Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne () is a federal
electoral district
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in
Quebec
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, Canada, that has been represented in the
House of Commons of Canada
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since 2015. It encompasses a portion of Quebec formerly included in the electoral districts of
Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert and
Saint-Lambert.
Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne 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, scheduled for 19 October 2015.
The riding was originally intended to be named LeMoyne.
Profile
Despite breaking for the NDP in 2011, Longueuil—Charles-Lemoyne has become more of a competition between the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois, with the Liberals performing better in more Anglophone areas, such as
Greenfield Park.
Demographics
:''According to the
2016 Canadian census
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* Twenty most common mother tongue languages (2016) : 73.8% French, 8.9% English, 3.7% Spanish, 2.5% Arabic, 1.4% Creole languages, 1.1%
Persian
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** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
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, 1.0% Romanian, 0.8% Mandarin, 0.7% Portuguese, 0.6% Russian, 0.5% Cantonese, 0.5% Italian, 0.4% Vietnamese, 0.3% Greek, 0.2% Kabyle, 0.2% Bulgarian, 0.2% Lao, 0.2% Polish, 0.2% Wolof, 0.2% Tagalog
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following
members of Parliament:
Election results
See also
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List of Canadian electoral districts
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Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
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References
Quebec federal electoral districts
Politics of Longueuil
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