Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs

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Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs
Quebec electoral district
Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs (Canadian electoral district).svg
Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs in relation to other federal electoral districts in Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
LegislatureHouse of Commons
MP
 
 
 
Marc Miller
Liberal
District created2013
First contested2015
District webpageprofile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]103,070
Electors (2015)83,351
Area (km²)[1]19
Pop. density (per km²)5,424.7
Census divisionsMontreal (part)
Census subdivisionsMontreal (part)

Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. It encompasses a portion of Quebec formerly included in the electoral districts of Jeanne-Le Ber, Westmount—Ville-Marie, Laurier—Sainte-Marie and Outremont.[2]

Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, which took place 19 October 2015.[3]

The riding was originally intended to be named Ville-Marie.[4]

Geography[edit]

The riding included the western part of Ville-Marie (downtown), the neighbourhoods of Saint-Henri, Little Burgundy, Griffintown and Pointe-Saint-Charles in the Le Sud-Ouest borough. As well as Nuns' Island in the borough of Verdun.

Demographics[edit]

According to the Canada 2016 Census
  • Languages (2016 mother tongue) : 43.4% French, 21.1% English, 6.2% Arabic, 5.2% Mandarin, 4.3% Spanish, 2.8% Farsi, 1.6% Russian, 1.5% Bengali, 1.1% Cantonese, 0.9% Italian, 0.8% Portuguese, 0.8% Korean, 0.7% Romanian, 0.6% Vietnamese, 0.5% German, 0.5% Polish, 0.4% Urdu, 0.4% Hindi, 0.4% Turkish, 0.4% Greek, 0.3% Tamil, 0.3% Panjabi, 0.3% Hungarian, 0.3% Bulgarian, 0.3% Japanese, 0.3% Armenian[5]

Members of Parliament[edit]

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament Years Member Party
Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs
Riding created from Jeanne-Le Ber, Laurier—Sainte-Marie,
Outremont and Westmount—Ville-Marie
42nd  2015–present     Marc Miller Liberal

Election results[edit]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Marc Miller 25,491 50.82 +23.34 $104,027.97
New Democratic Allison Turner 11,757 23.44 -18.05 $76,667.01
Conservative Steve Shanahan 5,948 11.86 -0.05 $10,419.44
Bloc Québécois Chantal St-Onge 4,307 8.59 -7.44 $2,334.04
Green Daniel Green 2,398 4.78 +1.99 $84,091.06
Rhinoceros Daniel Wolfe 161 0.32
Communist Bill Sloan 102 0.20
Total valid votes/Expense limit 50,164 100.00 $221,982.87
Total rejected ballots 435 0.86
Turnout 50,599 59.96
Eligible voters 84,387
Source: Elections Canada[6][7]
2011 federal election redistributed results[8]
Party Vote %
  New Democratic 16,625 41.49
  Liberal 11,013 27.48
  Bloc Québécois 6,423 16.03
  Conservative 4,772 11.91
  Green 1,117 2.79
  Others 123 0.31

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Statistics Canada: 2012
  2. ^ Final Report – Quebec
  3. ^ Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
  4. ^ http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=6654879&File=4
  5. ^ https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=109979&PRID=10&PTYPE=109445&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=888&Temporal=2016,2017&THEME=118&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=
  6. ^ Elections Canada – Election Results, 22 October 2015
  7. ^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
  8. ^ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections