Wayne Ewasko

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Wayne Ewasko
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Leader of the Opposition in Manitoba
In office
January 18, 2024 –April 26, 2025

Wayne Ewasko is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2011 election. [1]

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He represents the electoral district of Lac du Bonnet as a member of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party caucus. [2] He was re-elected in the 2016, 2019, and 2023 provincial elections. He served in the cabinets of Brian Pallister, Kelvin Goertzen and Heather Stefanson as the Minister of Advanced Education, Skills, and Immigration from 2021 to 2022 and then as Minister of Education and Early Childhood Learning from 2022 until the PC government's defeat in the 2023 Manitoba general election. [3]

On October 24, 2023, he was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning. On January 18, 2024, he was named interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party following the resignation of Heather Stefanson. [3] As interim leader, he apologized in March 2025 for PC campaign ads in the 2023 election that promoted their decision not to search for two victims' bodies in the 2022 Winnipeg serial killings. [4]

Electoral record

2023 Manitoba general election : Lac du Bonnet
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Progressive Conservative Wayne Ewasko 5,67058.51-7.40$27,306.37
New Democratic Kathy Majowski3,44735.57+16.22$10,975.34
Green Blair Mahaffy5735.91–$759.06
Total valid votes/expense limit9,69099.13–$62,732.00
Total rejected and declined ballots850.87–
Turnout9,77560.85-0.39
Eligible voters16,064
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -11.81
Source(s)
Source: Elections Manitoba [5] [6] [7]
2019 Manitoba general election : Lac du Bonnet
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Progressive Conservative Wayne Ewasko 6,17765.91-11.57$23,226.73
New Democratic Sidney Klassen1,81419.36-3.17$1,256.85
Liberal Terry Hayward1,38114.74–$4,507.33
Total valid votes9,372––
Rejected106–
Eligible voters / turnout15,47761.246.32
Source(s)
Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). Statement of Votes for the 42nd Provincial General Election, September 10, 2019 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.
"Candidate Election Returns". Elections Manitoba. Elections Manitoba. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
2016 Manitoba general election : Lac du Bonnet
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Progressive Conservative Wayne Ewasko 5,66677.4823.18$25,069.13
New Democratic Wendy Sol1,64722.52-16.01$2,955.31
Total valid votes7,313––
Rejected227–
Eligible voters / turnout13,72954.92-3.12
Source(s)
Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (2016). Statement of Votes for the 41st Provincial General Election, April 19, 2016 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.
"Election Returns: 41st General Election". Elections Manitoba. 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
2011 Manitoba general election : Lac du Bonnet
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Progressive Conservative Wayne Ewasko 4,35054.30-4.71$20,568.00
New Democratic Elana Spence3,08738.534.91$13,574.10
Green Dan Green2903.62–$1,517.95
Liberal Charlett Millen2843.55-3.82$2,966.68
Total valid votes8,011––
Rejected24–
Eligible voters / turnout13,84458.04-0.48
Source(s)
Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (2011). Statement of Votes for the 40th Provincial General Election, October 4, 2011 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba.
"Election Returns: 40th General Election". Elections Manitoba. 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2018.

Personal life

Ewasko is noteworthy as both a politician and a curler having previously been to the 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2017 provincial championships. [8]

References

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