Repentigny (electoral district)
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| Repentigny Electoral district |
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 Repentigny shown within Central Quebec |
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| MP | Vacant (by-election 27 Nov 2006) |
| Party | Bloc Québécois (1997-) |
| Province | Quebec |
| Census division(s) | L'Assomption |
| Census subdivision(s) | Charlemagne, L'Assomption, L'Épiphanie, L'Épiphanie Parish, Repentigny, Saint-Sulpice |
| Provincial ridings | L'Assomption, Masson, Rousseau |
| District created | 1996 |
Repentigny is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.
It consists solely and entirely of the Regional County Municipality of L'Assomption.
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[edit] Demographics
- According to the Canada 2001 Census
| Population | 103,977 |
| Electors | 84,312 |
| Area (km²) | 266 |
| Population density (people per km²) | 390.9 |
Ethnic groups: 98.7% White
Languages: 97.3% French, 1.1% English, 1.3% Others
Religions: 94.5% Catholic, 1.3% Protestant, 3.4% No religion
Average income: $30,277
[edit] Political geography
Repentigny is one of the most separatist ridings in Quebec. In the 2006 election, every single poll was won by the Bloc Québécois.
[edit] History
It was created in 1996 from parts of Joliette and Terrebonne ridings.
It consisted initially of the cities of Charlemagne, Lachenaie, Mascouche and Repentigny; and the Parish Municipality of La Plaine in the County Regional Municipality of Les Moulins.
[edit] Member of Parliament
This riding elected the following Member of Parliament:
- Benoît Sauvageau, Bloc Québécois (June 2, 1997 - August 28, 2006)
- Seat vacant (August 28, 2006 - ) after Sauvageau hit a tow truck, and was killed. A by-election is announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to be held on November 27.
[edit] Electoral history
[edit] 2006 by-election
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MP Benoît Sauvageau was killed in a car accident on August 28, 2006. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for a by-election on October 22, 2006 with a polling day of November 27, 2006.
There had been a lot of pressure from opposition parties for Public Works Minister Michael Fortier, a Conservative senator, to run here however he has declined. Fortier was appointed to the Senate and the Cabinet to represent Greater Montreal which elected no Conservatives in the last federal election, while Fortier pledged to resign from the Senate and seek election to the House of Commons in the next federal election. The Conservative candidate will instead be Stephane Bourgon, a lawyer. The Bloc Québécois, of which Sauvageau was a member, will run Raymond Gravel, a Roman Catholic priest. [1] The New Democratic Party candidate will be union activist Réjean Bellemare, who also ran for the NDP in the previous general election.
The Green Party of Canada had announced that Marc-André Gadoury would their candidate but he did not complete and submit paperwork to Elections Canada in sufficient time to get on the ballot.
| By-election, 2006 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Bloc Québécois | Raymond Gravel | ||||
| Conservative | Stephane Bourgon | ||||
| Liberal | Christian Turenne | ||||
| New Democrat | Réjean Bellemare | ||||
| Canadian Action | Mahmood Raza Baig | ||||
| Independent | Jocelyne Leduc | ||||
| Independent | Régent Millette | ||||
| Total | |||||
[edit] 1997-2006
| Canadian federal election, 2006 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
| Bloc Québécois | Benoît Sauvageau | 34,958 | 62.42 | -7.64 | ||
| Conservative | Claude Lafortune, Jr. | 10,124 | 18.08 | +13.31 | ||
| Liberal | Josyanne Forest | 4,847 | 8.65 | -9.6 | ||
| New Democrat | Réjean Bellemare | 4,337 | 7.74 | +4.76 | ||
| Green | Adam Jastrzebski | 1,742 | 3.11 | +0.22 | ||
| Total | 56,008 | 100 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 2004 | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
| Bloc Québécois | Benoît Sauvageau | 35,907 | 70.06 | +12.26 | ||
| Liberal | Lévis Brien | 9,353 | 18.25 | -8.63 | ||
| Conservative | Allen F. Mackenzie | 2,447 | 4.77 | -5.69 | ||
| New Democrat | André Cardinal | 1,526 | 2.98 | +1.55 | ||
| Green | Jean-François Lévêque | 1,482 | 2.89 | |||
| Marijuana | François Boudreau | 539 | 1.05 | -2.38 | ||
| Total | 51,254 | 100 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 2000 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
| Bloc Québécois | Benoît Sauvageau | 33,627 | 57.80 | +1.51 | ||
| Liberal | David Veillette | 15,635 | 26.88 | +5.75 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Michel Carignan | 3,122 | 5.37 | -15.66 | ||
| Canadian Alliance | Michel Paulette | 2,964 | 5.09 | |||
| Marijuana | Lise Dufour | 1,997 | 3.43 | |||
| New Democrat | Pierre Péclet | 831 | 1.43 | -0.12 | ||
| Total | 58,176 | 100 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1997 | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Benoît Sauvageau | 33,283 | 56.29 | |||
| Liberal | Robert Tranchemontagne | 12,495 | 21.13 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Michel Carignan | 12,436 | 21.03 | |||
| New Democrat | Normand Caplette | 916 | 1.55 | |||
| Total | 59,130 | 100 | ||||
