Many Manitoba ridings remain unchanged

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Manitoba’s stronghold ridings were on track to remain unchanged in Monday’s election, with the Conservatives retaining their five rural seats, eastern Winnipeg incumbents heading toward re-election, and the NDP leading in initial polls from the north.

As of 10 p.m., ballots were still arriving, but pollsters determined that all five Conservatives outside the Perimeter Highway have been re-elected.

That includes Candice Bergen in Portage–Lisgar; James Bezan in Selkirk–Interlake–Eastman; Ted Falk in Provencher; Larry Maguire in Brandon-Souris; and Dan Mazier in Dauphin–Swan River–Neepawa.

Pollsters also projected another Conservative as winning, with Kildonan–St. Paul incumbent Raquel Dancho holding 39 per cent support in 75 of the riding’s polls.

They also named NDP incumbent Daniel Blaikie as holding onto the Elmwood–Transcona seat he won in 2015, with 49 per cent of the votes coming from 50 polls.

In Saint-Boniface-Saint Vital, Liberal cabinet minister Dan Vandal was leading by 11 points, with 40 per cent of votes coming from a dozen polls, though the riding remained in play as of 10 p.m.

Less clear was the riding of Churchill–Keewatinook Aski, where NDP incumbent Niki Ashton led with 42 per cent support, and the Tories and Liberals tied with 25 per cent support with less than one-third of the riding’s polls reporting.

dylan.robertson@freeepress.mb.ca