Repentigny (electoral district)

Infobox Canada electoral district
name = Repentigny
province = Quebec


caption = Repentigny in relation to other Quebec federal electoral districts
fed-status = active
fed-district-number = 24053
fed-created = 1996
fed-abolished =
fed-election-first = 1997
fed-election-last = 2006
fed-rep = Raymond Gravel
fed-rep-link =
fed-rep-party = BQ
fed-rep-party-link = Bloc Québécois
demo-census-date = 2006
demo-pop = 109636
demo-electors = 85366
demo-electors-date = 2006
demo-area = 266
demo-cd = L'Assomption
demo-csd = Charlemagne, L'Assomption, L'Épiphanie, Repentigny, L'Épiphanie, Saint-Sulpice

Repentigny is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.

It consists solely and entirely of the Regional County Municipality of L'Assomption.

Demographics

:"According to the Canada 2001 Census"

Electoral history

2006 by-election

MP Benoît Sauvageau was killed in a car accident on August 28 2006. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for a by-election on October 22 2006 with a polling day of November 27 2006.

There had been a lot of pressure from opposition parties for Public Works Minister Michael Fortier, a Conservative senator, to run here however he has declined. Fortier was appointed to the Senate and the Cabinet to represent Greater Montreal which elected no Conservatives in the last federal election, while Fortier pledged to resign from the Senate and seek election to the House of Commons in the next federal election. Instead, the Conservative candidate was Stéphane Bourgon, a lawyer. The Bloc Québécois, of which Sauvageau was a member, ran Raymond Gravel, a Roman Catholic priest. [ [http://www.canadaeast.com/cp/national/article2.php?articleID=58097] ] The New Democratic Party candidate was union activist and former Canadian navy member Réjean Bellemare, who had also run for the NDP in the previous general election.

The Green Party of Canada had announced that Marc-André Gadoury would be their candidate, but he did not complete and submit paperwork to Elections Canada in sufficient time to get on the ballot. Gadoury suggested that the Greens did not submit the paperwork on purpose and on November 25 2006, "La Presse" reported that Gadoury was endorsing the NDP candidate, Réjean Bellemare.

Raymond Gravel of the Bloc Québécois won the by-election with an approximately two-thirds majority of votes.

1997-2006

See also

* List of Canadian federal electoral districts
* Past Canadian electoral districts

References

External links

* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=1051 Riding history from the] Library of Parliament