Cartier (electoral district)

Cartier was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1968.

It was created in 1924 from parts of George-Étienne Cartier riding.

Cartier is the only riding in Canada to have elected a Communist to the House of Commons: Fred Rose, who was elected in a 1943 by-election, and re-elected in 1945. Rose ran under the banner of the Labour Progressive Party, which was a front organization for the banned Communist Party of Canada during the 1940s and 1950s. Sam Jacobs was the riding's MP for many years and was in his final years also the president of the Canadian Jewish Congress.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Laurier, Outremont and Saint-Jacques ridings.

Every single MP to represent this riding was of the Jewish faith.

Election results

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Samuel William Jacobs	7,934
	Independent Liberal	Joseph Alfred Bernier	4,889

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Samuel William Jacobs	5,048
	Conservative	Louis Wolfe	2,312
	Independent Liberal	Paul-Ernest Parent	2,043
	Socialist	Michael Buhay	672

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Samuel William Jacobs	8,231
	Conservative	Louis Wolfe	1,928
	Independent Progressive	Médéric Masson	1,294
	Independent Liberal	Paul-E. Parent	540

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Samuel William Jacobs	13,574
	Communist	Fred Rose	3,385
	Independent Liberal	Paul-Emile Goyette	1,531
	Reconstruction	Salluste Lavery	1,362
	Conservative	Herman Julien	945

By-election on 7 November 1938 Jacobs' death, 21 August 1938
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Peter Bercovitch	acclaimed

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Peter Bercovitch	18,191
	National Labour	Arthur Ainey	2,354

Canadian federal by-election, August 9, 1943: Cartier
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor-Progressive	Fred Rose	5,789	30.42
	Bloc populaire	Paul Masse	5,639	29.63
	Liberal	Lazarus Phillips	4,180	21.97
	Co-operative Commonwealth	David Lewis	3,313	17.41
	Independent	Moses Miller	109	0.57

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labor-Progressive	Fred Rose	10,413
	Liberal	Samuel Edgar Schwisberg	8,935
	Bloc populaire	Paul Masse	6,148

By-election on 31 March 1947 Rose's seat declared vacant, 30 January 1947, by House of Commons resolution
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Maurice Hartt	9,649
	Autonomist candidate	Paul Masse	6,929
	Labor-Progressive	Michael Buhay	6,616
	Independent	David Rochon	1,323
	Independent	Onil Léonide Gingras	142
	Independent	Louis Valiquette	45

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Maurice Hartt	11,993
	Labor-Progressive	Harry Binder	4,868
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Abraham M. Klein	3,238
	Progressive Conservative	Maurice-S. Hebert	2,636

By-election on 19 June 1950 Hartt's death, 15 March 1950
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Leon David Crestohl	9,701
	Labor-Progressive	Harry Binder	3,913
	Progressive Conservative	Maurice-S. Hebert	2,833
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Kalmen Kaplansky	1,473

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Leon David Crestohl	12,493
	Progressive Conservative	Tadeusz Brzezinski	1,068
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Hector Rochon	980
	Labor-Progressive	Harry Binder	896
	Independent PC	Marcel Hotte	616
	Independent Liberal	Moses Miller	193

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Leon David Crestohl	11,955
	Progressive Conservative	Aldo Lattik	1,909
	Independent Liberal	Samuel Kolomeir	1,618
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Michael Wozniak	677
	Independent Liberal	Moses Zalman Miller	236

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Leon David Crestohl	7,097
	Progressive Conservative	Hyman Bernard Brock	6,850
	Independent Liberal	Samuel Kolomeir	1,528
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Michael Wozniak	713

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Leon David Crestohl	6,464
	Progressive Conservative	Charles S. Barden	3,582
	New Democratic	William I. Miller	1,871
	Social Credit	Sylvio-Fernando Melancon	1,201

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Milton L. Klein	6,642
	Progressive Conservative	Charles S. Barden	2,788
	Social Credit	Georges Binette	2,162
	New Democratic	William I. Miller	1,918

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Milton L. Klein	5,389
	Progressive Conservative	Andrew Henry Pytel	2,209
	New Democratic	John Kambites	1,903
	Ralliement créditiste	Gérard Ledoux	1,141

See also

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

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament