Honoré-Mercier (electoral district)

Honoré-Mercier (formerly Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies) is a federal electoral district in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.

Geography

The district includes the Borough of Anjou, the eastern part of the Borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles, and the northern part of the Borough of Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.

The neighbouring ridings are Hochelaga, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, Bourassa, Alfred-Pellan, Montcalm, and La Pointe-de-l'Île (electoral district).

Political geography

While the other eastern Montreal ridings have traditionally been Bloc Québécois strongholds, Honoré-Mercier is politically a very divided riding. Rivière-des-Prairies is very Liberal leaning, while Anjou supports the Bloc for the most part, but has some Liberal pockets.

However, the NDP's "orange wave" in the 2011 election overwhelmed previous distinctions, with the New Democrats winning 149 of 218 polling divisions in the district.

History

The district was created in 1987 under the name Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies from parts of Gamelin, Montreal—Mercier and Saint-Léonard—Anjou ridings.

It consisted of:

the Town of Anjou;
the parts of the Town of Montréal bounded by:

Sherbrooke Street East, Duquesne Street, Rosemont Boulevard and Lacordaire Boulevard; and
Autoroute de la Rive Nord, Henri-Bourassa Boulevard East; the limits of the towns of Montréal-Est, Anjou and Montréal-Nord to the point of commencement.

In 2003, its name was changed to Honoré-Mercier and its boundaries were adjusted slightly such that 95.5% of the riding came from the original Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies, while 4.5% came from Hochelaga—Maisonneuve.

This riding lost territory to La Pointe-de-l'Île and Hochelaga, and gained territory from Bourassa during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Member of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Member of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Anjou—Rivières-des-Prairies Riding created from Gamelin, Montreal—Mercier and Saint-Léonard—Anjou
34th	1988–1993	Jean Corbeil	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Roger Pomerleau	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000	Yvon Charbonneau	Liberal
37th	2000–2004	Yvon Charbonneau	Liberal
Honoré-Mercier
38th	2004–2006	Pablo Rodríguez	Liberal
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015	Paulina Ayala	New Democratic
42nd	2015–Present	Pablo Rodríguez	Liberal

Election results

Honoré-Mercier, 2003–present

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Pablo Rodríguez	29,211	56.55	+23.5	–
	New Democratic	Paulina Ayala	8,478	16.41	-18.81	–
	Bloc Québécois	Audrey Beauséjour	6,680	12.93	-3.07	$12,795.65
	Conservative	Guy Croteau	6,226	12.05	-0.96	–
	Green	Angela Budilean	814	1.58	-0.03	–
	Strength in Democracy	Dayana Dejean	168	0.33	–	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Yves Le Seigle	81	0.16	-0.19	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			51,658	100.0		$212,950.75
Total rejected ballots			682	–	–
Turnout			52,340	–	–
Eligible voters			78,428
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+17.11
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[5]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	15,854	35.22
	Liberal	15,081	33.50
	Bloc Québécois	7,204	16.00
	Conservative	5,856	13.01
	Green	725	1.61
	Others	299	0.66

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Paulina Ayala	17,545	36.37	+26.26
	Liberal	Pablo Rodriguez	14,641	30.35	-13.32
	Bloc Québécois	Martin Laroche	8,935	18.52	-9.60
	Conservative	Gérard Labelle	5,992	12.42	-2.88
	Green	Gaëtan Bérard	770	1.60	-1.20
	Rhinoceros	Valery Chevrefils-Latulippe	181	0.38	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Jean-Paul Bédard	170	0.35	–
Total valid votes			48,234	100.00
Total rejected ballots			622	1.27	-0.06
Turnout			48,856	59.98	-2.18
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+19.79

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Pablo Rodríguez	21,544	43.67	+5.44	$64,461
	Bloc Québécois	Gérard Labelle	13,871	28.12	−6.71	$57,274
	Conservative	Rodrigo Alfaro	7,549	15.30	−2.14	$35,152
	New Democratic	François Pilon	4,986	10.11	+3.89	$1,499
	Green	Gaëtan Bérard	1,380	2.80	−0.13	$1,387
Total valid votes			49,330	100.00
Total rejected ballots			667	1.33
Turnout			49,997	62.16	−2.71
Electors on the lists			80,429
	Liberal hold		Swing		+6.08
Source: Official Voting Results, 40th General Election 2008, Elections Canada.

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Pablo Rodríguez	19,622	38.23	−7.87	$62,095
	Bloc Québécois	Gérard Labelle	17,879	34.83	−5.54	$39,105
	Conservative	Angelo M. Marino	8,952	17.44	+11.42	$62,813
	New Democratic	François Pilon	3,191	6.22	+2.13	$2,374
	Green	Sylvain Castonguay	1,502	2.93	+1.16	not listed
	Marxist–Leninist	Hélène Héroux	183	0.36	+0.02	none listed
Total valid votes			51,329	100.00
Total rejected ballots			650	1.25
Turnout			51,979	64.87	+3.23
Electors on the lists			80,122
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.33
Source: Official Voting Results, 39th General Election, Elections Canada.

