Laurentides (electoral district)

Laurentides ((French: [lɔʁɑ̃tid], Canadian French: [lɔʁɑ̃t͡sid] ^ⓘ)) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2003.

Laurentides

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1987
District abolished	2003
First contested	1988
Last contested	2000

This riding was created in 1987 from Labelle riding. It was abolished in 2003, and redistributed between Laurentides—Labelle and Rivière-du-Nord

Laurentides initially consisted of the towns of Estérel, Sainte-Adèle, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Saint-Antoine and Saint-Jérôme, and parts of the Counties of Labelle and Montcalm.

In 1996, the riding was redefined to consist of the cities of Estérel, Saint-Antoine, Saint-Jérôme, Saint-Jovite, Sainte-Adèle and Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, and parts of the County Regional Municipalities of Les Pays-d'en-Haut, La Rivière-du-Nord, and Le Laurentides.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Laurentides Riding created from Labelle
34th	1988–1993		Jacques Vien	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Monique Guay	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
Riding dissolved into Laurentides—Labelle and Rivière-du-Nord

Electoral history

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Vien	31,000
	Liberal	Serge Paquette	15,752
	New Democratic	Bill Clay	7,755
	Rhinoceros	Le Fakir Serge Hébert	1,408
	Commonwealth of Canada	Jean Vigneault	249

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Bloc Québécois	Monique Guay	41,476
	Liberal	Michelle Tisseyre	18,716
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Vien	7,059
	New Democratic	Patricia Houle	815
	Commonwealth of Canada	Gilles Gervais	484

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Bloc Québécois	Monique Guay	28,647
	Liberal	Paul-André Forget	19,053
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Vien	14,096
	New Democratic	David Rovins	844

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Bloc Québécois	Monique Guay	30,338
	Liberal	Dominique Boyer	23,616
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Vien	3,094
	Alliance	William Azeff	2,270
	Natural Law	Jacinthe Millaire	757
	New Democratic	Brendan Naef	720

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada