Transcona residents go to the polls Tuesday for Manitoba byelection

Ian Froese · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 18, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Transcona residents are astir to learn who volition adjacent correspond them successful the Manitoba legislature.

Voters tin formed their ballots betwixt 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. successful the provincial byelection to regenerate the late Nello Altomare, who died successful January aft battling cancer.

Before the last hours of beforehand voting Monday, 2,373 radical had voted, Elections Manitoba said.

The byelection successful Transcona is being contested by four individuals: New Democrat Shannon Corbett, Progressive Conservative campaigner Shawn Nason, Manitoba Liberal hopeful Brad Boudreau and Susan Auch, who is moving arsenic an independent. 

The NDP is betting connected different pedagogue arsenic its choice successful Transcona.

Shannon Corbett, who's worked arsenic a vice-principal astatine Bernie Wolfe School and Transcona Collegiate, considered Altomare, a erstwhile schoolhouse principal, to beryllium a "mentor" and a "friend," a enactment quality merchandise says. 

Altomare became acquisition curate aft the NDP was elected successful 2023.

The Progressive Conservatives held Transcona for 1 word opening successful 2016.

Its campaigner successful the byelection is simply a acquainted look successful Shawn Nason, who served arsenic Transcona's metropolis councillor from 2018-22.

Nason said successful a quality merchandise his governmental experience, coupled with his volunteerism, person fixed him a "deep knowing of Transcona's unsocial needs."

The Liberals selected Brad Boudreau, a nationalist servant who is presently a policy advisor to the national Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs department, arsenic its Transcona candidate.

The enactment says Boudreau would beryllium a person successful the Manitoba legislature connected issues similar lodging and reconciliation. 

Susan Auch is moving arsenic an autarkic successful the byelection.

She initially tried to question the Progressive Conservative nomination, but was denied introduction by the party. The erstwhile Olympic speedskater said connected her website she's moving due to the fact that she's fed up with politicians toeing the enactment enactment alternatively than warring for their constituents. 

The riding has leaned NDP for the astir part, but it's besides been led by the Progressive Conservatives and Liberals for 1 word each since its enactment successful the precocious 1960s.