Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Cartier sends Branden Leslie (Conservative Party of Canada) to the Commons from Portage—Lisgar
From Manitoba come 14 MPs, 7 of them with the Conservative Party of Canada. Cartier is a rural municipality by Statistics Canada’s count of municipalities. Who leads Cartier’s council isn’t on an open record: there’s no open list of councils in Manitoba. Cartier’s riding for the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba isn’t named: the licence for the province’s boundary file couldn’t be read, so it isn’t used.
Three governments, and who does what
Cartier, a rural municipality in Manitoba, shares the work with the province and Ottawa.
Local services, by-laws and property tax.
Schools, health care, highways, municipal law.
gov.mb.ca ↗Passports, pensions, EI, defence, immigration.
ourcommons.ca ↗Who to ask
Green: municipal. Gold: provincial. Grey: federal.
Cartier has no upper-tier council: Division No. 10, its census division, exists for statistics only.
From the council table to Ottawa
Every elected tier that speaks for Cartier, from the most recent elections.
- 1Cartier councilRural municipality
- 2Legislative Assembly of Manitoba–
- 3House of CommonsPortage—Lisgar
Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada
When Cartier votes
The last and next general elections at each level; a by-election can come in between.
| Election | Last | Next |
|---|---|---|
| Cartier council | 28 October 2026 | 23 October 2030 |
| Legislative Assembly of Manitoba | 3 October 2023 | – |
| House of Commons | 28 April 2025 | – |
Parliament was last elected on 28 April 2025, and the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba on 3 October 2023. Voters last chose Cartier council on 28 October 2026 and will again on 23 October 2030. It is the fourth Wednesday in October every four years, as the The Municipal Councils and School Boards Elections Act provides. The 2025 results are left out because elections.ca’s terms forbid commercial reproduction; the open catalogue’s latest is 2021.
Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH
The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: riding not placed
Provinces and territories run schools, health care and municipal law; each riding elects one MLA.
Find your MLA on the legislature’s site
gov.mb.ca ↗Legislatures: their own member pages
Branden Leslie represents Portage—Lisgar in Ottawa
Each riding elects one MP to the House of Commons; the general election of 28 April 2025 chose the 45th Parliament.
Portage—Lisgar · Conservative Party of Canada · first elected 2023
en.wikipedia.org ↗- Conservative Party of Canada7
- Liberal Party of Canada6
- New Democratic Party1
As Wikidata records them.
The MP’s record
Branden Leslie has sat in the Commons since 2023, now for the 2nd Parliament. Mapped onto today’s Portage—Lisgar, the 2021 vote gives the Conservative Party of Canada 52%; in 2025 Branden Leslie kept the seat in the same hands.
MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026
Portage—Lisgar returned Candice Bergen (Conservative Party of Canada) in 2021
Counts for Portage—Lisgar within its 2013 boundaries, used in 2019 and 2021; the 2025 election ran on a new map.
Portage—Lisgar turned out at 66% in 2021; the country managed 63%. Candice Bergen (Conservative Party of Canada) took Portage—Lisgar in 2021 with 53% of the vote, 14,029 votes ahead of Solomon Wiebe (People's Party of Canada). The 2019 result had favoured Candice Bergen as well, at 71%.
All 5 candidates in Portage—Lisgar, 2021
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candice Bergen | Conservative Party of Canada | 23,819 | 52.5% |
| Solomon Wiebe | People's Party of Canada | 9,790 | 21.6% |
| Ken Friesen | New Democratic Party | 6,068 | 13.4% |
| Andrew Carrier | Liberal Party of Canada | 4,967 | 11.0% |
| Jerome Dondo | Christian Heritage Party of Canada | 712 | 1.6% |
Federal results: Elections Canada, 43rd and 44th general elections and the 44th’s transposition to the 2023 ridings, via open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
Having a say in how Cartier is run
Check or update the federal list.
elections.ca ↗Every MP lists an office.
ourcommons.ca ↗Ridings, registration and voting dates.
electionsmanitoba.ca ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Election results. Ridings changed in 2023: the 2019 and 2021 results are on the old map, and the 2021 vote on today’s map is Elections Canada’s own estimate from polling divisions.
- Not on this page. Who controls the council by party (the open lists give none, and most Canadian councils sit without parties), budgets and band councils.
- Who holds each seat. Who holds each seat is read from Wikidata, so a very recent change in the Commons may not appear yet.
- Which riding. A riding is listed when 5% or more of the place’s 2021 Census residents live in it; the largest share comes first.
Questions about how Cartier is run
Who is the MP for Cartier?
Portage—Lisgar’s MP, Branden Leslie of the Conservative Party of Canada, represents Cartier.
Which party won Cartier in the 2021 federal election?
Portage—Lisgar went to Candice Bergen (Conservative Party of Canada) in 2021. Since 2025, Branden Leslie has been the MP for Portage—Lisgar.
Who is the MLA for Cartier?
This page can’t say which riding Cartier is in; the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba lists every MLA with theirs.
Who heads the council in Cartier?
Ask the municipality itself: Cartier, a rural municipality, isn’t on an open list of councils we can use.
Sources: MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · Next municipal election: the province’s municipal election act · Municipality types: Statistics Canada census subdivisions · Federal results: Elections Canada, 43rd and 44th general elections and the 44th’s transposition to the 2023 ridings, via open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).