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Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs is a federal electoral district in
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. It encompasses a portion of Quebec formerly included in the electoral districts of
Jeanne-Le Ber Jeanne-Le Ber was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2015. Its population in 2006 was 112,863. It was abolished for the 2015 election and dissolved into Ville-Mar ...
,
Westmount—Ville-Marie Westmount—Ville-Marie was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015. Its population in 2001 was 97,226. Geography The district included the City of Westmount as w ...
, Laurier—Sainte-Marie and
Outremont Outremont is an affluent residential borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec. The neighbourhood is inhabited largely by fran ...
. Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs 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 42nd Canadian federal election, which took place 19 October 2015. The riding was originally intended to be named Ville-Marie.


Geography

The riding included the western part of Ville-Marie ( downtown), the neighbourhoods of Saint-Henri,
Little Burgundy Little Burgundy (french: La Petite-Bourgogne) is a neighbourhood in the South West borough of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Geography Its approximate boundaries are Atwater Avenue to the west, Saint-Antoine to the north, Guy Street ...
,
Griffintown Griffintown is a historic neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, southwest of downtown. The area existed as a functional neighbourhood from the 1820s until the 1960s, and was mainly populated by Irish immigrants and their descendants. Mostly depopulat ...
and
Pointe-Saint-Charles Pointe-Saint-Charles (also known in English as Point Saint Charles, and locally as The Point, or "PSC") is a neighbourhood in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Historically a working-class area, the creation of m ...
in the
Le Sud-Ouest Le Sud-Ouest ( en, "the southwest") is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Geography Le Sud-Ouest is an amalgam of several neighbourhoods with highly distinct histories and identities, mainly with working-cla ...
borough. As well as
Nuns' Island Nuns' Island (officially Île des Sœurs; ) is an island located in the Saint Lawrence River that forms a part of the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is part of the borough of Verdun. History Originally called Île Saint-Paul in honour of the f ...
in the borough of
Verdun Verdun (, , , ; official name before 1970 ''Verdun-sur-Meuse'') is a large city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital ...
.


Demographics

:''According to the
Canada 2016 Census The 2016 Canadian census was an enumeration of Canadian residents, which counted a population of 35,151,728, a change from its 2011 population of 33,476,688. The census, conducted by Statistics Canada, was Canada's seventh quinquennial census. ...
'' * Languages (2016 mother tongue) : 43.4% French, 21.1% English, 6.2% Arabic, 5.2% Mandarin, 4.3% Spanish, 2.8% Farsi, 1.6% Russian, 1.5% Bengali, 1.1% Cantonese, 0.9% Italian, 0.8% Portuguese, 0.8% Korean, 0.7% Romanian, 0.6% Vietnamese, 0.5% German, 0.5% Polish, 0.4% Urdu, 0.4% Hindi, 0.4% Turkish, 0.4% Greek, 0.3% Tamil, 0.3% Panjabi, 0.3% Hungarian, 0.3% Bulgarian, 0.3% Japanese, 0.3% Armenian


Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following
Members of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
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Election results


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ville-Marie-Le Sud-Ouest-Ile-des-Soeurs Federal electoral districts of Montreal 2013 establishments in Quebec Ville-Marie, Montreal Le Sud-Ouest Verdun, Quebec