Saint-Michel (electoral district)

For other uses, see Saint-Michel (disambiguation).

Saint-Michel (also known as Saint-Michel—Ahuntsic) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1988.

Saint-Michel

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1966
District abolished	1987
First contested	1968
Last contested	1984

This riding was created in 1966 from portions of Mercier and Papineau ridings. From 1966 to 1979 it encompassed the neighbourhood of Saint-Michel and the then independent city of Saint-Leonard. In 1979 its boundaries changed and now included the neighbourhood Ahuntsic while Saint-Leonard was redistributed into Saint-Leonard-Anjou. In 1983, it was renamed "Saint-Michel—Ahuntsic". It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Ahuntsic and Papineau—Saint-Michel ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Saint-Michel Riding created from Mercier and Papineau
28th	1968–1972		Victor Forget	Liberal
29th	1972–1974		Monique Bégin
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980		Marie Thérèse Killens
32nd	1980–1984
Saint-Michel—Ahuntsic
33rd	1984–1988		Marie Thérèse Killens	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Ahuntsic and Papineau—Saint-Michel

Election results

Saint-Michel, 1968–1984

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Victor Forget	22,307
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Balena	4,685
	New Democratic	Robert Culmer	3,176
	Ralliement créditiste	Edgar Paquin	2,515
	Démocratisation Économique	Sylvio-Robert St-Jean	711

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Monique Bégin	23,850
	Social Credit	Charles-Eugène Landry	8,591
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Maurice Bergeron	7,158
	Independent	Robert G. Beale	4,758
	New Democratic	Hélène Lewis	4,551

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Monique Bégin	29,822
	Progressive Conservative	Pierre Noël	6,816
	Social Credit	Charles-Eugène Landry	4,348
	New Democratic	J. Richard Sylvestre	3,833
	Marxist–Leninist	Anna C. Campagna	476
	Communist	Gloria Mallaroni	277

v t e 1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Marie Thérèse Killens	29,046
	Social Credit	John Mitchell	4,299
	New Democratic	Filippo Salvatore	2,616
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Louis Pozza	2,602
	Rhinoceros	François Gourd	1,453
	Union populaire	Bernard L. Longpré	432
	Communist	Vittoria Bronzati	177
	Marxist–Leninist	Serge Tremblay	147

v t e 1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Marie Thérèse Killens	27,210
	New Democratic	Frank Reiss	3,422
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Louis Pozza	2,059
	Rhinoceros	Benoit Yodepèch Chaput	1,603
	Social Credit	Charles E. Landry	1,079
	Union populaire	Bernard L. Longpré	279
	Not affiliated	Luigi D'Alonzo	189
	Communist	Vitoria Bronzati	116
	Marxist–Leninist	Serge Tremblay	93

Saint-Michel—Ahuntsic, 1984–1988

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Marie Thérèse Killens	17,269
	Progressive Conservative	René Paradis	15,444
	New Democratic	Hélène Mongeau	4,875
	Rhinoceros	Le Sénateur Luc Dumont	1,543
	Parti nationaliste	Louis De Kinder	1,243
	Communist	Line Chabot	190
	Commonwealth of Canada	Joseph A. El-Sayed	88

See also

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