Some observers expected Winnipeg South to be a close race in 2011,[3] though these predictions were later proven wrong.
This race was close in 2006, when Conservative challenger Rod Bruinooge defeated four-term Liberal incumbent Reg Alcock by just 111 votes.
His Liberal challenger was businessperson, party activist, and former Winnipeg City Council member Terry Duguid.
Bruinooge chose not to contest the 2015 election, and Duguid won the seat for the Liberal Party.
In federal politics, the riding has been a bellwether, electing an MP from the party that formed government nationally, since it was re-formed in 1988.