Portage—Lisgar
 Manitoba electoral district
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Portage—Lisgar in relation to other Manitoba federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order.
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| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Conservative |
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| District created | 1996 | ||
| First contested | 1997 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2011) | 91,019 | ||
| Electors (2015) | 61,350 | ||
| Area (km²) | 12,665 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 7.2 | ||
| Census subdivisions | Portage la Prairie, Winkler, Morden, Stanley, Macdonald, Rhineland, Altona, Cartier, Carman | ||
Portage—Lisgar is a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.
Portage—Lisgar is the riding with the highest percentage of native German speakers (23.6% of the population) in all of Canada. Only Inuktitut (Nunavut: 66.8%) and Panjabi (Punjabi) (Newton—North Delta, in British Columbia: 33.4%) exceed this concentration of native speakers of a non-official language in a single riding.
This is a rural district that includes the cities of Portage la Prairie, Winkler, and Morden, and the towns of Carman and Altona.
The electoral district was created in 1996 from the former districts of Lisgar—Marquette, Portage—Interlake and Provencher.
This riding lost territory to Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa and Brandon—Souris, and gained territory from Provencher and Selkirk—Interlake during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:
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