Longueuil—Saint-Hubert Explained

Province:	Quebec
Fed-Status:	active
Fed-District-Number:	24043
Fed-Created:	1952
Fed-Election-First:	1953
Fed-Election-Last:	2021
Fed-Rep:	Denis Trudel
Fed-Rep-Party:	BQ
Demo-Pop-Ref:	^[1]
Demo-Area-Ref:	^[2]
Demo-Census-Date:	2016
Demo-Pop:	108703
Demo-Electors:	87113
Demo-Electors-Date:	2019
Demo-Area:	56
Demo-Cd:	South Shore
Demo-Csd:	Longueuil (part)

Longueuil—Saint-Hubert (formerly Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher and Longueuil) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from since 2015 ^[3]

Geography

This South Shore district in the Quebec region of Montérégie includes the eastern part of the City of Longueuil.

The neighbouring ridings are Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne, Montarville, Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères, La Pointe-de-l'Île, and Hochelaga.

Profile

This mainly Francophone riding is one of the NDP's safer seats on the South Shore. The NDP did well across the district, with the BQ coming in distant second for the most part. The Liberals and Conservatives did poorly in this riding, although the Liberals had a tiny pocket of somewhat strong support around Parc Michel-Chartrand. Despite winning the riding again in 2015, it was an extremely close contest. The Liberals surged into second place, just one point away from defeating the incumbent NDP candidate.

Demographics

According to the 2016 Canadian census

Twenty most common mother tongue languages (2016) : 83.5% French, 3.5% English, 3.1% Spanish, 2.1% Arabic, 1.0% Creole languages, 0.7% Romanian, 0.6% Farsi, 0.5% Portuguese, 0.5% Italian, 0.5% Russian, 0.5% Vietnamese, 0.4% Mandarin, 0.3% Kabyle, 0.2% Cantonese, 0.2% Greek, 0.1% Polish, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% Bulgarian, 0.1% German, 0.1% Lao, 0.1% Wolof^[4]

History

The electoral district was created as "Longueuil" in 1952 from parts of Chambly—Rouville and Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie ridings. It was renamed "Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher" in 2004.

This riding was largely replaced with "Longueuil—Saint-Hubert", losing territory to Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères and gaining territory from Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Election results

Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, 2015–present

2011 federal election redistributed results^[5]
Party	Vote	%
		26,335	50.02
		15,162	28.80
		5,313	10.09
		4,602	8.74
		1,156	2.20
	Others	86	0.16

Longueuil, 1952–2004

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election.

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

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

Note: New Democratic Party vote is compared to Co-operative Commonwealth Federation vote in the 1958 election.

References

Notes

45.5417°N -73.4417°W

Notes and References

[#2016fed|Statistics Canada]
[#2016fed|Statistics Canada]
Web site: Government Bill (House of Commons) C-37 (41-2) - Third Reading - Riding Name Change Act, 2014 - Parliament of Canada.
Web site: Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 2016 Census - 100% Data. 2 August 2017.
http://www.punditsguide.ca/riding.php?riding=1911 Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections