Nelligan (electoral district)

Nelligan

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Yolande James Liberal
District created	1980
First contested	1981
Last contested	2008
Demographics
Population (2006)	74,857
Electors (2008)	54,259
Area (km²)	85.13
Pop. density (per km²)	879.3
Census divisions	Montreal
Census subdivisions	Kirkland, Montreal, Senneville

Nelligan is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The riding was created in 1980 from parts of Pointe-Claire and Robert-Baldwin. It includes portions of the Montreal Island including Île Bizard, Kirkland and Senneville. The riding was named after a Quebec poet, Émile Nelligan.

Linguistic demographics

• Francophone: 38%
• Anglophone:34%
• Allophone:28%

Members of the National Assembly

Pointe-Claire

1. Arthur-E Seguin, Liberal (1973-1976)
2. William Shaw, Union Nationale (1976-1981)

Nelligan

1. Clifford Lincoln, Liberal (1981-1989)
2. Russell Williams, Liberal (1989-2004)
3. Yolande James, Liberal (2004-present)

Election results

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Yolande James	18,251	72.19	+8.37
	Parti Québécois	Anaïs Valiquette-L'Heureux	3,656	14.46	+5.61
	Green	Jonathan Théorêt	1,562	6.18	-1.43
	Action démocratique	François Savard	1,434	5.67	-12.46
	Québec solidaire	Elahé Machouf	379	1.50	-0.08

Quebec general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Yolande James	21,458	63.82	+11.24
	Action démocratique	Jean Lecavalier	6,096	18.13	+11.14
	Parti Québécois	Dorothée Morin	2,977	8.85	-1.50
	Green	Jonathan Théorêt	2,560	7.61	+5.92
	Québec solidaire	Elahé Machouf	532	1.58	+0.77*

* Increase is from UFP

Nelligan by-election, September 20, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Yolande James	7,812	52.58	-25.02
	Independent	Michel Gibson	4,038	27.18	-
	Parti Québécois	Sahar Hawili	1,538	10.35	-2.46
	Action démocratique	Tom Pentefountas	1,039	6.99	-0.45
	Green	Ryan Young	251	1.69	+0.19
	UFP	Josée Larouche	120	0.81	-
	Bloc pot	Blair T. Longley	58	0.39	-

Quebec general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Russell Williams	27,934	77.60	+1.93
	Parti Québécois	Micaël Poirier	4,611	12.81	-3.07
	Action démocratique	Sabrina Duguay	2,680	7.44	+1.40
	Green	Peter Graham	541	1.50	-
	Equality	Giuliana Pendenza	233	0.65	-1.13

Quebec general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Russell Williams	35,698	75.67	-1.49
	Parti Québécois	André Tremblay	7,492	15.88	-2.40
	Action démocratique	Martin Brunet	2,848	6.04	-
	Equality	John Novak	840	1.78	-0.21
	Socialist Democracy	Érik Cossette	156	0.33	-
	Independent	Serge Tétreault	140	0.30	-

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	42,494	81.82
	Oui	9,443	18.18

Quebec general election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Russell Williams	33,804	77.16	+30.13
	Parti Québécois	Denise Cypihot	80,10	18.28	-2.12
	Equality	Bill Shaw	871	1.99	-27.61
	CANADA!	Paul Daoussis	447	1.02	-
	Economic	Claudette Benoit	292	0.67	-
	Natural Law	Michael Oliver	276	0.63	-
	Republic of Canada	Glenford Charles	111	0.25	-

1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	33,394	73.81
	Non	11,849	26.19

Quebec general election, 1989
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Russell Williams	16,284	47.03	-28.39
	Equality	Jean-Pierre Isoré	10,249	29.60	-
	Parti Québécois	Marc Boudreau	7,063	20.40	+1.82
	New Democrat	Jean-Paul Rioux	664	1.92	-1.59
	Independent	Alexandre Kisak	367	1.06	-

Quebec general election, 1985
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clifford Lincoln	24,112	75.42	+1.57
	Parti Québécois	François Landry	5,939	18.58	-4.09
	New Democrat	Joan Eyolfson Cadham	1,123	3.51	-
	Progressive Conservative	Richard K. Kendall	798	2.49	-

Quebec general election, 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Clifford Lincoln	23,168	73.85
	Parti Québécois	Denise Cypihot	7,113	22.67
	Libertarian	Irena Bubniuk	392	1.25
	Union Nationale	Clément Guimond	375	1.20
	Freedom of Choice	Donovan James Carter	324	1.03

References

• Election results
• Map of Nelligan
• Quebec electoral map
• Nelligan general information

Neighbouring electoral districts