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Cosmo Maciocia is a Canadian politician. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.[1]
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Background
He was born in Cantalupo, Italy on February 2, 1942 and arrived in Canada in 1964.
City Councillor in Saint-Léonard
He was a City Councillor in Saint-Léonard in 1978.
Member of the legislature
He successfully ran as a Liberal candidate to the provincial legislature for the district of Viger in 1981. He was re-elected in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 1998.
He was Parliamentary Assistant from 1985 to 1994.
Back in City Politics
In the wake of the province-wide Municipal Merger of 2001, gave up his seat and ran as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (French: Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l’Île de Montréal or UCIM) in the district of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin. The party is now known as Union Montreal.
In 2005, he was elected as Borough Mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles-Montréal-Est, and retained his position as mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles following the 2006 demerger of Montréal-Est.
Maciocia is a Member of Montreal's Executive Committee.
He did not choose to run again in the 2009 Montreal municipal election, but his seat was retained for Union Montréal by Joe Magri.
Electoral record (partial)
1989 Quebec provincial election results: Viger Party Candidate Votes % +/- Liberal (x)Cosmo Maciocia 16,847 60.73 Parti Québécois Michel Dupont 8,075 29.11 Equality David De Santis 1,831 6.60 Green Rolf Bramann 877 3.16 Marxist-Leninist Catherine Commandeur 111 0.40 Total valid votes 27,741 100.00 Rejected and declined votes 690 Turnout 28,431 76.27 Electors on the lists 37,275 Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.
Footnotes
National Assembly of Quebec Preceded by
The electoral district was established in 1980.Member of the National Assembly, District of Viger
1981-2001Succeeded by
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