Repentigny (federal electoral district)
 Quebec electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Repentigny in relation to other Quebec federal electoral districts | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 1996 | ||
| First contested | 1997 | ||
| Last contested | 2011 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2011)[1] | 119,855 | ||
| Electors (2011) | 90,070 | ||
| Area (km²)[2] | 257.10 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 466.2 | ||
| Census division(s) | L'Assomption | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Charlemagne, L'Assomption, L'Épiphanie (city), Repentigny, L'Épiphanie (parish), Saint-Sulpice | ||
Repentigny is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.
It consists solely and entirely of the Regional County Municipality of L'Assomption.
Demographics
- According to the Canada 2001 Census
| Population | 103,977 |
| Electors | 84,312 |
| Area (km²) | 266 |
| Population density (people per km²) | 390.9 |
Ethnic groups: 98.7% White
Languages: 97.3% French, 1.1% English, 1.3% Others
Religions: 94.5% Catholic, 1.3% Protestant, 3.4% No religion
Average income: $30,277
Political geography
Repentigny had long been one of the most separatist ridings in Quebec. In the 2006 election, every single poll was won by the Bloc Québécois. However, the riding was caught up in the New Democratic Party tsunami that swept through the province five years later.
History
It was created in 1996 from parts of Joliette and Terrebonne ridings.
It consisted initially of the cities of Charlemagne, Lachenaie, Mascouche and Repentigny; and the Parish Municipality of La Plaine in the County Regional Municipality of Les Moulins.
Member of Parliament
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joliette and Terrebonne prior to 1996. | ||||
| 36th | 1997–2000 | rowspan="4" Template:Canadian politics/party colours/BQ | | Benoît Sauvageau | Bloc Québécois |
| 37th | 2000–2004 | |||
| 38th | 2004–2006 | |||
| 39th | 2006 | |||
| 2006–2008 | Template:Canadian politics/party colours/BQ | | Raymond Gravel | Bloc Québécois | |
| 40th | ||||
| 2008–2011 | Template:Canadian politics/party colours/BQ | | Nicolas Dufour | Bloc Québécois | |
| 41st | ||||
| 2011–present | Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP | | Jean-François Larose | New Democratic | |
Electoral history
2008 federal election
Fr. Gravel chose not to run again, citing pressure from the Church. Party activist Nicolas Dufour secured the Bloc nomination, becoming one of their youngest candidates. Réjean Bellemare ran again for the NDP. The Bloc held the riding handily, with the NDP securing one of the party's four second-place finishes in the province.
2006 by-election
MP Benoît Sauvageau was killed in a car accident on August 28, 2006. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for a by-election on October 22, 2006 with a polling day of November 27, 2006.
There had been a lot of pressure from opposition parties for Public Works Minister Michael Fortier, a Conservative senator, to run here however he has declined. Fortier was appointed to the Senate and the Cabinet to represent Greater Montreal which elected no Conservatives in the last federal election, while Fortier pledged to resign from the Senate and seek election to the House of Commons in the next federal election. Instead, the Conservative candidate was Stéphane Bourgon, a lawyer. The Bloc Québécois, of which Sauvageau was a member, ran Raymond Gravel, a Roman Catholic priest.[3] The New Democratic Party candidate was union activist and former Canadian Navy member Réjean Bellemare, who had also run for the NDP in the previous general election.
The Green Party of Canada had announced that Marc-André Gadoury would be their candidate, but he did not complete and submit paperwork to Elections Canada in sufficient time to get on the ballot. Gadoury suggested that the Greens did not submit the paperwork on purpose and on November 25, 2006, La Presse reported that Gadoury was endorsing the NDP candidate, Réjean Bellemare.
Raymond Gravel of the Bloc Québécois won the by-election with an approximately two-thirds majority of votes.
