Berthier—Montcalm
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Berthier—Montcalm was a federal electoral district
in Quebec
, Canada
, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons
from 1988 to 2004.
This riding was created in 1987 from Berthier—Maskinongé—Lanaudière riding. It was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed into Berthier—Maskinongé
, Laurentides—Labelle
, Montcalm
and Rivière-du-Nord
ridings.
Berthier—Montcalm consisted of the towns of Berthierville, Louiseville and Saint-Gabriel; parts of the Counties of Berthier, Joliette, Maskinongé,Montcalm, and Saint-Maurice. In 1996, the riding was redefined to consist of the cities of Berthierville, Laurentides and Saint-Gabriel, the county regional municipalities of Montcalm, D'Autray and Matawinie (including Manouane Indian Reserve No. 26), and the Village Municipality of New Glasgow and the Municipality of Sainte-Sophie in the County Regional Municipality of La Rivière-du-Nord.
:
|Progressive Conservative
|DE COTRET, Robert
|align="right"|29,370
|Liberal
|ROBERGE, Maurice
|align="right"|13,624
|New Democratic Party
|ARÈS, Pierre
|align="right"|5,883
|Green
|SYLVESTRE, Roberte
|align="right"|2,084
|No affiliation
|YANAKIS, Antonio
|align="right"|1,292
|-
|Bloc Québécois
|BELLEHUMEUR, Michel
|align="right"|36,065
|Liberal
|BÉLANGER, Madeleine
|align="right"|16,133
|Progressive Conservative
|NAUD, Réal
|align="right"|5,358
|Natural Law
|CROTEAU, Réal
|align="right"|804
|New Democratic Party
|DE BILLY, Jean-Pierre
|align="right"|591
|National
|HARVEY, Laurent
|align="right"|276
|-
|Bloc Québécois
|BELLEHUMEUR, Michel
|align="right"|32,707
|Liberal
|PERREAULT, Lise
|align="right"|15,073
|Progressive Conservative
|NAUD, Réal
|align="right"|13,338
|New Democratic Party
|DE BILLY, Jean-Pierre
|align="right"|1,009
|-
|Bloc Québécois
|BELLEHUMEUR, Michel
|align="right"|31,703
|Liberal
|HUDON, Jean-Carle
|align="right"|16,675
|Canadian Alliance
|NAUD, Réal
|align="right"|2,853
|Progressive Conservative
|LAVIGNE, Paul
|align="right"|2,014
|Marijuana
|HÉNAULT, Sébastien
|align="right"|1,460
|New Democratic Party
|DE BILLY, Jean-Pierre
|align="right"|829
|-
|Bloc Québécois
|Roger Gaudet
|align="right"|13,747
|Liberal
|Richard Giroux
|align="right"|11,646
|New Democratic Party
|François Rivest
|align="right"|977
|Progressive Conservative
|Richard Lafleur
|align="right"|598
|Canadian Alliance
|Réal Naud
|align="right"|475
Electoral district (Canada)
An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...
in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
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, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons
Canadian House of Commons
The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...
from 1988 to 2004.
This riding was created in 1987 from Berthier—Maskinongé—Lanaudière riding. It was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed into Berthier—Maskinongé
Berthier—Maskinongé
Berthier—Maskinongé is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1953, from 1968 to 1988, and since 2004...
, Laurentides—Labelle
Laurentides—Labelle
Laurentides—Labelle is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. Its population in 2001 was 96,133.-Geography:...
, Montcalm
Montcalm (electoral district)
Montcalm is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1917 and since 2004....
and Rivière-du-Nord
Rivière-du-Nord (electoral district)
Rivière-du-Nord is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. Its population in 2001 was 90,419.-Geography:The district consists of the La Rivière-du-Nord Regional County Municipality...
ridings.
Berthier—Montcalm consisted of the towns of Berthierville, Louiseville and Saint-Gabriel; parts of the Counties of Berthier, Joliette, Maskinongé,Montcalm, and Saint-Maurice. In 1996, the riding was redefined to consist of the cities of Berthierville, Laurentides and Saint-Gabriel, the county regional municipalities of Montcalm, D'Autray and Matawinie (including Manouane Indian Reserve No. 26), and the Village Municipality of New Glasgow and the Municipality of Sainte-Sophie in the County Regional Municipality of La Rivière-du-Nord.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following Members of ParliamentMember of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
:
- Robert de CotretRobert de CotretRobert René de Cotret, PC was a Canadian politician.Robert de Cotret was an economist and corporate executive before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1978 by-election...
