Vaudreuil is a provincial 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
Quebec
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,
Canada
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that elects members to the
National Assembly of Quebec
The National Assembly of Quebec (officially in french: link=no, Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members of the National Assembly; french: link=no, déput ...
. The biggest municipality in the district is
Vaudreuil-Dorion
Vaudreuil-Dorion () is a suburb of Greater Montreal, in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec, Canada. The result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion, it is located in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality.
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.
It was created for the
1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the legislature for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper C ...
and the
Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The legislative assembly was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791. The lower house consisted of ele ...
). Its final election was in
1936
Events
January–February
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. It disappeared in the
1939 election and its successor electoral district was
Vaudreuil-Soulanges.
It was re-created for the
1989 election from the eastern part of Vaudreuil-Soulanges electoral district.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged.
It was named after former governor of
New France
New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spai ...
from 1703 to 1725,
Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil
Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil (; c. 1643 – 10 October 1725) was a French military officer who served as Governor General of New France (now Canada and U.S. states of the Mississippi Valley) from 1703 to 1725, throughout Queen A ...
.
Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly
Election results
* Result compared to Action démocratique
References
External links
;Information:
Elections Quebec
;Election results:
(National Assembly)
Election results(QuébecPolitique)
Election resultsChief Electoral Officer)
;Maps
2011 map(PDF)
2001 map(Flash)
2001–2011 changes(Flash)
(Flash)
Electoral map of Montérégie regionQuebec electoral map, 2011
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1988 establishments in Quebec
Quebec provincial electoral districts
Vaudreuil-Dorion