1997-present
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Jean-François Larose | 32,131 | 51.92 | +36.77 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Nicolas Dufour | 19,198 | 31.09 | -21.97 | ||||
| Liberal | Chantal Perreault | 4,830 | 7.80 | -7.17 | ||||
| Conservative | Christophe Royer | 4,606 | 7.44 | -6.54 | ||||
| Green | Michel Duchaine | 1,078 | 1.74 | -1.11 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 61,887 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 934 | 1.49 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 62,821 | 66.91 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 93,882 | – | – | |||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Nicolas Dufour | 31,005 | 53.06 | -13.20 | $90,525 | ||||
| New Democratic | Réjean Bellemare | 8,853 | 15.15 | +8.13 | $5,448 | ||||
| Liberal | Robert Semegen | 8,746 | 14.97 | +8.74 | $7,684 | ||||
| Conservative | Bruno Royer | 8,168 | 13.98 | -4.72 | $46,962 | ||||
| Green | Paul W. Fournier | 1,666 | 2.85 | – | – | $4,967 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 58,438 | 100.00 | $91,738 | ||||||
| Turnout | – | 53.3 | Bloc Québécois hold | Swing | -10.7 | ||||
Template:CanElec2-by |- | style="color:inherit; background-color: #87CEFA; width: 16px;" | | style="width: 180px; text-align: left;" |Bloc Québécois|| Raymond Gravel ||style="text-align:right;"|20,635 ||style="text-align:right;"|66.26 ||style="text-align:right;"|+3.84 ||style="text-align:right;"|$84,032 |- | style="color:inherit; background-color: #6495ED; width: 16px;" | | style="width: 180px; text-align: left;" |Conservative|| Stéphane Bourgon ||style="text-align:right;"|5,822 ||style="text-align:right;"|18.69 ||style="text-align:right;"|+0.61 ||style="text-align:right;"|$46,980 |- | style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;" | | style="width: 180px; text-align: left;" |New Democratic|| Réjean Bellemare ||style="text-align:right;"|2,187 ||style="text-align:right;"|7.02 ||style="text-align:right;"|-0.72 ||style="text-align:right;"|$34,699 |- | style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;" | | style="width: 180px; text-align: left;" |Liberal|| Christian Turenne ||style="text-align:right;"|1,940 ||style="text-align:right;"|6.23 ||style="text-align:right;"|-2.42 ||style="text-align:right;"|$15,043 |- | style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 16px;" | | style="width: 180px; text-align: left;" |Independent|| Jocelyne Leduc ||style="text-align:right;"|390 ||style="text-align:right;"|1.25 ||style="text-align:right;"|n/a ||style="text-align:right;"|$45 |- | style="color:inherit; background-color: #DC143C; width: 16px;" | | style="width: 180px; text-align: left;" |Canadian Action|| Mahmood Raza Baig ||style="text-align:right;"|91 ||style="text-align:right;"|0.29 ||style="text-align:right;"|n/a ||style="text-align:right;"|$5,641 |- | style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 16px;" | | style="width: 180px; text-align: left;" |Independent|| Régent Millette ||style="text-align:right;"|78 ||style="text-align:right;"|0.25 ||style="text-align:right;"|n/a ||style="text-align:right;"| |- style="background-color:white;color:black;" |colspan=3 style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"|Total valid votes/Expense limit |style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"|31,143||style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"|100.00||style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"|$85,285
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| 2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Benoît Sauvageau | 34,958 | 62.42 | -7.64 | $66,386 | |||
| Conservative | Claude Lafortune, Jr. | 10,124 | 18.08 | +13.31 | $4,967 | |||
| Liberal | Josyanne Forest | 4,847 | 8.65 | -9.6 | $8,129 | |||
| New Democratic | Réjean Bellemare | 4,337 | 7.74 | +4.76 | $7,511 | |||
| Green | Adam Jastrzebski | 1,742 | 3.11 | +0.22 | $0 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 56,008 | 100.00 | $82,825 | |||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Benoît Sauvageau | 35,907 | 70.06 | +12.26 | ||||
| Liberal | Lévis Brien | 9,353 | 18.25 | -8.63 | $76,485 | |||
| Conservative | Allen F. Mackenzie | 2,447 | 4.77 | -5.69 | $5,725 | |||
| New Democratic | André Cardinal | 1,526 | 2.98 | +1.55 | ||||
| Green | Jean-François Lévêque | 1,482 | 2.89 | n/a | $0 | |||
| Marijuana | François Boudreau | 539 | 1.05 | -2.38 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 51,254 | 100.00 | $79,823 | |||||
| 2000 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Benoît Sauvageau | 33,627 | 57.80 | +1.51 | ||||
| Liberal | David Veillette | 15,635 | 26.88 | +5.75 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Michel Carignan | 3,122 | 5.37 | -15.66 | ||||
| Alliance | Michel Paulette | 2,964 | 5.09 | n/a | ||||
| Marijuana | Lise Dufour | 1,997 | 3.43 | n/a | ||||
| New Democratic | Pierre Péclet | 831 | 1.43 | -0.12 | ||||
| Total | 58,176 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1997 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Bloc Québécois | Benoît Sauvageau | 33,283 | 56.29 | |||||
| Liberal | Robert Tranchemontagne | 12,495 | 21.13 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Michel Carignan | 12,436 | 21.03 | |||||
| New Democratic | Normand Caplette | 916 | 1.55 | |||||
| Total | 59,130 | 100.00 | ||||||
See also
References
- "Repentigny (federal electoral district) (Code 24053) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
- Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
- Riding history from the Library of Parliament
- 2011 Results from Elections Canada
Notes
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2012
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2012
- ^ [1]