Viger (electoral district)

Viger

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1980
District abolished	2001
First contested	1981
Last contested	2002 (by-election) [1]
Demographics
Census division(s)	Montreal (part)
Census subdivision(s)	Montreal (part)

Viger was a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada.

It consisted of part of the then city of Saint-Léonard later turned borough, Rosemont and Mercier-Est neighbourhoods in Montreal.

It was created for the 1981 election. Its final general election was in 1998; there was also a by-election in 2002. It disappeared in the 2003 election as its territory was carved up and distributed among the new electoral district of Jeanne-Mance–Viger and the existing electoral districts of Anjou, Rosemont and Viau .

It was named jointly for Denis-Benjamin Viger and Jacques Viger, ^[2] who were prominent politicians in the 1830s and 1840s.

Members of the National Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Jeanne-Mance and Viau
32nd	1981–1985		Cosmo Maciocia	Liberal
33rd	1985–1989
34th	1989–1994
35th	1994–1998
36th	1998–2001
	2002–2003		Anna Mancuso
Dissolved into Jeanne-Mance–Viger, Rosemont, Anjou-Louis-Riel, Viau

Election Results

2002 Viger By-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Anna Mancuso	8353	72.26	+7.46
	Parti Québécois	Claude Villeneuve	1741	15.06	-10.89
	Action démocratique	Gaetano Giumento	1245	10.77	+2.57
	Green	Adam Jastrzebski	221	1.91	-

1998 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	18715	64.80	+0.53
	Parti Québécois	Marie Di Corpo	7496	25.95	-3.29
	Action démocratique	Jacques Gauthier	2369	8.20	-
	Socialist Democracy	Alain Bernatchez	168	0.58	-
	Parti innovateur du Québec	Tommy Audet	135	0.47	-

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	23,209	67.88
	Oui	10.982	32.12

1994 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	18743	64.27	+3.54
	Parti Québécois	Umberto Di Genova	8529	29.24	+0.13
	New Democratic	Jean-Guy Couture	1485	5.09	-
	Natural Law	Denis Lacroix	223	0.76	-
	Parti des travailleurs du Québec	Roberto Barba	100	0.34	-
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Brunelle	85	0.29	-

1989 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	16847	60.73	-7.66
	Parti Québécois	Michel Dupont	8075	29.11	+2.04
	Equality	David De Santis	1831	6.60	-
	Green	Rolf Bramann	877	3.16	+2.15
	Marxist–Leninist	Catherine Commandeur	111	0.40	-

1985 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	20060	68.28	+8.83
	Parti Québécois	André Normandeau	7954	27.07	-11.71
	New Democratic	Renée Sigouin	617	2.10	-
	Green	Marius Henry	295	1.01	-
	Parti indépendantiste	Jacques Binette	235	0.80	-
	Independent	Amin Hachem	131	0.45	-
	Christian Socialist	Christian Rivest	86	0.29	-

1981 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	18794	59.37
	Parti Québécois	Paul Doyon	12266	38.74
	Union Nationale	J. François Emond	598	1.89

References

1. Although a new electoral map was decided in 2001, it did not go into effect until the next general election in 2003; by-elections were held using the old electoral map.
2. "Circonscription électorale de Jeanne-Mance–Viger". Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French). September 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-06.

External links

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (QuebecPolitique.com)

Maps

• 1992–2001 changes Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (Flash)

45°33′N73°34′W / 45.55°N 73.57°W / 45.55; -73.57