Vaudreuil-Soulanges (electoral district)

Vaudreuil-Soulanges is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. From 1914 to 1968 a similarly-defined electoral district existed under the slightly different designation Vaudreuil—Soulanges.

It consists of the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality. The neighbouring ridings are Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel, Lac-Saint-Louis, Beauharnois—Salaberry, Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, and Glengarry—Prescott—Russell.

1 History
- 1.1 Members of Parliament
2 Election results
- 2.1 Vaudreuil-Soulanges, 1997 - present
- 2.2 Vaudreuil—Soulanges, 1917 - 1968
3 See also
4 Sources

History

The original Vaudreuil—Soulanges was created in 1914 when the ridings of Vaudreuil and Soulanges were combined into one riding. In keeping with the usual Canadian naming practices, the appellations 'Vaudreuil' and 'Soulanges' were linked by an em-dash as the two counties remained officially separate, and their combination was for electoral purposes only. It was abolished in 1966.

In 1997, the Vaudreuil riding was renamed "Vaudreuil-Soulanges," as it had been realigned to be perfectly coterminal to the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Vaudreuil and Soulanges prior to 1914
Vaudreuil—Soulanges
13th	1917–1921	Gustave Benjamin Boyer	Liberal
14th	1921–1922	Gustave Benjamin Boyer	Liberal
14th	1922–1925	Joseph-Rodolphe Ouimet	Liberal
15th	1925–1926	Lawrence Alexander Wilson	Liberal
16th	1926–1930	Lawrence Alexander Wilson	Liberal
17th	1930–1935	Joseph Thauvette	Liberal
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949	Louis-René Beaudoin	Liberal
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962	Marcel Bourbonnais	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Marcel Bourbonnais	Progressive Conservative
26th	1963–1965	René Émard	Liberal
27th	1965–1968	René Émard	Liberal
Vaudreuil from 1966 to 1996
Vaudreuil-Soulanges
36th	1997–2000	Nick Discepola	Liberal
37th	2000–2004	Nick Discepola	Liberal
38th	2004–2006	Meili Faille	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present	Jamie Nicholls	New Democratic

Election results

Vaudreuil-Soulanges, 1997 - present

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Jamie Nicholls	30,177	43.61	+33.98
	Bloc Québécois	Meili Faille	17,781	25.69	-15.65
	Conservative	Marc Boudreau	11,360	16.41	-7.28
	Liberal	Lyne Pelchat	8,023	11.59	-9.74
	Green	Jean-Yves Massenet	1,864	2.69	-1.32
Total valid votes/Expense limit			69,205	100.00
Total rejected ballots			763	1.09
Turnout			69,968	67.23

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Meili Faille	27,044	41.34	-1.82	$80,072
	Conservative	Michael Fortier	15,496	23.69	+4.69	$87,967
	Liberal	Brigitte Legault	13,954	21.33	-6.96	$32,958
	New Democrat	Maxime Héroux-Legault	6,298	9.63	+4.09	$1,519
	Green	Jean-Yves Massenet	2,625	4.01	+0.10	$1,913
Total valid votes/Expense limit			65,417	100.00		$96,487
Total rejected ballots			729	1.10
Turnout			66,146	67.76

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Meili Faille	27,012	43.16	-1.13	$85,133
	Liberal	Marc Garneau	17,768	28.39	-10.41	$79,413
	Conservative	Stephane Bourgon	11,889	19.00	+10.81	$35,090
	New Democrat	Bert Markgraf	3,468	5.54	+1.64	$3,385
	Green	Pierre Pariseau-Legault	2,450	3.91	+0.14	$1,144
Total valid votes/Expense limit			62,587	100.00		$85,543

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Meili Faille	24,675	44.29	+4.31	$67,962
	Liberal	Nick Discepola	21,613	38.80	-12.77	$57,607
	Conservative	Robert Ramage	4,558	8.18	-3.99	$25,438
	New Democrat	Bert Markgraf	2,175	3.90	+2.13	$2,698
	Green	Julie C. Baribeau	2,103	3.77		$1,206
	Marijuana	Charles Soucy	585	1.05
Total valid votes/Expense limit			55,709	100.00		$81,759

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	Nick Discepola	26,292	51.56	+6.56
	Bloc Québécois	Éric Cimon	17,587	34.49	+1.09
	Canadian Alliance	Dean Drysdale	4,188	8.21	+7.12
	Progressive Conservative	Stratos Psarianos	2,020	3.96	-14.59
	New Democrat	Shaun G. Lynch	904	1.77	+0.75
Total valid votes			50,991	100.00

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Nick Discepola	23,676	45.00
	Bloc Québécois	René St-Onge	17,574	33.40
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Lajoie	9,760	18.55
	Reform	Peter McLoughlin	573	1.09
	New Democrat	Jason Sigurdson	538	1.02
	Natural Law	Eric E. Simon	490	0.93
Total valid votes			52,611	100.00

Vaudreuil—Soulanges, 1917 - 1968

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	René Émard	8,955	50.79	+1.04
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Bourbonnais	6,580	37.32	+2.59
	New Democrat	Roger Carrier	1,346	7.63
	Ralliement créditiste	Jean-Marie Veilleux	750	4.25	-9.22
Total valid votes			17,631	100.00

Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	René Émard	8,639	49.75	+3.72
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Marcel Bourbonnais	6,031	34.73	-12.81
	Social Credit	Marcel Lessard	2,340	13.48	+7.05
	Independent	Gérard Raymond	354	2.04
Total valid votes			17,364	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Marcel Bourbonnais	8,392	47.54	-5.33
	Liberal	Pierre Léger	8,126	46.03	-1.09
	Social Credit	Gabriel Godin	1,135	6.43
Total valid votes			17,653	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Bourbonnais	8,161	52.87	+21.36
	Liberal	Armand Asselin	7,274	47.13	-21.36
Total valid votes			15,435	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-René Beaudoin	9,055	68.49	-10.48
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Bourbonnais	4,166	31.51	+10.48
Total valid votes			13,221	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-René Beaudoin	8,463	78.97	+11.40
	Progressive Conservative	Roger-Paul Sullivan	2,254	21.03	-11.40
Total valid votes			10,717	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-René Beaudoin	7,622	67.56	+4.62
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Omer Lalonde	3,659	32.44
Total valid votes			11,281	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-René Beaudoin	6,267	62.94	+14.75
	Independent	Jean Lamarche	1,880	18.88
	Bloc populaire canadien	Robert Stocker	1,619	16.26
	Co-operative Commonwealth	J.-Albert Bourbonnais	191	1.92
Total valid votes			9,957	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Thauvette	4,381	48.19	-19.95
	National Government	J.-E.-Philippe Deguire	2,210	24.31	-4.38
	Independent Liberal	Édouard Charlebois	1,441	15.85
	Independent Liberal	J.-Ernest Chevrier	1,059	11.65
Total valid votes			9,091	100.00

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Thauvette	5,983	68.14	+17.17
	Conservative	Horace-Joseph Gagné	2,519	28.69	-0.05
	Reconstruction	Albert Lacombe	279	3.18
Total valid votes			8,781	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Thauvette	4,313	50.96	-17.07
	Conservative	Horace-Joseph Gagné	2,432	28.74
	Independent Liberal	Roland-Gilles Mousseau	1,718	20.30	-6.95
Total valid votes			8,463	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
By-election on 29 July 1929 On Mr. Wilson's resignation, 1 February 1929
	Liberal	Lawrence Alexander Wilson	4,409	68.03	-6.44
	Independent Liberal	Roland-Gilles Mousseau	1,766	27.25
	Independent Liberal	Émile Gagné	306	4.72
Total valid votes			6,481	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lawrence Alexander Wilson	5,391	74.47	-2.23
	Conservative	Eugène Leroux	1,848	25.53	+2.23
Total valid votes			7,239	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lawrence Alexander Wilson	5,554	76.70	+13.17
	Conservative	Eugène Leroux	1,687	23.30
Total valid votes			7,241	100.00

Note: Change in popular vote is calculated from popular vote in the 1921 general election.

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 21 March 1922 On Mr. Boyer being called to the Senate, 11 March 1922
	Liberal	Joseph-Rodolphe Ouimet	acclaimed

Canadian federal election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gustave Boyer	5,366	63.53	-27.37
	Independent	Adrien Pharand	2,787	33.00
	Progressive	Julien Charlebois	293	3.47
Total valid votes			8,446	100.00

Note: Liberal vote is compared to Opposition vote in 1917 general election.

Canadian federal election, 1917
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Opposition	Gustave Boyer	4,075	90.90
	Government	Julien-Firmin Bissonnette	408	9.10
Total valid votes			4,483	100.00

Sources

Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Riding history from the Library of Parliament:

2011 Results from Elections Canada

Federal ridings in Montérégie

New Democratic	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

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