Gatineau () is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from since 1949. Between 1987 and 1996, it was known as "Gatineau—La Lièvre".
It consists of part of the former city of Gatineau, Quebec as defined by its pre-2002 boundaries.
The adjacent ridings are Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, Hull—Aylmer, Pontiac—Kitigan Zibi, Orléans, and Ottawa—Vanier—Gloucester.
Demographics
According to the 2021 Canadian census
Ethnic groups: 81.8% White, 6.8% Black, 4.4% Indigenous, 3.4% Arab, 1.6% Latin American
Languages: 80.1% French, 6.7% English, 2.5% Arabic, 1.6% Spanish
Religions: 67.6% Christian (55.6% Catholic, 12.0% Other), 3.3% Muslim, 28.3% None
Median income: $45,600 (2020)
Average income: $51,550 (2020)
History
The district was created in 1947 from parts of Hull and Wright ridings. In 1987, it was renamed to Chapleau, and then to Gatineau—La Lièvre in 1988. It was renamed back to "Gatineau" in 1996.
Gatineau lost territory to Pontiac during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, it lost that part of the city of Gatineau north of Autoroute 50; and that part of the City of Gatineau east of Av. du Cheval-Blanc, and south of a line that follows Rivière Blanche to Highway 148 to Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, and gained the remainder of the City of Gatineau west of Montée Paiement from Pontiac.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
Assad represented Gatineau—La Lièvre from 1988 to 1997 which was known as Chapleau from 1987 to 1988. This district had similar borders to Gatineau.
Politics
Like most ridings in the Outaouais, Gatineau had long been safe for the Liberals, save for a lone Progressive Conservative victory in their 1984 nationwide landslide. Even as the rest of Quebec turned its back on the Liberals, a large number of civil servants who worked in Ottawa kept it in Liberal hands.
However, in the 2006 election the Bloc Québécois won the seat. The Bloc managed to hold the seat with just over 29% of the vote in 2008, by far the lowest percentage for a winning candidate nationwide, due to a near-three-way split between themselves, the New Democratic Party and the Liberals. The riding was swept up in the massive NDP wave that swept through the province in the 2011 election.
In the 2015 election, Liberal candidate Steven MacKinnon, running a second time, defeated NDP incumbent Françoise Boivin in an upset with an almost 40-point swing.
Election results
1997–present
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="4" | 2021 federal election redistributed results
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! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="130px" colspan="2" | Party
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | Vote
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="30px" | %
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| Liberal ||align=right| 27,380 ||align=right| 50.05
|-
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| Bloc Québécois ||align=right| 12,810 ||align=right| 23.42
|-
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| Conservative ||align=right| 6,076 ||align=right| 11.11
|-
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| New Democratic ||align=right| 4,715 ||align=right| 8.62
|-
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| People's ||align=right| 2,218 ||align=right| 4.05
|-
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| Green ||align=right| 855 ||align=right| 1.56
|-
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| Others ||align=right| 646 ||align=right| 1.18
|}
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="4" | 2011 federal election redistributed results
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! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="130px" colspan="2" | Party
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | Vote
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="30px" | %
|-
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| New Democratic ||align=right| 31,894 ||align=right| 62.13
|-
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| Bloc Québécois ||align=right| 7,663 ||align=right| 14.93
|-
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| Liberal ||align=right| 7,082 ||align=right| 13.80
|-
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| Conservative ||align=right| 4,111 ||align=right| 8.01
|-
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| Green ||align=right| 587 ||align=right| 1.14
|}
|-
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election.
Gatineau—La Lièvre (1988-1993)
|Liberal
|Mark Assad
|align="right"|39,274
|Progressive Conservative
|Jérôme P. Falardeau
|align="right"|4,464
|New Democratic
|Elizabeth Holden
|align="right"|1,096
|Natural Law
|Danièle Bélair
|align="right"|736
|-
|Liberal
|Mark Assad
|align="right"|23,507
|align="right"|43.28
|align="right"|+8.85
|Progressive Conservative
|Claudy Mailly
|align="right"|21,385
|align="right"|39.38
|align="right"|-11.53
|New Democratic
|Marius Tremblay
|align="right"| 8,394
|align="right"|15.46
|align="right"|+2.49
|Rhinoceros
| Daniel Le Lièvre Villeneuve
|align="right"|660
|align="right"|1.22
|align="right"|
|No affiliation
| Nicole Leblanc
|align="right"| 364
|align="right"|0.67
|align="right"|
1949–1988
Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.
Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.
See also
- List of Canadian electoral districts
- Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
References
- Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
- Riding history 1947-1987 from the Library of Parliament
- Riding history 1996-present from the Library of Parliament