, Progressive ConservativeProgressive Conservative Party of CanadaThe Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
(1988-1993) - Michel BellehumeurMichel BellehumeurMichel Bellehumeur is a Quebec politician. He was the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Berthier—Montcalm....
, Bloc QuébécoisBloc QuébécoisThe Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...
(1993-2002) - Roger GaudetRoger GaudetRoger Gaudet is a Canadian politician.Gaudet served as a councillor in Saint-Liguori from 1985 to 1989. In 1989 he was elected mayor of Saint-Liguoiri, and then in 1993 he became reeve of the Montcalm MRC. In 2002 he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a by-election for the Bloc...
, Bloc Québécois (2002-2004)
Electoral history
|-|Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
|DE COTRET, Robert
Robert de Cotret
Robert René de Cotret, PC was a Canadian politician.Robert de Cotret was an economist and corporate executive before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1978 by-election...
|align="right"|29,370
|Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
|ROBERGE, Maurice
|align="right"|13,624
|New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
|ARÈS, Pierre
|align="right"|5,883
|Green
Green Party of Canada
The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983 with 10,000–12,000 registered members as of October 2008. The Greens advance a broad multi-issue political platform that reflects its core values of ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and...
|SYLVESTRE, Roberte
|align="right"|2,084
|No affiliation
|YANAKIS, Antonio
|align="right"|1,292
|-
|Bloc Québécois
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...
|BELLEHUMEUR, Michel
Michel Bellehumeur
Michel Bellehumeur is a Quebec politician. He was the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Berthier—Montcalm....
|align="right"|36,065
|Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
|BÉLANGER, Madeleine
|align="right"|16,133
|Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
|NAUD, Réal
|align="right"|5,358
|Natural Law
Natural Law Party of Canada
The Natural Law Party of Canada was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practiced Transcendental Meditation....
|CROTEAU, Réal
|align="right"|804
|New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
|DE BILLY, Jean-Pierre
|align="right"|591
|National
National Party of Canada
The National Party of Canada was a short-lived Canadian political party that contested the 1993 federal election. The party should not be confused by an earlier and unrelated National Party that was founded in 1979.-Formation:...
|HARVEY, Laurent
|align="right"|276
|-
|Bloc Québécois
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...
|BELLEHUMEUR, Michel
Michel Bellehumeur
Michel Bellehumeur is a Quebec politician. He was the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Berthier—Montcalm....
|align="right"|32,707
|Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
|PERREAULT, Lise
|align="right"|15,073
|Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
|NAUD, Réal
|align="right"|13,338
|New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
|DE BILLY, Jean-Pierre
|align="right"|1,009
|-
|Bloc Québécois
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...
|BELLEHUMEUR, Michel
Michel Bellehumeur
Michel Bellehumeur is a Quebec politician. He was the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Berthier—Montcalm....
|align="right"|31,703
|Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
|HUDON, Jean-Carle
|align="right"|16,675
|Canadian Alliance
Canadian Alliance
The Canadian Alliance , formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance , was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held...
|NAUD, Réal
|align="right"|2,853
|Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
|LAVIGNE, Paul
|align="right"|2,014
|Marijuana
Marijuana Party of Canada
The Marijuana Party is a Canadian federal political party. Its agenda consists of ending prohibition of cannabis. With the exception of this one issue, the party does not have "official policy" in any other area...
|HÉNAULT, Sébastien
|align="right"|1,460
|New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
|DE BILLY, Jean-Pierre
|align="right"|829
|-
|Bloc Québécois
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...
|Roger Gaudet
Roger Gaudet
Roger Gaudet is a Canadian politician.Gaudet served as a councillor in Saint-Liguori from 1985 to 1989. In 1989 he was elected mayor of Saint-Liguoiri, and then in 1993 he became reeve of the Montcalm MRC. In 2002 he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a by-election for the Bloc...
|align="right"|13,747
|Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
|Richard Giroux
|align="right"|11,646
|New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
|François Rivest
|align="right"|977
|Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
|Richard Lafleur
|align="right"|598
|Canadian Alliance
Canadian Alliance
The Canadian Alliance , formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance , was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held...
|Réal Naud
|align="right"|475
See also
- List of Canadian federal electoral districts
- Past Canadian electoral districts
External links
- Riding history from the Library of ParliamentLibrary of ParliamentThe Library of Parliament is the main information repository and research resource for the Parliament of Canada...