Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne
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Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne is a federal
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in
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, Canada, that has been represented in the
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since 2015. It encompasses a portion of Quebec formerly included in the electoral districts of
Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert (formerly known as Saint-Hubert) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. Its population in 2001 was 99,755. Geography This South S ...
and Saint-Lambert. Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne 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
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, scheduled for 19 October 2015. The riding was originally intended to be named LeMoyne.


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Despite breaking for the NDP in 2011, Longueuil—Charles-Lemoyne has become more of a competition between the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois, with the Liberals performing better in more Anglophone areas, such as Greenfield Park.


Demographics

:''According to the
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'' * Twenty most common mother tongue languages (2016) : 73.8% French, 8.9% English, 3.7% Spanish, 2.5% Arabic, 1.4% Creole languages, 1.1%
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, 1.0% Romanian, 0.8% Mandarin, 0.7% Portuguese, 0.6% Russian, 0.5% Cantonese, 0.5% Italian, 0.4% Vietnamese, 0.3% Greek, 0.2% Kabyle, 0.2% Bulgarian, 0.2% Lao, 0.2% Polish, 0.2% Wolof, 0.2% Tagalog


Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following
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Election results


References

Quebec federal electoral districts Politics of Longueuil {{Canada-constituency-stub