Taillon 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. ...

region of

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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 ...

. It comprises part of the borough of

Le Vieux-Longueuil Le Vieux-Longueuil is a borough in the city of Longueuil. From 2002 to 2006, Le Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002. The former city of Longueuil was composed of 3 cities merged in the 1960s: ...

of the city of

Longueuil Longueuil () is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and the central city of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil. It sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly ac ...

. It was created for the 1966 election from Verchères and Chambly electoral districts. It was named after former

Quebec Premier The premier of Quebec (French: ''premier ministre du Québec'' (masculine) or ''première ministre du Québec'' (feminine)) is the head of government of the Canadian province of Quebec. The current premier of Quebec is François Legault of th ...

Louis-Olivier Taillon Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon (September 26, 1840 – April 25, 1923) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was the eighth premier of Quebec, serving two separate terms. Political career Taillon's first term of office was just four days, from J ...

who was in power for four days in 1886 and from 1892 to 1896. It is best known as the riding of

Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois (; ; PQ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishin ...

founder

René Lévesque René Lévesque (; August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987) was a Québécois politician and journalist who served as the 23rd premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985. He was the first Québécois political leader since Confederation to attempt ...

, who served as premier from 1976 to 1985. For the better part of four decades after the PQ seized it in

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, Taillon was a stronghold for both the PQ and the sovereigntist cause. In the 1995 Quebec referendum it voted 61% for Quebec to separate. However, in

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, the Coalition Avenir Québec narrowly won it amid its near-sweep of Montérégie.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the National Assembly:

Election results

Liberal Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * a supporter of liberalism ** Liberalism by country * an adherent of a Liberal Party * Liberalism (international relations) * Sexually liberal feminism * Social liberalism Arts, entertainment and m ...

, Marie-Ève Pelletier , align="right", 7,470 , align="right", 19.37 , align="right", -13.6 ,

Richard Bélisle Richard Bélisle (born 20 July 1946 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician who was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997. His career has been in health and safety fields. He was elected in the La Prairie electora ...

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, Anne Pâquet , align="right", 9,104 , align="right", 23.00 , align="right", -8.29 , - , - , - ,

, Véronique Mercier , align="right", 5,966 , align="right", 31.29 , align="right", -2.88 , - , - , - ,

Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

, Tristan Dénommée Pigeon , align="right", 143 , align="right", 0.75 , align="right", - , - * Increase is from UFP , - ,

, Nicole Bourget Laramée , align="right", 12,372 , align="right", 31.01 , align="right", -3.84 , - ,

Socialist Democracy Socialist democracy is a political system that aligns with principles of both socialism and democracy. It includes ideologies such as council communism, democratic socialism, and Soviet democracy, as well as Marxist democracy like the dictatorsh ...

, Pascal Durand , align="right", 345 , align="right", 0.86 , align="right", - , - ,

Innovator Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entity ...

, Monique Murray , align="right", 147 , align="right", 0.37 , align="right", - , - ,

, Philippe Angers , align="right", 13,321 , align="right", 34.85 , align="right", -2.15 , - ,

Natural Law Natural law ( la, ius naturale, ''lex naturalis'') is a system of law based on a close observation of human nature, and based on values intrinsic to human nature that can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacte ...

, René-William Roy , align="right", 844 , align="right", 2.21 , align="right", - , - ,

Sovereignty Sovereignty is the defining authority within individual consciousness, social construct, or territory. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within the state, as well as external autonomy for states. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the perso ...

, Réal Pineault , align="right", 746 , align="right", 1.95 , align="right", - , - ,

, Rodrigue Dubé , align="right", 12,562 , align="right", 37.00 , align="right", -6.94 , - , - ,

New Democrat New Democrats, also known as centrist Democrats, Clinton Democrats, or moderate Democrats, are a centrist ideological faction within the Democratic Party in the United States. As the Third Way faction of the party, they are seen as cultural ...

, Marc Vachon , align="right", 508 , align="right", 1.50 , align="right", -1.14 , - ,

Workers The workforce or labour force is a concept referring to the pool of human beings either in employment or in unemployment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic reg ...

, Marie-Claire Ferland , align="right", 302 , align="right", 0.89 , align="right", - , - , Parti indépendantiste , Erich Laforest , align="right", 232 , align="right", 0.68 , align="right", -0.71 , - ,

, Ginette Desjardins Olivier , align="right", 13,191 , align="right", 43.94 , align="right", +14.12 , - ,

, Jean-Serge Baribeau , align="right", 791 , align="right", 2.64 , align="right", - , - , Parti indépendantiste , Michel Milette , align="right", 418 , align="right", 1.39 , align="right", - , - , - ,

Christian Socialist Christian socialism is a religious and political philosophy that blends Christianity and socialism, endorsing left-wing politics and socialist economics on the basis of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. Many Christian socialists believe cap ...

, François Séguin , align="right", 91 , align="right", 0.30 , align="right", - , - , United Social Credit , Michel Bilodeau , align="right", 91 , align="right", 0.30 , align="right", +0.19 , - ,

, Lawrence R. Wilson , align="right", 9,500 , align="right", 29.82 , align="right", +8.22 , - , - ,

, Pierre Arnault , align="right", 69 , align="right", 0.22 , align="right", - , - , Workers Communist , Suzanne Ouellet , align="right", 68 , align="right", 0.21 , align="right", - , - , United Social Credit , Gaétan Bernard , align="right", 36 , align="right", 0.11 , align="right", -3.80 , - , - ,

, Fernand Blanchard , align="right", 11,753 , align="right", 21.60 , align="right", -25.06 , - , - , - ,

, Jacques Beaudoin , align="right", 256 , align="right", 0.47 , align="right", - , - ,

, Guy Leduc , align="right", 18,346 , align="right", 46.66 , align="right", +4.03 , - ,

Parti créditiste Parti may refer to: * Parti (surname), a Hungarian surname, and a list of people with the name * ''Parti'' (architecture), the organizing concepts behind an architect's design * *, a lake in Russia See also * Partie (disambiguation) * Party (disa ...

, Bernard-E. Laplante , align="right", 2,546 , align="right", 6.48 , align="right", -0.82 , - , - ,

, Jean-Paul Paré , align="right", 103 , align="right", 0.26 , align="right", - , - ,

, Guy Leduc , align="right", 16,501 , align="right", 42.63 , align="right", +4.02 , - , - ,

, Serge Mongeau , align="right", 2,998 , align="right", 7.75 , align="right", - , - , - ,

, Gaston Gobeil , align="right", 134 , align="right", 0.35 , align="right", - , - ,

, Robert Meunier , align="right", 113 , align="right", 0.29 , align="right", - , - ,

, Guy Leduc , align="right", 8,627 , align="right", 38.61 , - , - , RIN , Jacques Ferron , align="right", 4,097 , align="right", 18.34 , - ,

Ralliement national Ralliement national (RN) (in English: "National Rally") was a separatist and right-wing populist provincial political party that advocated the political independence of Quebec from Canada in the 1960s. The party was led by former '' créditiste' ...

, Robert Tremblay , align="right", 685 , align="right", 3.07 , - ,

, Gaston Prévost , align="right", 517 , align="right", 2.31

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Election results

References

External links