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River East
Defunct provincial electoral district in Manitoba, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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River East was a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was officially created by redistribution in 1979, and formally existed since the provincial election of 1981 until 2019.
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Manitoba |
District created | 1979 |
First contested | 1981 |
Last contested | 2016 |
The riding was located on the northeast corner of the City of Winnipeg, bordered by the Red River to the west, the city limit, by Springfield to the north and east, and by the riding of Rossmere to the south.
It was replaced for the 2019 election by the new Kildonan-River East district.
River East was an affluent district with an average income of $62,534 and an unemployment rate of 5.60% in 1999. It also had a large immigrant population, at 17% of the total population. Twelve per cent of River East's residents listed German as their ethnic origin, while a further 9% listed Ukrainian. The riding's total population in 1996 was 19,840.