Viger (electoral district)

Viger
Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1980
District abolished	2001
First contested	1981
Last contested	2002 (by-election)
Demographics
Census division	Montreal (part)
Census subdivision	Montreal (part)

Viger was a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada.

It consisted of part of the then city of Saint-Léonard later turned borough, Rosemont and Mercier-Est neighbourhoods in Montreal.

It was created for the 1981 election. Its final general election was in 1998; there was also a by-election in 2002. It disappeared in the 2003 election as its territory was carved up and distributed among the new electoral district of Jeanne-Mance–Viger and the existing electoral districts of Anjou, Rosemont and Viau .

It was named jointly for Denis-Benjamin Viger and Jacques Viger,^[2] who were prominent politicians in the 1830s and 1840s.

Members of the National Assembly

Legislature	Years		Party
Riding created from Jeanne-Mance and Viau
32nd	1981–1985	Cosmo Maciocia	Liberal
33rd	1985–1989
34th	1989–1994
35th	1994–1998
36th	1998–2001
36th	2002–2003	Anna Mancuso
Dissolved into Jeanne-Mance–Viger, Rosemont, Anjou-Louis-Riel, Viau

Election results

2002 Viger By-election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Anna Mancuso	8353	72.26	+7.46
Parti Québécois	Claude Villeneuve	1741	15.06	-10.89
Action démocratique	Gaetano Giumento	1245	10.77	+2.57
Green	Adam Jastrzebski	221	1.91	-

1998 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	18715	64.80	+0.53
Parti Québécois	Marie Di Corpo	7496	25.95	-3.29
Action démocratique	Jacques Gauthier	2369	8.20	-
Socialist Democracy	Alain Bernatchez	168	0.58	-
Parti innovateur du Québec	Tommy Audet	135	0.47	-

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	23,209	67.88
	Oui	10.982	32.12

1994 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	18743	64.27	+3.54
Parti Québécois	Umberto Di Genova	8529	29.24	+0.13
New Democratic	Jean-Guy Couture	1485	5.09	-
Natural Law	Denis Lacroix	223	0.76	-
Parti des travailleurs du Québec	Roberto Barba	100	0.34	-
Marxist–Leninist	Claude Brunelle	85	0.29	-

1989 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	16847	60.73	-7.66
Parti Québécois	Michel Dupont	8075	29.11	+2.04
Equality	David De Santis	1831	6.60	-
Green	Rolf Bramann	877	3.16	+2.15
Marxist–Leninist	Catherine Commandeur	111	0.40	-

1985 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	20060	68.28	+8.83
Parti Québécois	André Normandeau	7954	27.07	-11.71
New Democratic	Renée Sigouin	617	2.10	-
Green	Marius Henry	295	1.01	-
Parti indépendantiste	Jacques Binette	235	0.80	-
Independent	Amin Hachem	131	0.45	-
Christian Socialist	Christian Rivest	86	0.29	-

1981 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal	Cosmo Maciocia	18794	59.37
Parti Québécois	Paul Doyon	12266	38.74
Union Nationale	J. François Emond	598	1.89

References

↑ Although a new electoral map was decided in 2001, it did not go into effect until the next general election in 2003; by-elections were held using the old electoral map.
↑ "Circonscription électorale de Jeanne-Mance–Viger". Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French). September 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-06.

External links

Election results

Election results (National Assembly)
Election results (QuebecPolitique.com)

Maps

1992–2001 changes Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (Flash)

45°33′N 73°34′W / 45.55°N 73.57°W / 45.55; -73.57

[1] Although a new electoral map was decided in 2001, it did not go into effect until the next general election in 2003; by-elections were held using the old electoral map.

[2] "Circonscription électorale de Jeanne-Mance–Viger". Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French). September 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-06.

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