Papineau (electoral district)

Papineau (formerly Papineau—Saint-Denis and Papineau—Saint-Michel) is a federal electoral district in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1948. Its population in 2006 was 101,019. Justin Trudeau, who is currently Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party, has represented the riding since the 2008 federal election. Trudeau became Liberal leader in a 2013 leadership election, succeeding Bob Rae, and prime minister when the Liberals returned to government in the 2015 Canadian federal election, succeeding Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

Papineau

Quebec electoral district
Papineau in relation to other federal electoral districts in Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Justin Trudeau Liberal
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2019
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	110,750
Electors (2015)	78,515
Area (km²)[2]	9.91
Pop. density (per km²)	11,175.6
Census division(s)	Montreal
Census subdivision(s)	Montreal

The name of the riding comes from a street in the Villeray neighbourhood, named after Joseph Papineau.

At nine square kilometres, it covers the second smallest area of any federal riding in Canada, after Toronto Centre.[3] Linguistically, 45% of residents list French as their mother tongue, 8% list English, and 47% list neither English nor French, with large groups speaking Spanish, Italian, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Pashtu, Bengali, Greek and Arabic. The total immigrant population is 40 percent.[4]

Geography

The district includes the neighbourhoods of Villeray and Park Extension, and the southern part of the old city of Saint-Michel in the Borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension. The southeast corner of the riding borders the Outremont riding, which was most recently held by Tom Mulcair, the former leader of the New Democratic Party.

Political geography

Papineau, despite its small size, is a very divided riding. The riding spans the former linguistic divide of the city, Saint Laurent Boulevard. South of the riding is the neighbourhood of Park Extension, which is very Liberal. The central part of the riding, around Villeray, was Bloc Québécois territory for almost two decades before swinging heavily to the NDP in the 2011 federal election. And François-Perreault district, in the south of Saint-Michel, is considered as swing territory between the Liberals and the NDP. The district of Saint-Michel, which is part of neighbouring Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel riding to the northeast of Papineau, leans to the Liberals.

Except for the years 2006 to 2008, when it was held by Vivian Barbot of the Bloc, the seat has been in Liberal hands since 1953.

Demographics

According to the Canada 2016 Census

• Twenty most common mother tongue languages (2016) : 49.7% French, 6.6% Spanish, 6.5% English, 5.9% Arabic, 4.2% Greek, 3.4% Italian, 2.7% Vietnamese, 2.4% Creole languages, 2.2% Panjabi, 2.1% Portuguese, 1.8% Bengali, 1.8% Urdu, 1.5% Tamil, 1.1% Cantonese, 1.0% Gujarati, 0.6% Mandarin, 0.6% Kabyle, 0.5% Khmer, 0.5% Turkish, 0.3% Polish, 0.3% Russian[5]

History

The electoral district of Papineau was created in 1947 from parts of the Hochelaga, Mercier, St. James and Saint-Denis ridings.

It was renamed Papineau-Saint-Michel in 1987 and Papineau-Saint-Denis in 1994. It was shortened back to "Papineau" in 2003.

This riding gained territory from Outremont and Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Former boundaries

• 
  2004 to 2011 election

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Papineau Riding created from Hochelaga, Mercier, St. James and Saint-Denis
21st	1949–1953		Camillien Houde	Independent
22nd	1953–1957		Adrien Meunier	Independent Liberal
23rd	1957–1958			Liberal
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965		Guy Favreau
27th	1965–1967
	1967–1968		André Ouellet
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
Papineau—Saint-Michel
34th	1988–1993		André Ouellet	Liberal
35th	1993–1996
	1996–1997		Pierre Pettigrew
Papineau—Saint-Denis
36th	1997–2000		Pierre Pettigrew	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
Papineau
38th	2004–2006		Pierre Pettigrew	Liberal
39th	2006–2008		Vivian Barbot	Bloc Québécois
40th	2008–2011		Justin Trudeau	Liberal
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–present

