Bourassa (electoral district)

Bourassa

Quebec electoral district
Bourassa in relation to other federal electoral districts of Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Denis Coderre Liberal
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2006)	100,683
Electors (2011)	69,612
Area (km²)	16
Pop. density (per km²)	6,292.7
Census divisions	Montreal
Census subdivisions	Montreal

Bourassa (formerly known as Montreal—Bourassa) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. Its population in 2006 was 100,683.

Geography

The district includes the Borough of Montreal North, the western part of the neighbourhood of Rivière-des-Prairies in the Borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles, and the eastern part of the neighbourhood of Sault-au-Récollet in the Borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

The neighbouring ridings are Ahuntsic, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, Honoré-Mercier, and Alfred-Pellan.

History

The electoral district of Hochelaga was created in 1966 from Mercier and Laval ridings. The name comes from a street running through the three neighbourhoods which is named after Henri Bourassa.

The name of the riding was changed to "Montreal—Bourassa" in 1971.

In 1976, Montreal—Bourassa was abolished when it was redistributed into a new "Bourassa" riding and Saint-Michel riding. The new Bourassa riding was created from parts of Montreal—Bourassa, Ahuntsic and Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Mercier and Laval prior to 1966
Hochelaga
28th	1968–1972		Jacques Trudel	Liberal
Montreal—Bourassa
29th	1972–1974		Jacques Trudel	Liberal
30th	1974–1979
Bourassa
31st	1979–1980		Carlo Rossi	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993		Marie Gibeau	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Osvaldo Nunez	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000		Denis Coderre	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	15,550	40.9	-8.9
	New Democratic	Julie Demers	12,270	32.3	+24.3
	Bloc Québécois	Daniel Mailhot	6,105	16.1	-9.3
	Conservative	David Azoulay	3,354	8.8	-4.7
	Green	Tiziana Centazzo	613	1.6	-1.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	121	0.3	-0.0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			38,013	100.0
Total rejected ballots			685	1.77
Turnout			38,698	55.23
Eligible voters			70,067

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	19,869	49.8	+6.4	$79,671
	Bloc Québécois	Daniel Mailhot	10,145	25.4	−6.6	$20,597
	Conservative	Michelle Allaire	5,405	13.5	−2.4	$54,584
	New Democratic	Samira Laouni	3,188	8.0	+2.8	$8,509
	Green	François Boucher	1,166	2.9	−0.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	130	0.3	−0.1
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,903	100.0	$81,510
Total rejected ballots			695	1.7
Turnout			40,598	58.32

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	18,705	43.4	−6.6	$74,877
	Bloc Québécois	Apraham Niziblian	13,777	32.0	−5.8	$42,887
	Conservative	Liberato Martelli	6,830	15.9	+10.5	$16,397
	New Democratic	Stefano Saykaly	2,237	5.2	+1.2	$2,513
	Green	François Boucher	1,370	3.2	+1.6	$469
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	173	0.4	0.0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			43,092	100.0	$76,351

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	20,927	50.0	−12.0	$71,984
	Bloc Québécois	Doris Provencher	15,794	37.8	+9.5	$25,867
	Conservative	Frédéric Grenier	2,226	5.3	−1.4	$3,369
	New Democratic	Stefano Saykaly	1,661	4.0	+2.2	$8,113
	Green	Noémi Lopinto	660	1.6	–
	Marijuana	Philippe Gauvin	403	1.0	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	154	0.4	−0.4
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,825	100.0	$76,415

