Regional Profile
The eastern end of the Island of Montreal was the city's only solidly sovereigntist area and was the Bloc Québécois's power base for almost two decades, partly due to its leftist bent. With the exception of ethnic areas that protrude from Northern Montreal into the East Island's Honoré-Mercier riding, where Liberal support is strong, the area is relatively homogeneously Francophone and lower-income, a recipe for Bloc dominance from 1993 to 2011. Prior to the rise of the Bloc, the region was swept up in the Brian Mulroney tide, electing Quebec nationalists under the Progressive Conservative banner. The Conservative Party of Canada has never approached this level of support, and eastern Montreal is currently the weakest region in Canada for the Tories. In 2011, the federalist NDP swept every seat in this region amid the surge of popular support in the province and the concurrent Bloc meltdown. The NDP surge even cost longtime Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe his seat in Laurier-Sainte-Marie.
| 2004 ELECTION RESULTS CITY OF MONTREAL | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Western | Eastern | Northern | Total | |||||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Liberal | 224,636 | 57.5 | 64,554 | 27.1 | 84,937 | 49.4 | 374,127 | 46.7 | |
| Bloc Québécois | 83,512 | 21.4 | 137,602 | 57.7 | 61,090 | 35.5 | 282,204 | 35.2 | |
| N.D.P. | 29,668 | 7.6 | 15,889 | 6.7 | 10,699 | 6.2 | 56,256 | 7.0 | |
| Conservative | 32,601 | 8.3 | 9,504 | 4.0 | 8,869 | 5.2 | 50,974 | 6.4 | |
| Green | 15,046 | 3.9 | 8,456 | 3.5 | 3,963 | 2.3 | 27,465 | 3.4 | |
| Marijuana | 3,891 | 1.0 | 1,680 | 0.7 | 1,207 | 0.7 | 6,778 | 0.8 | |
| Marxist-Leninist | 959 | 0.2 | 430 | 0.2 | 692 | 0.4 | 2,081 | 0.3 | |
| Communist | 78 | 0.0 | 335 | 0.1 | 252 | 0.1 | 665 | 0.1 | |
| Libertarian | 165 | 0.0 | - | - | 165 | 0.0 | |||
| Canadian Action | 85 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | 84 | 0.0 | |
| Independents | - | - | - | - | 250 | 0.1 | 250 | 0.1 | |
| Total | 390,640 | 238,450 | 171,959 | 801,049 | |||||
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