Verchères—Les Patriotes

{{Short description|Former federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada}}

{{Infobox Canada electoral district

| province = Quebec

| image = Verchères—Les Patriotes.png

| caption = Verchères—Les Patriotes in relation to other Montérégie federal electoral districts

| fed-status = defunct

| fed-district-number = 24074

| fed-created = 1976

| fed-abolished = 2013

| fed-election-first = 1979

| fed-election-last = 2011

| fed-rep =

| fed-rep-link =

| fed-rep-party =

| fed-rep-party-link =

| demo-pop-ref = Statistics Canada: 2012

| demo-area-ref = Statistics Canada: 2012

| demo-electors-ref =

| demo-census-date = 2011

| demo-pop = 104355

| demo-electors = 76596

| demo-electors-date = 2011

| demo-area = 659.70

| demo-cd = Longueuil, Marguerite-D'Youville, La Vallée-du-Richelieu

| demo-csd = Boucherville, Sainte-Julie, Varennes, Saint-Amable, Contrecœur, Verchères, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu

}}

Verchères—Les Patriotes ({{IPA|fr|vɛʁʃɛʁ le patʁijɔt}}; formerly Verchères) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 until the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Geography

The riding runs along the Saint Lawrence River east of Montreal, in the Quebec region of Montérégie. It consists of the Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality, the northern part of the La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, and the eastern part of the city of Boucherville.

The neighbouring ridings are Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot, Chambly—Borduas, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher, La Pointe-de-l'Île, Repentigny and Berthier—Maskinongé.

History

Verchères riding was created by the British North America Act 1867. In 1893, it was merged into Chambly—Verchères.

In 1976, the riding of "Verchères" was recreated from parts of Chambly and St. Hyacinthe ridings. In 1998, it was renamed "Verchères—Les Patriotes".

The district seat was vacant starting from November 9, 2005, when Stéphane Bergeron stepped down to join provincial politics. No by-election was called before the 2006 election was called for January 23, 2006; Bloc candidate Luc Malo won that election.

This riding was redistributed into the new ridings of Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères and Montarville in the 2012 electoral redistribution.

=Members of Parliament=

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

{{CanMP nodata|Verchères
Riding created from Chambly and St. Hyacinthe}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 1979

| ToYr = 1980

| Assembly# = 31

| CanParty = Liberal

| RepName = Bernard Loiselle

| RepTerms# = 2

| PartyTerms# = 2

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 1980

| ToYr = 1984

| Assembly# = 32

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 1984

| ToYr = 1988

| Assembly# = 33

| CanParty = PC

| RepName = Marcel Danis

| RepTerms# = 2

| PartyTerms# = 2

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 1988

| ToYr = 1993

| Assembly# = 34

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 1993

| ToYr = 1997

| Assembly# = 35

| CanParty = BQ

| RepName = Stéphane Bergeron

| RepTerms# = 2

| PartyTerms# = 2

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 1997

| ToYr = 2000

| Assembly# = 36

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2000

| ToYr = 2004

| Assembly# = 37

| CanParty = BQ

| RepName = Stéphane Bergeron

| RepTerms# = 2

| PartyTerms# = 4

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2004

| ToYr = 2005

| Assembly# = 38

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2006

| ToYr = 2008

| Assembly# = 39

| RepName = Luc Malo

| RepTerms# = 2

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2008

| ToYr = 2011

| Assembly# = 40

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2011

| ToYr = 2014

| Assembly# = 41

| CanParty = NDP

| RepName = Sana Hassainia

| RepTerms# = 2

| PartyTerms# = 1

| #ByElections = 1

}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2014

| ToYr = 2015

| CanParty = Independent

| PartyTerms# = 1

}}

{{CanMP nodata|Riding dissolved into Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères
and Montarville}}

Election results

class="wikitable"

!colspan=2|Party

!colspan=2|2011

!colspan=2|2008

!colspan=2|2006

!colspan=2|2004

!colspan=2|2000

!colspan=2|1997

!colspan=2|1993

!colspan=2|1988

!colspan=2|1984

|Bloc Québécois

|Luc Malo
20,593