Verdun (provincial electoral district)

Verdun

Quebec electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

National Assembly of Quebec

MNA

Vacant

District created

1965

First contested

1966

Last contested

2014

Demographics

Population (2011)

66,155

Electors (2014)^[1]

48,594

Area (km²)^[2]

22.6

Pop. density (per km²)

2,927.2

Census divisions

Montreal (part)

Census subdivisions

Montreal (part)

Verdun is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. Its territory corresponds exactly to the borough of Verdun of the city of Montreal.

It was created for the 1966 election from Montréal-Verdun electoral district.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the National Assembly:

Legislature	Years		Party
28th	1966–1970	Claude Wagner	Liberal
29th	1970–1973	Lucien Caron	Liberal
30th	1973–1976
31st	1976–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1989	Paul Gobeil	Liberal
34th	1989–1994	Henri-François Gautrin	Liberal
35th	1994–1998
36th	1998–2003
37th	2003–2007
38th	2007–2008
39th	2008–2012
40th	2012–2014
41st	2014–2016	Jacques Daoust	Liberal

Election results

Quebec provincial by-election, 5 December 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Isabelle Melançon	–	–	–
	Parti Québécois	Richard Langlais	–	–	–
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Ginette Marotte	–	–	–
	Québec solidaire	Véronique Martineau	–	–	–
	Green	David Cox	–	–	–
	Option nationale	Frédéric Dénommé	–	–	–
	Conservative Party of Quebec	David Girard	–	–	–
	Autonomist Team	Sébastien Poirier	–	–	–
Total valid votes			–	–	–
Total rejected ballots			–	–	–
Turnout			–	–	–
Electors on the lists			–	–	–
	hold		Swing

Quebec general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Jacques Daoust	17,172	50.59	+15.17
	Parti Québécois	Lorraine Pintal	8,271	24.37	-9.43
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Benoit Richer	4,151	12.23	-6.71
	Québec solidaire	Rosa Pires	3,277	9.65	+2.38
	Green	Antonin Bergeron-Bossé	713	2.10	-0.35
	Option nationale	Julien Longchamp	160	0.47	-1.09
	Bloc Pot	Raynald St-Onge	157	0.46	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Eileen Studd	42	0.12	-0.05
Total valid votes			33,943	98.81	–
Total rejected ballots			409	1.19	+0.05
Turnout			34,352	70.69	-0.68
Electors on the lists			48,594	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		+12.30

Quebec general election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	11,920	35.42	-12.28
	Parti Québécois	Thierry St-Cyr	11,373	33.80	-1.54
	Coalition Avenir Québec	André Besner	6,373	18.94	+12.94*
	Québec solidaire	Chantale Michaud	2,449	7.28	+2.11
	Green	Jeffrey Mackie	825	2.45	-2.17
	Option nationale	Marc-Antoine Daneau	525	1.56	–
	Quebec Citizens' Union	Philippe Refghi	127	0.38	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Eileen Studd	58	0.17	–
Total valid votes			33,650	98.86	–
Total rejected ballots			389	1.14	-0.16
Turnout			34,039	71.37	+20.75
Electors on the lists			47,694	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.37

* Result compared to Action démocratique

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	11,223	47.70	+6.76
	Parti Québécois	Richard Langlais	8,314	35.34	+6.19
	Action démocratique	Moscou Côté	1,411	6.00	-11.58
	Québec solidaire	Chantale Michaud	1,215	5.16	+0.37
	Green	Sébastien Beausoleil	1,087	4.62	-1.65
	Independent	Sylvie R. Tremblay	216	0.92	–
	Independent	Robert Lindblad	61	0.26	-0.01
Total valid votes			23,527	98.70	–
Total rejected ballots			310	1.30	+0.30
Turnout			23,837	50.62	-13.83
Electors on the lists			47,089	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.28

Quebec general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	12,204	40.94	-11.58
	Parti Québécois	Richard Langlais	8,688	29.15	-1.23
	Action démocratique	Sylvie Tremblay	5,239	17.58	+6.27
	Green	Pierre-Yves McSween	1,868	6.27	+3.99
	Québec solidaire	David Fennario	1,430	4.80	+3.52*
	Christian Democracy	Gilles Noël	118	0.40	+0.04
	Bloc Pot	Sala Samghour	106	0.36	-0.88
	Independent	Robert Lindblad	80	0.27	+0.08
	Marxist–Leninist	Normand Fournier	74	0.25	-0.01
Total valid votes			29,807	99.00	–
Total rejected ballots			302	1.00	-0.33
Turnout			30,109	64.45	+1.44
Electors on the lists			46,714	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.18

