LaSalle—Émard—Verdun is a federal electoral district in Montreal, Quebec. 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 2015 Canadian federal election, held on 19 October 2015.
History The riding was created out of parts of Jeanne-Le Ber (51%) and LaSalle—Émard (49%) plus a small section of territory between the Lachine Canal and the Le Sud-Ouest borough boundary taken from Westmount—Ville-Marie and an adjacent uninhabited section from Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine. The riding was originally intended to be named LaSalle—Verdun.
The former member of Parliament for the LaSalle—Émard riding, Hélène Leblanc, sought reelection in the new riding for the NDP, while the incumbent in Jeanne-Le Ber, Tyrone Benskin lost the party's nomination in the neighbouring riding of Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs.
David Lametti of the Liberal Party defeated Leblanc in the riding's first election in 2015. He held the seat until resigning in 2024.
Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding gained the area east of 90th Avenue and south of Airlie Street from Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle. This took effect at the 2025 Canadian federal election.
Geography The riding includes the borough of Verdun (excluding Nuns' Island), most of the Sault-Saint-Louis area of the borough of LaSalle, along with the neighbourhoods of Angrignon, Ville-Émard and Côte-Saint-Paul in the Le Sud-Ouest 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 2021 Canadian census, 2023 representation order
Racial groups: 72.7% White, 7.5% Black, 4.3% Chinese, 4.0% Latin American, 3.2% South Asian, 2.7% Arab, 1.6% Indigenous, 1.1% Southeast Asian Languages: 57.3% French, 23.5% English, 4.0% Spanish, 2.6% Mandarin, 2.3% Italian, 1.8% Arabic, 1.3% Russian Religions: 52.6% Christian (39.9% Catholic, 2.2% Christian Orthodox, 1.1% Anglican, 9.4% Other), 5.8% Muslim, 1.1% Hindu, 37.4% None Median income: $38,800 (2020) Average income: $47,440 (2020)
Members of Parliament This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
Election results
2021 federal election redistributed results Party Vote % Liberal 21,271 43.42 Bloc Québécois 10,693 21.83 New Democratic 9,314 19.01 Conservative 3,738 7.63 People's 1,671 3.41 Green 1,475 3.01 Free 636 1.30 Communist 196 0.40 Total valid votes 48,994 97.88 Rejected ballots 1,059 2.12 Registered voters/ estimated turnout 83,028 60.28
2011 federal election redistributed resultsElection Prediction Project Party Vote % New Democratic 22,071 45.17 Bloc Québécois 11,453 23.44 Liberal 8,939 18.29 Conservative 4,759 9.74 Green 1,248 2.55 Others 392 0.80
See also List of Canadian electoral districts Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
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