Keewatinook
Keewatinook (previously spelt "Kewatinook") is a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
| Manitoba electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Manitoba | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 1915 | ||
| First contested | 1915 | ||
| Last contested | 2023 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016) | 20,815 | ||
| Electors (2019) | 13,422 | ||
| Area (km²) | 155,157 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 0.13 | ||
The riding existed previously under the name Rupertsland; however, starting with the 2011 general election, the riding was renamed Kewatinook which means 'from the north' in Cree. Effective as of the 2019 election, the spelling was corrected to Keewatinook.
Currently the largest riding in the province, Keewatinook is a sprawling northern constituency occupying a large portion of eastern Manitoba. Its current area stretches from the Ontario border in the southeast to the Nunavut border in the north; it is also bordered by the ridings of Lac Du Bonnet to the south and Flin Flon, The Pas, and Thompson to the west.
As of 2019, Ian Bushie is the MLA for this riding.