* Result compared to UFP

Quebec general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	15,185	52.52	-0.23
	Parti Québécois	Denis Martel	8,782	30.38	-4.92
	Action démocratique	Sébastien Guérin	3,269	11.31	+1.92
	Green	Claude Genest	658	2.28	–
	UFP	Pascal Durand	368	1.27	+0.82*
	Bloc Pot	Vincent Aubry	357	1.23	+0.62
	Christian Democracy	Gilles Noël	104	0.36	+0.16
	Marxist–Leninist	Normand Chouinard	71	0.25	–
	Equality	Bernard King	63	0.22	-0.30
	Independent	Robert Lindblad	54	0.19	–
Total valid votes			28,911	98.67	–
Total rejected ballots			391	1.33	+0.21
Turnout			29,302	63.01	-12.69
Electors on the lists			46,502	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.35

* Result compared to PDS

Quebec general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	17,441	52.76	-1.81
	Parti Québécois	Yves Bernard	11,670	35.30	-0.19
	Action démocratique	Pascale Perron	3,105	9.39	+2.49
	Bloc Pot	Roman Pokorski	204	0.62	–
	Natural law	Gilles Bigras	204	0.61	+0.12
	Equality	Larry Vitas	171	0.52	–
	Socialist Democracy	Daniel Pharand	151	0.46	-0.64*
	Independent	Gilles Noël	66	0.20	–
	Communist	Luz Nelly Valencia	51	0.15	–
Total valid votes			33,060	98.87	–
Total rejected ballots			377	1.13	-0.79
Turnout			33,437	75.70	-6.19
Electors on the lists			44,169	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		-0.81

* Result compared to NDP

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	24,062	59.66
	Oui	16,269	40.34

Quebec general election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	18,392	54.27	+15.99
	Parti Québécois	Richard B. Holden	11,963	35.49	+3.27
	Action démocratique	Alain Magnan	2,327	6.90	–
	New Democratic	Daniel Pharand	368	1.09	-0.71
	CANADA!	Deepak Massand	315	0.93	–
	Natural law	Nicola Masucci	167	0.50	–
	Sovereignty	Frédéric Richard	87	0.26	–
	Development	Aimé Pinette	87	0.26	–
Total valid votes			33,706	98.08	–
Total rejected ballots			660	1.92
Turnout			33,366	81.89
Electors on the lists			41,967	–	–

1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	12,770	53.66
	Non	11,026	46.34

Quebec general election, 1989
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	8,295	38.58	−25.69
	Parti Québécois	Maurice Roch	6,928	32.22	+2.35
	Equality	Roger Mercure	4,857	22.59	–
	Green	Andrew Ferguson	664	3.09	–
	New Democratic	Jean-François Moisan	387	1.80	−1.05
	Workers	Raymond Lemay	266	1.24	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Brunelle	106	0.49	–
Total valid votes			21,503	96.97	–
Rejected and declined votes			673	3.03	–
Turnout			22,176	75.27	+1.46
Electors on the lists			29,461	–	–
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Quebec general election, 1985
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Paul Gobeil	14,860	64.27	+2.87
	Parti Québécois	Paul Asselin	6,906	29.87	-6.08
	New Democratic	Richard Proulx	659	2.85	–
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Leroux	216	0.93	–
	Parti indépendantiste	Guy Sauvé	183	0.79	–
	Union Nationale	Marie Quintal-Mallette	114	0.49	-0.97
	Humanist	Laura Whelton	87	0.38	–
	Christian Socialist	Éric Charmettant	50	0.22	–
	Commonwealth of Canada	Michel Destroismaisons	47	0.20	–
Total valid votes			23,122	98.02	–
Total rejected ballots			424	1.80
Turnout			23,546	73.81
Electors on the lists			31,903	–	–

Quebec general election, 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Lucien Caron	17,406	61.40	+17.30
	Parti Québécois	Fabiola Renaud	10,192	35.95	+2.75
	Union Nationale	Robert Turpin	415	1.46	-18.02
	Freedom of Choice	Terry Pye	196	0.69	–
	Workers Communist	Marc Latour	76	0.27	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Marc Bélanger	64	0.23	–
Total valid votes			28,349	98.89	–
Total rejected ballots			317	1.11
Turnout			28,666	83.49
Electors on the lists			34,335	–	–

1980 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	20,938	68.91
	Oui	9,446	31.09

