Cosmo Maciocia

Cosmo Maciocia (born February 2, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a city councillor in Montreal, Quebec.^[1]

Cosmo Maciocia
Borough mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles and Montreal City Counciller
In office 2005–2009
Succeeded by	Joe Magri
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Viger
In office 1981–2001
Preceded by	District was established in 1980
Succeeded by	Anna Mancuso
Personal details
Born	(1942-02-02) February 2, 1942 (age 83) Cantalupo nel Sannio, Italy
Political party	Liberal Union Montréal
Children	Alessia

Background

He was born in Cantalupo nel Sannio, Molise, Italy, on February 2, 1942, and arrived in Canada in 1964.

City councillor in Saint-Léonard

He was a city councillor in Saint-Léonard in 1978.

Member of the legislature

He successfully ran as a Liberal candidate to the provincial legislature for the district of Viger in 1981. He was re-elected in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 1998.

He was Parliamentary Assistant from 1985 to 1994.

Back in city politics

In the wake of the province-wide municipal merger of 2001, Maciocia gave up his seat and ran as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (French: Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l'Île de Montréal or UCIM) in the district of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin. The party is now known as Union Montréal.

In 2005, he was elected as borough mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles-Montréal-Est, and retained his position as mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles following the 2006 demerger of Montréal-Est.

Maciocia is a member of Montreal's executive committee.

He did not choose to run again in the 2009 Montreal municipal election, but his seat was retained for Union Montréal by Joe Magri.

Electoral record (incomplete)

v t e 1994 Quebec general election: Viger
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia (incumbent)	18,743	64.27
	Parti Québécois	Umberto di Genova	8,529	29.24
	New Democratic	Jean-Guy Couture	1,485	5.09
	Natural Law	Denis Lacroix	223	0.76
	Innovator	Roberto Barba	100	0.34
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Brunelle	85	0.29
Total valid votes			29,165	10.00	–
Total rejected ballots			527	2.32	–
Turnout			29,692	84.12
Electors on the lists			35,299	–	–
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

v t e 1989 Quebec general election: Viger
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	16,847	60.73
	Parti Québécois	Michel Dupont	8,075	29.11
	Equality	David De Santis	1,831	6.60
	Green	Rolf Bramann	877	3.16
	Marxist–Leninist	Catherine Commandeur	111	0.40
Total valid votes			27,741	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			690
Turnout			28,431	76.27
Electors on the lists			37,275
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.