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Pablo Rodríguez	22,223	46.10	−11.76	$78,649
	Bloc Québécois	Éric St-Hilaire	19,461	40.37	+10.02	$13,063
	Conservative	Gianni Chiazzese	2,902	6.02	−2.28	$5,060
	New Democratic	François Pilon	1,973	4.09	+2.81	$885
	Green	Richard Lahaie	852	1.77	–	$0
	Marijuana	Steve Boudrias	626	1.30	−0.59	none listed
	Marxist–Leninist	Hélène Héroux	164	0.34	+0.03	none listed
Total valid votes			48,201	100.00
Total rejected ballots			854	1.74
Turnout			49,055	61.64
Electors on the lists			79,585
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
Source: Official Voting Results, Thirty-Eighth General Election, Elections Canada.
	Liberal hold		Swing		+10.89

Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies, 1987–2003

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Yvon Charbonneau	28,134	57.86	+10.55
	Bloc Québécois	Jacques Dagenais	14,755	30.35	-2.03
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Tanguay	2,034	4.18	-14.21
	Alliance	Gianni Chiazzese	2,005	4.12	–
	Marijuana	Normand Néron	918	1.89	–
	New Democratic	Bruce Whelan	624	1.28	-0.19
	Marxist–Leninist	Hélène Héroux	151	0.31	-0.13
Total valid votes			48,621	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Yvon Charbonneau	24,189	47.31	+5.09
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Pomerleau	16,558	32.38	-10.72
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Corbeil	9,405	18.39	+6.75
	New Democratic	Elizabeth Lemay Amabili	752	1.47	-0.11
	Marxist–Leninist	Yves Le Seigle	227	0.44	–
Total valid votes			51,131	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Pomerleau	26,163	43.10	–
	Liberal	Normand Biron	25,631	42.22	+9.51
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Corbeil	7,066	11.64	-39.90
	New Democratic	Zamba Mandala	958	1.58	-10.98
	Natural Law	Gilles Raymond	747	1.23	–
	Commonwealth of Canada	Frantz-Albert Mitton	139	0.23	–
Total valid votes			60,704	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Corbeil	27,451	51.54
	Liberal	Vincent Arciresi	17,421	32.71
	New Democratic	Vincent Marchione	6,687	12.56
	Green	Mario Paul	1,217	2.29
	Independent	Catherine Commandeur	483	0.91
Total valid votes			53,259	100.00

References

Notes

Federal ridings in Montreal and Laval

Liberal	Ahuntsic-Cartierville Alfred-Pellan Bourassa Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle Honoré-Mercier Lac-Saint-Louis LaSalle—Émard—Verdun Laval—Les Îles Marc-Aurèle-Fortin Mount Royal Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount Papineau Pierrefonds—Dollard Saint-Laurent Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs Vimy

New Democratic	Hochelaga Laurier—Sainte-Marie Outremont Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie

Bloc Québécois	La Pointe-de-l'Île

Federal ridings in Quebec

Central Quebec

Côte-Nord and Saguenay

Eastern Quebec

The Eastern Townships

The Laurentides, Outaouais
and Northern Quebec

Montreal
(East, West, North & Laval)

Laval	Alfred-Pellan Laval—Les Îles Marc-Aurèle-Fortin Vimy

Montérégie

Quebec City

See also: Quebec provincial electoral districts

Historical federal ridings in Quebec

Until 2015	Ahuntsic Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel Beauharnois—Salaberry Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour Brossard—La Prairie Chambly—Borduas Châteauguay—Saint-Constant Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia Jeanne-Le Ber Jonquière—Alma LaSalle—Émard Laval Lévis—Bellechasse Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert Saint-Lambert Saint-Laurent—Cartierville Terrebonne—Blainville Vaudreuil-Soulanges Verchères—Les Patriotes Westmount—Ville-Marie

Until 2006	Argenteuil—Mirabel Beauport Charlesbourg Charlevoix—Montmorency Laurier Nunavik—Eeyou Portneuf Richelieu Rivière-du-Loup—Montmagny Roberval

Until 2004	Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour Beauport—Montmorency—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île-d'Orléans Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet Berthier—Montcalm Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok Chambly Champlain Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier Charlevoix Châteauguay Frontenac—Mégantic Hochelaga—Maisonneuve Jonquière Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques Lac-Saint-Jean—Saguenay Laurentides Laurier—Sainte-Marie Laval Centre Laval East Laval West Lévis-et-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Longueuil Lotbinière—L'Érable Matapédia—Matane Mercier Papineau—Saint-Denis Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle Québec East Rimouski—Neigette-et-la Mitis Rosemont—Petite-Patrie Saint-Maurice Témiscamingue Verdun—Saint-Henri—Saint-Paul—Pointe-Saint-Charles

