What to know about the Waverley riding for Manitoba's 2023 election

• About the riding
• Voting history
• News stories from Waverley
• Meet the candidates
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The southwest Winnipeg riding of Waverley was created in 2018 through the redistribution of pieces of St. Norbert, Fort Whyte and Fort Richmond ridings.

The riding's northern border is Bishop Grandin Boulevard. It extends south to the Perimeter Highway (except for the northeastern part of the riding, which extends from Bishop Grandin to Bison Drive). It's bounded by city limits to the west.

The northern part of the riding extends to Pembina Highway on the east, while the southern part of the riding is bordered by Waverley Street/Shahi Street on the east.

It includes the neighbourhoods of Waverley Heights, Waverley West, Bridgwater, South Pointe and Richmond West.

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Waverley has a population of 32,595, according to the Manitoba Bureau of Statistics, based on 2021 census information collected in the province. The median age in the riding is 31, while the median household income is $92,000, according to 2021 census data.

More facts about Waverley

• More than 65 per cent of residents identified as visible minorities, according toElections Manitoba's riding profile.
• Close to 43 per cent identified as immigrants. Nearly a quarter of those residents said they had come to Canada between 2011 and 2021.
• More than 34 per cent of people in the riding said they speak a language other than English or French. Among those residents, the leading language group is Mandarin (10 per cent) followed by Punjabi (6.4 per cent) and Russian (1.4 per cent).
• The riding's population is also comparatively young, with fewer adults 65 and older (6.9 per cent) than the provincial average (16.3 per cent). People ages 15-64 make up 71 per cent of the riding's population, with the largest subgroup in that category being people 20-24 (10.5 per cent of the riding's population).

Voting history

Progressive Conservative Jon Reyes won the seat in 2019, which was the first election for this riding.

Waverley in the news

• Construction begins on 2 new schools in growing southwest Winnipeg neighbourhood
• New rec centre coming to Waverley West after government funding boost
• Emergency response times to Waverley West area don't meet national standards

Meet the candidates

The nominated candidates for the 2023 election are (as of Sept. 2):

• ManjitKaur Gill (Green Party).
• Uche Nwankwo (Liberal).
• David Pankratz (NDP).
• Jon Reyes (Progressive Conservative incumbent).

Candidates become official when they meet criteria set out in the province's Elections Act, including providing a statement of disclosure, after the election has been called. In Waverley, all candidates are official.

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