Like many blue-collar workers in the eastern Winnipeg riding of Elmwood-Transcona, Don Gale grew up in an NDP family.

Gale is two months away from retirement after decades of employment as an electrician with Manitoba Hydro. He now votes Conservative because he believes party leader Pierre Poilievre cares more about workers than NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.

"In Transcona, a lot of people don't really look beyond the NDP because it was just built into them that they had to vote NDP. It was in their f…