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Kevin Klein

Kevin Klein

Kevin Klein (born Harold Kevin Rout Jr.) is a Canadian politician and newspaper executive from Manitoba, a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, a centre-right party.

Party
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba
Political position

Centre-right · Where sources place the party (Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba)
Wikipedia: centre-right (Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba)
Ideology: conservatism, economic liberalism

11%Probability · Winnipeg Mayoral Election 2026

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He was Winnipeg city councillor from 2018 to 2022, MLA for Kirkfield Park from 2022 to 2023 and Minister of Environment and Climate in 2023. He announced in September 2026 that he is running for Mayor of Winnipeg in the municipal election of 28 October 2026.

Career

Wikipedia says Klein was publisher of the Winnipeg Sun from 2007 to 2013. He won the Charleswood-Tuxedo-Westwood ward on Winnipeg City Council in 2018 and sat until 2022. In the 2022 mayoral election he placed third with 28,806 votes, or 14.78 per cent, on a platform of reducing crime, addressing homelessness and holding property taxes. He won the Kirkfield Park by-election in December 2022 for the PCs and served as Minister of Environment and Climate from January to October 2023 under Premier Heather Stefanson. He lost the seat in the October 2023 election. After 2023 he wrote a column for the Sun, and in 2024 The Klein Group, of which he is president and CEO, bought the paper. CTV News reported his mayoral bid on 1 September 2026.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Wikipedia · CTV News Winnipeg

  1. Kevin Klein 11%
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Sep 5Sep 24Oct 13

Winnipeg Mayoral Election 2026

OutcomeProbability
Scott Gillingham79%
Kevin Klein11%
Mazher Alam7%
Don Woodstock3%
Michael Vogiatzakis2%
Joshua Pagdato<1%
Umar Hayat<1%
Christopher Clacio<1%
Zachary Uminski<1%
Noah Redden<1%
Johnny Calderón<1%

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