Outremont (electoral district)

Outremont

Quebec electoral district
Outremont in relation to other federal electoral districts in Montreal and Laval (2013 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Thomas Mulcair New Democratic
District created	1933
First contested	1935
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	100,916
Electors (2015)	71,300
Area (km²)[2]	12
Pop. density (per km²)	8,409.7
Census divisions	Montreal Island
Census subdivisions	Montreal

Outremont is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935. It was known as Outremont—Saint-Jean from 1947 to 1966. Its population in 2006 was 95,711. Its current Member of Parliament is Thomas Mulcair, leader of the New Democratic Party.

Demographics

According to the Canada 2011 Census

• Mother tongue: French (42%), English (16%), Arabic (6%), Yiddish, (5%), Spanish (4%)

Geography

The district includes the Borough of Outremont, the eastern part of Côte-des-Neiges in the Borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, and the western part of the Mile End in Borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, plus bits of upper Downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville-Marie, La Petite-Patrie in the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, and Parc Extension in the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension.

Political geography

In the 2006 election, the Liberals had their strongest support in Côte-des-Neiges, on the eastern slopes of Mont-Royal and in the small part of the riding in the Parc-Extension neighbourhood. The Bloc had its support concentrated in the borough of Outremont, and around the Université de Montréal. The New Democratic Party (NDP) won all of its polls in Mile-End where it obtained most of its polls. The Conservatives won just three polls in the riding all of which were around the western border of the Outremont border.

In the 2007 by-election, the NDP almost swept the riding. Their strongest areas were in Mile-End, Jeanne-Mance, and around the Université de Montréal. It was not uncommon for the NDP win more than 70% of the vote in these polls. The Bloc Québécois vote had collapsed, most of which went to the NDP. They did not win a single poll. Liberal support was relegated to the small part of Parc-Extension in the riding, the area around Rue Jean-Talon and the area on the opposite side of Mount Royal along Avenue des Pins. The Conservatives held on to one of their three polls.

In the 2008 election, the NDP held on to Outremont, albeit with a lower percentage of overall support.

Until the 2011 election, this riding was the only riding in Quebec to be held by the NDP. Mulcair has held it since winning a by-election in 2007, winning a seat for the party for only the second time in history. He was challenged in 2011 by Liberal Martin Cauchon, who held this riding from 1993 to 2004 and was a cabinet minister.

History

The electoral district was created in 1933 from parts of Laurier—Outremont and Mount Royal ridings.

This riding lost territory to Papineau, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount, Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs and Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, and gained territory from Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Westmount—Ville-Marie and Mount Royal during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

2007 by-election

After the resignation of Jean Lapierre on 28 January 2007, a by-election was called for 17 September 2007. In the by-election, this riding was won by the NDP candidate Thomas Mulcair.

Mulcair retained the riding for the NDP in the 2008 federal election, marking the NDP's first re-election and first general election victory in Quebec.

Former boundaries

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  2004 to 2011 election

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Outremont Riding created from Laurier—Outremont and Mount Royal
18th	1935–1940		Thomas Vien	Liberal
19th	1940–1942
	1942–1945		Léo Richer Laflèche
20th	1945–1949		Édouard Rinfret
Outremont—Saint-Jean
21st	1949–1952		Édouard Rinfret	Liberal
	1952–1953		Romuald Bourque
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965		Maurice Lamontagne
27th	1965–1967
	1967–1968		Aurélien Noël
Outremont
28th	1968–1972		Aurélien Noël	Liberal
29th	1972–1974		Marc Lalonde
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		Lucie Pépin
34th	1988–1993		Jean-Pierre Hogue	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Martin Cauchon	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006		Jean Lapierre
39th	2006–2007
	2007–2008		Thomas Mulcair	New Democratic
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present

Election results

Outremont, 1968–present

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Thomas Mulcair	19,242	44.11	-11.57	–
	Liberal	Rachel Bendayan	14,597	33.46	+11.84	–
	Conservative	Rodolphe Husny	4,159	9.53	+1.55	$7,828.89
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Galland Barou	3,668	8.41	-3.20	$6,959.30
	Green	Amara Diallo	1,575	3.61	+1.37	–
	Libertarian	Francis Pouliot	216	0.50	–	–
	Communist	Adrien Welsh	162	0.37	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			43,619	100.00	–	$204,392.06
Total rejected ballots			426	0.97	–	–
Turnout			44,045	62.42	–	–
Eligible voters			70,559	–	–	–
Source: Elections Canada[3][4]

2011 federal election redistributed results[5]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	23,317	55.68
	Liberal	9,055	21.62
	Bloc Québécois	4,860	11.61
	Conservative	3,343	7.98
	Green	937	2.24
	Others	362	0.86

