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

• About the riding
• Voting history
• News stories from Turtle Mountain
• Meet the candidates
• More CBC Manitobariding profiles

Manitoba's upcoming election will be the second where voters will cast their ballots in the southwest riding of Turtle Mountain.

The riding was created in the 2018 riding redistribution out of parts of the former Arthur-Virden riding and the ridings of Spruce Woods and Midland.

Turtle Mountain's total population is 22,900, according to Elections Manitoba's riding profile,based on 2021 census information.

The riding's western boundary is the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border and its southern boundary is the Canada-U.S. border. It runs in a strip along the international border in the western half of Manitoba, and includes the communities of Killarney, Hartney, Deloraine, Melita, Boissevain, Cartwright, Pilot Mound, Manitou, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Somerset and Swan Lake First Nation.

The median age of Turtle Mountain riding's population is 45.2, the 2023 Elections Manitoba riding profile says, based on information from the 2021 census. The median household income is $70,000.

Voting history

In Turtle Mountain's first election in 2019, its voters elected Progressive Conservative candidate Doyle Piwniuk. Piwniuk, now the incumbent, won with more than 6,200 of over 9,200 votes or about two-thirds of the ballots cast.

• 2019 election: Doyle Piwniuk (Progressive Conservative).

Turtle Mountain in the news

• Manitoba farmers hopeful for 2023 after painful hits to bottom line in 2022
• Last demolition derby in Deloraine marks end of an era in southwestern Manitoba
• Manitoba family devastated after being asked to dig up father following burial plot mix-up

Meet the candidates

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

• Lorna Canada-Venegas Mesa (NDP).
• Kevin Friesen (Keystone Party).
• Doyle Piwniuk (Progressive Conservative incumbent).
• Ali Tarar (Liberal).

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 Turtle Mountain, all candidatesare official.

Find more CBC Manitoba riding profiles here.