Regional Profile
Historically, the City of Laval has been a battleground between the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois. The North End of Montreal has significant immigrant populations and generally supports the Liberals, although the BQ captured Ahuntsic and Bourassa in their 1993 near-sweep of the province, and took Ahuntsic and Papineau in 2006 as the Bloc gained support among immigrant groups. This area was traditionally Liberal until Mulroney's rise to power in 1984, which lowered the Liberals hold on the area to only two seats. The Bloc hoped to gain additional support here to counter any losses in rural Quebec to the Conservatives, who are very weak here.
In the event, however, the region was affected by the NDP "orange wave" in Quebec, with that party taking all of Laval. The Liberals retained ridings in Montreal, and the Bloc was left with Ahuntsic as its only seat in the entire Montreal region.
| 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 | |||||
Read more about this topic: Canadian Federal Election Results In Northern Montreal And Laval
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