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Thomas Mulcair	21,906	56.37	+16.84	$80,457
	Liberal	Martin Cauchon	9,204	23.69	−9.39	$51,130
	Conservative	Rodolphe Husny	3,408	8.77	−1.76	$18,319
	Bloc Québécois	Élise Daoust	3,199	8.23	−4.32	$10,456
	Green	François Pilon	838	2.16	−2.15	$4,578
	Rhinoceros	Tommy Gaudet	160	0.41	–
	Communist	Johan Boyden	143	0.37	–
Total valid votes			38,858	100.00
Total rejected ballots			291	0.74	+0.05
Turnout			39,149	60.46	+4.35
Electors on the lists			65,573
Source: Official Voting Results, 41st General Election 2011, Elections Canada

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Thomas Mulcair	14,348	39.53	−7.97	$69,072
	Liberal	Sébastien Dhavernas	12,005	33.08	+4.12	$45,118
	Bloc Québécois	Marcella Valdivia	4,554	12.55	+1.62	$48,279
	Conservative	Lulzim Laloshi	3,820	10.53	+1.96	$24,421
	Green	François Pilon	1,566	4.31	+2.10	not listed
Total valid votes			36,293	100.00
Total rejected ballots			253	0.69
Turnout			36,546	56.11	+18.68
Electors on the lists			64,556
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−6.05
Source: Official Voting Results, 40th General Election 2008, Elections Canada

Canadian federal by-election, September 17, 2007 Resignation of Jean Lapierre
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Thomas Mulcair	11,374	47.50	+30.03	$76,194
	Liberal	Jocelyn Coulon	6,933	28.96	−6.22	$72,539
	Bloc Québécois	Jean-Paul Gilson	2,618	10.93	−18.08	$57,717
	Conservative	Gilles Duguay	2,052	8.57	−4.16	$66,401
	Green	François Pilon	529	2.21	−2.61	$169
	neorhino.ca	François Yo Gourd	145	0.61	–	$1,774
	Independent	Mahmood Raza Baig	78	0.33	–	$45
	Independent	Jocelyne Leduc	61	0.25	–	$6
	Independent	Romain Angeles	46	0.19	–	$157
	Canadian Action	Alexandre Amirizian	45	0.19	–	$0
	Independent	Régent Millette	32	0.13	+0.08	none listed
	Independent	John Turmel	30	0.13	–	none listed
Total valid votes			23,943	100.00
Total rejected ballots			175	0.73	+0.03
Turnout			24,118	37.43	−23.35
Electors on the lists			64,438
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		−18.3

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jean Lapierre	14,282	35.18	−5.76	$69,816
	Bloc Québécois	Jacques Léonard	11,778	29.01	−4.24	$63,590
	New Democratic	Léo-Paul Lauzon	6,984	17.20	+3.14	$26,625
	Conservative	Daniel Fournier	5,168	12.73	+6.76	$73,991
	Green	François Pilon	1,957	4.82	+0.53	$425
	Independent	Eric Roach Denis	101	0.25		$431
	Progressive Canadian	Philip Paynter	94	0.23		none listed
	Marxist–Leninist	Linda Sullivan	88	0.22	−0.09	none listed
	Independent	Yan Lacombe	85	0.21		none listed
	Independent	Xavier Rochon	34	0.08		$572
	Independent	Régent Millette	22	0.05		none listed
Total valid votes			40,593	100.00
Total rejected ballots			282	0.69
Turnout			40,875	60.78	−4.65
Electors on the lists			67,253

Source: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jean Lapierre	15,675	40.94	-6.74	$58,392
	Bloc Québécois	François Rebello	12,730	33.25	+4.96	$63,640
	New Democratic	Omar Aktouf	5,382	14.06	+8.48	$11,371
	Conservative	Marc Rousseau	2,284	5.97	-5.37	$38,835
	Green	Shaun Perceval-Maxwell	1,643	4.29	+0.54	$475
	Marijuana	Yan Lacombe	452	1.18	-1.39
	Marxist–Leninist	Linda Sullivan	120	0.31	-0.18
Total valid votes/Expense limit			38,286	100.00	–	$73,313

