Pontiac | |
Province: | Quebec |
Fed-Status: | active |
Fed-District-Number: | 24057 |
Fed-Created: | 1867 |
Fed-Election-First: | 1867 |
Fed-Election-Last: | 2021 |
Fed-Rep: | Sophie Chatel |
Fed-Rep-Party: | Liberal |
Demo-Pop-Ref: | [1] |
Demo-Area-Ref: | [2] |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
Demo-Pop: | 106499 |
Demo-Electors: | 86585 |
Demo-Electors-Date: | 2015 |
Demo-Area: | 27588.31 |
Demo-Cd: | Gatineau, La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais, Pontiac |
Demo-Csd: | Gatineau (part), Val-des-Monts, Cantley, La Pêche, Chelsea, Pontiac, Maniwaki, Gracefield, Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Déléage |
Pontiac (formerly known as Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle) is a federal electoral district in western Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1949 and since 1968.
In every election since its creation except 1979 and 2011, Pontiac has been a bellwether electoral district whose electoral winner also was a member of the winning party.
The electoral district existed over three distinct periods:
Pontiac lost territory to Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation and gained territory from Hull—Aylmer and Gatineau during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding will largely be replaced by Pontiac—Kitigan Zibi. It loses Val-des-Monts to Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation; loses that part of the City of Gatineau west of Montée Paiement to the riding of Gatineau; and gains the rest of the Plateau neighbourhood from Hull—Aylmer.
The electoral district includes:
The neighbouring ridings are Abitibi—Témiscamingue, Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, Saint-Maurice—Champlain, Laurentides—Labelle, Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, Hull—Aylmer and Gatineau (in Quebec) and Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, Ottawa—Orléans, Ottawa West—Nepean, Carleton—Mississippi Mills, and Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke (in Ontario).
According to the 2021 Canadian census[3]
Ethnic groups: 80.6% White, 7.9% Indigenous, 5.6% Black, 2.1% Arab, 1.2% Latin American
Languages: 65.1% French, 22.7% English, 1.5% Arabic, 1.2% Spanish
Religions: 64.4% Christian (50.4% Catholic, 1.6% Anglican, 1.4% United Church, 1.2% Christian Orthodox, 9.8% Other), 3.4% Muslim, 31.0% None
Median income: $48,400 (2020)
Average income: $56,950 (2020)
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
2021 federal election redistributed results[4] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |||
23,154 | 43.86 | ||||
11,296 | 21.40 | ||||
8,011 | 15.17 | ||||
5,990 | 11.35 | ||||
2,364 | 4.48 | ||||
1,531 | 2.90 | ||||
Others | 447 | 0.85 |
2011 federal election redistributed results[5] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |||
23,809 | 47.27 | ||||
13,189 | 26.19 | ||||
7,649 | 15.19 | ||||
4,810 | 9.55 | ||||
823 | 1.63 | ||||
Others | 87 | 0.17 |
Riding history from the Library of Parliament: