  • Conservative 9.4%
  • Green 2.1%
  • PPC 1.6%

Watch list

The tightest races

Smallest projected margin. Open one for the numbers.

  1. North Island--Powell RiverConservative45 %1.2 pt margin
  2. Central NewfoundlandConservative57 %1.4 pt margin
  3. Richmond Hill SouthLiberal55 %1.4 pt margin

In context

How this riding stacks up

Liberal NDP Conservative Green
HereWinnipeg Centre 51.2%36.9%9.4%2.1%
Provincial averageManitoba 49.9% +1.3 8.5% +28.4 31.7% −22.3 1.7% +0.4
National averageCanada 48.0% +3.2 10.6% +26.3 32.1% −22.7 2.7% −0.6

Provincial averages computed across the 343 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Editorial read

Winnipeg Centre, an urban riding in Manitoba, elected a member with the NDP in the previous cycle, with a 4-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Liberal Party ahead at 51% vote share, against 37% for the NDP, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

Leah Gazan

Sits with NDP

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Previous election · 2025

Won by
NDP
Margin
4.0 pts
Turnout
53.7%
Margin shift vs current projection
+10.3 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Leah Gazan Elected NDP 13,524 39.4 Parliamentarian
Rahul Walia Liberal 12,138 35.4 Unemployed
Tom Bambrick Conservative 7,658 22.3 Military Officer
Gary Gervais Green 389 1.1 School Proprietor
Donald Grant PPC 367 1.1 Business Owner
Debra Wall Other 213 0.6 Retired

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Anglophone 78.8%
  • Non-francophone (other) 21.2%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

Last model run
Cycle
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