Châteauguay is a provincial riding (electoral district) in the

Montérégie Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. The ...

region of

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, that elects members to the

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. It notably includes the city of

Châteauguay Châteauguay ( , , ) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, located both on the Chateauguay River and Lac St-Louis, which is a section of the St. Lawrence River. The population of the city of Châteauguay at the 2021 Cens ...

. It was originally created in 1867 (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the

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). Its final election was in

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. It disappeared in the

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and its successor electoral district was

Châteauguay-Laprairie Châteauguay-Laprairie was a former provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. Many sources (including the National Assembly website) write it as Châteauguay-La Prairie, but contemporary sources show the "Laprairie" part of ...

. However, Châteauguay-Laprairie only existed for one election. Châteauguay was re-created for the 1944 election. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Sainte-Catherine to the newly created

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electoral district.

Geography

It consists of the municipalities of: *

* Léry *

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* Saint-Isidore It also consists of the

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reserve of: *

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Linguistic demographics

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: 72.3% *

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: 20.9% *

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: 6.8

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Electoral results

^ Change based on redistributed results. Coalition Avenir change is from Action démocratique * Result compared to UFP

Geography

Linguistic demographics

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Electoral results

References

External links