LaSalle—Émard—Verdun is a federal

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. It 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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, held on 19 October 2015.

History

The riding was created out of parts 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 ...

(51%) and

LaSalle—Émard LaSalle—Émard was a federal electoral district in the Canadian province of Quebec that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. Its population in 2001 was 99,767. The MP from 1988 to 2008 was Paul Martin, who serv ...

(49%) plus a small section of territory between the

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and the

Le Sud-Ouest Le Sud-Ouest (, ) is a Montreal borough, 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 boundary taken from Westmount—Ville-Marie and an adjacent uninhabited section from

Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine (; formerly known as Lachine—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce) 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 2006 was 104,715 ...

. The riding was originally intended to be named LaSalle—Verdun. The former member of Parliament for the

riding,

Hélène Leblanc Hélène LeBlanc (born March 27, 1958) is a Canadian politician. She served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015, representing the riding of LaSalle—Émard as a member of the New Democratic Party. In the official opposition sha ...

, sought reelection in the new riding for the NDP, while the incumbent in Jeanne-Le Ber,

Tyrone Benskin Tyrone Benskin (born 29 December 1958) is an English-Canadian actor, theatre director and politician. He was elected Member of Parliament in the Jeanne-Le Ber riding, in Montreal, Quebec, in the 2011 Canadian federal election and served as an ...

lost the party's nomination in the neighbouring riding of

Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs is a federal electoral district in Quebec, 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 distri ...

David Lametti David T. Lametti (born August 10, 1962) is a Canadian politician and lawyer who was the member of Parliament for LaSalle—Émard—Verdun from 2015 to 2024. A member of the Liberal Party, Lametti served as minister of justice and attorney g ...

of the Liberal Party defeated Leblanc in the riding's first election in 2015. He held the seat until resigning in 2024. Following the

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, the riding gained the area east of 90th Avenue and south of Airlie Street from

Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle is a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district on Montreal Island in Quebec. It encompasses a portion of Quebec formerly included in the electoral districts of LaSalle—Émard and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce� ...

. This took effect at the

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Geography

The riding includes the borough of

Verdun Verdun ( , ; ; ; official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse (department), Meuse departments of France, department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. In 843, the Treaty of V ...

(excluding

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 ...

), most of the Sault-Saint-Louis area of the borough of LaSalle, along with the neighbourhoods of Angrignon,

Ville-Émard Ville-Émard () is a neighbourhood located in the Le Sud-Ouest, Sud-Ouest borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Geography This neighbourhood is bordered by the Canal de l'Aqueduc, Aqueduct Canal to the east as far north as Desmarchais Boulevard wh ...

and Côte-Saint-Paul in the

borough. In the 2019 and 2021 elections, the Liberals won throughout the riding, but were the strongest in LaSalle, the only part of the district where they won a majority of the vote in both elections. The Bloc vote is concentrated more in the central part of the riding, while the NDP is particularly strong in the Wellington-de-l'Église neighbourhood of Verdun.

Demographics

:''According to the

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'' Ethnic groups: 73.7% White, 6.7% Black, 4.4% Chinese, 3.9% Latin American, 3.0% South Asian, 2.7% Arab, 1.6% Indigenous, 1.1% Southeast Asian
Languages: 58.1% French, 23.1% English, 4.0% Spanish, 2.6% Mandarin, 2.1% Italian, 1.8% Arabic, 1.2% Russian
Religions: 52.2% Christian (39.9% Catholic, 2.1% Christian Orthodox, 1.1% Anglican, 9.0% Other), 5.5% Muslim, 1.1% Hindu, 1.0% Buddhist, 38.3% None
Median income: $38,800 (2020)
Average income: $47,720 (2020)

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Election results

References