Pointe-aux-Trembles (electoral district)

Pointe-aux-Trembles

Quebec electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

National Assembly of Quebec

MNA

Nicole Léger
Parti Québécois

District created

1988

First contested

1989

Last contested

2014

Demographics

Population (2006)

53,485

Electors (2014)^[1]

40,905

Area (km²)^[2]

37.2

Pop. density (per km²)

1,437.8

Census divisions

Montreal (part)

Census subdivisions

Montreal (part), Montréal-Est

Pointe-aux-Trembles is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located at the east point of the Island of Montreal and comprises the city of Montréal-Est and the neighbourhood of Pointe-aux-Trembles in the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles borough of Montreal.

It was created for the 1989 election from parts of Anjou, Bourget and LaFontaine electoral districts.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged.

In the 1995 Quebec referendum it voted 63% for Quebec to separate (current boundaries).

Members of the National Assembly 1
Election results 2
References 3
External links 4
Neighbouring electoral districts 5

Members of the National Assembly

Michel Bourdon, Parti Québécois (1989–1996)
Nicole Léger, Parti Québécois (1996–2006)
André Boisclair, Parti Québécois (2006–2007)
Nicole Léger, Parti Québécois (2008–present)

Election results

Quebec general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Nicole Léger	12,021	43.22	-7.04
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Mathieu Binette	6,692	24.06	-0.06
	Liberal	Claude Blais	6,229	22.40	+6.96
	Québec solidaire	Natacha Larocque	2,165	7.78	+1.87
	Green	David Cox	332	1.19	–
	Option nationale	Camille Goyette-Gingras	234	0.84	-1.35
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	82	0.29	+0.05
	Équipe Autonomiste	Louis Chandonnet	56	0.20	–
Total valid votes			27,811	97.92	–
Total rejected ballots			591	2.08	–
Turnout			28,402	69%	-7.00
Electors on the lists			40,905	–	–

Quebec general election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Nicole Léger	15,406	50.26	-6.61
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Guy Boutin	7,425	24.22	+13.00*
	Liberal	Jessica Veronica Cialdella	4,732	15.44	-9.25
	Québec solidaire	Natacha Larocque	1,811	5.91	+2.97
	Option nationale	Guillaume Simard L'Heureux	672	2.19	–
	Independent	Jean-Marcel Seck	425	1.39	–
	Parti indépendantiste	Gérald Briand	109	0.36	-0.34
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	73	0.24	-0.10
Total valid votes			30,653	98.64	–
Total rejected ballots			422	1.36	–
Turnout			31,075	76%	+19.34
Electors on the lists			40,691	–	–

Result compared to Action Démocratique

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Nicole Léger	12,851	56.87	+0.88
	Liberal	Gilbert Thibodeau	5,580	24.69	+2.85
	Action démocratique	Pierre Trudelle	2,535	11.22	-2.54
	Green	Xavier Daxhelet	733	3.24	-1.59
	Québec solidaire	Marie-Josèphe Pigeon	664	2.94	+1.29
	Independent	Gérald Briand	159	0.70	+0.13
	Marxist–Leninist	Geneviève Royer	77	0.34	–
Total valid votes			22,599	98.12	–
Total rejected ballots			434	1.88	–
Turnout			23,033	56.66	+22.53
Electors on the lists			40,648	–	–

Quebec general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Nicole Léger	15,946	53.83	+6.80
	Liberal	Richard La Charité	9,110	30.75	-3.49
	Action démocratique	Daniel Croze	4,205	14.19	-3.05
	Socialist Democracy	Hughes Tremblay	205	0.69	-0.09
	Innovateur	Claude Laporte	158	0.53	-0.18

Quebec provincial by-election, December 9, 1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Nicole Léger	7,190	47.03	-6.74
	Liberal	Bernard Lauzon	5,234	34.24	+0.75
	Action démocratique	Jacques Hébert	2,635	17.24	+5.59
	Socialist Democracy	Daniel Pharand	119	0.78	–
	Innovateur	Claude Laporte	109	0.71	–

Quebec referendum, 1995
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	21,425	60.88
	Non	13,768	39.12

Quebec general election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Michel Bourdon	15,999	53.77	+3.28
	Liberal	José G. Simon	9,965	33.49	-10.46
	Action démocratique	Martin Ouellet	3,466	11.65	–
Natural Law	André Gaudet	324	1.09	–

1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	20,854	67.24
	Oui	10,159	32.76

Quebec general election, 1989
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	Michel Bourdon	13,725	50.49
	Liberal	Jean Tondreau	11,968	43.95
	Workers	Gérald Varichon	659	2.42
	Progressive Conservative	André Ethier	549	2.02
	United Social Credit	Mario Gosselin	327	1.20

References

^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions-2011.php?bsq=369§ion=population
^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions-2011.php?bsq=369§ion=superficie

External links

Information

Elections Quebec

Election results

Election results (National Assembly)
Election results (QuébecPolitique)

Maps

2011 map (PDF)
2001 map (Flash)

2001–2011 changes (Flash)

1992–2001 changes (Flash)
Electoral map of Montreal region
Quebec electoral map, 2011

Neighbouring electoral districts

L'Assomption, Terrebonne

LaFontaine

Verchères, Marguerite-D'Youville

Pointe-aux-Trembles

Anjou–Louis-Riel, Bourget

Categories

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Pointe-aux-Trembles (electoral district)