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	25,403	62.1	+9.9
	Bloc Québécois	Umberto Di Genova	11,562	28.2	−4.3
	Alliance	Marcel Lys François	1,435	3.5
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Pitre	1,325	3.2	−9.8
	New Democratic	Richard Gendron	736	1.8	−0.4
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Brunelle	330	0.8
	Communist	Ulises Nitor	137	0.3
Total valid votes			40,928	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	23,765	52.2	+10.5
	Bloc Québécois	Osvaldo Nunez	14,813	32.5	−9.3
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Wildhaber	5,937	13.0	+1.1
	New Democratic	Dominique Baillard	999	2.2	−0.4
Total valid votes			45,514	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Bloc Québécois	Osvaldo Nunez	18,234	41.9
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	18,167	41.7	+0.3
	Progressive Conservative	Marie Gibeau	5,199	11.9	−31.4
	New Democratic	Raymond Laurent	1,146	2.6	−8.3
	Natural Law	Miville Couture	479	1.1
	Abolitionist	Lucien Lapointe	209	0.5
	Commonwealth of Canada	Harold Anthony Quesnel	102	0.2	0.0
Total valid votes			43,536	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	Marie Gibeau	18,979	43.3	+2.7
	Liberal	Carlo Rossi	18,159	41.5	−2.5
	New Democratic	Kéder Hyppolite	4,797	11.0	+2.8
	Rhinoceros	Patrick Pi L'Autre Cossette	882	2.0	−1.5
	Green	Michel Szabo	396	0.9
	Social Credit	Gérard Ledoux	178	0.4	−0.1
	Communist	Claire Dasylva	159	0.4
	Independent	Stéphane Savard	125	0.3
	Commonwealth of Canada	Daniel Coté	107	0.2
Total valid votes			43,782	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Carlo Rossi	20,221	43.9	−32.5
	Progressive Conservative	Raymond-J. Rochon	18,703	40.6	+32.8
	New Democratic	Roderick Charters	3,741	8.1	−4.6
	Rhinoceros	Dominique Pique-Nique Malouin	1,618	3.5
	Parti nationaliste	J. André Perey	1,169	2.5
	Social Credit	Roland Boudreau	236	0.5
	Commonwealth of Canada	Carl Paradis	125	0.3
	Independent	Michel Dugré	103	0.2
	Independent	Gérard Ledoux	101	0.2
Total valid votes			46,017	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Carlo Rossi	30,924	76.5	+14.0
	New Democratic	Roderick Charters	5,144	12.7	+9.0
	Progressive Conservative	Raymond J. Rochon	3,182	7.9	+0.1
	Union populaire	Henriette Duval	875	2.2	+0.8
	Marxist–Leninist	Pierre Daumery	305	0.8	+0.5
Total valid votes			40,430	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Carlo Rossi	29,929	62.5	+2.5
	Social Credit	Gérard Rougeau	5,178	10.8	−1.0
	Independent	Raymond Cloutier	4,918	10.3
	Progressive Conservative	J. Raymond Rochon	3,705	7.7	−9.2
	New Democratic	Daniel Piotrowski	1,804	3.8	−5.1
	Rhinoceros	Victor-Levy Beaulieu	1,492	3.1	+1.6
	Union populaire	Jacques Bergeron	635	1.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Pierre Daumery	103	0.2	−0.2
	Communist	Suzanne Dagenais	102	0.2	−0.3
Total valid votes			47,866	100.0

Montreal—Bourassa, 1972–1979

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Jacques-L. Trudel	26,550	60.0	+8.3
	Progressive Conservative	Armand Lefebvre	7,500	16.9	−1.2
	Social Credit	Gérard Ledoux	5,218	11.8	−9.1
	New Democratic	Robert-F. Faucher	3,912	8.8	−0.4
	Independent	Victor-Lévy Beaulieu	673	1.5
	Communist	Ginette Poirier	213	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Marc Blouin	194	0.4
Total valid votes			44,260	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Jacques-L. Trudel	25,728	51.7	−3.4
	Social Credit	Gérard Ledoux	10,418	20.9	+17.0
	Progressive Conservative	Rodolphe Sauvé	9,054	18.2	−12.3
	New Democratic	Sid-A. Zitouni	4,601	9.2	−0.4
Total valid votes			49,801	100.0

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.

Bourassa, 1968–1972

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jacques-L. Trudel	19,778	55.1
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Ryan	10,939	30.5
	New Democratic	Gérard Marotte	3,443	9.6
	Ralliement créditiste	Gérard Ledoux	1,401	3.9
	Unknown	Rolland Denommée	339	0.9
Total valid votes			35,900	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

Sources

• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

• Bourassa (1966–1971)
• Montreal—Bourassa (1971–1976)
• Bourassa (1976– )