Canadian federal elections have provided the following results in Eastern Montreal.

Regional profile

The eastern end of the

Island of Montreal The Island of Montreal (french: Île de Montréal) is a large island in southwestern Quebec, Canada, that is the site of a number of municipalities including most of the city of Montreal and is the most populous island in Canada. It is the main ...

was the birthplace of the sovereigntist movement, and remained a sovereigntist stronghold for four decades. During this time, whenever the Parti Québécois won provincially, the entire eastern half of the island was coated light blue. Federally, it was the

Bloc Québécois The Bloc Québécois (BQ; , "Québécois people, Quebecer Voting bloc, Bloc") is a list of federal political parties in Canada, federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty movement, Que ...

's power base from 1993 to 2011, partly due to its

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bent. With the exception of ethnic areas that protrude from Northern Montreal into the East Island's Honoré-Mercier riding, where Liberal support is strong, the area is relatively homogeneously Francophone and lower-income, a recipe for Bloc dominance. Prior to the rise of the Bloc, the region voted solidly Liberal for decades before being swept up in the

Brian Mulroney Martin Brian Mulroney ( ; born March 20, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993. Born in the eastern Quebec city of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney studied political sci ...

tide, electing Quebec nationalists under the Progressive Conservative banner. The

Conservative Party of Canada The Conservative Party of Canada (french: Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada. It was formed in 2003 by the merger of the two main right-leaning parties, the Progressive Con ...

has never approached this level of support, and eastern Montreal is currently the weakest region in Canada for the Tories. In 2011, the federalist NDP swept every seat in this region amid the surge of popular support in the province and the concurrent Bloc meltdown, in all but one case by well over 6,000 votes. The NDP surge even cost longtime Bloc leader

Gilles Duceppe Gilles Duceppe (; born July 22, 1947) is a Canadian retired politician, proponent of the Quebec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and ...

his seat in Laurier-Sainte-Marie. The NDP largely held its gains in 2015, losing Honoré-Mercier to the Liberals and

La Pointe-de-l'Île La Pointe-de-l'Île () is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. Its population in 2001 was 98,878. The riding was created in 2003 from parts of Anjou—Rivière- ...

—long reckoned as the most strongly sovereigntist riding in Quebec—to the Bloc. However, Duceppe came up well short in his bid to retake his old riding. In 2019, however, the NDP was cut down to just one riding in eastern Montreal, with the Bloc holding onto La Pointe-de-l'Île and the Liberals taking the other three.

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2011

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2008

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2006

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2004

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2000

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1988

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Jean Corbeil Jean Corbeil, (January 7, 1934 – June 25, 2002) was a Canadian politician. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was mayor of the city of Anjou from 1973 to 1988. In 1987-1988 he served a term as chairman of the Federation of Canadian Municipalit ...

27,451 , , Vincent Arciresi
17,421 , , Vincent Marchione
6,687 , , Mario Paul
1,217 , , , , , , , , Catherine Commandeur (Ind.)
483 , , , Michel Gravel
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Hochelaga—Maisonneuve Hochelaga—Maisonneuve (formerly known as Maisonneuve) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 2004. It was created in 1976 as "Maisonneuve" riding from parts of ...

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Allan Koury Allan Koury (22 November 1930 – 5 September 2004) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. He was proprietor of business Mercerie Allan for 55 years, and created the ''Societes d'initiatives et de développement d' ...

16,246 , , Serge Laprade
14,168 , , Gaétan Nadeau
8,583 , , Marius Henry
800
, , Montserrat Escola
114 , , Marie Chou Chou Chouinard
1,196 , , Sylvain Labelle
122 , , Christiane Robidoux (Ind.)
159 , , , Édouard Desrosiers , - , style="background:whitesmoke;",

Laurier—Sainte-Marie Laurier—Sainte-Marie is a federal electoral district in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988. Its population in 2016 was 111,835. Geography The district includes Côte Sai ...

, , Charles-André Hamelin
12,113 , , ,

Jean-Claude Malépart Jean-Claude Malépart (3 December 1938 – 16 November 1989) was a French Canadian politician. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Charles-Auguste Malépart and Germaine Mérineau, Malépart was elected to the National Assembly of Qu ...

15,956 , , Françis Beaulne
8,828 , , Philippe Champagne
1,438
, , Marianne Roy
175
, , Sonia Chatouille Coté
2,121 , , Daniel Gonzales
79 , , Hélène Héroux (Ind.)
130 , , ,

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30,804 , , Luc Chouinard
12,942 , , André Cordeau
10,251 , , , , André Cloutier
309
, , Jean-Claude Stardust Gouin
1,617 , , Denise Saint-Louis
137 , , Jean-Pierre Ginchereau (Ind.)
197 , , , Carole Jacques
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Montreal—Mercier Mercier (also known as Montreal—Mercier) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 2004. In 2003, the district was abolished and split into the La Pointe-de-l'Île an ...

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, , , Benoît Tremblay
17,127 , , Jacques Guilbault
13,209 , , Giuseppe Sciortino
9,163 , , Sylvain Auclair
1,383
, , Gaétan Trudel
151
, , Christian Nettoyeur Jolicoeur
1,656 , , Christiane Deland-Gervais
120 , ,

Suzanne Blais-Grenier Suzanne Blais-Grenier (March 2, 1936 – June 13, 2017) was a Canadian politician. Blais-Grenier was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1984 federal election that brought Brian Mulroney to power. She represented the ridin ...

(Ind.)
2,060
Dollard Desjardins ( Social Credit)
148
Arnold August (Ind.)
122
Léo Larocque (Ind.)
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1984

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References

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