Election results

Papineau, 2003 – present

Graph of election results in Papineau (2003-, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2019 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Justin Trudeau	25,957	51.1	-0.88	$87,090.50
	New Democratic	Christine Paré	9,748	19.2	-6.67	$4,985.12
	Bloc Québécois	Christian Gagnon	8,124	16.0	+3.82	none listed
	Green	Juan Vazquez	3,741	7.4	+4.56	none listed
	Conservative	Sophie Veilleux	2,155	4.2	-0.51	$13,803.36
	Rhinoceros	Jean-Patrick Cacereco Berthiaume	363	0.7	+0.06	$119.67
	People's	Mark Sibthorpe	322	0.6	–	none listed
	Christian Heritage	Susanne Lefebvre	186	0.4	–	$356.56
	Independent	Alain Magnan	76	0.1	–	$0.00
	No affiliation	Luc Lupien	75	0.1	–	$0.00
	No affiliation	Steve Penner	34	0.1	–	$250.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,781	100.0
Total rejected ballots			938
Turnout			51,719	67.2
Eligible voters			76,995
Source: Elections Canada[6][7]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Justin Trudeau	26,391	51.98	+14.05	$129,821.55
	New Democratic	Anne Lagacé Dowson	13,132	25.87	−3.6	$111,652.95
	Bloc Québécois	Maxime Claveau	6,182	12.18	−12.71	$19,007.27
	Conservative	Yvon Vadnais	2,390	4.71	−0.33	$5,649.91
	Green	Danny Polifroni	1,443	2.84	+0.95	$82.71
	Independent	Chris Lloyd	505	0.99	–	$5,759.41
	Rhinoceros	Tommy Gaudet	323	0.64	–	–
	Independent	Kim Waldron	159	0.31	–	$2,101.20
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	142	0.28	−0.25	–
	No affiliation	Beverly Bernardo	103	0.2	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,770	98.64		$213,091.50
Total rejected ballots			698	1.36	–
Turnout			51,468	65.44	–
Eligible voters			78,649
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+8.83
Source: Elections Canada[8][9]

2011 federal election poll-by-poll redistribution [10]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	17,407	37.93
	New Democratic	13,625	29.47
	Bloc Québécois	11,421	24.89
	Conservative	2,314	5.04
	Green	868	1.89
	Others	357	0.78

2011 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Justin Trudeau	16,429	38.41	−3.06
	New Democratic	Marcos Radhames Tejada	12,102	28.29	+19.55
	Bloc Québécois	Vivian Barbot	11,091	25.93	−12.76
	Conservative	Shama Chopra	2,021	4.73	−2.90
	Green	Danny Polifroni	806	1.88	−0.96
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	228	0.53
	Not affiliated^1	Joseph Young	95	0.22
Total valid votes			42,772	100.0
Total rejected ballots			588
Turnout			43,330
Source: Official Results, Elections Canada. ^1 Communist League

2008 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Justin Trudeau	17,724	41.47	+2.99	$76,857
	Bloc Québécois	Vivian Barbot	16,535	38.69	−2.06	$70,872
	New Democratic	Costa Zafiropoulos	3,734	8.74	+1.04	$5,745
	Conservative	Mustaque Sarker	3,262	7.63	−0.69	$44,958
	Green	Ingrid Hein	1,213	2.84	−0.76	$814
	Independent	Mahmood Raza Baig	267	0.62	+0.20
Total valid votes/Expense limit			42,735	100.00		$81,172
Total rejected ballots			576	1.33
Turnout			43,311	61.77
Eligible voters			70,115
	Liberal gain from Bloc Québécois		Swing		+2.53
Baig's share of popular vote as an independent candidate is compared to his share in the 2006 general election as a Canadian Action Party candidate.
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

