Bourassa (electoral district)

Bourassa (formerly known as Montreal—Bourassa) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. Its population in 2006 was 100,683.

1 Geography
2 History
- 2.1 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
- 3.1 Montreal—Bourassa, 1972–1979
- 3.2 Bourassa, 1968–1972
4 See also
5 Sources

Geography

The district includes the Borough of Montreal North, the western part of the neighbourhood of Rivière-des-Prairies in the Borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles, and the eastern part of the neighbourhood of Sault-au-Récollet in the Borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

The neighbouring ridings are Ahuntsic, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, Honoré-Mercier, and Alfred-Pellan.

History

The electoral district of Hochelaga was created in 1966 from Mercier and Laval ridings. The name comes from a street running through the three neighbourhoods which is named after Henri Bourassa.

The name of the riding was changed to "Montreal—Bourassa" in 1971.

In 1976, Montreal—Bourassa was abolished when it was redistributed into a new "Bourassa" riding and Saint-Michel riding. The new Bourassa riding was created from parts of Montreal—Bourassa, Ahuntsic and Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Mercier and Laval prior to 1966
Hochelaga
28th	1968–1972	Jacques Trudel	Liberal
Montreal—Bourassa
29th	1972–1974	Jacques Trudel	Liberal
30th	1974–1979	Jacques Trudel	Liberal
Bourassa
31st	1979–1980	Carlo Rossi	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993	Marie Gibeau	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Osvaldo Nunez	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000	Denis Coderre	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	15,550	40.9	-8.9
	New Democrat	Julie Demers	12,270	32.3	+24.3
	Bloc Québécois	Daniel Mailhot	6,105	16.1	-9.3
	Conservative	David Azoulay	3,354	8.8	-4.7
	Green	Tiziana Centazzo	613	1.6	-1.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	121	0.3	-0.0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			38,013	100.0
Total rejected ballots			685	1.77
Turnout			38,698	55.23
Eligible voters			70,067

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	19,869	49.8	+6.4	$79,671
	Bloc Québécois	Daniel Mailhot	10,145	25.4	−6.6	$20,597
	Conservative	Michelle Allaire	5,405	13.5	−2.4	$54,584
	New Democrat	Samira Laouni	3,188	8.0	+2.8	$8,509
	Green	François Boucher	1,166	2.9	−0.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	130	0.3	−0.1
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,903	100.0		$81,510
Total rejected ballots			695	1.7
Turnout			40,598	58.32

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	18,705	43.4	−6.6	$74,877
	Bloc Québécois	Apraham Niziblian	13,777	32.0	−5.8	$42,887
	Conservative	Liberato Martelli	6,830	15.9	+10.5	$16,397
	New Democrat	Stefano Saykaly	2,237	5.2	+1.2	$2,513
	Green	François Boucher	1,370	3.2	+1.6	$469
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	173	0.4	0.0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			43,092	100.0		$76,351

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	20,927	50.0	−12.0	$71,984
	Bloc Québécois	Doris Provencher	15,794	37.8	+9.5	$25,867
	Conservative	Frédéric Grenier	2,226	5.3	−1.4	$3,369
	New Democrat	Stefano Saykaly	1,661	4.0	+2.2	$8,113
	Green	Noémi Lopinto	660	1.6
	Marijuana	Philippe Gauvin	403	1.0
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	154	0.4	−0.4
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,825	100.0		$76,415

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

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	25,403	62.1	+9.9
	Bloc Québécois	Umberto Di Genova	11,562	28.2	−4.3
	Canadian Alliance	Marcel Lys François	1,435	3.5
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Pitre	1,325	3.2	−9.8
	New Democrat	Richard Gendron	736	1.8	−0.4
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Brunelle	330	0.8
	Communist	Ulises Nitor	137	0.3
Total valid votes			40,928	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	23,765	52.2	+10.5
	Bloc Québécois	Osvaldo Nunez	14,813	32.5	−9.3
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Wildhaber	5,937	13.0	+1.1
	New Democrat	Dominique Baillard	999	2.2	−0.4
Total valid votes			45,514	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Osvaldo Nunez	18,234	41.9
	Liberal	Denis Coderre	18,167	41.7	+0.3
	Progressive Conservative	Marie Gibeau	5,199	11.9	−31.4
	New Democrat	Raymond Laurent	1,146	2.6	−8.3
	Natural Law	Miville Couture	479	1.1
	Abolitionist	Lucien Lapointe	209	0.5
	Commonwealth	Harold Anthony Quesnel	102	0.2	0.0
Total valid votes			43,536	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Marie Gibeau	18,979	43.3	+2.7
	Liberal	Carlo Rossi	18,159	41.5	−2.5
	New Democrat	Kéder Hyppolite	4,797	11.0	+2.8
	Rhino	Patrick Pi L'Autre Cossette	882	2.0	−1.5
	Green	Michel Szabo	396	0.9
	Social Credit	Gérard Ledoux	178	0.4	−0.1
	Communist	Claire Dasylva	159	0.4
	Not affiliated	Stéphane Savard	125	0.3
	Commonwealth	Daniel Coté	107	0.2
Total valid votes			43,782	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Carlo Rossi	20,221	43.9	−32.5
	Progressive Conservative	Raymond-J. Rochon	18,703	40.6	+32.8
	New Democrat	Roderick Charters	3,741	8.1	−4.6
	Rhino	Dominique Pique-Nique Malouin	1,618	3.5
	Nationaliste	J. André Perey	1,169	2.5
	Social Credit	Roland Boudreau	236	0.5
	Commonwealth	Carl Paradis	125	0.3
	Not affiliated	Michel Dugré	103	0.2
	Not affiliated	Gérard Ledoux	101	0.2
Total valid votes			46,017	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Carlo Rossi	30,924	76.5	+14.0
	New Democrat	Roderick Charters	5,144	12.7	+9.0
	Progressive Conservative	Raymond J. Rochon	3,182	7.9	+0.1
	Union Populaire	Henriette Duval	875	2.2	+0.8
	Marxist–Leninist	Pierre Daumery	305	0.8	+0.5
Total valid votes			40,430	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Carlo Rossi	29,929	62.5	+2.5
	Social Credit	Gérard Rougeau	5,178	10.8	−1.0
	Not affiliated	Raymond Cloutier	4,918	10.3
	Progressive Conservative	J. Raymond Rochon	3,705	7.7	−9.2
	New Democrat	Daniel Piotrowski	1,804	3.8	−5.1
	Rhino	Victor-Levy Beaulieu	1,492	3.1	+1.6
	Union Populaire	Jacques Bergeron	635	1.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Pierre Daumery	103	0.2	−0.2
	Communist	Suzanne Dagenais	102	0.2	−0.3
Total valid votes			47,866	100.0

Montreal—Bourassa, 1972–1979

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jacques-L. Trudel	26,550	60.0	+8.3
	Progressive Conservative	Armand Lefebvre	7,500	16.9	−1.2
	Social Credit	Gérard Ledoux	5,218	11.8	−9.1
	New Democrat	Robert-F. Faucher	3,912	8.8	−0.4
	Not affiliated	Victor-Lévy Beaulieu	673	1.5
	Communist	Ginette Poirier	213	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Marc Blouin	194	0.4
Total valid votes			44,260	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jacques-L. Trudel	25,728	51.7	−3.4
	Social Credit	Gérard Ledoux	10,418	20.9	+17.0
	Progressive Conservative	Rodolphe Sauvé	9,054	18.2	−12.3
	New Democrat	Sid-A. Zitouni	4,601	9.2	−0.4
Total valid votes			49,801	100.0

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.

Bourassa, 1968–1972

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jacques-L. Trudel	19,778	55.1
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Ryan	10,939	30.5
	New Democrat	Gérard Marotte	3,443	9.6
	Ralliement créditiste	Gérard Ledoux	1,401	3.9
	Unknown	Rolland Denommée	339	0.9
Total valid votes			35,900	100.0

Sources

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

Federal ridings in Montreal

New Democratic	Alfred-Pellan • Hochelaga • Honoré-Mercier • Jeanne-Le Ber • La Pointe-de-l'Île • LaSalle—Émard • Laurier—Sainte-Marie • Laval • Laval—Les Îles • Marc-Aurèle-Fortin • Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine • Outremont • Pierrefonds—Dollard • Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie

Liberal	Bourassa • Lac-Saint-Louis • Mount Royal • Papineau • Saint-Laurent—Cartierville • Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel • Westmount—Ville-Marie

Bloc Québécois	Ahuntsic

Federal ridings in Quebec

Central Quebec	Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour • Berthier—Maskinongé • Joliette • Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière • Montcalm • Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier • Repentigny • Saint-Maurice—Champlain • Trois-Rivières

Côte-Nord and Saguenay	Chicoutimi—Le Fjord • Jonquière—Alma • Manicouagan • Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord • Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean

Eastern Quebec	Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine • Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia • Lévis—Bellechasse • Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup • Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques

The Eastern Townships	Beauce • Brome—Missisquoi • Compton—Stanstead • Drummond • Mégantic—L'Érable • Richmond—Arthabaska • Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot • Shefford • Sherbrooke

The Laurentides, Outaouais and Northern Quebec	Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou • Abitibi—Témiscamingue • Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel • Gatineau • Hull—Aylmer • Laurentides—Labelle • Pontiac • Rivière-des-Mille-Îles • Rivière-du-Nord • Terrebonne—Blainville

Montreal (East, West, North & Laval)	Ahuntsic • Alfred-Pellan • Bourassa • Hochelaga • Honoré-Mercier • Jeanne-Le Ber • Lac-Saint-Louis • La Pointe-de-l'Île • LaSalle—Émard • Laurier—Sainte-Marie • Laval • Laval—Les Îles • Marc-Aurèle-Fortin • Mount Royal • Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine • Outremont • Papineau • Pierrefonds—Dollard • Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie • Saint-Laurent—Cartierville • Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel • Westmount—Ville-Marie

Montérégie	Beauharnois—Salaberry • Brossard—La Prairie • Chambly—Borduas • Châteauguay—Saint-Constant • Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher • Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert • Saint-Jean • Saint-Lambert • Vaudreuil-Soulanges • Verchères—Les Patriotes

Quebec City	Beauport—Limoilou • Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles • Louis-Hébert • Louis-Saint-Laurent • Québec

See also: Quebec provincial electoral districts