Les Pays-d'en-Haut (electoral district)

Les Pays-d'en-Haut

Quebec electoral district
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Tim Watchorn Liberal
District created	2023
First contested	2025
Demographics
Population (2021) [1]	106,834
Electors (2025)	94,957
Census division(s)	Les Pays-d'en-Haut, Argenteuil, Matawinie, Montcalm, La Rivière-du-Nord
Census subdivision(s)	Saint-Colomban, Sainte-Adèle, Prévost, Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Hippolyte, Saint-Calixte, Chertsey, Morin-Heights, Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs, Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard

Les Pays-d'en-Haut (English: The Upper Countries) is a federal electoral district in Quebec. It was created by the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution and legally defined by the 2023 representation order for Quebec, which came into effect for the 2025 Canadian federal election.

Geography

Les Pays-d'en-Haut was created to accommodate population growth in the Laurentides and Lanaudière regions. It comprises the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality as well as parts of the neighbouring Regional County Municipalities of Argenteuil, Matawinie, Montcalm, and La Rivière-du-Nord. ^{[2] [3]}

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census ^[4]

• Racial groups: 98.1% White, 1.9% Visible minority
• Languages: 91.5% French, 7.5% English
• Religions: 64.7% Christian (58.1% Catholic, 6.6% Other), 34.3% No religion
• Median income: $42,000 (2020)
• Average income: $53,950 (2020)

History

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Les Pays-d'en-Haut Riding created from Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, Joliette, Laurentides—Labelle, Mirabel, Montcalm, and Rivière-du-Nord
45th	2025–present		Tim Watchorn	Liberal

Election results

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Tim Watchorn	26,967	41.04	+15.15
	Bloc Québécois	Ariane Charbonneau	23,750	36.15	-11.39
	Conservative	Vincent Leroux	11,816	17.98	+6.32
	New Democratic	Eric-Abel Baland	1,493	2.27	-4.62
	Green	Karine Steinberger	1,038	1.58	+0.05
	People's	George Mogiljansky	639	0.97	-3.36
Total valid votes/expense limit			65,703	98.73
Total rejected ballots			848	1.27
Turnout			66,551	69.76
Eligible voters			95,406
	Liberal notional gain from Bloc Québécois		Swing		+13.27
Source: Elections Canada [5] [6]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

2021 federal election redistributed results [7]
Party		Vote	%
	Bloc Québécois	26,240	47.54
	Liberal	14,290	25.89
	Conservative	6,436	11.66
	New Democratic	3,800	6.89
	People's	2,388	4.33
	Green	844	1.53
	Others	1,192	2.16

References

1. "Les Pays-d'en-Haut  – Final boundaries". Federal Electoral Districts Redistribution . Retrieved 16 April 2024.
2. "Proposal of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Quebec" (PDF). Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Quebec. 29 July 2022. pp. 17–18.
3. "Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Quebec" (PDF). Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Quebec. 22 September 2023. pp. 40–41.
4. "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Les Pays-d'en-Haut [Federal electoral district (2023 Representation Order)], Quebec". Statistics Canada . Retrieved 16 April 2024.
5. "Voter information service". Elections Canada. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
6. "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". Elections Canada. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
7. "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada . Retrieved 9 April 2024.