2006 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Vivian Barbot	17,775	40.75	+0.79	$50,886
	Liberal	Pierre Pettigrew	16,785	38.48	-2.62	$75,541
	Conservative	Mustaque Sarker	3,630	8.32	+3.55	$34,951
	New Democratic	Marc Hasbani	3,358	7.70	-1.07	$2,568
	Green	Louis-Philippe Verenka	1,572	3.60	+1.03	$181
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	317	0.73	+0.32
	Canadian Action	Mahmood-Raza Baig	185	0.42	–	$2,007
Total valid votes/Expense limit			43,622	100.00	$76,023
	Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal		Swing		+1.71
Source: Elections Canada[11]

2004 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Pierre Pettigrew	16,892	41.10	-13.00
	Bloc Québécois	Martine Carrière	16,424	39.96	+13.36	$48,511
	New Democratic	André Frappier	3,603	8.77	+4.29	$28,566
	Conservative	Mustaque Sarker	1,961	4.77	-2.74	$38,564
	Green	Adam Jastrzebski	1,058	2.57	+0.02
	Marijuana	Christelle Dusablon-Pelletier	490	1.19	-0.81
	Communist	André Parizeau	252	0.61		$825
	Independent	Jimmy Garoufalis	250	0.61		$2,607
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	169	0.41	+0.68
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,099	100.00	$75,103
	Liberal hold		Swing		-13.18
Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election, and not the vote Sarker received as an independent candidate.

Papineau—Saint-Denis, 1996–2003

Graph of election results in Papineau—Saint-Denis (1996-2003, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2000 Canadian federal election: Papineau—Saint-Denis
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Pierre Pettigrew	23,955	54.10	+0.20
	Bloc Québécois	Philippe Ordenes	11,779	26.60	-2.31
	Alliance	Yannis Felemegos	2,114	4.77	-8.01
	New Democratic	Hans Marotte	1,983	4.48	+2.03
	Progressive Conservative	Emmanuel Préville	1,215	2.74	-10.04
	Green	Boris-Antoine Legault	1,128	2.55
	Marijuana	Antoine Théorêt-Poupart	886	2.00
	Independent	Mustaque Sarker	738	1.67
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	482	1.09	+0.10
Total valid votes			44,280	100.00
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.26
Canadian Alliance vote compared to the vote Felemegos received as a Progressive Conservative candidate.

1997 Canadian federal election: Papineau—Saint-Denis
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Pierre Pettigrew	26,260	53.90	-5.30	$53,271
	Bloc Québécois	Mario Beaulieu	14,083	28.91	-5.02	$25,032
	Progressive Conservative	Yannis Felemegos	6,227	12.78	+10.43	$19,274
	New Democratic	Gaby Kombé	1,196	2.45	-1.02	$3,030
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	481	0.99		$0
	Independent	Michel Dugré	471	0.97		$270
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,099	100.00
	Liberal hold		Swing		-0.14

Papineau—Saint-Michel, 1987–1996

Graph of election results in Papineau—Saint-Michel (1987-1996, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

Canadian federal by-election, 25 March 1996: Papineau—Saint-Michel
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Pierre Pettigrew	15,330	59.20	+7.22
	Bloc Québécois	Daniel Turp	8,787	33.93	+5.31
	New Democratic	Raymond Laurent	899	3.47	+1.64
	Progressive Conservative	Nicole Roy-Arcelin	608	2.35	-2.02
	Reform	Martin Masse	272	1.05	New
Total valid votes			25,896	98.88
Total rejected ballots			294	1.12
Turnout			26,190	52.31
Eligible voters			50,063
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.96
Source: Elections Canada[12]

1993 Canadian federal election: Papineau—Saint-Michel
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Ouellet	20,064	51.98	+5.99
	Bloc Québécois	Daniel Boucher	15,148	39.24
	Progressive Conservative	Carmen De Pontbriand	1,686	4.37	-28.86
	New Democratic	Gisèle Charlebois	708	1.83	-13.27
	Natural Law	André Beaudoin	678	1.76
	Marxist–Leninist	Serge Lachapelle	141	0.37
	Abolitionist	P. A. D'Aoust	98	0.25
	Commonwealth of Canada	Normand Normandeau	78	0.20	-0.24
Total valid votes/Expense limit			38,601	100.00

1988 Canadian federal election: Papineau—Saint-Michel
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Ouellet	18,122	45.99	+7.00
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Venneri	13,094	33.23	-3.62
	New Democratic	Giovanni Adamo	5,948	15.10	+1.97
	Rhinoceros	Carole Ola Clermont	987	2.51	-3.38
	Green	H. Joseph Vega	469	1.19
	Communist	Line Chabot	235	0.60	+0.15
	Independent	Francine Tremblay	193	0.49
	Independent	Michel Dugré	178	0.45
	Commonwealth of Canada	Normand Bélanger	174	0.44	+0.09
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,400	100.00

Papineau, 1947–1987

Graph of election results in Papineau (1947-1987, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

1984 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Ouellet	12,754	38.99	-35.69
	Progressive Conservative	Tony Iacobaccio	12,053	36.85	+31.40
	New Democratic	Paul Comtois	4,295	13.13	+3.81
	Rhinoceros	Christian Jolicoeur	1,925	5.89	+0.52
	Parti nationaliste	Gilles Maillé	1,169	3.57
	Communist	Suzanne Dagenais	147	0.45	+0.22
	Social Credit	Roland Mireault	147	0.45	-2.88
	Commonwealth of Canada	Gilles Gervais	113	0.35
	Independent	Doris Lacroix	104	0.32
Total valid votes			32,707	100.00

1980 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Ouellet	22,399	74.69	+6.21
	New Democratic	Jean-Marc Dompierre	2,796	9.32	+3.78
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Hogue	1,634	5.45	-2.24
	Rhinoceros	La Mule Louis Harvey	1,608	5.36	+1.28
	Social Credit	Albert Paiement	999	3.33	-8.38
	Independent	Ghislaine Cloutier	245	0.82
	Union populaire	Lucie Desrosiers	170	0.57	+0.13
	Marxist–Leninist	Michel Gauthier	71	0.24	-0.18
	Communist	Danielle Ferland	68	0.23	-0.22
Total valid votes			29,990	100.00

1979 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Ouellet	23,619	68.48	+6.59
	Social Credit	Albert Paiement	4,039	11.71	-0.64
	Progressive Conservative	Claudy Mailly	2,652	7.69	-8.24
	New Democratic	Jean A. Richard	1,913	5.55	-2.94
	Rhinoceros	Jacques Hurtubise	1,409	4.09
	Independent	Raymond Beaudoin	412	1.19
	Communist	Claire Demers	153	0.44	-0.25
	Union populaire	Jean Saint-Amour	150	0.43
	Marxist–Leninist	Michel Gauthier	144	0.42	-0.24
Total valid votes			34,491	100.00

1974 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Ouellet	14,532	61.89	+8.46
	Progressive Conservative	Léon Vellone	3,740	15.93	+1.29
	Social Credit	Albert Paiement	2,899	12.35	-7.85
	New Democratic	Paul Marsan	1,992	8.48	-2.37
	Communist	Richard Ducharme	164	0.70
	Marxist–Leninist	Robert Wallace	155	0.66
Total valid votes			23,482	100.00

1972 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Ouellet	15,347	53.43	-9.78
	Social Credit	Albert Paiement	5,802	20.20	+15.39
	Progressive Conservative	Angelo Tiveron	4,205	14.64	-3.68
	New Democratic	Paul Marsan	3,118	10.85	-0.45
	Independent	Robert Wallace	254	0.88
Total valid votes			28,726	100.00

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.