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Martin Cauchon	18,796	47.68	−2.47	$52,920
	Bloc Québécois	Amir Khadir	11,151	28.29	−0.10	$50,207
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Archambault	3,190	8.09	−4.12	$3,360
	New Democratic	Peter Graefe	2,199	5.58	−0.86	$590
	Green	Jan Schotte	1,478	3.75	–	$260
	Alliance	Josée Duchesneau	1,283	3.25	–	$1,425
	Marijuana	Huguette Plourde	1,013	2.57	–	none listed
	Marxist–Leninist	Louise Charron	194	0.49	−0.36	$10
	Communist	Pierre Smith	118	0.30	–	$187
Total			39,422	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Martin Cauchon	22,271	50.15	+3.34
	Bloc Québécois	Michel Sarra-Bournet	12,608	28.39	-8.98
	Progressive Conservative	Marguerite Sicard	5,424	12.21	+3.30
	New Democratic	Tooker Gomberg	2,862	6.44	+1.89
	Natural Law	Denis Cauchon	868	1.95	+0.45
	Marxist–Leninist	Louise Charron	378	0.85	+0.46
Total			44,411	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Martin Cauchon	21,638	46.81	+12.10
	Bloc Québécois	Jean-Louis Hérivault	17,274	37.37	–
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Pierre Hogue	4,119	8.91	-29.52
	New Democratic	Catherine Kallos	2,104	4.55	-15.93
	Natural Law	Daniel Bergeron	694	1.50	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Michel Rocheleau	179	0.39	–
	Abolitionist	Sylvain M. Coulombe	131	0.28	–
	Commonwealth of Canada	Mamunor Rashid	89	0.19	-0.07
Total			46,228	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Pierre Hogue	17,597	38.43	+9.15
	Liberal	Lucie Pépin	15,895	34.71	-6.21
	New Democratic	Louise O'Neill	9,379	20.48	+1.82
	Green	Harriett Fels	1,342	2.93	+0.42
	Rhinoceros	Milenko P. Miljévic	1,077	2.35	-1.84
	Communist	Monique Marcotte	200	0.44	-0.07
	Independent	Fernand Deschamps	183	0.40	–
	Commonwealth of Canada	Guy Huard	117	0.26	-0.13
Total			45,790	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Lucie Pépin	14,508	40.92	-30.57
	Progressive Conservative	Anne-Marie Sylvestre	10,383	29.28	+21.96
	New Democratic	Johanne Beaudin	6,687	18.86	+6.44
	Rhinoceros	Claude V.U. Hamel	1,484	4.19	-2.235
	Parti nationaliste	Roger Lebeuf	1,185	3.34	–
	Green	François Lubrina	890	2.51	–
	Communist	Jocelyne Rioux	182	0.51	+0.04
	Commonwealth of Canada	Christiane Deland-Gervais	139	0.39	–
Total			35,458	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Marc Lalonde	23,004	71.4	-0.66
	New Democratic	Claire A. Brisson	3,996	12.42	+2.09
	Progressive Conservative	Diane Chevrette	2,355	7.32	+1.96
	Rhinoceros	Philippe Langlois	2,065	6.42	-0.02
	Independent	Danielle Trudel	277	0.86	–
	Communist	Jocelyne Rioux	150	0.47	+0.01
	Independent	H.-Georges Grenier	140	0.44	–
	Union populaire	Colette Picard-Desjardins	128	0.40	+0.13
	Marxist–Leninist	Robert Wallace	64	0.20	-0.03
Total			32,179	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Marc Lalonde	28,710	72.15	-0.15
	New Democratic	Claire A. Brisson	4,112	10.33	-1.91
	Rhinoceros	Serge Beauchemin	2,564	6.44	–
	Progressive Conservative	Henriette Guérin	2,134	5.36	-5.30
	Social Credit	Philippe Chartrand	1,765	4.44	+2.09
	Communist	Jocelyne Rioux	185	0.46	–
	Independent	Fred Haight	122	0.31	–
	Union populaire	G. Spooner	108	0.27	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Robert Wallace	91	0.23	-0.86
Total			39,791	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Marc Lalonde	20,400	72.30	+6.82
	New Democratic	Georges Louis Valois	3,453	12.24	-3.74
	Progressive Conservative	Symone Beaudin	3,007	10.66	+2.06
	Social Credit	Joseph-Endré De Csavossy	663	2.35	-1.95
	Independent	Vera Jackson	399	1.41	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Micheline Mélanson	292	1.03	–
Total			28,214	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Marc Lalonde	21,399	65.48	-13.18
	New Democratic	Henri-François Gautrin	5,223	15.98	+4.58
	Progressive Conservative	André Poitras	2,811	8.60	-1.34
	Rhinoceros	Réginald Martel	1,565	4.79	–
	Social Credit	Maurice Benoit	1,404	4.30	–
	Independent	Harold J. Glick	168	0.51	–
	Independent	H.-Georges Grenier	109	0.33	–
Total			32,679	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Aurélien Noël	24,219	78.66	+23.99
	New Democratic	Saul Handelman	3,511	11.40	-31.03
	Progressive Conservative	Neil Morrison	3,059	9.94	–
Total			30,789	100.00	–

