Canadian federal election results in the Laurentides, Outaouais and Northern Quebec explained

Canadian federal elections have provided the following results in the Laurentides, Outaouais and Northern Quebec.

Regional profile

The Outaouais is one of the most federalist areas of Quebec outside of Montreal because of its close proximity to Ottawa and its concurrent large population of civil servants. However, Northern Quebec and the Laurentides have long been strongly nationalist, a recipe for two decades of Bloc Québécois dominance. In a recent by-election were the Liberals temporally able to get the traditionally Bloquist riding of Temiscamingue, having previously gained the northern riding of Abitibi - Baie-James - Nunavik in 1997.

Social Credit did well here from the 1960s through the 1970s, usually winning two or three seats; Réal Caouette, the main voice of Social Credit in the province, was from this area. Hull—Aylmer was one of the few ridings outside the Montreal area that was not swept up in the Brian Mulroney tide, as it went Liberal in both 1984 and 1988; in 1984 it was one of only five Liberal-held ridings outside Montreal in the entire province. The Liberals managed to retake Gatineau in 1988. In 2006, however, everything changed as Liberal support melted here; the party lost two of their three Outaouais seats - one to the Bloc and one to the Conservatives.

The region was swept up in the massive NDP tsunami that swept through Quebec in 2011, as the NDP took every seat here by considerable margins (9,000 votes or more), ousting the region's highest-profile MP, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon in Pontiac. The NDP even snapped up Hull—Aylmer—a seat that had been in Liberal hands since the riding's creation in 1917. In 2015, the Liberals took all of the Outoauais, and took four ridings in the Laurentides. The Bloc took three Laurentides ridings, while the NDP was reduced to the two northernmost ridings in the province. The region reverted to type in 2019. The Bloc swept the north and took all but one seat in the Laurentides, while the Liberals maintained their sweep of the Outaouais and narrowly held onto one Laurentides seat.

Votes by party throughout time

Election								/
Election
1979	238,125 60.2%		25,338 6.4%				44,505 11.3%		74,900 18.9%	12,587 3.2%
1980	252,593 67.6%		39,460 10.6%				37,532 10.0%		30,121 8.1%	14,194 3.8%
1984	140,193 32.2%		42,633 9.8%				228,843 52.5%			24,048 5.5%
1988	123,457 27.5%		77,519 17.5%				228,347 50.7%			19,675 4.4%
1993	166,954 32.8%	249,301 48.9%	7,514 1.5%				79,095 15.5%			6,567 1.3%
1997	171,018 37.5%	173,629 38.1%	8,676 1.9%		586 0.1%		97,516 21.4%	935 0.2%		3,497 0.8%
2000	184,170 42.4%	179,322 41.3%	8,265 1.9%		2,697 0.6%		22,190 5.1%	30,560 7.0%		6,685 1.5%
2004	137,409 31.3%	228,686 52.1%	20,318 4.6%	34,411 7.8%	16,470 3.8%				1,538 0.4%
2006	89,131 18.4%	229,474 47.3%	41,767 8.6%	104,543 21.6%	19,748 4.1%					232 0.0%
2008	106,047 22.0%	197,802 41.1%	69,900 14.5%	88,503 18.4%	18,012 3.7%					1,197 0.2%
2011	60,306 11.5%	121,748 23.3%	265,660 50.8%	63,402 12.1%	10,877 2.1%					732 0.1%
2015	245,736 37.1%	143,881 21.7%	190,633 28.8%	66,779 10.1%	13,314 2.0%					2,661 0.4%
2019	240,469 35.7%	256,537 38.1%	60,648 9.0%	72,592 10.8%	33,296 4.9%	6,636 1.0%				2,858 1.0%
2021	216,107 33.8%	241,664 37.8%	52,000 8.1%	79,975 12.5%	10,962 1.7%	23,261 3.6%				15,685 2.4%