Mount Royal (electoral district)

This article is about the federal district. For the provincial district, see Mont-Royal (provincial electoral district).

Mount Royal

Quebec electoral district
Mount Royal in relation to other federal electoral districts in Montreal and Laval (2013 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Anthony Housefather Liberal
District created	1924
First contested	1925
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	101,258
Electors (2015)	74,055
Area (km²)	23
Pop. density (per km²)	4,402.5
Census divisions	Montreal
Census subdivisions	Montreal, Côte Saint-Luc, Mount Royal, Hampstead

Mount Royal (French: Mont-Royal) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1925. Its population in 2006 was 98,888.

The riding is among the strongest Liberal ridings in the country. Réal Caouette, long-time leader of the Social Credit Party in Quebec, once said that a mailbox could win the Liberal nomination in Mount Royal and still win election just because it was red (the traditional colour of the Liberal Party). The Liberals have held the riding continuously since 1940, and have only been seriously threatened three times since then—in 1958, 1984 and 2011.

Its best-known MP is former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who represented the riding from 1965 to 1984. Its current MP, Irwin Cotler, has held the seat since 1999 when he won a riding-record 91.98 percent of the vote in a by-election. However, over the past few elections the Conservative Party has narrowed the gap, most recently through star candidate Saulie Zajdel, since prosecuted for influence peddling in past activities at the municipal level.

Once the English name of this riding was eliminated in the 2012 electoral redistribution but reversed by the Riding Name Change Act, 2014.

The riding has a large Jewish population, the second largest in Canada—36.3 percent. Mount Royal and Thornhill in Ontario are the only two districts in Canada where Judaism is the most commonly practised religion.

Geography

The district includes the City of Côte Saint-Luc, the Towns of Mount Royal and Hampstead, the neighbourhood of Snowdon and the western part of the neighbourhood of Côte-des-Neiges in the City of Montreal.

Demographics

According to the Canada 2006 Census

• Ethnic groups: 65.4% White, 9.2% Filipino, 6.2% South Asian, 5.5% Black, 3.3% Chinese, 3.1% Southeast Asian, 2.9% Arab, 1.9% Latin American, 1.0% West Asian
• Languages: 32.2% English, 21.1% French, 45.7% Others
• Religions (2001): 36.3% Jewish, 29.3% Catholic, 6.8% Protestant, 5.6% Muslim, 4.9% Christian Orthodox, 4.5% Hindu, 3.0% Buddhist, 1.6% Other Christian
• Average income: $21,933

History

The electoral district was created in 1924 from Jacques-Cartier and Westmount—Saint-Henri ridings. The electoral district was actually abolished twice since 1924, in 1966 and in 1987; however, the district to replace it kept the same name and incumbent both times.

This riding remained largely intact during the 2012 electoral redistribution, losing a small (uninhabited) territory to Outremont.

Former boundaries

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  2004 to 2011 election

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Mount Royal Riding created from Jacques-Cartier and Westmount—St. Henri
15th	1925–1926		Robert Smeaton White	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940		William Allen Walsh
19th	1940–1945		Fred Whitman	Liberal
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953		Alan Macnaughton
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968		Pierre Trudeau
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		Sheila Finestone
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–1999
	1999–2000		Irwin Cotler
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present		Anthony Housefather

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Anthony Housefather	24,187	50.34	+8.93	–
	Conservative	Robert Libman	18,201	37.88	+2.27	–
	New Democratic	Mario Jacinto Rimbao	3,884	8.08	-9.77	–
	Bloc Québécois	Jade Bossé Bélanger	908	1.90	-1.01	–
	Green	Timothy Landry	747	1.55	-0.20	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Diane Johnston	124	0.26	-0.02	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			48,051	100.00	–	$207,183.11
Total rejected ballots			425	0.88	–	–
Turnout			48,476	65.18	+7.54	–
Eligible voters			74,374	–	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		+6.66
Source: Elections Canada

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Irwin Cotler	16,151	41.41	-14.24	–
	Conservative	Saulie Zajdel	13,891	35.61	+8.28	–
	New Democratic	Jeff Itcush	6,963	17.85	+10.13	–
	Bloc Québécois	Gabriel Dumais	1,136	2.91	-1.45	–
	Green	Brian Sarwer-Foner	683	1.75	-2.67	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Diane Johnston	109	0.28	+0.01	–
	Independent	Abraham Weizfeld	74	0.19	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,007	100.00	–	–
Total rejected ballots			312	0.79	+0.04	–
Turnout			39,319	57.64	+5.34	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Irwin Cotler	19,702	55.65	-9.90	$70,302
	Conservative	Rafael Tzoubari	9,676	27.33	+9.43	$63,120
	New Democratic	Nicolas Thibodeau	2,733	7.72	+1.02	$3,089
	Green	Tyrell Alexander	1,565	4.42	+0.57	$600
	Bloc Québécois	Maryse Lavallée	1,543	4.36	-1.35	$6,931
	Marxist–Leninist	Diane Johnston	97	0.27	-0.02
	Communist	Antonio Artuso	89	0.25	–	$907
Total valid votes/Expense limit			35,405	100.00	–	$80,838
Total rejected ballots			268	0.75	+0.06	–
Turnout			35,673	52.30	-0.51	–

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Irwin Cotler	24,248	65.55	-10.13	$66,099
	Conservative	Neil Martin Drabkin	6,621	17.90	+9.27	$41,404
	New Democratic	Nicolas R. Thibodeau	2,479	6.70	+1.79	$2,810
	Bloc Québécois	Guillaume Dussault	2,112	5.71	-1.25	$8,542
	Green	Damien Pichereau	1,423	3.85	+1.09
	Marxist–Leninist	Diane Johnston	106	0.29	+0.04
Total valid votes/Expense limit			36,989	100.00	–	$75,740
Total rejected ballots			241	0.65	-0.18	–
Turnout			37,230	52.81	-0.59	–

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Irwin Cotler	28,670	75.68	-5.56	$79,191
	Conservative	Matthew Fireman	3,271	8.63	-1.02	$16,501
	Bloc Québécois	Vincent Gagnon	2,636	6.96	+2.69	$5,960
	New Democratic	Sébastien Beaudet	1,859	4.91	+2.37	$2,199
	Green	Adam Sommerfeld	1,046	2.76	+1.09
	Marijuana	Adam Greenblatt	308	0.81	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Diane Johnston	94	0.25	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			37,884	100.00	–	$74,792
Total rejected ballots			317	0.83	–	–
Turnout			38,201	53.40	–	–

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

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Irwin Cotler	33,118	81.24	-10.74
	Progressive Conservative	Stephane Gelgoot	2,489	6.11	+2.34
	Bloc Québécois	Jean-Sebastien Houle	1,740	4.27	+2.03
	Alliance	Alex Gabanski	1,444	3.54
	New Democratic	Maria Pia Chávez	1,034	2.54	+0.52
	Green	Jean-Claude Balu	681	1.67
	Communist	Judith Chafoya	140	0.34
	Natural Law	Ena Kahn	122	0.30
Total valid votes			40,768	100.00	–

Canadian federal by-election, 15 November 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
Resignation of Sheila Finestone, 10 August 1999
	Liberal	Irwin Cotler	15,820	91.98	+29.72
	Progressive Conservative	Noel Earl Alexander	648	3.77	-6.58
	Bloc Québécois	Mathieu Alarie	385	2.24	-1.86
	New Democratic	Serge Granger	347	2.02	+0.02
Total valid votes			17,200	100.00	–

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

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Sheila Finestone	30,115	62.26	-20.68
	Independent	Howard Galganov	10,090	20.86
	Progressive Conservative	Carolyn Steinman	5,006	10.35	+4.57
	Bloc Québécois	Jacques Thibaudeau	1,981	4.10	-2.86
	New Democratic	Adam Giambrone	966	2.00	+0.33
	Natural Law	Ena Kahn	211	0.44	-0.21
Total valid votes			48,369	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Sheila Finestone	39,598	82.94	+23.09
	Bloc Québécois	Guillaume Dumas	3,324	6.96
	Progressive Conservative	Neil Drabkin	2,758	5.78	-26.17
	New Democratic	Michael Richard Werbowski	796	1.67	-3.70
	Independent	Harry Polansky	537	1.12
	Natural Law	Ken Matthews	312	0.65
	National	Kurtis Law	300	0.63
	Commonwealth of Canada	Georges Duchesnay	71	0.15	-0.09
	Abolitionist	Marie Vienneau	47	0.10
Total valid votes			47,743	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Sheila Finestone	27,354	59.85	+12.38
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Presser	14,601	31.95	-7.14
	New Democratic	Tariq Alvi	2,455	5.37	-4.52
	Rhinoceros	Lady Be Ann Poulin	512	1.12	-0.50
	Green	Daniel Reicher	438	0.96
	Independent	Barry Goodman	165	0.36
	Commonwealth of Canada	Paul G. Fraleigh	108	0.24	+0.07
	Independent	Abe Rosner	68	0.15
Total valid votes			45,701	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Sheila Finestone	22,716	47.47	-33.76
	Progressive Conservative	Sharon Wolfe	18,707	39.09	+28.52
	New Democratic	Nancy Pearson	4,735	9.89	+4.23
	Rhinoceros	Claude Parachute Racine	776	1.62	-0.10
	Parti nationaliste	André Daoust	392	0.82
	Libertarian	Victor Lévis	338	0.71	+0.41
	Independent	Mark Sholzberg	110	0.23
	Commonwealth of Canada	Guy R. Huard	80	0.17
Total valid votes			47,854	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Pierre Trudeau	33,821	81.23	-3.9
	Progressive Conservative	Harry Bloomfield	4,402	10.57	+3.4
	New Democratic	David C. Winch	2,356	5.66	+1.7
	Rhinoceros	Michel Flybin Rivard	715	1.72	+0.4
	Independent	Gordon Edwards	149	0.36
	Libertarian	Eddie Paul	126	0.30
	Marxist–Leninist	Liz Watkins	68	0.16	+0.0
Total valid votes			41,637	100.00	–

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Pierre Trudeau	43,202	85.2	+10.2
	Progressive Conservative	J. David Dejong	3,660	7.2	-6.1
	New Democratic	David C. Winch	2,023	4.0	-5.8
	Social Credit	Laflèche Trudeau	1,049	2.1	1.1
	Rhinoceros	Jacques Ferron	649	1.3
	Communist	David G. Johnston	81	0.2
	Marxist–Leninist	Robert Verrier	61	0.1	-0.3
Total valid votes			50,725	100.0	–

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Pierre Trudeau	32,166	75.0	-5.6
	Progressive Conservative	Émile Mashaal	5,723	13.3	+3.6
	New Democratic	Joe Rabinovitch	4,214	9.8	+2.7
	Social Credit	Bertrand Marcil	414	1.0	-0.4
	Independent	Edward J. Sommer	211	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Robert A. Cruise	162	0.4	+0.2
Total valid votes			42,890	100.0	–

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Pierre Trudeau	36,875	80.6	-10.1
	Progressive Conservative	Andrew Albert Brichant	4,446	9.7	+5.0
	New Democratic	Harry Yudin	3,274	7.2	+3.3
	Social Credit	Alexander O. Bronstein	625	1.4	+1.2
	Independent	Gaston Miron	433	0.9
	Independent	Robert A. Cruise	80	0.2
Total valid votes			45,733	100.0	–

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Pierre Trudeau	37,402	90.8	+35.1
	Progressive Conservative	Huguette Marleau	1,965	4.8	-8.8
	New Democratic	Jussy Brainin	1,583	3.8	-25.8
	Independent	Walter Gallagher	182	0.4
	Ralliement créditiste	Michel Lamonde	80	0.2	-1.0
Total valid votes			41,212	100.0	–

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Pierre Trudeau	28,064	55.6	-14.7
	New Democratic	Charles Taylor	14,929	29.6	+13.1
	Progressive Conservative	Peter S. Wise	6,840	13.6	+2.9
	Ralliement créditiste	Michel Smith	598	1.2	-1.3
Total valid votes			50,431	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alan Macnaughton	37,648	70.4	+7.3
	New Democratic	Charles Taylor	8,855	16.5	+3.8
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Joseph Coonan	5,693	10.6	-12.0
	Social Credit	Austin G. Gordon	1,318	2.5	+0.8
Total valid votes			53,514	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alan Macnaughton	31,654	63.0	+14.6
	Progressive Conservative	Stanley Shenkman	11,352	22.6	-24.7
	New Democratic	Charles Taylor	6,388	12.7	+8.4
	Social Credit	Henri-J. Bernard	845	1.7
Total valid votes			50,239	100.0

Note: NDP vote is compared to CCF vote in 1958 election.

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alan Macnaughton	22,051	48.4	-12.0
	Progressive Conservative	Reginald J. Dawson	21,562	47.3	+11.4
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harold Atwill	1,952	4.3	+0.6
Total valid votes			45,565	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alan Macnaughton	23,330	60.4	-1.2
	Progressive Conservative	George Brown	13,861	35.9	+2.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harold Atwill	1,420	3.7	+1.9
Total valid votes			38,611	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alan Macnaughton	17,183	61.7	-2.2
	Progressive Conservative	Dudley Holden Kerr	9,460	33.9	-0.1
	Labor–Progressive	Norman Nerenberg	727	2.6
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ross Worrall	500	1.8	-0.3
Total valid votes			27,870	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alan Macnaughton	21,654	63.8	+17.1
	Progressive Conservative	Earle Moore	11,550	34.0	-5.7
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ross Edward Worrall	719	2.1	-5.9
Total valid votes			33,923	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Frederick Primrose Whitman	20,925	46.8	-9.7
	Progressive Conservative	St. Clair Holland	17,798	39.8	+1.9
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Stanley Allen	3,608	8.1	+2.4
	Independent PC	Gilbert Layton	1,270	2.8
	Labor–Progressive	Beryl Truax	1,147	2.6
Total valid votes			44,748	100.0

Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election.

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Frederick Primrose Whitman	19,858	56.5	+20.0
	National Government	William Allen Walsh	13,319	37.9	-11.6
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Stanley Allen	1,983	5.6	+1.1
Total valid votes			35,160	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	William Allen Walsh	16,203	49.4	-26.0
	Liberal	Adam Kirk Cameron	11,967	36.5	+12.0
	Reconstruction	Clifford Henry Cheasley	2,782	8.5
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lloyd B. Almond	1,473	4.5
	Independent	Thomas Henry Carveth	343	1.0
Total valid votes			32,768	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Robert Smeaton White	19,932	75.5	-0.5
	Liberal	Grace Ritchie England	6,483	24.5	+0.5
Total valid votes			26,415	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Robert Smeaton White	14,249	76.0	+6.3
	Liberal	Thomas Henry Carveth	4,499	24.0
Total valid votes			18,748	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Robert Smeaton White	16,377	69.7
	Independent Liberal	Robert Louis Calder	7,129	30.3
Total valid votes			23,506	100.0

See also

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

References

• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Riding history from the Library of Parliament:

• 1924-1966
• 1966-1987
• 1987-present

Notes

Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Algoma East	Riding represented by the Prime Minister 1968–1979	Succeeded by Yellowhead
Preceded by Yellowhead	Riding represented by the Prime Minister 1980–1984	Succeeded by Vacant; next was Manicouagan, in 1984