Outremont—Saint-Jean, 1949–1968

Canadian federal by-election, 29 May 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
On Mr. Lamontagne's resignation, 4 June 1967
	Liberal	Aurélien Noël	6,262	54.67%	+2.10%
	New Democratic	Denis Lazure	4,860	42.43%	+25.89%
	Esprit social	Henri-Georges Grenier	214	1.87%	-0.19%
	Rhinoceros	F.-L.-M. Bonnier	118	1.03%
Total valid votes			11,454	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Maurice Lamontagne	11,855	52.57%	-4.06%
	New Democratic	Monique Ferron	3,730	16.54%	-1.45%
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Guilbeault	3,241	14.37%	-5.56%
	Ralliement créditiste	André Poitras	3,259	14.45%	+9.01%	2.06%
	Droit vital personnel	Henri-Georges Grenier	465	2.06%
Total valid votes			22,550	100.00%

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

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Maurice Lamontagne	13,305	56.63%	+9.55%
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Lacoste	4,684	19.94%	-10.28%
	New Democratic	Thérèse Casgrain	4,227	17.99%	-2.02%
	Social Credit	Léopold Savard	1,278	5.44%	+2.76%
Total valid votes			23,494	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Romuald Bourque	10,134	47.08%	-8.51%
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Lacoste	6,504	30.22%	-8.72%
	New Democratic	Thérèse Casgrain	4,308	20.02%	+14.55%
	Social Credit	Jean-Guy Laprise	577	2.68%
Total valid votes			21,523	100.00%

Note: NDP vote is compared to CCF vote in 1958 election.

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Romuald Bourque	12,715	55.60%	-17.10%
	Progressive Conservative	Conrad Archambault	8,906	38.94%	+18.46%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gaston Miron	1,249	5.46%	-1.36%
Total valid votes			22,870	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Romuald Bourque	13,840	72.70%	+3.92%
	Progressive Conservative	René Dostaler	3,899	20.48%	-4.65%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gaston Miron	1,299	6.82%	+4.22%
Total valid votes			19,038	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Romuald Bourque	11,536	68.77%	+12.75%
	Progressive Conservative	Gaston Sylvestre	4,216	25.13%	-3.37%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Pierre-D. Gagnon	436	2.60%	-7.50%
	Labor–Progressive	Anne Eizner	406	2.42%
	Independent Progressive Conservative	Homère Louiselle	180	1.07%
Total valid votes			16,774	100.00%

Canadian federal by-election, 6 October 1952
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
On Mr. Rinfret being appointed Puisne Judge, Court of Queen's Bench, Quebec, 12 February 1952
	Liberal	Romuald Bourque	6,294	56.02%	-20.30%
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Nolin	3,203	28.51%	+4.83%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Thérèse Casgrain	1,135	10.10%
	Independent Liberal	Raymond Bourque	442	3.93%
	Independent	Ben Ash	161	1.43%
Total valid votes			11,235	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Édouard Rinfret	16,215	76.32%	+20.28%
	Progressive Conservative	Alphonse Bélanger	5,030	23.68%	+9.51%
Total valid votes			21,245	100.00%

Outremont, 1935–1949

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Édouard-Gabriel Rinfret	14,836	56.04%	-8.01%
	Progressive Conservative	Joseph Hector Bender	3,750	14.17%
	Bloc populaire	Joseph-Alfred Goyer	3,259	12.31%
	Independent Liberal	John P. Callaghan	1,762	6.66%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Abraham Jacob Rosenstein	1,639	6.19%
	Labor–Progressive	Gertrude Partridge	1,227	4.63%
Total valid votes			26,473	100.00%

Canadian federal by-election, 30 November 1942
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
On Mr. Vien's resignation, 5 October 1942
	Liberal	Léo Richer La Flèche	12,378	64.05%	-2.35%
	Bloc populaire	Jean Drapeau	6,948	35.95%
Total valid votes			19,326	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Thomas Vien	14,511	66.40%	10.50%
	National Government	Joseph-Hector Bender	4,556	20.85%	-14.10%
	Independent Liberal	Ernest Poulin	2,787	12.75%
Total valid votes			21,854	100.00%

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

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Thomas Vien	11,260	55.90%
	Conservative	Jean-Joseph Penverne	7,040	34.95%
	Reconstruction	Hervé Roch	1,844	9.15%
Total valid votes			20,144	100.00%

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

References

• "(Code 24047) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-07.

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2012
2. Statistics Canada: 2012
3. Elections Canada – Election Results, 22 October 2015
4. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
5. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada