Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has urged NDP delegates to start preparing for an election almost two years away.

Kinew told his party's annual convention the NDP has nominated its first candidate for the October 2027 vote — Glen Simard, the incumbent in the Brandon East seat — and is hoping to make inroads into rural areas.

The NDP are riding high in opinion polls that suggest the party has more support than it did when it won the October 2023 election.

The New Democrats have also been raising a lot more money than the Opposition Progressive Conservatives.

The NDP garnered more than $1.8 million in contributions and fundraising in 2024 — roughly triple the Tories' amount.

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