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.
...
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 (, ) is the Legislature, legislative body of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members of the National Assembly; ). The lieutenant governor of Que ...
. It notably includes the city of
Châteauguay.
It was originally created in 1867 (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 Parliament of the Province of Canada. The Province of Canada consisted of the former province of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East (now Quebec), and Upper Canada ...
). Its final election was in
1936
Events January–February
* January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House.
* January 28 – Death and state funer ...
. It disappeared in the
1939
This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
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January
* January 1
** Coming into effect in Nazi Ger ...
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
Sanguinet electoral district.
Geography
It consists of the municipalities of:
*
Châteauguay
*
Léry
*
Mercier
*
Saint-Isidore
It also consists of the
First Nation reserve of:
*
Kahnawake
The Kahnawake Mohawk Territory (, in the Mohawk language, ''Kahnawáˀkye'' in Tuscarora) is a First Nations reserve of the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, across from Montreal. Establi ...
Linguistic demographics
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Francophone
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: 72.3%
*
Anglophone
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: 20.9%
*
Allophone
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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
References
External links
;Information:
Elections Quebec
;Election results:
(National Assembly)
Election results(QuébecPolitique)
;Maps
2011 map(PDF)
2001 map(Flash)
2001–2011 changes(Flash)
(Flash)
Electoral map of MontérégieQuebec electoral map, 2011
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Quebec provincial electoral districts