Verdun (provincial electoral district)

Verdun
Quebec electoral district
Location in Montreal
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureNational Assembly of Quebec
MNA
 
 		 
Alejandra Zaga Mendez
Québec solidaire
District created1965
First contested1966
Last contested2022
Demographics
Population (2011)66,155
Electors (2014)[1]48,594
Area (km²)[2]22.6
Pop. density (per km²)2,927.2
Census division(s)Montreal (part)
Census subdivision(s)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 Member Party
Riding created from Montréal-Verdun
28th  1966–1970     Claude Wagner Liberal
29th  1970–1973 Lucien Caron
30th  1973–1976
31st  1976–1981
32nd  1981–1985
33rd  1985–1989 Paul Gobeil
34th  1989–1994 Henri-François Gautrin
35th  1994–1998
36th  1998–2003
37th  2003–2007
38th  2007–2008
39th  2008–2012
40th  2012–2014
41st  2014–2016 Jacques Daoust
 2016–2018 Isabelle Melançon
42nd  2018–2022
43rd  2022–Present     Alejandra Zaga Mendez Québec solidaire

Election results

2022 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Québec solidaire Alejandra Zaga Mendez 9,562 30.75 +6.80
Liberal Isabelle Melançon 9,101 29.27 -6.24
Coalition Avenir Québec Véronique Tremblay 7,150 23.00 +2.62
Parti Québécois Claudia Valdivia 2,591 8.33 -4.29
Conservative Lucien Koty 1,664 5.35 +4.65
Green Jannie Pellerin 542 1.74 -1.97
Canadian Scott Kilbride 301 0.97 –
Parti nul Marc-André Milette 65 0.21 -0.28
Climat Québec Alexandre Desmarais 61 0.20 –
Marxist–Leninist Fernand Deschamps 30 0.10 +0.01
Famille et communautés Alain Rioux 26 0.08 –
Total valid votes 31,093 99.03 –
Total rejected ballots 303 0.97 -0.16
Turnout 31,396 64.52 +1.34
Electors on the lists 48,656 – –
Québec solidaire gain from Liberal Swing +6.52
2018 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Isabelle Melançon 11,054 35.51 -0.10
Québec solidaire Vanessa Roy 7,457 23.95 +5.37
Coalition Avenir Québec Nicole Leduc 6,343 20.38 +7.65
Parti Québécois Constantin Fortier 3,929 12.62 -14.53
Green Alex Tyrrell 1,157 3.72 -0.56
New Democratic Raphaël Fortin 717 2.30 –
Conservative Yedidya-Eitan Moryoussef 217 0.70 +0.05
Parti nul Marc-André Milette 151 0.49 –
Bloc Pot Hugo Richard 76 0.24 –
Marxist–Leninist Eileen Studd 29 0.09 –
Total valid votes 31130 98.88
Total rejected ballots 354 1.12
Turnout 31,484 63.19
Eligible voters 49,826
Liberal hold Swing -2.74
Source(s)
"Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.
Quebec provincial by-election, 5 December 2016
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Isabelle Melançon 5,116 35.61 -14.98
Parti Québécois Richard Langlais 3,900 27.15 +2.78
Québec solidaire Véronique Martineau 2,669 18.58 +8.93
Coalition Avenir Québec Ginette Marotte 1,829 12.73 +0.50
Green David Cox 615 4.28 +2.18
Option nationale Frédéric Dénommé 115 0.80 +0.33
Conservative David Girard 94 0.65 –
Équipe Autonomiste Sébastien Poirier 27 0.19 –
Total valid votes 14,365 100.00 –
Total rejected ballots 138 0.95 -0.24
Turnout 14,503 29.15 -41.54
Electors on the lists 49,758 – –
Liberal hold Swing -8.88
2014 Quebec general election
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
2012 Quebec general election
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

2008 Quebec general election
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
2007 Quebec general election
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

2003 Quebec general election
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

1998 Quebec general election
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
1994 Quebec general election
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
1989 Quebec general election
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.
1985 Quebec general election
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 – –


1981 Quebec general election
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 – –
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.
1980 Quebec referendum
Side Votes %
Non 20,938 68.91
Oui 9,446 31.09
1976 Quebec general election
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 – –
1973 Quebec general election
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 – –
1970 Quebec general election
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 –
1966 Quebec general election
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

  1. ^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions-2011.php?bsq=397&section=population[dead link]
  2. ^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions-2011.php?bsq=397&section=superficie[dead link]

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45°28′N 73°34′W / 45.46°N 73.56°W / 45.46; -73.56