Montcalm (electoral district)

Montcalm
Quebec electoral district
	Montcalm in relation to other electoral districts in Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
;
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2019
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)	107,981
Electors (2019)	88,525
Area (km²)	906
Pop. density (per km²)	119.2
Census division(s)	Les Moulins ; Montcalm
Census subdivision(s)	Mascouche, Saint-Lin–Laurentides, Sainte-Julienne, Saint-Calixte, L'Épiphanie (town), Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Saint-Jacques, L'Épiphanie (parish)

Montcalm is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917 and since 2004.

In the 2004 election, the Bloc Québécois won a larger percentage of the vote here than in any other riding with 71% of the vote; they would hold the seat until 2011, when they were defeated by the NDP.

Geography

The riding is located to the northeast of the Montreal region, in the Quebec region of Lanaudière. It consists of the Montcalm RCM, the city of Mascouche, and the districts of La Plaine and Lachenaie in the city of Terrebonne.

The neighbouring ridings are Joliette, Repentigny, La Pointe-de-l'Île, Honoré-Mercier, Alfred-Pellan, Terrebonne—Blainville, and Rivière-du-Nord.

History

Montcalm riding was created by the British North America Act of 1867. It was abolished in 1914 when it was merged into L'Assomption—Montcalm riding.

It was re-created in 2003 from parts of Berthier—Montcalm, Repentigny and Terrebonne—Blainville ridings.

This riding lost territory to Terrebonne and gained some territory from Repentigny during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Montcalm
1st	1867–1871	Joseph Dufresne	Conservative
1st	1871–1872	Firmin Dugas
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1891	Olaüs Thérien
7th	1891–1892	Joseph Louis Euclide Dugas
7th	1892–1896
8th	1896–1900
9th	1900–1904	François Octave Dugas	Liberal
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1909
11th	1909–1911	David Arthur Lafortune	Independent Liberal
12th	1911–1917	David Arthur Lafortune	Liberal
Riding dissolved into L'Assomption—Montcalm
Riding re-created from Berthier—Montcalm, Repentigny and Terrebonne—Blainville
38th	2004–2006	Roger Gaudet	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2014	Manon Perreault	New Democratic
	2014–2015		Independent
	2015–2015		Strength in Democracy
42nd	2015–2018	Luc Thériault	Bloc Québécois
	2018–2018		Groupe parlementaire québécois
	2018–present		Bloc Québécois

Election results

2004–present

Graph of election results in Montcalm (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2019 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Luc Thériault	31,791	58.01	+21.40	$43,460.97
	Liberal	Isabel Sayegh	11,200	20.44	-6.88	$33,958.89
	Conservative	Gisèle DesRoches	4,942	9.02	-0.59	none listed
	New Democratic	Julian Bonello-Stauch	3,514	6.41	-17.04	$0.10
	Green	Mathieu Goyette	2,416	4.41	+2.57	none listed
	People's	Hugo Clenin	524	0.96	–	none listed
	Indépendence du Québec	Marc Labelle	419	0.76	–	$0.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit			54,806	100.0
Total rejected ballots			1,311	1.48	-0.72
Turnout			56,117	63.39	-1.53
Eligible voters			88,525
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Luc Thériault	19,405	36.61	+5.17	$17,567.65
	Liberal	Louis-Charles Thouin	14,484	27.32	+22.4	$70,923.39
	New Democratic	Martin Leclerc	12,431	23.45	-28.45	$65,982.01
	Conservative	Gisèle Desroches	5,093	9.61	+1.66	$6,282.61
	Green	Yumi Yow Mei Ang	976	1.84	-1.95	–
	Strength in Democracy	Manon Perreault	620	1.17	–51.80	$4,015.36
Total valid votes/Expense limit			53,009	100.0		$220,941.63
Total rejected ballots			1,226	2.20	+0.41
Turnout			54,235	64.92	+3.16
Eligible voters			83,532
	Bloc Québécois notional gain from Strength in Democracy		Swing		+16.78
Source: Elections Canada^[5]^[6]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[7]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	23,228	51.90
	Bloc Québécois	14,070	31.44
	Conservative	3,556	7.95
	Liberal	2,204	4.92
	Green	1,697	3.79

