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There is now a wide-open race for council in Winnipeg’s Fort Rouge-East Fort Garry ward as incumbent Sherri Rollins has withdrawn her candidacy.<\/p>\n
Rollins, who has represented the central Winnipeg ward since 2018, withdrew from the race Friday afternoon, senior election official Sherwood Armbruster said.<\/p>\n
Rollins did not respond to requests for comment before the publication of this story. This would have been her third campaign for council.<\/p>\n
She sat on city council’s executive policy committee for the entirety of her first term in council, when Brian Bowman was Winnipeg’s mayor. <\/p>\n
Rollins continued to serve on EPC after Scott Gillingham was elected mayor in 2022 but quit his inner circle in 2025.<\/p>\n
Gillingham thanked Rollins for her service and wished her well.<\/p>\n
“Coun. Rollins and I worked well together on a lot of issues, but we didn’t always agree. Disagreement is a normal, healthy part of public life,” the mayor said in a statement.<\/p>\n
There are now two remaining registered candidates in Fort Rouge-East Fort Garry: Kevin Stuart and Jeff Palmer.<\/p>\n
Stuart did not respond to a request for comment before the publication of this story.Palmer, who finished second to Rollins in the 2018 municipal election, thanked the outgoing councillor for her service.<\/p>\n
“It’s no secret that it is very difficult to defeat an incumbent. But I’ve always liked being the underdog,” he said. <\/p>\n
“We’ve been out there working as hard as we can for the past month, and nothing was going to change about that.”<\/p>\n
Fort Rouge-East Fort Garry is now the sixth Winnipeg ward without an incumbent registered to run.<\/p>\n
There are wide-open races for council in River Heights-Fort Garry, St. Norbert-Seine River, St. Vital and Waverley West after respective retirement announcements from Couns. John Orlikow, Markus Chambers, Brian Mayes and Janice Lukes.<\/p>\n
Transcona also has no incumbent registered so far. Coun. Russ Wyatt, who is charged with sexual assault but has declared his innocence, has not stated whether he will run again.<\/p>\n
“I’m looking forward to seeing some new faces on council this fall, alongside a lot of returning experience. That balance is healthy for city hall and good for Winnipeg,” Gillingham said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Registration for candidates in Winnipeg closes on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n
Election day in Winnipeg is Oct. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-839534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}