Montcalm (federal electoral district)

Montcalm

Quebec electoral district
Montcalm in relation to other electoral districts in Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Luc Thériault Bloc Québécois
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016) [1]	107,981
Electors (2019)	88,525
Area (km²) [1]	906
Pop. density (per km²)	119.2
Census division(s)	Les Moulins Montcalm
Census subdivision(s)	Mascouche, Saint-Lin–Laurentides, Sainte-Julienne, L'Épiphanie, Saint-Calixte, Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Saint-Jacques, Saint-Liguori, Saint-Esprit, Saint-Alexis

Montcalm is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, which has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917 and since 2004.

In the 2004 election, the Bloc Québécois won a larger percentage of the vote than in any other riding, with 71% of the vote. It held the seat until 2011, when it was defeated by the NDP.

Geography

The riding is located to the northeast of the Montreal region, in the Quebec region of Lanaudière. It consists of the Montcalm RCM, the city of Mascouche, and the districts of La Plaine and Lachenaie in the city of Terrebonne.

The neighbouring ridings are Joliette, Repentigny, La Pointe-de-l'Île, Honoré-Mercier, Alfred-Pellan, Terrebonne—Blainville, and Rivière-du-Nord.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census ^[2]

Ethnic groups: 92.4% White, 3.0% Black, 1.8% Indigenous, 1.0% Latin American

Languages: 92.8% French, 1.8% English, 1.0% Spanish

Religions: 66.8% Christian (59.4% Catholic, 7.4% Other), 1.2% Muslim, 31.6% none

Median income: $42,400 (2020)

Average income: $48,640 (2020)

History

Montcalm riding was created by the British North America Act of 1867. It was abolished in 1914 when it was merged into L'Assomption—Montcalm riding.

It was re-created in 2003 from parts of the ridings of Berthier—Montcalm, Repentigny, and Terrebonne—Blainville.

This riding lost territory to Terrebonne and gained some territory from Repentigny during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Montcalm
1st	1867–1871		Joseph Dufresne	Conservative
	1871–1872		Firmin Dugas
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1891		Olaüs Thérien
7th	1891–1892		Joseph Louis Euclide Dugas
	1892–1896
8th	1896–1900
9th	1900–1904		François Octave Dugas	Liberal
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1909
	1909–1911		David Arthur Lafortune	Independent Liberal
12th	1911–1917			Liberal
Riding dissolved into L'Assomption—Montcalm
Riding re-created from Berthier—Montcalm, Repentigny and Terrebonne—Blainville
38th	2004–2006		Roger Gaudet	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2014		Manon Perreault	New Democratic
	2014–2015			Independent
	2015–2015			Strength in Democracy
42nd	2015–2018		Luc Thériault	Bloc Québécois
	2018–2018			Groupe parlementaire québécois
	2018–2019			Bloc Québécois
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Election results

2004–present

Graph of election results in Montcalm (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Luc Thériault	27,378	53.2	-4.8	$28,966.29
	Liberal	Javeria Qureshi	10,196	19.8	-0.6	$5,445.75
	Conservative	Gisèle Desroches	6,011	11.7	+2.7	$6,098.27
	New Democratic	Oulai B. Goué	3,218	6.3	-0.1	$287.44
	People's	Bruno Beaudry	2,258	4.4	+3.4	$0.00
	Green	Mathieu Goyette	1,317	2.6	-1.8	$0.00
	Free	Robert Bellerose	1,074	2.1	N/A	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			51,452	97.5	–	$120,692.56
Total rejected ballots			1,337	2.5
Turnout			52,789	57.0
Eligible voters			92,547
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		+2.1
Source: Elections Canada [3]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Luc Thériault	31,791	58.01	+21.40	$43,460.97
	Liberal	Isabel Sayegh	11,200	20.44	-6.88	$33,958.89
	Conservative	Gisèle DesRoches	4,942	9.02	-0.59	none listed
	New Democratic	Julian Bonello-Stauch	3,514	6.41	-17.04	$0.10
	Green	Mathieu Goyette	2,416	4.41	+2.57	none listed
	People's	Hugo Clenin	524	0.96	–	none listed
	Indépendence du Québec	Marc Labelle	419	0.76	–	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			54,806	100.0
Total rejected ballots			1,311	1.48	-0.72
Turnout			56,117	63.39	-1.53
Eligible voters			88,525
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		+14.14
Source: Elections Canada [4] [5]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Luc Thériault	19,405	36.61	+5.17	$17,567.65
	Liberal	Louis-Charles Thouin	14,484	27.32	+22.4	$70,923.39
	New Democratic	Martin Leclerc	12,431	23.45	-28.45	$65,982.01
	Conservative	Gisèle Desroches	5,093	9.61	+1.66	$6,282.61
	Green	Yumi Yow Mei Ang	976	1.84	-1.95	–
	Strength in Democracy	Manon Perreault	620	1.17	–51.80	$4,015.36
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,009	100.0		$220,941.63
Total rejected ballots			1,226	2.20	+0.41
Turnout			54,235	64.92	+3.16
Eligible voters			83,532
	Bloc Québécois notional gain from Strength in Democracy		Swing		+16.78
Source: Elections Canada [6] [7]

2011 federal election redistributed results [8]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	23,228	51.90
	Bloc Québécois	14,070	31.44
	Conservative	3,556	7.95
	Liberal	2,204	4.92
	Green	1,697	3.79

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Manon Perreault	34,434	52.97	+39.1
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Gaudet	19,609	30.16	-25.5
	Conservative	Jason Fuoco	5,118	7.87	-5.6
	Liberal	Yves Dufour	3,501	5.39	-8.5
	Green	Marianne Girard	2,347	3.61	+0.5
Total valid votes/expense limit			65,009	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,183	1.79	-0.3
Turnout			66,192	61.76	–
Eligible voters			107,180	–	–

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Gaudet	33,519	55.69		$73,797
	Liberal	David Grégoire	8,387	13.93	–	$7,023
	New Democratic	Marie-Josée Beauchamp	8,337	13.85		none listed
	Conservative	Claude Marc Boudreau	8,096	13.45		$79,804
	Green	Michel Paulette	1,854	3.08	–	$722
Total valid votes			60,193	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,296
Turnout			61,489	61.73
Electors on the lists			99,604
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Gaudet	34,873	62.2	-9.0
	Conservative	Michel Paulette	10,812	19.3	+13.4	$6,764
	Liberal	Luc Fortin	4,646	8.3	-8.1	$9,690
	New Democratic	Nancy Leclerc	3,760	6.7	+3.5	$0
	Green	Wendy Gorchinsky	1,948	3.5	+0.1
Total			56,039	100.0	–	$86,039

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Gaudet	34,383	71.2	–	$61,436
	Liberal	Daniel Brazeau	7,915	16.4	–	$78,151
	Conservative	Michel Paulette	2,831	5.9	–	$3,730
	Green	Serge Bellemare	1,606	3.3	–	$0
	New Democratic	François Rivest	1,531	3.2
Total valid votes/expense limit			48,266	100.0	$81,149

1867–1917

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Arthur Lafortune	1,432	51.0	+5.3
	Conservative	Joseph-Eugène-Edmond Marion	1,374	49.0
Total valid votes			2,806	100.0

Canadian federal by-election, 25 September 1909
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
On Mr. Dugas being appointed Judge of the Quebec Superior Court, 6 September 1909
	Independent Liberal	David Arthur Lafortune	1,256	54.3
	Liberal	Omer Lapierre	1,058	45.7	-7.6
Total valid votes			2,314	100.0

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	François Octave Dugas	1,432	53.3	+0.1
	Conservative	Joseph-Adolphe Renaud	1,256	46.7	-0.1
Total valid votes			2,688	100.0

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	François Octave Dugas	1,227	53.2	-1.0
	Conservative	J.E.E. Marion	1,079	46.8	+1.0
Total valid votes			2,306	100.0

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	François Octave Dugas	1,212	54.2	+11.2
	Conservative	Louis Euclide Dugas	1,024	45.8	-11.2
Total valid votes			2,236	100.0

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Joseph-Louis-Euclide Dugas	1,202	57.0
	Liberal	Louis Victor Labelle	907	43.0
Total valid votes			2,109	100.0

By-election on 5 March 1892 On election being declared void, 28 January 1892
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph-Louis-Euclide Dugas	acclaimed

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Louis Dugas	673	37.0
	Conservative	Olaüs Thérien	632	34.7	-18.6
	Conservative	Octave Magnan	516	28.3
Total valid votes			1,821	100.0

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Olaüs Thérien	953	53.3	+2.8
	Nationalist	Firmin Dugas	835	46.7
Total valid votes			1,788	100.0

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	828	50.5	+0.6
	Unknown	Octave Magnan	812	49.5
Total valid votes			1,640	100.0

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	698	49.9
	Unknown	N. Forest	374	26.8
	Unknown	I.B. Deslongchamp	240	17.2
	Unknown	V.J.E. Brouillet	86	6.2
Total valid votes			1,398	100.0

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	acclaimed

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	acclaimed

By-election on 15 September 1871 On Mr. Dufresne's resignation, to become Sheriff of the County of St. John, 13 July 1871
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Firmin Dugas	acclaimed

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph Dufresne	acclaimed

See also

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

References

• "Montcalm (federal electoral district) (Code 24043) Census Profile". 2011 census . Government of Canada - Statistics Canada . Retrieved March 7, 2011.
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
• Riding history 1867-1914 from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history 2003-present from the Library of Parliament
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Montcalm [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Quebec". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved October 12, 2023.
3. "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada . Retrieved September 2, 2021.
4. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
5. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
6. Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Montcalm, 30 September 2015
7. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
8. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections