Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie (federal electoral district)

Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie
Quebec electoral district
	Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie in relation to other electoral districts in Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Alexandre Boulerice; New Democratic
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District created	1976
First contested	1979
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)	110,677
Electors (2015)	83,936
Area (km²)	10.67
Pop. density (per km²)	10,372.7
Census division(s)	Montreal
Census subdivision(s)	Montreal

Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie (formerly known as Rosemont and Rosemont—Petite-Patrie) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979.

Geography

The district includes the neighbourhood of Petite-Patrie and the part of Rosemont west of Pie-IX Boulevard.^[3] Its whole territory is part of the Montreal Borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census

Languages: (2021) 74.2% French, 5.2% English, 4.5% Spanish, 2.5% Arabic, 1.3% Portuguese, 1.1% Italian^[4]

History

The riding was created under the name "Rosemont" in 1976 from parts of the ridings of Lafontaine, Maisonneuve—Rosemont, Papineau, and Saint-Michel. The name was changed to "Rosemont—Petite-Patrie" in 2000, and then to its current name in 2003.

This riding gained a small fraction of territory from Outremont during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Rosemont Riding created from Lafontaine, Maisonneuve—Rosemont, Papineau and Saint-Michel
31st	1979–1980	Claude-André Lachance	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984	Claude-André Lachance	Liberal
33rd	1984–1988	Suzanne Blais-Grenier	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1990	Benoît Tremblay	Progressive Conservative
	1990–1990		Independent
	1990–1993		Bloc Québécois
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–2000	Bernard Bigras
Rosemont—Petite-Patrie
37th	2000–2004	Bernard Bigras	Bloc Québécois
Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie
38th	2004–2006	Bernard Bigras	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015	Alexandre Boulerice	New Democratic
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Election results

Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, 2003 – present

2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Alexandre Boulerice	26,708	48.57	+6.20	$98,099.40
	Liberal	Nancy Drolet	12,738	23.17	-1.01	$24,844.91
	Bloc Québécois	Shophika Vaithyanathasarma	11,751	21.37	-2.36	$18,485.74
	Conservative	Surelys Perez Hernandez	2,199	4.00	+1.67	none listed
	Green	Franco Fiori	1,308	2.38	-3.48	$0.00
	Marxist–Leninist	Gisèle Desrochers	284	0.52	+0.37	$0.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit			54,988	–	–	$112,449.00
Total rejected ballots			1,062
Turnout			56,050
Eligible voters
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+3.61
Source: Elections Canada^[5]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Alexandre Boulerice	25,575	42.48	-6.69	$108,791.68
	Liberal	Geneviève Hinse	14,576	24.21	+3.53	$67,673.40
	Bloc Québécois	Claude André	14,306	23.76	+2.73	$16,536.02
	Green	Jean Désy	3,539	5.88	+2.82	$4,206.72
	Conservative	Johanna Sarfati	1,405	2.33	-1.96	$2,398.66
	Rhinoceros	Jos Guitare Lavoie	346	0.57	-0.28
	People's	Bobby Pellerin	293	0.49		$1,385.02
	Communist	Normand Raymond	86	0.14
	Marxist–Leninist	Gisèle Desrochers	80	0.13	-0.16
Total valid votes/expense limit			60,206	100.0
Total rejected ballots			718
Turnout			60,924
Eligible voters			85,290
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-5.11
Source: Elections Canada^[6]^[7]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Alexandre Boulerice	28,692	49.17	-1.90	$110,249.53
	Bloc Québécois	Claude André	12,276	21.03	-11.82	$56,203.37
	Liberal	Nadine Medawar	12,069	20.68	+11.53	$11,102.48
	Conservative	Jeremy Dohan	2,506	4.29	-0.03	$3,537.24
	Green	Sameer Muldeen	1,787	3.06	+1.39	–
	Rhinoceros	Laurent Aglat	495	0.85	+0.08	–
	Libertarian	Peter d'Entremont	353	0.60	–	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Stéphane Chénier	171	0.29	+0.03	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			–	100.0		$222,080.44
Total rejected ballots			–	–	–
Turnout			58,349	69.13	+2.22
Eligible voters			83,936
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−1.9
Source: Elections Canada^[8]^[9]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[10]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	27,644	51.07
	Bloc Québécois	17,731	32.76
	Liberal	4,951	9.15
	Conservative	2,337	4.32
	Green	906	1.67
	Others	558	1.03