2011 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Manon Perreault	34,434	52.97	+39.1
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Gaudet	19,609	30.16	-25.5
	Conservative	Jason Fuoco	5,118	7.87	-5.6
	Liberal	Yves Dufour	3,501	5.39	-8.5
	Green	Marianne Girard	2,347	3.61	+0.5
Total valid votes/Expense limit			65,009	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,183	1.79	-0.3
Turnout			66,192	61.76	–
Eligible voters			107,180	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Gaudet	33,519	55.7	-6.5	$79,500
	Liberal	David Grégoire	8,387	13.9	+5.6	$7,023
	New Democratic	Marie-Josée Beauchamp	8,337	13.9	+7.1
	Conservative	Claude Marc Boudreau	8,096	13.5	-5.8	$79,318
	Green	Michel Paulette	1,854	3.1	-0.4	$722
Total valid votes/Expense limit			60,193	100.0	$97,628
Total rejected ballots			1,296	2.1
Turnout			61,489	–

2006 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Gaudet	34,873	62.2	-9.0
	Conservative	Michel Paulette	10,812	19.3	+13.4	$6,764
	Liberal	Luc Fortin	4,646	8.3	-8.1	$9,690
	New Democratic	Nancy Leclerc	3,760	6.7	+3.5	$0
	Green	Wendy Gorchinsky	1,948	3.5	+0.1
Total			56,039	100.0	–	$86,039

2004 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Gaudet	34,383	71.2	–	$61,436
	Liberal	Daniel Brazeau	7,915	16.4	–	$78,151
	Conservative	Michel Paulette	2,831	5.9	–	$3,730
	Green	Serge Bellemare	1,606	3.3	–	$0
	New Democratic	François Rivest	1,531	3.2
Total valid votes/Expense limit			48,266	100.0	$81,149

1867–1917

1911 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David-Arthur Lafortune	1,432	51.0	+5.3
	Conservative	Joseph-Eugène-Edmond Marion	1,374	49.0
Total valid votes			2,806	100.0

Canadian federal by-election, 25 September 1909
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
On Mr. Dugas being appointed Judge of the Quebec Superior Court, 6 September 1909
	Independent Liberal	David-Arthur Lafortune	1,256	54.3
	Liberal	Omer Lapierre	1,058	45.7	-7.6
Total valid votes			2,314	100.0

1908 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	François-Octave Dugas	1,432	53.3	+0.1
	Conservative	Joseph-Adolphe Renaud	1,256	46.7	-0.1
Total valid votes			2,688	100.0

1904 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	François-Octave Dugas	1,227	53.2	-1.0
	Conservative	J.E.E. Marion	1,079	46.8	+1.0
Total valid votes			2,306	100.0

1900 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	François-Octave Dugas	1,212	54.2	+11.2
	Conservative	Louis Euclide Dugas	1,024	45.8	-11.2
Total valid votes			2,236	100.0

1896 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Joseph-Louis-Euclide Dugas	1,202	57.0
	Liberal	Louis Victor Labelle	907	43.0
Total valid votes			2,109	100.0

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 5 March 1892 On election being declared void, 28 January 1892
	Conservative	Joseph-Louis-Euclide Dugas	acclaimed

1891 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Louis Dugas	673	37.0
	Conservative	Olaüs Thérien	632	34.7	-18.6
	Conservative	Octave Magnan	516	28.3
Total valid votes			1,821	100.0

Note: Mr. Thérien's share of the popular vote is compared to his share in the 1887 general election.

1887 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Olaüs Thérien	953	53.3	+2.8
	Nationalist	Firmin Dugas	835	46.7
Total valid votes			1,788	100.0

Note: change indicates Conservative vote compared to Conservative vote in 1882 general election.

1882 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	828	50.5	+0.6
	Unknown	Octave Magnan	812	49.5
Total valid votes			1,640	100.0

1878 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	698	49.9
	Unknown	N. Forest	374	26.8
	Unknown	I.B. Deslongchamp	240	17.2
	Unknown	V.J.E. Brouillet	86	6.2
Total valid votes			1,398	100.0

1874 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	acclaimed

1872 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	acclaimed

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 15 September 1871 On Mr. Dufresne's resignation, to become Sheriff of the County of St. John, 13 July 1871
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	acclaimed

1867 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph Dufresne	acclaimed

References

"(Code 24043) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
Riding history 1867-1914 from the Library of Parliament
Riding history 2003-present from the Library of Parliament
2011 Results from Elections Canada

Notes

^ Statistics Canada: 2016
^ Statistics Canada: 2016
^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Montcalm, 30 September 2015
^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
^ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

[1] Statistics Canada: 2016

[2] Statistics Canada: 2016

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

[4] "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 11 November 2019.

[5] Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Montcalm, 30 September 2015

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

[7] Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

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