LaSalle-Émard

LaSalle—Émard

LaSalle—Émard

Former federal electoral district in the Canadian province of Quebec from 1988 to 2015


LaSalle—Émard was a federal electoral district in the Canadian province of Quebec that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. Its population in 2001 was 99,767. The MP from 1988 to 2008 was Paul Martin, who served as prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. As part of redistribution begun in 2012 the riding is now known by its current name and boundaries of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun while the southwestern portion joined the new riding of Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle.

Quick Facts Quebec electoral district, Coordinates: ...

Geography

The district included the Montreal borough of LaSalle and the Southwest borough's Ville-Émard and Côte-Saint-Paul neighbourhoods. The neighbouring ridings were Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Westmount—Ville-Marie, Jeanne-Le Ber, Brossard—La Prairie and Châteauguay—Saint-Constant.

Political geography

Historically, the LaSalle part of the riding was fairly Liberal-leaning, with a few Bloc pockets in the west. Meanwhile, Ville-Émard and Côte-Saint-Paul were mostly Bloc areas. However, the division was swept over by the NDP surge in the 2011 Canadian federal election.

History

The electoral district was created in 1987 from LaSalle, Saint-Henri—Westmount and Verdun—Saint-Paul ridings.

Member of parliament

This riding elected the following members of parliament:

More information Parliament, Years ...

Election results

More information 2011 Canadian federal election, Party ...
More information 2008 Canadian federal election, Party ...
More information 2006 Canadian federal election, Party ...
More information 2004 Canadian federal election, Party ...

Change from 2000 for top three parties is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the total of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

More information 2000 Canadian federal election, Party ...
More information Party, Candidate ...
More information 1993 Canadian federal election, Party ...
More information 1988 Canadian federal election, Party ...

See also


References

  • "LaSalle—Émard (Code 24029) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  • Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
  • 2011 Results from Elections Canada
  • Riding history from the Library of Parliament
  • Map of riding archived by Elections Canada

Notes

More information Parliament of Canada ...

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article LaSalle-Émard, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.