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Alexandre Boulerice	27,484	51.00	+34.74
	Bloc Québécois	Bernard Bigras	17,702	32.85	-19.15
	Liberal	Kettly Beauregard	4,920	9.13	-9.54
	Conservative	Sébastien Forté	2,328	4.32	-3.07
	Green	Sameer Muldeen	899	1.67	-2.92
	Rhinoceros	Jean-Patrick Berthiaume	417	0.77	+0.16
	Marxist–Leninist	Stéphane Chénier	140	0.26	-0.06
Total valid votes/Expense limit			53,890	100.00
Total rejected ballots			589	1.08
Turnout			54,479	66.91

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Bernard Bigras	27,260	52.00	-3.99	$52,571
	Liberal	Marjorie Théodore	9,785	18.67	+2.91	$30,634
	New Democratic	Alexandre Boulerice	8,522	16.26	+4.71	$21,117
	Conservative	Sylvie Boulianne	3,876	7.39	-1.91	$85,619
	Green	Vincent Larochelle	2,406	4.59	-2.01	$903
	Rhinoceros	Jean-Patrick Berthiaume	319	0.61	–	$228
	Marxist–Leninist	Stéphane Chérnier	170	0.32	–
	Independent	Michel Dugré	83	0.16	–	$690
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,421	100.00	$86,436
Total rejected ballots			614	1.16
Turnout			53,035	64.65

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Bernard Bigras	29,336	55.99	-5.81	$51,157
	Liberal	Suzanne Harvey	8,259	15.76	-7.14	$14,665
	New Democratic	Chantal Reeves	6,051	11.55	+3.88	$9,537
	Conservative	Michel Sauvé	4,873	9.30	+6.21	$16,108
	Green	Marc-André Gadoury	3,457	6.60	+2.35	$3,983
	Marijuana	Hugô St-Onge	419	0.80
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,395	100.00	$81,617
Total rejected ballots			605	1.14
Turnout			53,000	64.02

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Bernard Bigras	31,224	61.80	+12.67	$52,350
	Liberal	Christian Bolduc	11,572	22.90	-10.93	$74,577
	New Democratic	Benoit Beauchamp	3,876	7.67	+4.68	$1,271
	Green	François Chevalier	2,145	4.25	+1.14	$913
	Conservative	Michel Sauvé	1,561	3.09	-3.99	$10,508
	Communist	Kenneth Higham	145	0.29	-0.20	$647
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,523	100.00	$81,229
Total rejected ballots			847	1.65
Turnout			51,370	61.54

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

Rosemont—Petite-Patrie, 2000 - 2003

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Bernard Bigras	23,315	49.13	+2.10
	Liberal	Claude Vignault	16,052	33.83	+1.65
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Bissonnette	2,006	4.23	-11.36
	Marijuana	Claude Messier	1,486	3.13
	Green	Sébastien Chagnon-Jean	1,475	3.11
	New Democratic	Noémi Lo Pinto	1,417	2.99	-0.31
	Alliance	Etienne Morin	1,354	2.85
	Communist	Dorothy Sauras	233	0.49
	Independent	Joanne Pritchard	114	0.24
Total valid votes			47,526	100.00

Rosemont, 1976 - 2000

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Bernard Bigras	23,313	47.03	-15.92
	Liberal	Françoise Guidi	15,952	32.18	+4.73
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Bissonnette	7,727	15.59	+10.20
	New Democratic	Fidel Fuentes	1,637	3.30	+1.08
	Independent	Vicky Mercier	494	1.00
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Brunel	447	0.90	+0.50
Total valid votes			49,570	100.00

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Benoît Tremblay	29,414	62.95
	Liberal	Pierre Bourque	12,826	27.45	-1.73
	Progressive Conservative	Pauline Vincent	2,519	5.39	-32.45
	New Democratic	Roger Lamarre	1,037	2.22	-18.02
	Natural Law	Marc Roy	646	1.38
	Marxist–Leninist	Hélène Héroux	189	0.40
	Commonwealth of Canada	Stéphane Lévesque	93	0.20	-0.07
Total valid votes			46,727	100.00

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Benoît Tremblay	17,127	37.84	-4.4
	Liberal	Jacques Guilbault	13,209	29.18	-9.5
	New Democratic	Giuseppe Sciortino	9,163	20.24	+9.4
	Independent	Suzanne Blais-Grenier	2,060	4.65
	Rhinoceros	Christian Nettoyeur Jolicoeur	1,656	3.66	-0.6
	Green	Sylvain Auclair	1,383	3.06
	Communist	Gaétan Trudel	151	0.33	-0.1
	Social Credit	Dollard Desjardins	148	0.33	-0.1
	Independent	Arnold August	122	0.27
	Independent	Léo Larocque	122	0.27
	Commonwealth of Canada	Christiane Deland-Gervais	120	0.27	+0.1
Total valid votes			45,261	100.00

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Suzanne Blais-Grenier	15,782	42.2	+35.8
	Liberal	Antonio Sciascia	14,477	38.7	-37.1
	New Democratic	Roger J.W.D. Lamarre	4,054	10.8	+1.3
	Rhinoceros	Francine Rose Lime Lacasse	1,587	4.2	+0.5
	Parti nationaliste	Denis Castonguay	1,008	2.7
	Communist	Claude Demers	161	0.4
	Social Credit	Lucien Lapointe	143	0.4	-2.2
	Independent	Dollard Desjardins	101	0.3
	Commonwealth of Canada	André Malboeuf	64	0.2
Total valid votes			37,377	100.0

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Claude-André Lachance	26,544	75.9	+4.9
	New Democratic	Marcel Julien	3,337	9.5	+3.9
	Progressive Conservative	Léon Vellone	2,260	6.5	-1.4
	Rhinoceros	G. Mara Tremblay	1,310	3.7	+0.6
	Social Credit	Yvette Gosselin	912	2.6	-7.3
	Independent	Jocelyne Lachapelle	199	0.6
	Independent	René Denis	197	0.6	-0.7
	Union populaire	Monique Fournier	139	0.4	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Francine Tremblay	91	0.3	–
Total valid votes			34,989	100.0

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Claude-André Lachance	28,116	71.0
	Social Credit	Emery Whalen	3,919	9.9
	Progressive Conservative	Léon Vellone	3,129	7.9
	New Democratic	Marcel Julien	2,238	7.9
	Rhinoceros	Francine Lévesque	1,248	3.2
	Independent	René Denis	509	1.3
	Union populaire	André Kishka	167	0.4
	Communist	Bernadette Lebrun	156	0.4
	Marxist–Leninist	Francine Tremblay	115	0.3
Total valid votes			39,597	100.0

References

"Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie (federal electoral district) (Code 24061) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Riding history from the Library of Parliament:

Notes

^ Statistics Canada: 2017
^ Statistics Canada: 2017
^ Canada, Elections. "Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie". www.elections.ca. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
^ "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici, Municipalité (MÉ) [Census subdivision], Quebec;Rosemont--La Petite-Patrie [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Quebec". February 9, 2022.
^ "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, 30 September 2015
^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
^ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

[1] Statistics Canada: 2017

[2] Statistics Canada: 2017

[3] Canada, Elections. "Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie". www.elections.ca. Retrieved June 25, 2020.

[4] "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici, Municipalité (MÉ) [Census subdivision], Quebec;Rosemont--La Petite-Patrie [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Quebec". February 9, 2022.

[5] "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 2, 2021.

[6] "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.

[7] "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 10, 2019.

[8] Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, 30 September 2015

[9] Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates

[10] Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

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