Until 2000	Abitibi Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans Charlesbourg Chicoutimi Lac-Saint-Jean Lévis Lotbinière Richelieu Rimouski—Mitis Rosemont Saint-Eustache—Sainte-Thérèse Verchères Verdun—Saint-Henri

Until 1997	Argenteuil—Papineau Bellechasse Blainville—Deux-Montagnes Bonaventure—Îles-de-la-Madeleine Frontenac Gaspé Gatineau—La Lièvre Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis La Prairie Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Papineau—Saint-Michel Richmond—Wolfe Rimouski—Témiscouata Saint-Denis Saint-Henri—Westmount Saint-Hubert Saint-Léonard Terrebonne Vaudreuil Verchères Verdun—Saint-Paul

Until 1993	Duvernay Langelier Laval Laval-des-Rapides Montmorency—Orléans Québec-Est Saint-Laurent

Until 1988	Berthier—Maskinongé—Lanaudière Dollard Gamelin Gatineau Labelle Lachine Lasalle Laurier Montreal—Mercier Montreal—Sainte-Marie Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine East Papineau Saint-Jacques Saint-Léonard—Anjou Saint-Michel—Ahuntsic

Until 1984	Argenteuil Berthier—Maskinongé Hull Mercier Missisquoi Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Rimouski Sainte-Marie Saint-Michel

Until 1980	Laprairie Montmorency Richmond Saint-Hyacinthe Verdun

Until 1979	Ahuntsic Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes Berthier Brome—Missisquoi Compton Hochelaga Kamouraska Lachine—Lakeshore Lafontaine Lapointe Lasalle—Émard—Côte Saint-Paul Laval Maisonneuve—Rosemont Matane Montreal—Bourassa Pontiac Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata Sainte-Marie Saint-Henri Trois-Rivières Métropolitain Villeneuve Westmount

Until 1974	Lachine Lasalle

Until 1972	Argenteuil Beauharnois Bonaventure Bourassa Maisonneuve Missisquoi Témiscouata Trois-Rivières

Until 1968	Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes Beauharnois—Salaberry Berthier—Maskinongé—Delanaudière Brome—Missisquoi Cartier Chambly—Rouville Chapleau Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie Compton—Frontenac Dorchester Drummond—Arthabaska Îles-de-la-Madeleine Jacques-Cartier—Lasalle Joliette—L'Assomption—Montcalm Matapédia—Matane Maisonneuve—Rosemont Mégantic Montmagny—L'Islet Nicolet—Yamaska Outremont—Saint-Jean Pontiac—Témiscamingue Quebec East Québec—Montmorency Quebec South Quebec West Richelieu—Verchères Richmond—Wolfe Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata Saguenay St. Ann Saint-Antoine—Westmount Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville St. Lawrence—St. George Saint-Maurice—Laflèche Stanstead Vaudreuil—Soulanges

Until 1962	Témiscouata

Until 1953	Beauharnois Berthier—Maskinongé Jacques Cartier St. Antoine—Westmount St-Denis St-Henri St. James St. Mary Verdun—La Salle

Until 1949	Argenteuil Beauharnois—Laprairie Charlevoix—Saguenay Châteauguay—Huntingdon Compton Lake St-John—Roberval Laval—Two Mountains Mégantic—Frontenac Outremont Pontiac Quebec West and South St. Denis St. Henry St. Hyacinthe—Bagot St. Johns—Iberville—Napierville St-Maurice—Laflèche Three Rivers Verdun Wright

Until 1935	Bagot Beauharnois Chambly—Verchères Joliette Lake St. John Laprairie—Napierville L'Assomption—Montcalm Laurier—Outremont L'Islet Maisonneuve Matane Mégantic Montmagny Nicolet Quebec West Richelieu St. Antoine St. Henri St. Hyacinthe—Rouville St. Johns—Iberville Three Rivers—St. Maurice Yamaska

Until 1925	Berthier Brome Charlevoix—Montmorency Chicoutimi—Saguenay George-Étienne Cartier Maskinongé Missisquoi Quebec County Town of Sherbrooke Three Rivers and St. Maurice Westmount—St. Henri

Until 1917	Charlevoix Châteauguay Huntingdon L'Assomption Laval Montcalm Montmorency Quebec-Centre Rouville St. Anne St. Hyacinthe St. Lawrence Soulanges Two Mountains Vaudreuil

Before 1900	Chambly Iberville Laprairie Montreal Centre Montreal East Montreal West Napierville County of Ottawa St. John's Saint Maurice Three Rivers Verchères

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