Laval—Les Îles

Laval—Les Îles
Quebec electoral district
	Laval—Les Îles in relation to other federal electoral districts in Montreal
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
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District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2006)	111,958
Electors (2011)	87,749
Area (km²)	59
Pop. density (per km²)	1,897.6
Census divisions	Laval
Census subdivisions	Laval

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Laval—Les Îles is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.

Its population in 2001 was 100,137. 15.9% of the population is Christian Orthodox, the highest in Canada.

[edit] Geography

The district includes the neighbourhoods of Îles-Laval, Laval ouest, Laval-sur-le-Lac, Sainte dorothee, the western part of the neighbourhood of Fabreville and the western part of Chomedey in the City of Laval. The neighbouring ridings are Laval, Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, Pierrefonds—Dollard, Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, and Marc-Aurèle-Fortin.

The electoral district was created in 2003 from parts of Laval West riding.

This riding has elected the following Member of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Laval West prior to 2003
38th	2004–2006	Raymonde Folco	Liberal
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present	François Pilon	New Democratic

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	New Democratic	François Pilon	25,703	47.64	+36.18
	Liberal	Karine Joizil	11,108	20.59	-19.85
	Conservative	Zaki Ghavitian	8,587	15.92	-4.70
	Bloc Québécois	Mohamedali Jehta	7,022	13.02	-10.52
	Green	Brent Neil	966	1.79	-1.49
	Pirate	Stéphane Bakhos	369	0.68
	Marxist–Leninist	Polyvios Tsakanikas	194	0.36	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			53,949	100.00
Total rejected ballots			702	1.28	-0.06
Turnout			54,651	59.31	-2.38

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Raymonde Folco	21,603	40.44	+1.13	$46,790
	Bloc Québécois	Mohamedali Jetha	12,576	23.54	-9.53	$43,306
	Conservative	Agop Evereklian	11,017	20.62	+3.55	$88,318
	New Democratic	Zahia El-Masri	6,124	11.46	+4.27	$5,682
	Green	Brent Neil	1,752	3.28	+0.35	$20
	Rhinoceros	Sylvain A. Trottier	336	0.62	$184
Total valid votes/Expense limit			53,408	100.00	$90,317
Total rejected ballots			725	1.34	+0.03
Turnout			54,133	61.69	-1.78

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Raymonde Folco	23,985	47.86	–	$41,522
	Bloc Québécois	Micaël Poirier	18,597	37.11	–	$19,639
	Conservative	Jean-Paul Pratte	3,498	6.98	–	$8,960
	New Democratic	Paul Michaud	2,202	4.39	–	$1,461
	Green	Pierre Véronneau	1,178	2.35	–	$1,860
	Marijuana	Michel Allard	498	0.99	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Polyvios Tsakanikas	154	0.31	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,112	100.00	$80,533