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Rosemont - La Petite-Patrie

2008 Results

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This riding is in the centre of Montreal and is bounded by Boulevard Pie-IX in the north and the CP Rail line in the southeast. It stretches between Rue Jean-Talon West and East, Papineau Avenue and Rue Bélanger in the west and Highway 138 in the east.

The economic base is retail trade, manufacturing and the service sector. The average family income is $59,563 and unemployment is 8.6 per cent. Twenty-nine per cent of residents over age 25 have a university certificate or degree. Rentals outnumber homeowners in this riding, 74 to 26 per cent.

According to the 2006 census, 76 per cent of residents have French as a mother tongue. Almost five per cent cited Spanish, three per cent English and two per cent Arabic. The total immigrant population is more than 19 per cent.

This riding was established in 1976. The riding name changed from Rosemont to Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie in 2000. In the 1976 redistribution, this riding was created from 45 per cent of St-Michel, 29 per cent of Lafontaine and 18 per cent of Maisonneuve-Rosemont. In 1996, 72 per cent of Rosemont was combined with 26 per cent of Hochelaga-Maissoneuve, 17 per cent of St-Denis and five per cent of Papineau-St-Michel.

Population: 105,864 (2006 census; an increase of 2.3% since 2001)

Political History

Sitting MP Bernard Bigras of the Bloc Québécois won re-election by a considerable margin in 2006. Bigras took 56 per cent of the vote and easily outdistanced his competitors.

In 2004, Bigras captured 60 per cent of the vote to defeat Liberal Christian Bolduc and win a third term.

In the former Rosemont riding, Liberal Claude-André Lachance, incumbent from Lafontaine, won in 1979 and 1980. In 1984, Progressive Conservative Suzanne Blais-Grenier was elected. She was appointed minister of environment in 1984 and minister of state for transport in 1985. She resigned from cabinet in 1985 and was expelled from the PC caucus in 1988 after she refused to withdraw allegations of kickbacks within the Quebec wing of the party. From that time, she sat as an Independent. In 1988, PC Benoît Tremblay won, but he left the PC caucus after Meech Lake failed and became a founding member of the Bloc Québécois in 1990. In 1993, Tremblay won for the BQ.