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Léopold Demers

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Léopold Demers
Member of Parliament
for Laval—Two Mountains
In office
December 1948 – June 1949
Preceded byJoseph-Roméo-Liguori Lacombe
Succeeded byriding merged
Member of Parliament
for Laval
In office
June 1949 – March 1958
Preceded byriding created
Succeeded byRodrigue Bourdages
Personal details
Born(1912-08-14)14 August 1912
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Died21 November 1990(1990-11-21) (aged 78)
Laval, Quebec, Canada
Political partyLiberal
Professionagrologist

Léopold Demers (14 August 1912 – 21 November 1990) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was an agrologist by career.

He was first elected at the Laval—Two Mountains riding in a 20 December 1948 by-election. In the 1949 federal election, he was re-elected at Laval then re-elected for successive terms in 1953 and 1957. Demers was defeated in the 1958 election by Rodrigue Bourdages of the Progressive Conservative party.