Quebec general election, 1976
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Lucien Caron	13,201	44.10	-23.15
	Parti Québécois	Yvan Fortin	9,940	33.20	+5.72
	Union Nationale	Mark A. Wainberg	5,833	19.48	+18.05
	Ralliement créditiste	Joseph alias Rivard Delarosbil	499	1.67	–
	Democratic Alliance	Seymour Small	315	1.05	–
	Workers	Robin Gagnon	150	0.50	-
Total valid votes			29,938	97.66	–
Total rejected ballots			717	2.34
Turnout			30,655	83.60
Electors on the lists			36,670	–	–

Quebec general election, 1973
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Lucien Caron	19,439	67.25	+7.40
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Paul Ross	7,943	27.48	+3.93
	Parti créditiste	Camille Lévesque	1,109	3.84	–
	Union Nationale	François Chénard	415	1.43	-9.03
Total valid votes			28,906	94.72	–
Total rejected ballots			1,610	5.28
Turnout			30,516	80.23
Electors on the lists			38,037	–	–

Quebec general election, 1970
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Lucien Caron	23,630	59.85	-6.41
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Paul Ross	9,298	23.55	–
	Union Nationale	J.-Albert Gariépy	4,129	10.46	-18.08
	Ralliement créditiste	Carl B. O'Malley	1,117	2.83	–
	Independent	Suzanne Ste-Marie Brassard	862	2.18	–
	Independent	Gaston Gagnier	259	0.66	–
	New Democratic	Gendron E. Haines	186	0.47	–

Quebec general election, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Claude Wagner	19,181	66.26
	Union Nationale	André Fabien	8,263	28.54
	RIN	Réginald (Reggie) Chartrand	1,198	4.14
	Ralliement national	René Lassonde	306	1.06

References

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Maps

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Quebec electoral map, 2011

Neighbouring electoral districts

Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne

La Pinière, Laporte

Verdun

Marguerite-Bourgeoys, Châteauguay, La Prairie

Quebec provincial electoral districts

Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine	Bonaventure Côte-du-Sud¹ Gaspé Îles-de-la-Madeleine Matane-Matapédia Rimouski Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Côte-Nord	Chicoutimi Dubuc Duplessis Jonquière Lac-Saint-Jean René-Lévesque Roberval

Capitale-Nationale	Charlesbourg Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré Chauveau Jean-Lesage Jean-Talon La Peltrie Louis-Hébert Montmorency Portneuf Taschereau Vanier-Les Rivières

Mauricie	Champlain Laviolette Maskinongé Saint-Maurice Trois-Rivières

Chaudière-Appalaches and Centre-du-Québec	Arthabaska Beauce-Nord Beauce-Sud Bellechasse Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Côte-du-Sud¹ Drummond–Bois-Francs Johnson² Lévis Lotbinière-Frontenac Nicolet-Bécancour

Estrie (Eastern Townships)	Mégantic Orford Richmond Saint-François Sherbrooke

Eastern Montérégie	Borduas Brome-Missisquoi Chambly Granby Iberville Johnson² Richelieu Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Jean Verchères

South Shore	Beauharnois Châteauguay Huntingdon La Pinière Laporte La Prairie Marie-Victorin Montarville Sanguinet Soulanges Taillon Vachon Vaudreuil

East Montreal	Anjou–Louis-Riel Bourassa-Sauvé Bourget Crémazie Gouin Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Jeanne-Mance–Viger LaFontaine Laurier-Dorion Mercier Pointe-aux-Trembles Rosemont Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques Viau

West Montreal	Acadie D'Arcy-McGee Jacques-Cartier Marguerite-Bourgeoys Marquette Mont-Royal Nelligan Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Outremont Robert-Baldwin Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne Saint-Laurent Verdun Westmount–Saint-Louis

Laval	Chomedey Fabre Laval-des-Rapides Mille-Îles Sainte-Rose Vimont

Lanaudière	Berthier Joliette L'Assomption Masson Repentigny Rousseau Terrebonne

Laurentides	Argenteuil Bertrand Blainville Deux-Montagnes Groulx Labelle Mirabel Saint-Jérôme

Outaouais	Chapleau Gatineau Hull Papineau Pontiac

Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec	Abitibi-Est Abitibi-Ouest Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue Ungava

Eliminated in the 2012 election:	Anjou Kamouraska-Témiscouata Matane Matapédia Rivière-du-Loup Charlevoix Vanier Drummond Frontenac Lotbinière Montmagny-L'Islet Nicolet-Yamaska Mégantic-Compton Shefford Marguerite-D'Youville Prévost

¹Côte-du-Sud is split between Bas-Saint-Laurent and Chaudière-Appalaches ²Johnson is split between Centre-du-Québec and Montérégie See also: 2014 election List of elections Politics of Quebec Federal electoral ridings in Quebec

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