Vaudreuil—Soulanges

Vaudreuil—Soulanges is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1914 to 1968 and since 1997.

This article is about the federal riding. For the defunct provincial riding, see Vaudreuil-Soulanges (provincial electoral district).

Vaudreuil—Soulanges

Quebec electoral district
Vaudreuil-Soulanges in relation to other Montérégie federal electoral districts.
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Peter Schiefke Liberal
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	111,905
Electors (2015)	89,766
Area (km²)[2]	408
Pop. density (per km²)	274.3
Census divisions	Vaudreuil-Soulanges
Census subdivisions	Vaudreuil-Dorion, Saint-Lazare, Pincourt, L'Île-Perrot, Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot, L'Île-Cadieux, Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Rigaud, Pointe-Fortune, Les Cèdres, Hudson

It consists of the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality. The neighbouring ridings are Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, Lac-Saint-Louis, Salaberry—Suroît, Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, and Glengarry—Prescott—Russell.

Profile

The NDP did well across the riding in the 2011 election, with relatively uniform support across the district. The Bloc did well in French-dominated areas such as Rigaud near the Ontario border as well as in Vaudreuil-Dorion and the south of the riding in Les Cèdres. Hudson and Saint-Lazare were stronger areas for the Tories, being areas with higher Anglophone populations. In certain parts of Hudson, the Liberals did somewhat well, though their support across the riding was low.

History

The original Vaudreuil—Soulanges was created in 1914 when the ridings of Vaudreuil and Soulanges were combined into one riding. In keeping with the usual Canadian naming practices, the appellations 'Vaudreuil' and 'Soulanges' were linked by an em-dash as the two counties remained officially separate, and their combination was for electoral purposes only. It was abolished in 1966.

In 1997, the Vaudreuil riding was renamed "Vaudreuil-Soulanges", as it had been realigned to be perfectly coterminal to the Vaudreuil—Soulanges Regional County Municipality.

This riding lost territory to Salaberry—Suroît during the 2012 electoral redistribution and was renamed "Vaudreuil—Soulanges".

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Vaudreuil—Soulanges Riding created from Vaudreuil and Soulanges
13th	1917–1921		Gustave Benjamin Boyer	Liberal
14th	1921–1922
	1922–1925		Joseph-Rodolphe Ouimet
15th	1925–1926		Lawrence Alexander Wilson
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935		Joseph Thauvette
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949		Louis-René Beaudoin
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Marcel Bourbonnais	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965		René Émard	Liberal
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Vaudreuil
Vaudreuil-Soulanges Riding re-created from Vaudreuil
36th	1997–2000		Nick Discepola	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006		Meili Faille	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015		Jamie Nicholls	New Democratic
Vaudreuil—Soulanges
42nd	2015–2019		Peter Schiefke	Liberal
43rd	2019–present

Election results

Vaudreuil—Soulanges, 2015–present

2019 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Peter Schiefke	32,254	47.3
	Bloc Québécois	Noémie Rouillard	16,600	24.4
	Conservative	Karen Cox	7,804	11.5
	New Democratic	Amanda MacDonald	7,368	10.8
	Green	Cameron Stiff	3,405	5.0
	People's	Kaylin Tam	711	1.0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			68,142	100.0
Total rejected ballots			962
Turnout			69,104	72.4
Eligible voters			95,435
Source: Elections Canada[3][4]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Peter Schiefke	30,550	46.62	+34.23	–
	New Democratic	Jamie Nicholls	14,627	22.31	-21.19	–
	Bloc Québécois	Vincent François	9,858	15.04	-8.62	–
	Conservative	Marc Boudreau	9,048	13.81	-3.8	–
	Green	Jennifer Kaszel	1,445	2.21	-0.63	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			65,528	100.0		$231,083.77
Total rejected ballots			714	–	–
Turnout			66,242	–	–
Eligible voters			89,766
Source: Elections Canada[5][6]

2011 federal election redistributed results[7]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	24,134	43.50
	Bloc Québécois	13,129	23.66
	Conservative	9,770	17.61
	Liberal	6,873	12.39
	Green	1,574	2.84

Vaudreuil-Soulanges, 1997–2015

2011 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jamie Nicholls	30,177	43.61	+33.98
	Bloc Québécois	Meili Faille	17,781	25.69	-15.65
	Conservative	Marc Boudreau	11,360	16.41	-7.28
	Liberal	Lyne Pelchat	8,023	11.59	-9.74
	Green	Jean-Yves Massenet	1,864	2.69	-1.32
Total valid votes/Expense limit			69,205	100.00
Total rejected ballots			763	1.09
Turnout			69,968	67.23

2008 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Meili Faille	27,044	41.34	-1.82	$80,072
	Conservative	Michael Fortier	15,496	23.69	+4.69	$87,967
	Liberal	Brigitte Legault	13,954	21.33	-6.96	$32,958
	New Democratic	Maxime Héroux-Legault	6,298	9.63	+4.09	$1,519
	Green	Jean-Yves Massenet	2,625	4.01	+0.10	$1,913
Total valid votes/Expense limit			65,417	100.00	$96,487
Total rejected ballots			729	1.10
Turnout			66,146	67.76

2006 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Meili Faille	27,012	43.16	-1.13	$85,133
	Liberal	Marc Garneau	17,768	28.39	-10.41	$79,413
	Conservative	Stephane Bourgon	11,889	19.00	+10.81	$35,090
	New Democratic	Bert Markgraf	3,468	5.54	+1.64	$3,385
	Green	Pierre Pariseau-Legault	2,450	3.91	+0.14	$1,144
Total valid votes/Expense limit			62,587	100.00	$85,543

2004 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Meili Faille	24,675	44.29	+4.31	$67,962
	Liberal	Nick Discepola	21,613	38.80	-12.77	$57,607
	Conservative	Robert Ramage	4,558	8.18	-3.99	$25,438
	New Democratic	Bert Markgraf	2,175	3.90	+2.13	$2,698
	Green	Julie C. Baribeau	2,103	3.77	–	$1,206
	Marijuana	Charles Soucy	585	1.05	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			55,709	100.00	$81,759

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Nick Discepola	26,292	51.56	+6.56
	Bloc Québécois	Éric Cimon	17,587	34.49	+1.09
	Alliance	Dean Drysdale	4,188	8.21	+7.12
	Progressive Conservative	Stratos Psarianos	2,020	3.96	-14.59
	New Democratic	Shaun G. Lynch	904	1.77	+0.75
Total valid votes			50,991	100.00

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Nick Discepola	23,676	45.00
	Bloc Québécois	René St-Onge	17,574	33.40
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Lajoie	9,760	18.55
	Reform	Peter McLoughlin	573	1.09
	New Democratic	Jason Sigurdson	538	1.02
	Natural Law	Eric E. Simon	490	0.93
Total valid votes			52,611	100.00

Vaudreuil—Soulanges, 1917–1968

1965 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	René Émard	8,955	50.79	+1.04
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Bourbonnais	6,580	37.32	+2.59
	New Democratic	Roger Carrier	1,346	7.63
	Ralliement créditiste	Jean-Marie Veilleux	750	4.25	-9.22
Total valid votes			17,631	100.00

Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.

1963 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	René Émard	8,639	49.75	+3.72
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Marcel Bourbonnais	6,031	34.73	-12.81
	Social Credit	Marcel Lessard	2,340	13.48	+7.05
	Independent	Gérard Raymond	354	2.04
Total valid votes			17,364	100.00

1962 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Marcel Bourbonnais	8,392	47.54	-5.33
	Liberal	Pierre Léger	8,126	46.03	-1.09
	Social Credit	Gabriel Godin	1,135	6.43
Total valid votes			17,653	100.00

1958 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Bourbonnais	8,161	52.87	+21.36
	Liberal	Armand Asselin	7,274	47.13	-21.36
Total valid votes			15,435	100.00

1957 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-René Beaudoin	9,055	68.49	-10.48
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Bourbonnais	4,166	31.51	+10.48
Total valid votes			13,221	100.00

1953 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-René Beaudoin	8,463	78.97	+11.40
	Progressive Conservative	Roger-Paul Sullivan	2,254	21.03	-11.40
Total valid votes			10,717	100.00

1949 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-René Beaudoin	7,622	67.56	+4.62
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Omer Lalonde	3,659	32.44
Total valid votes			11,281	100.00

1945 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-René Beaudoin	6,267	62.94	+14.75
	Independent	Jean Lamarche	1,880	18.88
	Bloc populaire	Robert Stocker	1,619	16.26
	Co-operative Commonwealth	J.-Albert Bourbonnais	191	1.92
Total valid votes			9,957	100.00

1940 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Thauvette	4,381	48.19	-19.95
	National Government	J.-E.-Philippe Deguire	2,210	24.31	-4.38
	Independent Liberal	Édouard Charlebois	1,441	15.85
	Independent Liberal	J.-Ernest Chevrier	1,059	11.65
Total valid votes			9,091	100.00

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.

1935 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Thauvette	5,983	68.14	+17.17
	Conservative	Horace-Joseph Gagné	2,519	28.69	-0.05
	Reconstruction	Albert Lacombe	279	3.18
Total valid votes			8,781	100.00

1930 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Thauvette	4,313	50.96	-17.07
	Conservative	Horace-Joseph Gagné	2,432	28.74
	Independent Liberal	Roland-Gilles Mousseau	1,718	20.30	-6.95
Total valid votes			8,463	100.00

Canadian federal by-election, 29 July 1929
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
On Mr. Wilson's resignation, 1 February 1929
	Liberal	Lawrence Alexander Wilson	4,409	68.03	-6.44
	Independent Liberal	Roland-Gilles Mousseau	1,766	27.25
	Independent Liberal	Émile Gagné	306	4.72
Total valid votes			6,481	100.00

1926 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lawrence Alexander Wilson	5,391	74.47	-2.23
	Conservative	Eugène Leroux	1,848	25.53	+2.23
Total valid votes			7,239	100.00

1925 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lawrence Alexander Wilson	5,554	76.70	+13.17
	Conservative	Eugène Leroux	1,687	23.30
Total valid votes			7,241	100.00

Note: Change in popular vote is calculated from popular vote in the 1921 general election.

By-election on 21 March 1922 On Mr. Boyer being called to the Senate, 11 March 1922
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Rodolphe Ouimet	acclaimed

1921 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gustave Boyer	5,366	63.53	-27.37
	Independent	Adrien Pharand	2,787	33.00
	Progressive	Julien Charlebois	293	3.47
Total valid votes			8,446	100.00

Note: Liberal vote is compared to Opposition vote in 1917 general election.

1917 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Gustave Boyer	4,075	90.90
	Government (Unionist)	Julien-Firmin Bissonnette	408	9.10
Total valid votes			4,483	100.00

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

References

• "(Code 24073) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Riding history from the Library of Parliament:

• Vaudreuil—Soulanges, Quebec (1914–1966)
• Vaudreuil—Soulanges, Quebec (1997–2008)
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2012
2. Statistics Canada: 2012
3. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
4. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
5. Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Vaudreuil—Soulanges, 30 September 2015
6. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
7. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections