| Regina—Wascana | |
| Province: | Saskatchewan |
| Coordinates: | 50.426°N -104.549°W |
| Fed-Status: | active |
| Fed-District-Number: | 47009 |
| Fed-Created: | 1987 |
| Fed-Election-First: | 1988 |
| Fed-Election-Last: | 2021 |
| Fed-Rep: | Michael Kram |
| Fed-Rep-Party: | Conservative |
| Fed-Rep-Party-Link: | Conservative Party of Canada |
| Demo-Pop-Ref: | [1] |
| Demo-Area-Ref: | [2] |
| Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
| Demo-Pop: | 77208 |
| Demo-Electors: | 55497 |
| Demo-Electors-Date: | 2015 |
| Demo-Area: | 63 |
| Demo-Cd: | Regina |
| Demo-Csd: | Regina, Sherwood No. 159 |
Regina—Wascana (formerly Wascana) is a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.
Most of the riding is within the provincial capital city of Regina, in southern Saskatchewan.
The riding is bordered on the south by Fifth Base Line; on the west by Albert Street; on the north-west by the Canadian Pacific Railway; on the north by Victoria Avenue; and on the east by Range Road 190.[3]
The riding is bordered on the south by Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan; on the west by Regina—Lewvan; and on the north and east by Regina—Qu'Appelle. The riding lost significant territory in the 2012 re-distribution to Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan and Souris—Moose Mountain, but lost very little population.
| 2021[4] | 2016[5] | 2011[6] | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European | 55,025 | 57,815 | 59,840 | ||||||||||||
| South Asian | 7,970 | 5,315 | 2,135 | ||||||||||||
| Indigenous | 7,560 | 6,410 | 5,355 | ||||||||||||
| Southeast Asian | 5,180 | 3,930 | 3,035 | ||||||||||||
| African | 4,320 | 2,855 | 1,200 | ||||||||||||
| East Asian | 4,315 | 4,050 | 2,585 | ||||||||||||
| Middle Eastern | 1,630 | 1,055 | 580 | ||||||||||||
| Latin American | 590 | 490 | 530 | ||||||||||||
| Other/multiracial | 855 | 610 | 315 | ||||||||||||
| Total responses | 87,450 | 82,530 | 75,570 | ||||||||||||
| Total population | 89,087 | 84,153 | 77,208 | ||||||||||||
According to the 2016 Canadian census[7]
Languages: 78.3% English, 2.3% Mandarin, 2.0% Tagalog, 1.6% French, 1.3% Punjabi, 1.3% German, 1.1% Urdu, 1.1% Cantonese
Religions (2011): 68.3% Christian (31.3% Catholic, 12.0% United Church, 6.6% Lutheran, 3.2% Anglican, 2.2% Baptist, 1.5% Christian Orthodox, 1.2% Pentecostal, 10.3% Other), 2.0% Muslim, 1.3% Buddhist, 1.1% Hind, 25.8 No religion
Median income (2015): $42,192
Average income (2015): $55,770
The electoral district was created in 1988 from Regina East, Regina West and Assiniboia. The seat has been held by former Minister of Finance and current Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale since 1993. Along with Winnipeg North, Wascana was one of only two seats retained by the Liberals in the Prairie Provinces in the 2011 election.
This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:
Its member of Parliament is Michael Kram. He was first elected in the 2019 Canadian federal election, after having run and finishing second in the 2015 Canadian federal election. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[8] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 19,258 | 49.90 | ||||
| 10,388 | 26.92 | ||||
| 6,974 | 18.07 | ||||
| 1,352 | 3.50 | ||||
| 622 | 1.61 | ||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[9] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 15,271 | 41.76 | ||||
| 13,056 | 35.71 | ||||
| 7,341 | 20.08 | ||||
| 898 | 2.46 | ||||