Laurier (federal electoral district)

Laurier, a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1988.

Laurier

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1933
District abolished	1987
First contested	1935
Last contested	1984

It was set up in 1933 from parts of Laurier—Outremont and Saint-Denis ridings. It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Outremont, Rosemont and Saint-Henri—Westmount ridings.

The riding was re-created in 2003, and renamed Laurier—Sainte-Marie in 2004.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Laurier Riding created from Laurier—Outremont and Saint-Denis
18th	1935–1940		Ernest Bertrand	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1949
	1949–1953		J.-Eugène Lefrançois
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958		Lionel Chevrier
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1963
	1964–1965		Fernand Leblanc
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980		David Berger
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
Riding dissolved into Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Outremont, Rosemont and Saint-Henri—Westmount

Election results

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ernest Bertrand	12,998
	Independent Liberal	David Rochon	6,454
	Conservative	Omer Langlois	4,913
	Reconstruction	Georges Mayrand	3,018

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ernest Bertrand	21,069
	National Government	Donat Larivée	4,072

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ernest Bertrand	22,520
	Bloc populaire	Émile-Dostaler O'Leary	5,145
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Jean-J. Beauchamp	1,924
	Progressive Conservative	Louis-Marcel Jr. Lymburner	1,910

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ernest Bertrand	15,578
	Independent	Jacques Sauriol	2,845
	Progressive Conservative	Edward Auerback	1,735
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Pierre Archambault	782

By-election on 24 October 1949 Bertrand accepted an office of emolument under the Crown, 24 August 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	J.-Eugène Lefrançois	10,164
	Labor–Progressive	Pierre Gélinas	713

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	J.-Eugène Lefrançois	12,648
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Nolin	4,642
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Amédée Jasmin	376
	Labor–Progressive	Jeannette Brunelle	364

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lionel Chevrier	11,336
	Progressive Conservative	René Duranleau	5,321
	Independent Liberal	Armand Ouellette	712
	Labor–Progressive	Henri Gagnon	342
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Guy Ouellette	270

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lionel Chevrier	10,125
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Leclair	8,915
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Guy Ouellette	741

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lionel Chevrier	8,255
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Guilbeault	5,466
	Social Credit	Liliane Vien-Beaudet,	1,419
	New Democratic	A.-René Tremblay	1,360

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lionel Chevrier	8,059
	Social Credit	Gilles Caouette	4,282
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Guilbeault	3,245
	New Democratic	Paul Massé	2,379

By-election on 10 February 1964 Chevrier resigned, 27 December 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Leblanc	5,349
	Ralliement créditiste	Gilles Caouette	2,232
	Progressive Conservative	J. René Paquin	1,866
	New Democratic	Gérard Picard	688
	Unknown	André Goulet	216

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Leblanc	7,032
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Locas	2,251
	New Democratic	Jean-Jacques Danis	1,925
	Ralliement créditiste	J.-Alfred Lévesque	1,704

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Leblanc	10,040
	Independent	Hubert Falardeau	4,402
	Progressive Conservative	Julius Briskin	2,827
	New Democratic	Gaston Mckenty	843
	Ralliement créditiste	Joseph-Wilfrid Banville	695
	Independent	Marcel Landry	480

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Leblanc	10,936
	Social Credit	J.-A. Lévesque	3,789
	Progressive Conservative	Raymond Trottier	3,320
	New Democratic	Jean-Paul Guay	2,290
	Independent	Jeannette Walsh	155
	Independent	David Keith Orton	132

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Leblanc	10,085
	Progressive Conservative	Bernard Paradis	3,310
	New Democratic	Roger Gauthier	1,646
	Social Credit	Guy Lévesque	1,582
	Independent	Fernand Boubou Boucher	246
	Marxist–Leninist	Christiane Robidoux	182
	Communist	Jeanette Walsh	100

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	David Berger	17,366
	Social Credit	Gérard Baillarger	3,250
	Progressive Conservative	Yvon Lanthier	2,790
	Rhinoceros	Chatouille Sonia Coté	2,673
	New Democratic	Jean-Pierre Bourdouxhe	1,934
	Union populaire	Lucie Desrosiers	299
	Communist	Guy Desautels	179
	Marxist–Leninist	Bernard Deslières	118

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	David Berger	16,201
	Rhinoceros	Sonia Chatouille Coté	3,067
	New Democratic	Jean-Pierre Bourdouxhe	2,216
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Legris	1,572
	Social Credit	Edmond-Louis Girard	534
	Independent	Louise Baillargeon	346
	Communist	Claire Durand	107
	Independent	André Frappier	102
	Union populaire	Lucien Tremblay	95
	Marxist–Leninist	Bernard Deslières	63

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	David Berger	9,302
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Gagné	7,720
	New Democratic	Jean-Pierre Juneau	4,595
	Rhinoceros	François Yo Gourd	3,247
	Parti nationaliste	Jean Saint-Amour	906
	Green	Robert Silverman	751
	Social Credit	Gilles Coté	194
	Communist	Brian O'Keefe	130
	Commonwealth of Canada	Jean Langevin	53

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament