LaSalle—Émard

LaSalle—Émard was a federal electoral district in the Canadian province of Quebec that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. Its population in 2001 was 99,767. The MP from 1988 to 2008 was Paul Martin, who served as prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. As part of redistribution begun in 2012 the riding is now known by its current name and boundaries of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun while the southwestern portion joined the new riding of Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle.

LaSalle—Émard

Quebec electoral district
LaSalle—Émard in relation to other federal electoral districts in Montreal
Coordinates:	45.439°N 73.615°W / 45.439; -73.615
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1987
District abolished	2012
First contested	1988
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	99,845
Electors (2011)	74,505
Area (km²)	20.22
Census division(s)	Montreal
Census subdivision(s)	Montreal

Geography

The district included the Montreal borough of LaSalle and the Southwest borough's Ville-Émard and Côte-Saint-Paul neighbourhoods. The neighbouring ridings were Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Westmount—Ville-Marie, Jeanne-Le Ber, Brossard—La Prairie and Châteauguay—Saint-Constant.

Political geography

Historically, the LaSalle part of the riding was fairly Liberal-leaning, with a few Bloc pockets in the west. Meanwhile, Ville-Émard and Côte-Saint-Paul were mostly Bloc areas. However, the division was swept over by the NDP surge in the 2011 Canadian federal election.

History

The electoral district was created in 1987 from LaSalle, Saint-Henri—Westmount and Verdun—Saint-Paul ridings.

Member of parliament

This riding elected the following members of parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
LaSalle—Émard Riding created from Lasalle, Saint-Henri—Westmount and Verdun—Saint-Paul
34th	1988–1993		Paul Martin	Liberal
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011		Lise Zarac
41st	2011–2015		Hélène LeBlanc	New Democratic
Riding dissolved into LaSalle—Émard—Verdun and Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle

Election results

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Hélène LeBlanc	17,691	42.15	+28.91
	Liberal	Lise Zarac	11,172	26.62	-13.97
	Bloc Québécois	Carl Dubois	6,151	14.66	-9.81
	Conservative	Chang-Tao Jimmy Yu	5,516	13.14	-2.89
	Green	Lorraine Banville	946	2.25	-1.47
	Marxist–Leninist	Yves Le Seigle	288	0.69	+0.35
	Rhinoceros	Guillaume Berger-Richard	208	0.50	–
Total valid votes			41,972	100.00
Total rejected ballots			578	1.36	-0.1
Turnout			42,550	57.10	-0.7
Eligible voters			74,515	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Lise Zarac	17,226	40.59	-7.82	$44,447
	Bloc Québécois	Frédéric Isaya	10,384	24.47	-4.25	$8,744
	Conservative	Béatrice Guay-Pepper	6,802	16.03	+3.28	$24,841
	New Democratic	Amy Darwish	5,622	13.24	+7.28	$3,066
	Green	Kristina Vitelli	1,579	3.72	+0.51	$64
	Independent	Antoine Kaluzny	674	1.58	--	$22,982
	Marxist–Leninist	Yves Le Seigle	144	0.33	+0.01
Total			42,431	100.00	$82,752
Rejected ballots			648	1.50
Total number of votes			43,079	57.82

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Paul Martin	22,751	48.41	-8.3	$59,334
	Bloc Québécois	May Chiu	13,501	28.72	-2.0	$16,750
	Conservative	Georges-Alexandre Bastien	5,994	12.75	+7.7	$17,795
	New Democratic	Russ Johnson	2,805	5.96	+1.7
	Green	Serge Bellemare	1,512	3.21	+1.0
	Independent	Jean-Philippe Lebleu	281	0.59	--	$3,081
	Marxist–Leninist	Jean-Paul Bédard	152	0.32	-0.1
Total			46,996	100.00	$78,209
Rejected ballots			599	1.26
Total number of votes			47,595	62.10

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Paul Martin	25,806	56.6	-9.2	$58,357
	Bloc Québécois	Thierry Larrivée	14,001	30.7	+6.5	$6,381
	Conservative	Nicole Roy-Arcelin	2,271	5.0	-1.0	$5,075
	New Democratic	Rebecca Blaikie	1,995	4.4	+2.7	$2,226
	Green	Douglas Jack	1,000	2.2	–	$410
	Marijuana	Marc-Boris St-Maurice	349	0.8	-0.8
	Marxist–Leninist	Jean-Paul Bédard	210	0.5	–
Total			45,632	100.0	$78,239

Change from 2000 for top three parties is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the total of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Martin	32,069	65.8	+4.9
	Bloc Québécois	Denis Martel	11,805	24.2	-0.2
	Alliance	Giuseppe Joe De Santis	1,806	3.7
	Progressive Conservative	Deepak T. Massand	1,111	2.3	-9.9
	New Democratic	David Bernans	837	1.7	0.0
	Marijuana	Mathieux St-Cyr	765	1.6
	Natural Law	Gilles Bigras	273	0.6	-0.3
	Communist	Irma Ortiz	107	0.2
Total valid votes			48,773	100.0

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Paul Martin	32,317	60.87	+1.4	$42,021
	Bloc Québécois	Jean-Pierre Chalifoux	12,953	24.40	−8.9	$19,467
	Progressive Conservative	Josée Bélanger	6,445	12.14	7.5	$1,759
	New Democratic	Joe Bowman	920	1.73	0.3	$600
	Natural Law	Russell Guest	453	0.85		$0
Total valid votes			53,088	100.00
Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			1,642
Turnout			54,730	77.99
Electors on the lists			70,173
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada. Percentage change numbers are not factored for redistribution.

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Martin	30,866	59.5	+14.1
	Bloc Québécois	Éric Cimon	17,280	33.3
	Progressive Conservative	Johanne Senécal	2,368	4.6	-38.1
	New Democratic	Richard Belzile	708	1.4	-9.2
	Natural Law	George Amarica	419	0.8
	Commonwealth of Canada	Giampaolo Carli	120	0.2	0.0
	Abolitionist	Thérèse Turmel	103	0.2
Total valid votes			51,864	100.0

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Paul Martin	23,394	45.5
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Lanthier	21,979	42.7
	New Democratic	Jean-Claude Bohrer	5,458	10.6
	Independent	Ginette Boutet	305	0.6
	Communist	Ginette Gauthier	212	0.4
	Commonwealth of Canada	Nancy Guice	117	0.2
Total valid votes			51,465	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References

• "LaSalle—Émard (Code 24029) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada
• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• Map of riding archived by Elections Canada