Repentigny (federal electoral district)

Repentigny
Quebec electoral district
	Repentigny in relation to other electoral districts in Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Monique Pauzé; Bloc Québécois
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District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	111,191
Electors (2015)	91,542
Area (km²)	198
Pop. density (per km²)	561.6
Census division(s)	L'Assomption
Census subdivision(s)	Repentigny, L'Assomption, Charlemagne, Saint-Sulpice

Repentigny is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997. It consists of the Regional County Municipality of L'Assomption, except the city and parish of L'Épiphanie.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census^[2]

Ethnic groups: 83.9% White, 8.4% Black, 3.1% Arab, 2.0% Latin American, 1.2% Indigenous
Languages: 87.9% French, 1.9% Spanish, 1.6% Arabic, 1.5% English, 1.4% Haitian Creole
Religions: 69.6% Christian (59.2% Catholic, 10.4% other), 4.7% Muslim, 25.2% none

Median income: $44,800 (2020)

Average income: $52,400 (2020)

Political geography

Repentigny had long been one of the most separatist ridings in Quebec. In the 2006 election, every single poll was won by the Bloc Québécois. However, the riding was caught up in the New Democratic Party tsunami that swept through the province five years later.

History

It was created in 1996 from parts of Joliette and Terrebonne ridings. It consisted initially of the cities of Charlemagne, Lachenaie, Mascouche and Repentigny; and the Parish Municipality of La Plaine in the County Regional Municipality of Les Moulins. This riding lost territory to Montcalm during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Repentigny Riding created from Joliette and Terrebonne
36th	1997–2000	Benoît Sauvageau	Bloc Québécois
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2006
39th	2006–2008	Raymond Gravel
40th	2008–2011	Nicolas Dufour
41st	2011–2014	Jean-François Larose	New Democratic
41st	2014–2015	Jean-François Larose	Strength in Democracy
42nd	2015–2018	Monique Pauzé	Bloc Québécois
	2018–2018		Groupe parlementaire québécois
	2018–2019		Bloc Québécois
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Electoral history

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

2021 federal election

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Monique Pauzé	30,858	51.70	-1.53	$26,104.21
	Liberal	Yvelie Kernizan	16,471	27.59	-0.08	$83,019.73
	Conservative	Pascal Bapfou Vozang Siewe	5,332	8.93	+1.48	$5,834.62
	New Democratic	Naomie Mathieu Chauvette	4,489	7.52	+0.69	$0.00
	Free	Pierre Duval	2,026	3.39	–	$1,674.32
	Indépendance du Québec	Micheline Boucher Granger	516	0.86	+0.33	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			59,692	–	–	$121,018.96
Total rejected ballots
Turnout				64.30	-7.75
Eligible voters			92,838
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		-0.73
Source: Elections Canada^[3]

2021 federal election redistributed results^[4]
Party		Vote	%
	Bloc Québécois	28,822	51.37
	Liberal	15,788	28.14
	Conservative	4,961	8.84
	New Democratic	4,187	7.46
	Others	2,354	4.20

2019 federal election

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Monique Pauzé	34,837	53.22	+18.54	$30,732.10
	Liberal	Josée Larose	18,111	27.67	+0.38	$49.196.96
	Conservative	Pierre Branchaud	4,878	7.45	-3.37	$15,427.48
	New Democratic	Meryem Benslimane	4,470	6.83	-16.43	$0.33
	Green	Diane Beauregard	2,289	3.50	+1.60	$0.00
	People's	Samuel Saint-Laurent	524	0.80	-	none listed
	Indépendence du Québec	Micheline Boucher Granger	347	0.53	-	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			65,456	98.03
Total rejected ballots			1,316	1.97
Turnout			66,772	72.04	-0.17
Eligible voters			92,684
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		+9.08
Source: Elections Canada^[5]^[6]

2015 federal election

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Monique Pauzé	22,618	34.68	+3.85	$34,690.68
	Liberal	Adriana Dudas	17,798	27.29	+19.37	$14,244.15
	New Democratic	Réjean Bellemare	15,167	23.26	-28.81	$54,858.57
	Conservative	Jonathan Lefebvre	7,053	10.82	+3.37	$1,747.31
	Strength in Democracy	Johnathan Cloutier	1,333	2.04	–
	Green	Yoland Gilbert	1,242	1.9	+0.17	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			65,211	100.0		$234,508.21
Total rejected ballots			1,179	–	–
Turnout			66,390	72.21	–
Eligible voters			91,986
	Bloc Québécois gain from Strength in Democracy		Swing		+16.32
Source: Elections Canada^[7]^[8]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[9]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	30,339	52.07
	Bloc Québécois	17,963	30.83
	Liberal	4,613	7.92
	Conservative	4,342	7.45
	Green	1,006	1.73

2011 federal election

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jean-François Larose	32,131	51.92	+36.77
	Bloc Québécois	Nicolas Dufour	19,242	31.09	-21.97
	Liberal	Chantal Perreault	4,830	7.81	-7.17
	Conservative	Christophe Royer	4,606	7.44	-6.54
	Green	Michel Duchaine	1,078	1.74	-1.11
Total valid votes/expense limit			61,887	100.00
Total rejected ballots			934	1.49	–
Turnout			62,821	66.91	–
Eligible voters			93,882	–	–

2008 federal election

Fr. Gravel chose not to run again, citing pressure from the Church. Party activist Nicolas Dufour secured the Bloc nomination, becoming one of their youngest candidates. Réjean Bellemare ran again for the NDP. The Bloc held the riding handily, with the NDP securing one of the party's four second-place finishes in the province.

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Nicolas Dufour	31,005	53.06	-13.20	$90,525
	New Democratic	Réjean Bellemare	8,853	15.15	+8.13	$5,448
	Liberal	Robert Semegen	8,746	14.97	+8.74	$7,684
	Conservative	Bruno Royer	8,168	13.98	-4.72	$46,962
	Green	Paul W. Fournier	1,666	2.85	–	–	$4,967
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,438	100.00	$91,738
Turnout			–	53.3
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		-10.7

2006 by-election

MP Benoît Sauvageau was killed in a car accident on August 28, 2006. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for a by-election on October 22, 2006 with a polling day of November 27, 2006.

There had been a lot of pressure from opposition parties for Public Works Minister Michael Fortier, a Conservative senator, to run here; however, he has declined. Fortier was appointed to the Senate and the Cabinet to represent Greater Montreal which elected no Conservatives in the last federal election, while Fortier pledged to resign from the Senate and seek election to the House of Commons in the next federal election. Instead, the Conservative candidate was Stéphane Bourgon, a lawyer. The Bloc Québécois, of which Sauvageau was a member, ran Raymond Gravel, a Roman Catholic priest.^[10] The New Democratic Party candidate was union activist and former Canadian Navy member Réjean Bellemare, who had also run for the NDP in the previous general election.

The Green Party of Canada had announced that Marc-André Gadoury would be their candidate, but he did not complete and submit paperwork to Elections Canada in sufficient time to get on the ballot. Gadoury suggested that the Greens did not submit the paperwork on purpose and on November 25, 2006, La Presse reported that Gadoury was endorsing the NDP candidate, Réjean Bellemare.

Raymond Gravel of the Bloc Québécois won the by-election with an approximately two-thirds majority of votes.

Canadian federal by-election, 27 November 2006
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Raymond Gravel	20,635	66.26	+3.84	$84,032
	Conservative	Stéphane Bourgon	5,822	18.69	+0.61	$46,980
	New Democratic	Réjean Bellemare	2,187	7.02	-0.72	$34,699
	Liberal	Christian Turenne	1,940	6.23	-2.42	$15,043
	Independent	Jocelyne Leduc	390	1.25	n/a	$45
	Canadian Action	Mahmood Raza Baig	91	0.29	n/a	$5,641
	Independent	Régent Millette	78	0.25	n/a
Total valid votes/expense limit			31,143	100.00	$85,285
Called because of the death of M. Sauvageau on 28 August 2006

1997-2006

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Benoît Sauvageau	34,958	62.42	-7.64	$66,386
	Conservative	Claude Lafortune, Jr.	10,124	18.08	+13.31	$4,967
	Liberal	Josyanne Forest	4,847	8.65	-9.6	$8,129
	New Democratic	Réjean Bellemare	4,337	7.74	+4.76	$7,511
	Green	Adam Jastrzebski	1,742	3.11	+0.22	$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			56,008	100.00	$82,825

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Benoît Sauvageau	35,907	70.06	+12.26
	Liberal	Lévis Brien	9,353	18.25	-8.63	$76,485
	Conservative	Allen F. Mackenzie	2,447	4.77	-5.69	$5,725
	New Democratic	André Cardinal	1,526	2.98	+1.55
	Green	Jean-François Lévêque	1,482	2.89	n/a	$0
	Marijuana	François Boudreau	539	1.05	-2.38
Total valid votes/expense limit			51,254	100.00	$79,823

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Benoît Sauvageau	33,627	57.80	+1.51
	Liberal	David Veillette	15,635	26.88	+5.75
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Carignan	3,122	5.37	-15.66
	Alliance	Michel Paulette	2,964	5.09	n/a
	Marijuana	Lise Dufour	1,997	3.43	n/a
	New Democratic	Pierre Péclet	831	1.43	-0.12
Total			58,176	100.00

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Bloc Québécois	Benoît Sauvageau	33,283	56.29
	Liberal	Robert Tranchemontagne	12,495	21.13
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Carignan	12,436	21.03
	New Democratic	Normand Caplette	916	1.55
Total			59,130	100.00

References

"Repentigny (federal electoral district) (Code 24053) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
Riding history from the Library of Parliament
2011 Results from Elections Canada

Notes

^ ^a ^b Statistics Canada: 2012
^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Repentigny [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Quebec". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved October 12, 2023.
^ "September 20, 2021 General Election Election Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
^ "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Repentigny, 30 September 2015
^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
^ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
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[s1-1] Statistics Canada: 2012

[2] Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Repentigny [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Quebec". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved October 12, 2023.

[3] "September 20, 2021 General Election Election Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.

[4] "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2024.

[5] "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.

[6] "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.

[7] Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Repentigny, 30 September 2015

[8] Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates

[9] Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

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