Laval (federal electoral district)

Laval (French: [laval] ^ⓘ) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917, 1949 to 1979, and from 2004 to 2015.

Laval

Quebec electoral district
Laval in relation to other federal electoral districts in Montreal
Coordinates:	45.578°N 73.742°W / 45.578; -73.742
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	2003
District abolished	2012
First contested	2004
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	110,376
Electors (2011)	82,362
Area (km²)[2]	45.37
Census division(s)	Laval
Census subdivision(s)	Laval

Geography

The district included the neighbourhoods of Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Fabreville in the City of Laval. The neighbouring ridings were Papineau, Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, Laval—Les Îles, Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, and Alfred-Pellan.

History

The electoral district of Laval was created in 1867 covering the entire County of Laval (now the City of Laval). In 1914, Laval riding was abolished. The district of Laval—Two Mountains was created from Laval and Two Mountains.

In 1947, the new district of Laval was created from Laval—Two Mountains and Mercier. In 1976, riding was abolished when it was redistributed into Laval-des-Rapides and Mille-Îles ridings.

In 1977, a new Laval riding was created. In 1990, it was renamed Laval West.

In 2003, a new Laval riding was created from Laval Centre and Laval West ridings.

It was abolished for the 2015 election, and dissolved into Vimy and Marc-Aurèle-Fortin.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Laval
1st	1867–1872		Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose	Conservative
2nd	1872–1873
	1873–1874		Joseph-Aldric Ouimet
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1891
7th	1891–1892
	1892–1896
8th	1896–1900		Thomas Fortin	Liberal
9th	1900–1901
	1902–1904		Joseph-Édouard-Émile Léonard	Conservative
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1911		Charles-Avila Wilson	Liberal
12th	1911–1917
Riding dissolved into Laval—Two Mountains
Riding re-created from Laval—Two Mountains and Mercier
21st	1949–1953		Léopold Demers	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Rodrigue Bourdages	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963		Jean-Léo Rochon	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972		Marcel-Claude Roy
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
Riding dissolved into Laval-des-Rapides and Mille-Îles
Riding re-created from Laval Centre and Laval West
38th	2004–2006		Nicole Demers	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015		José Núñez-Melo	New Democratic
	2015–2015			Independent
Riding dissolved into Vimy and Marc-Aurèle-Fortin

Election results

2004-present

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	José Núñez-Melo	22,050	43.33	+30.88
	Bloc Québécois	Nicole Demers	11,567	22.73	-15.06
	Liberal	Eva Nassif	9,422	18.51	-9.59
	Conservative	Robert Malo	6,366	12.33	-5.51
	Green	Jocelyne Leduc	1,260	2.48	-0.70
	Marxist–Leninist	Yvon Breton	224	0.44	+0.01
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,889	100.00
Total rejected ballots			738	1.43	-0.07
Turnout			51,627	60.74	-1.50
Eligible voters			84,991	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Nicole Demers	19,085	37.79	-6.6	$68,964
	Liberal	Alia Haddad	14,190	28.10	+2.5	$19,244
	Conservative	Jean-Pierre Bélisle	9,101	18.02	-0.6	$73,966
	New Democratic	Alain Giguère	6,289	12.45	+4.3	$1,831
	Green	Eric Madelein	1,607	3.18	-0.2
	Marxist–Leninist	Yvon Breton	221	0.43	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,493	100.00	$86,875
Total rejected ballots			769	1.50
Turnout			51,262	62.24

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Nicole Demers	22,032	44.3	-5.7	–	$74,484
	Liberal	Alia Haddad	12,698	25.6	-10.6	–	$23,250
	Conservative	Émilio Migliozzi	9,236	18.6	+12.2	–	$5,780
	New Democratic	Benoit Beauchamp	4,047	8.1	+4.0	–	$1,467
	Green	Philippe Mari	1,666	3.4	+1.1	–	$828
Total			49,679	100.0	$80,650

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Nicole Demers	24,425	50.1	–	$61,946
	Liberal	Pierre Lafleur	17,639	36.2	–	$67,777
	Conservative	Stéphane D'Amours	3,115	6.4	–	$12,823
	New Democratic	Alain Giguère	1,998	4.1	–	$221
	Green	Damien Pichereau	1,091	2.2	–
	Marijuana	Pierre Losier-Côté	492	1.0	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			48,760	100.0	$79,622

1979-1993

See Laval West.

1949-1979

v t e 1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marcel-Claude Roy	29,715	65.3	+6.5
	Progressive Conservative	Marial Jolicoeur	7,224	15.9	+2.9
	New Democratic	Paul Laliberté	4,258	9.4	-2.9
	Social Credit	Pierre Gouroff	3,922	8.6	-5.9
	Independent	Maurice Juteau	382	0.8
Total valid votes			45,501	100.0

v t e 1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marcel-Claude Roy	28,121	58.8	-5.5
	Social Credit	Pierre Gouroff	6,921	14.5	+12.0
	Progressive Conservative	Georges Massicotte	6,219	13.0	+0.5
	New Democratic	D.A. Boyle	5,868	12.3	-2.8
	Independent	Robert Fine	669	1.4
Total valid votes			47,798	100.0
Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.
Source: lop.parl.ca

v t e 1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marcel-Claude Roy	24,740	64.4	+13.7
	New Democratic	D.-A. Boyle	5,807	15.1	-9.3
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Louis Léger	4,801	12.5	-2.9
	Franc Lib	Jean-Roger Marcotte	2,141	5.6
	Ralliement créditiste	Thomas Leclerc	940	2.4	-7.1
Total valid votes			38,429	100.0

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jean-Léo Rochon	44,533	50.7	-3.3
	New Democratic	Louis-Philippe Lecours	21,484	24.4	+9.0
	Progressive Conservative	Rudy Hébert	13,553	15.4	+1.8
	Ralliement créditiste	Jean-Charles Brouillard	8,349	9.5	-7.5
Total valid votes			87,919	100.0

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

v t e 1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jean-Léo Rochon	43,452	53.9	+4.4
	Social Credit	Roland Reeves	13,701	17.0	+11.1
	New Democratic	Louis-Philippe Lecours	12,478	15.5	+8.2
	Progressive Conservative	Georges Long	10,963	13.6	-17.6
Total valid votes			80,594	100.0

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jean-Léo Rochon	36,248	49.5	+3.3
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Rodrigue Bourdages	22,843	31.2	-16.3
	New Democratic	Louis-Ph. Lecours	5,302	7.2	+3.3
	Independent Liberal	Adrien Bonin	4,513	6.2
	Social Credit	Léopold Mercier	4,294	5.9
Total valid votes			73,200	100.0

v t e 1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Rodrigue Bourdages	26,076	47.5	+34.8
	Liberal	Léopold Demers	25,363	46.2	-14.4
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Jacques Champagne	2,165	3.9	+1.2
	Independent PC	Alexandre Joly	796	1.5
	Independent Liberal	Arthur Prévost	476	0.9
Total valid votes			54,876	100.0

v t e 1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Léopold Demers	26,254	60.6	-10.2
	Independent	Rodrigue Bourdages	10,333	23.9
	Progressive Conservative	Alexandre Joly	5,525	12.8	-14.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gisèle Couture	1,205	2.8	+0.4
Total valid votes			43,317	100.0

v t e 1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Léopold Demers	19,337	70.9	+6.1
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Jarry	7,309	26.8	-8.4
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Joseph-Roméo Martin	645	2.4
Total valid votes			27,291	100.0

v t e 1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Léopold Demers	18,202	64.8
	Progressive Conservative	Léopold Pouliot	9,888	35.2
Total valid votes			28,090	100.0

1867-1917

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles-Avila Wilson	2,648	52.0	+1.2
	Conservative	Joseph-Édouard-Émile Léonard	2,449	48.0	-1.2
Total valid votes			5,097	100.0

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles-Avila Wilson	2,194	50.8	+1.4
	Conservative	Joseph-Édouard-Émile Léonard	2,125	49.2	-1.4
Total valid votes			4,319	100.0

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph-Édouard-Émile Léonard	1,842	50.6	+1.1
	Liberal	C. Paquette	1,798	49.4	+0.2
Total valid votes			3,640	100.0

Canadian federal by-election, 15 January 1902
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Fortin named Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, Montreal District, 25 September 1901

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Fortin	1,821	54.8	+3.3
	Conservative	J.E. Émile Léonard	1,502	45.2	-3.3
Total valid votes			3,323	100.0

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Fortin	1,541	51.5	+17.9
	Conservative	F.J. Bisaillon	1,449	48.5	-17.9
Total valid votes			2,990	100.0

By-election on 25 January 1892 Ouimet named Minister of Public Works, 11 January 1892
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	acclaimed

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal–Conservative	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	1,082	66.4	+4.9
	Liberal	N.H. Ladouceur	548	33.6	-4.9
Total valid votes			1,630	100.0

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal–Conservative	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	854	61.5
	Liberal	Adolp. Ouimet	534	38.5
Total valid votes			1,388	100.0

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	acclaimed

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	acclaimed

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	acclaimed
Source(s) "Laval, Quebec (1867-08-06 - 1917-10-05)". History of Federal Ridings Since 1867. Library of Parliament. Retrieved 15 July 2024. [3]

By-election on 18 October 1873 On Mr. Bellerose being called to the Senate, 7 October 1873
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	acclaimed

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose	acclaimed
Source: Canadian Elections Database[4]

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose	acclaimed
Source: Canadian Elections Database[5]

See also

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