Viger (electoral district)

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Viger
Flag of Quebec.svg Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature National Assembly of Quebec
District created1980
District abolished2001
First contested 1981
Last contested2002 (by-election) [1]
Demographics
Census division(s) Montreal (part)
Census subdivision(s) Montreal (part)

Viger was a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada.

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It consisted of part of the Saint-Léonard, 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 and Rosemont.

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

LegislatureYearsMemberParty
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

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