The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 46013Manitoba

Winnipeg South Centre

Winnipeg-Centre-Sud

Winnipeg South Centre is a federal riding in Manitoba. Ben Carr (Liberal, first elected to the House in 2023) represents Winnipeg South Centre. Ben Carr (Liberal) held Winnipeg South Centre for the Liberals in the 2025 election by 19,086 votes (35.9 points), with 63.6% of the vote. Royden Brousseau (Conservative) was second with 27.7%, on a turnout of 74.8% of 71,485 electors. Member as of 2026-11-01.

Fig. 1 — Winnipeg South Centre on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on 2026-11-01. Open it on the board →

Who represents Winnipeg South Centre

Ben Carr's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Ben Carr

Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre

Liberal

MP since 2023-06-19 · 2 terms

Chair, Industry and Technology committee
Chair, Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure
Industry and Technology committee
Liaison committee

63 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1.

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The 2025 result: Liberal hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Winnipeg South Centre, April 28, 2025

Shares of the 53,178 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Ben Carr	Liberal	33,834	63.6%
Royden Brousseau	Conservative	14,748	27.7%
Jorge Requena Ramos	New Democratic	3,463	6.5%
Others (4)		1,133	2.1%

Ben Carr (Liberal) won Winnipeg South Centre on April 28, 2025 with 33,834 votes, 63.6% of the 53,178 valid votes. Royden Brousseau (Conservative) was second with 14,748 (27.7%), 19,086 votes and 35.9 points behind.

Of the 53,178 valid votes, Ben Carr (Liberal) took 63.6%, Royden Brousseau (Conservative) 27.7% and Jorge Requena Ramos (New Democratic) 6.5%; the 4 other candidates took 2.1% together. Turnout was 74.8% of 71,485 electors: 53,478 ballots cast, 53,178 of them valid, for 7 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Liberals are up 18.6 (45.0% to 63.6%), the Conservatives down 0.2 (27.9% to 27.7%) and the New Democrats down 14.0 (20.5% to 6.5%), in points of the valid votes.

2021 is Elections Canada's transposition of that election onto the 2023 boundaries, not an election held on these lines.

Since 2004: usually Liberal

The party first in Winnipeg South Centre at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

2004Liberal47.8%by 19.0 points over the Conservatives
2006Liberal39.7%by 5.8 points over the Conservatives
2008†Liberal40.4%by 1.1 points over the Conservatives
2011changed handsConservative42.1%by 6.1 points over the Liberals
2015changed handsLiberal59.6%by 30.7 points over the Conservatives
2019Liberal44.7%by 14.1 points over the Conservatives
2021Liberal45.0%by 17.0 points over the Conservatives
2025Liberal63.6%by 35.9 points over the Conservatives

Each election carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate to 2019, Elections Canada's transposition for 2021, the official result for 2025. Parties are counted as they ran. † The first two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.

The figures

Year	First	Share	Second	Margin (pts)	Basis
2004	Liberal	47.8%	Conservative	19.0	carried, our estimate
2006	Liberal	39.7%	Conservative	5.8	carried, our estimate
2008†	Liberal	40.4%	Conservative	1.1	carried, our estimate
2011	Conservative	42.1%	Liberal	6.1	carried, our estimate
2015	Liberal	59.6%	Conservative	30.7	carried, our estimate
2019	Liberal	44.7%	Conservative	14.1	carried, our estimate
2021	Liberal	45.0%	Conservative	17.0	transposed by Elections Canada
2025	Liberal	63.6%	Conservative	35.9	official result

The Liberals were first here at seven of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025; the Conservatives were first in 2011. In 2025 the Liberals took 63.6% of the vote here, 18.9 points above their average of 44.7% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Liberals were first here in 2004 (47.8%), 2006 (39.7%), 2008 (40.4%), 2015 (59.6%), 2019 (44.7%), 2021 (45.0%) and 2025 (63.6%) and the Conservatives in 2011 (42.1%), each with the share of the valid votes shown.

A stronghold is a party first at every general election since 2004, by an average of 20 points or more over the next party; held, first at every one; usually, first at all but one. By-elections are not counted. By this rule 83 of the 343 ridings are usually one party's. The results before 2021 are carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate, from the older boundaries of Taylor, Lucas, Kirby and Hewitt and the results in Sevi's "Who Runs?". 2021 is Elections Canada's transposition, and 2025 the official result. In 2008 the carried top two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.

Before 2025

2021 Liberal · Jim Carr, by 8,648 votes (17.7 pts)
2019 Liberal · Jim Carr, by 7,748 votes (15.3 pts)
2015 Liberal · Jim Carr, by 16,891 votes (31.5 pts)

In the old Winnipeg South Centre on the 2013 boundaries, the riding most of the 2025 electors in today's Winnipeg South Centre lived in; Elections Canada's official results.

What kind of place Winnipeg South Centre is

Population: 95,8852021 census
Area: 46km²
Density: 2,066people per km²
Electors: 71,485on the 2025 lists

Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings

Most candidates on the ballot in Manitoba
7 candidates stood · 1st of 14 in Manitoba · 24th of 343 in Canada
2nd-highest turnout in Manitoba
74.8% of 71,485 electors voted · 2nd of 14 in Manitoba · 35th of 343 in Canada
3rd-smallest by area in Manitoba
46 km² · 3rd of 14 in Manitoba · 61st of 343 in Canada

Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 51.7% — about 1.8 times the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest40th highest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 57.7% — about 81 percent of the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest77th lowest of 343
Median age is 40.8 — about the same as the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest141st lowest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 1.8% — a little higher than the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest146th highest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 20.4% — about 1.2 times the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest154th highest of 343
Median total household income is $81,000 — a little lower than the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest160th lowest of 343

2021 Census on the 2023 boundaries; each rule places this riding among all 343. Density is the census population over the riding's area.

IDid this riding change?

Yes. 90% of the 2025 electors in today's Winnipeg South Centre lived in the old Winnipeg South Centre; by area, 11% of the riding came from other ridings.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding

90.1%Winnipeg South Centre 89.4% of the area · 89% of it kept

9.9%Winnipeg South 10.4% of the area · 5% of it kept

0.0%Saint Boniface—Saint Vital 0.1% of the area · 0.1% of it kept

How this is measured. Electors: the share of the current riding's 2025 ordinary-list electors who lived in each former riding, each 2025 polling division placed in the 2013 riding a point inside it falls in. Area: the share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files, and how much of the former riding that part was. Area is land, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.

IIThe 2025 result

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	2021	±
Ben Carr	Liberal	33,834	63.6%	45.0%	+18.6
Royden Brousseau	Conservative	14,748	27.7%	27.9%	−0.2
Jorge Requena Ramos	New Democratic	3,463	6.5%	20.5%	−14.0

4 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote

Chris Petriew	Green	450	0.8%
Cam Scott	Other	314	0.6%
Jaclyn Cummings	People's	272	0.5%
Tait Palsson	Independent	97	0.2%

The 2021 column is Elections Canada's official transposition of the 2021 result onto these 2023 boundaries. ± is the change in each party's share. It is not "swing": with four or more competitive parties there is no single pair to swing between.

IIIHow close was it, really

Third place vs. the margin

3,463 votes

New Democratic took fewer than the 19,086-vote margin.

Election-day polls won by others

7 of 161

No poll ended in a tie.

Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Liberals (154) · ■ won by another party (7).

Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 9,544 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 17.9% of the 53,178 valid votes, 17.9 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Voters who switch: 0019,088

Liberal33,834

Conservative14,748

Still Liberal by 19,086 votes. Actual margin: 19,086.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 52.7% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 58.8%, the Conservatives 30.6% and the New Democrats 7.9%; in advance and special ballots, 69.0%, 24.6% and 4.9%, in that order.

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Winnipeg South Centre, April 28, 2025

Shares of the valid votes cast at election-day polls, and of those cast at advance polls, at mobile polls and by special ballot; the gap is the second less the first, in points. Source: Elections Canada, poll-by-poll results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Party	Election day	Advance and special	Gap
Liberal	58.8%	69.0%	+10.2
Conservative	30.6%	24.6%	−6.0
New Democratic	7.9%	4.9%	−3.0

An association, not a cause. Voters who cast ballots before election day differed from those who turned out on the day. It does not say why. There is no poll-level turnout figure on this page: the elector count on a polling division includes people who voted in advance and were counted elsewhere.

VWhere it is

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Fig. 3 — Winnipeg South Centre and its 5 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Winnipeg South Centre — federal riding profile and 2025 results."
The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/winnipeg-south-centre/
Accessed 2026-11-10.

Results and transposition: Elections Canada. Boundaries: Elections Canada / Statistics Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada. Census: Statistics Canada 2021 Census. Member: House of Commons.

Figures reconcile to the certified national total of 19,641,663 votes. The member is as the House of Commons listed them on 2026-11-01. Page built 2026-11-10.