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Flin Flon is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1957, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1958.

Flin Flon

Manitoba electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
MLA	Tom Lindsey New Democratic
District created	1958
Last contested	2019
Demographics
Population (2016)	22,930
Electors (2019)	14,896
Area (km²)	158,845
Pop. density (per km²)	0.14

At about 80,000 square kilometers, Flin Flon occupies roughly 20% of Manitoba's total area, and is the second largest riding in the province after Rupertsland. It was a smaller riding before 1989, when it gained a significant amount of territory from the former riding of Churchill. It is a mostly rural and sparsely populated riding, located in the province's northwestern corner.

Flin Flon is bordered by Saskatchewan to the west, Nunavut to the north, the ridings of Rupertsland and Thompson to the east, and the riding of The Pas to the south. The actual city of Flin Flon is located in the southwestern corner of the riding, and is its only urban centre.

The riding's population in 1996 was 14,470. In 1999, the average family income was $55,113, and the unemployment rate was 9.70%. Manufacturing accounts for 17% of Flin Flon's economy, followed by mining and oil production at 16%.

73.4% of Flin Flon's residents are aboriginal.[1]

Flin Flon has been held by the New Democratic Party of Manitoba (NDP) since 1969. The current MLA is Tom Lindsey, who was elected in the provincial election of 2016. He replaced the incumbent, Clarence Pettersen who was de-selected by the NDP and decided to contest the election as an Independent.[2]

List of provincial representatives

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from The Pas
25th	1958-1959		Francis Bud Jobin	Liberal-Progressive
26th	1959-1962		Charles Witney	Progressive Conservative
27th	1962-1966
28th	1966-1969
29th	1969-1973		Thomas Barrow	New Democratic
30th	1973-1977
31st	1977-1981
32nd	1982-1985		Jerry Storie
33rd	1985-1988
34th	1988-1990
35th	1990-1995
36th	1995-1999		Gerard Jennissen
37th	1999-2003
38th	2003-2007
39th	2007-2011
40th	2011-2016		Clarence Pettersen
41st	2016–2019		Tom Lindsey
42nd	2019–present

Electoral results

2019 Manitoba general election

2019 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Tom Lindsey	2,435	57.8%	+24.95	$23,174.56
	Progressive Conservative	Theresa Wride	1,294	30.7%	+2.37	$21,639.00
	Liberal	James Lindsay	279	6.6%	-21.56	$2,047.30
	Green	Saara Murnick	203	4.8%	--	$0.00
Total valid votes				100.0
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters

2016 Manitoba general election

v t e 2016 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Tom Lindsey	1,106	32.85	–23.99	$43,604.96
	Progressive Conservative	Angela Enright	954	28.33	+4.36	$18,686.00
	Liberal	Leslie Joan Beck	948	28.16	+12.82	$19,946.62
	Independent	Clarence Pettersen	359	10.66	–46.18	$6,320.44
Total valid votes			3,367	100.0
Total rejected and declined ballots			36	1.06
Turnout			3,403	34.44
Eligible voters			9,880
	New Democratic hold		Swing		–14.18
Source: Elections Manitoba[3][4]

2011 Manitoba general election

v t e 2011 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Clarence Pettersen	1,890	56.84	−19.89	$28,114.64
	Progressive Conservative	Darcy Linklater	797	23.97	-	$14,069.96
	Liberal	Thomas Heine	510	15.34	−6.74	$10,115.06
	Green	Saara Harvie	111	3.33	-	$0.00
Total valid votes			3,308
Rejected and declined votes			17
Turnout			3,325	35.34	−0.9
Electors on the lists			9,409

2007 Manitoba general election

v t e 2007 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gerard Jennissen	2,255	76.73		$10,879.75
	Liberal	Gary Zamzow	651	22.08	–	$3,607.58
Total valid votes			2,915	98.88
Rejected and declined votes			33
Turnout			2,948	36.24
Electors on the lists			8,135

Source: Elections Manitoba. [5]

2003 Manitoba general election

2003 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gerard Jennissen	2,402	73.21	+8.62	$11,470.02
	Liberal	Gary Zamzow	557	16.98	–	$8,001.78
	Progressive Conservative	Lloyd McDonald	322	9.81	-19.39	$210.08
Total valid votes
Rejected and declined votes			19
Turnout			3,300	39.17
Electors on the lists			8,424

Source: Elections Manitoba.[6]

1999 Manitoba general election

v t e 1999 Manitoba general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gerard Jennissen	3,026	64.59		$18,573.00
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Therien	1,368	29.20		$22,044.17
	Manitoba	Phillip Ng	268	5.72		$1,209.00
Total valid votes			4,662	99.51
Rejected and declined votes			23
Turnout			4,685	51.45
Electors on the lists			9,106

Source: Elections Manitoba. [7]

Previous boundaries

References

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