1968 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Ouellet	14,379	63.20	+5.23
	Progressive Conservative	René Paquin	4,168	18.32	0.00
	New Democratic	Pierre Demers	2,572	11.31	-3.36
	Ralliement créditiste	Jean-Louis Marier	1,094	4.81
	Démocratisation Économique	Guy-Gilles Lacombe	537	2.36
Total valid votes			22,750	100.00

Canadian federal by-election, 29 May 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
On Mr. Favreau's resignation, 4 April 1967
	Liberal	André Ouellet	6,197	57.97	+4.87
	Progressive Conservative	Raymond Rochon	1,958	18.32	+1.25
	New Democratic	Michel Bissonnet	1,568	14.67	+1.21
	Radical chrétien	Albert Paiement	702	6.57
	Independent	Albert Cameron	265	2.48	+0.42
Total valid votes			10,690	100.00

1965 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Guy Favreau	13,920	53.10	+0.73
	Progressive Conservative	Basil Danchyshyn	4,474	17.07	+2.52
	New Democratic	Arturo Moretti	3,529	13.46	+2.14
	Ralliement créditiste	Albert Paiement	2,367	9.03	-7.54
	Independent Liberal	Léo-C. Morin	1,090	4.16
	Independent	Albert Cameron	540	2.06
	Rhinoceros	Lucien Rivard	297	1.13
Total valid votes			26,217	100.00

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

1963 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Guy Favreau	15,677	52.37	-2.56
	Social Credit	Albert Paiement	4,959	16.56	+10.82
	Progressive Conservative	Alphonse Thérien	4,353	14.54	-14.25
	New Democratic	Paul-Émile Trudel	3,388	11.32	+0.77
	Ouvrier Indépendant	Lionel Bécotte	1,064	3.55
	Candidat libéral des électeurs	Vincent Ialenti	496	1.66
Total valid votes			29,937	100.00

1962 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Adrien Meunier	16,062	54.93	+2.01
	Progressive Conservative	Alphonse Thérien	8,418	28.79	-12.68
	New Democratic	Vianney Desjardins	3,083	10.54	+6.74
	Social Credit	Ferruccio Ariano	1,680	5.74
Total valid votes			29,243	100.00

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

1958 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Adrien Meunier	18,466	52.92	-25.43
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Danis	14,468	41.46	+28.03
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Jean Riopel	1,328	3.81	-4.41
	Independent	Archie Luccisano	632	1.81
Total valid votes			34,894	100.00

1957 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Adrien Meunier	24,373	78.35	+40.79
	Progressive Conservative	Gaston Rodier	4,177	13.43	-5.05
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Jean Riopel	2,556	8.22	+6.30
Total valid votes			31,106	100.00

1953 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Adrien Meunier	10,387	38.65
	Liberal	Émile Dufresne	10,094	37.56	-10.15
	Progressive Conservative	Jules A. Le Beau	4,966	18.48	+16.24
	Independent Liberal	Armand Meunier	576	2.14
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Raymond Pineau	514	1.91	-0.15
	Labor–Progressive	Germaine Leclerc	337	1.25
Total valid votes			26,874	100.00

1949 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Camillien Houde	12,611	48.00
	Liberal	J.-Adrien Meunier	12,536	47.71
	Progressive Conservative	Wilfred Kendall	587	2.23
	Co-operative Commonwealth	J.-E. Léopold Cadieux	541	2.06
Total valid votes			26,275	100.00

See also

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

References

• "(Code 24048) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
• Riding history 1948–1988 from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history 2004–present from the Library of Parliament
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2017
2. Statistics Canada: 2017
3. Banerjee, Sidhartha (15 October 2008). "Leave leader talk to the pundits, rookie MP Justin Trudeau focused on riding". The Canadian Press. Retrieved 15 October 2008.
4. "Canada Votes 2008: Papineau". CBC News. 15 October 2008. Retrieved 15 October 2008.
5. https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=109979&PRID=10&PTYPE=109445&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=888&Temporal=2016,2017&THEME=118&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=
6. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
7. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
8. Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Papineau, 30 September 2015
9. Elections Canada – Final Candidates Election Expenses Limits
10. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
11. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada.
12. "By-Elections 1996 – Official Voting Results and Candidates' Contributions and Expenses". Elections Canada. Retrieved 16 August 2020.