D'Arcy-McGee - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

D'Arcy-McGee is a provincial electoral district in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec

National Assembly of Quebec

The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec. The Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other British-style parliamentary systems.The National Assembly was formerly the...

.
The riding was created in 1965 from parts of the former Montreal-Outremont

Outremont (provincial electoral district)

Outremont is a provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in central Montreal, the riding was created in 1965. Previously, it was part of the riding of Montreal-Outremont that existed from 1939 to 1965...

and Westmount-St-Georges

Westmount (provincial electoral district)

Westmount was a provincial electoral district located in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in the Montreal region, Westmount was formed in 1912. In 1994, it became part of Westmount—Saint-Louis. From 1939 to 1966, it was part of Westmount-Saint-Georges...

provincial electoral districts. It is the only provincial riding in Quebec with a Jewish majority.

The riding was named after Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Father of Confederation.

Members of the National Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the National Assembly

National Assembly of Quebec

Legislature	Years		Party
28th Quebec general election, 1966 The Quebec general election of 1966 was held on June 5, 1966, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The Union Nationale , led by Daniel Johnson, Sr, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage....	1966-1970	Victor Charles Goldbloom Victor Goldbloom Victor Charles Goldbloom, is a Canadian pediatrician, lecturer, and politician.He was born in Montreal, the son of Alton Goldbloom and Annie Ballon. He studied at Selwyn House and Lower Canada College. He studied at McGill University receiving his BSc in 1944, his MD in 1945, his DipEd in 1950...	Liberal
29th Quebec general election, 1970 The Quebec general election of 1970 was held on April 29, 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The former Legislative Assembly had been renamed the "National Assembly" in 1968...	1970-1973
30th Quebec general election, 1973 The Quebec general election of 1973 was held on October 29, 1973 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, and the Union Nationale .The Liberals won a...	1973-1976
31st Quebec general election, 1976 The Quebec general election of 1976 was held on November 15, 1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. It was one of the most significant elections in Quebec history, rivalled only by the 1960 general election, and caused major repercussions in the rest of Canada...	1976-1979
	1979-1981	Herbert Marx Herbert Marx (politician) Herbert Marx is a Canadian lawyer, university law professor, politician, and judge.The Honourable Herbert Marx was born in Montreal in 1932. He graduated from Baron Byng High School made famous by the writer Mordecai Richler in his novels as Fletcher's Field High School...	Liberal
32nd Quebec general election, 1981 The Quebec general election of 1981 was held on April 13, 1981, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Claude Ryan.The PQ won re-election despite...	1981-1985
33rd Quebec general election, 1985 The Quebec general election of 1985 was held on December 2, 1985, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Quebec Liberal Party, led by former premier Robert Bourassa, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, led by premier Pierre-Marc Johnson.This election...	1985-1989
34th Quebec general election, 1989 The Quebec general election of 1989 was held on September 25, 1989, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada...	1989-1993	Robert Libman Robert Libman -Background:Born in Montreal, Quebec, he is the son of David Libman and Goldie Aronovitch. He attended Herzliah High School, Vanier College, and received a Bachelor of architecture from McGill University in 1985...	Equality Equality Party (Quebec) The Equality Party was a political party in Quebec, Canada, that promoted the use of English in Quebec on an equal basis with French. Four Equality Party members were elected to Quebec's National Assembly in 1989, as part of an anglophone reaction to changes made by the governing Liberals to...
	1993-1994		Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
35th Quebec general election, 1994 The Quebec general election of 1994 was held on September 12, 1994, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The Parti Québécois, led by Jacques Parizeau, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Daniel Johnson, Jr.....	1994-1998	Lawrence S. Bergman Lawrence Bergman Lawrence S. Bergman is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of D'Arcy-McGee in Montreal's West end and Chairperson of the Government Caucus in the parliamentary office of Quebec.He received a Bachelor of Arts from Sir George...	Liberal
36th Quebec general election, 1998 The Quebec general election of 1998 was held on November 30, 1998, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Lucien Bouchard, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Charest.After the narrow defeat of...	1998-2003
37th Quebec general election, 2003 The Quebec general election of 2003 was held on April 14, 2003, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec . The Parti libéral du Québec , led by Jean Charest, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Bernard Landry.-Unfolding:...	2003-2007
38th Quebec general election, 2007 The Quebec general election of 2007 was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on March 26, 2007 to elect members of the 38th National Assembly of Quebec. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest managed to win a plurality of seats, but were reduced to a minority government, Quebec's first in...	2007-2008
39th	2008-

Geography

D'Arcy-McGee is located on the island of Montreal.

It consists of the municipalities of:

Côte Saint-Luc
Hampstead
Montreal (part)

Linguistic demographics

Anglophone
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

: 44.4%
Allophone
Allophone (Quebec)
In Quebec, an allophone is a resident, usually an immigrant, whose mother tongue or home language is neither English nor French. The term is also sometimes used in other parts of Canada. The term parallels Anglophone and Francophone, which designate people whose mother tongues are English and...

: 38.7%
Francophone
Francophone
The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person....

: 16.9%

Election results

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|Liberal
|Lawrence S. Bergman
|align="right"|14,087
|align="right"|88.75
|align="right"|+4.54
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|Green

Green Party of Quebec

The Parti vert du Québec/Green Party of Quebec or PVQ is a Quebec political party whose platform is the promotion of green values. It has not elected any members to the National Assembly of Quebec...

|Jean-Christophe Mortreux
|align="right"|666
|align="right"|4.20
|align="right"|-2.52
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...

|Marie-Aude Ardizzon
|align="right"|564
|align="right"|3.55
|align="right"|+0.30
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

The Action démocratique du Québec, commonly referred to as the ADQ is a centre-right political party in Quebec, Canada. On the sovereignty question, it defines itself as autonomist, and has support from both soft nationalists and federalists....

|Mathieu Lacombe
|align="right"|292
|align="right"|1.84
|align="right"|-2.43
|-

|Québec solidaire

Québec Solidaire

Québec solidaire is a democratic socialist and sovereigntist political party in Quebec, Canada, that was created on 4 February 2006 in Montreal. It was formed by the merger of the left-wing party Union des forces progressistes and the alter-globalization political movement Option Citoyenne, led...

|Abraham Weizfeld
|align="right"|264
|align="right"|1.66
|align="right"|+0.11
|-
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|Liberal
|Lawrence S. Bergman
|align="right"|18,410
|align="right"|84.21
|align="right"|-7.08
|-

|Green

Green Party of Quebec

|Robert Leibner
|align="right"|1,470
|align="right"|6.72
|align="right"|-
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|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

|Marcelle Guay
|align="right"|934
|align="right"|4.27
|align="right"|+2.29
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|Pierre-Philippe Emond
|align="right"|710
|align="right"|3.25
|align="right"|-0.89
|-

|Québec solidaire

Québec Solidaire

|Abraham Weizfeld
|align="right"|338
|align="right"|1.55
|align="right"|-
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|}
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|Liberal
|Lawrence S. Bergman
|align="right"|23,968
|align="right"|91.29
|align="right"|+0.68
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|Mathieu Breault
|align="right"|1,087
|align="right"|4.14
|align="right"|+1.02
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

|Sylvain James Bowes
|align="right"|520
|align="right"|1.98
|align="right"|+0.73
|-

|Equality

Equality Party (Quebec)

The Equality Party was a political party in Quebec, Canada, that promoted the use of English in Quebec on an equal basis with French. Four Equality Party members were elected to Quebec's National Assembly in 1989, as part of an anglophone reaction to changes made by the governing Liberals to...

|William F. Shaw
|align="right"|406
|align="right"|1.55
|align="right"|-2.81
|-

|Bloc pot

Bloc pot

The Bloc Pot is a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada that is dedicated to ending cannabis prohibition. It has contested three provincial elections but it has failed to win any seats in the National Assembly of Quebec. The party was launched in 1997 by Marc-Boris St-Maurice as a way to...

|Blair T. Longley

Blair Longley

Blair Timmothy Longley is a Canadian politician and activist.Longley attended the founding meeting of the Green Party of Canada in 1983 and went on to be an active member of the Rhinoceros Party of which he was official agent from 1985 to 1987.He joined the Marijuana Party shortly after its...

|align="right"|274
|align="right"|1.04
|align="right"|-
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|}
|-

|Liberal
|Lawrence S. Bergman
|align="right"|29,065
|align="right"|90.61
|align="right"|+25.24
|-

|Equality

Equality Party (Quebec)

|Bernard King
|align="right"|1,397
|align="right"|4.36
|align="right"|-
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|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|Jean-Claude Gaudette
|align="right"|1,002
|align="right"|3.12
|align="right"|-0.20
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

|Norman Brisson
|align="right"|400
|align="right"|1.25
|align="right"|-
|-

|Socialist Democracy

Parti de la démocratie socialiste

The Parti de la Democratie Socialiste was a political party in Quebec, Canada.The early origins of the PDS can be traced back to the Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif , later renamed Parti social démocratique du Québec...

|Abraham Weizfeld
|align="right"|135
|align="right"|0.42
|align="right"|-
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|Natural law
|Ena Kahn
|align="right"|77
|align="right"|0.24
|align="right"|-0.24
|-
|}

1995 Quebec referendum 1995 Quebec referendum The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should secede from Canada and become an independent state, through the question:...
Side		Votes	%
	Non	37,253	96.38
	Oui	1,401	3.62

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|Liberal
|Lawrence S. Bergman

Lawrence Bergman

Lawrence S. Bergman is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of D'Arcy-McGee in Montreal's West end and Chairperson of the Government Caucus in the parliamentary office of Quebec.He received a Bachelor of Arts from Sir George...

|align="right"|21,325
|align="right"|65.37
|align="right"|+29.82
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

|Robert Libman

Robert Libman

-Background:Born in Montreal, Quebec, he is the son of David Libman and Goldie Aronovitch. He attended Herzliah High School, Vanier College, and received a Bachelor of architecture from McGill University in 1985...

|align="right"|10,056
|align="right"|30.83
|align="right"|-27.02
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|François Normandin
|align="right"|1,084
|align="right"|3.32
|align="right"|+0.27
|-

|Natural law
|Ena Kahn
|align="right"|157
|align="right"|0.48
|align="right"|-
|-
|}

1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum Charlottetown Accord The Charlottetown Accord was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992. It was submitted to a public referendum on October 26 of that year, and was defeated.-Background:...
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	28,552	92.21
	Non	2,412	7.79

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|Equality

Equality Party (Quebec)

|Robert Libman

Robert Libman

|align="right"|15,746
|align="right"|57.85
|align="right"|-
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|Liberal
|Gary Waxman
|align="right"|9,677
|align="right"|35.55
|align="right"|-55.90
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|Jacques Carraire
|align="right"|829
|align="right"|3.05
|align="right"|-1.47
|-

|Green

Green Party of Quebec

|Harriett Fels
|align="right"|532
|align="right"|1.95
|align="right"|-
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|Independent

Independent (politician)

|Carol Zimmerman
|align="right"|262
|align="right"|0.96
|align="right"|-
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|New Democrat
|David Alexander Schulze
|align="right"|173
|align="right"|0.64
|align="right"|-3.12
|}
|-

|Liberal
|Herbert Marx

Herbert Marx (politician)

Herbert Marx is a Canadian lawyer, university law professor, politician, and judge.The Honourable Herbert Marx was born in Montreal in 1932. He graduated from Baron Byng High School made famous by the writer Mordecai Richler in his novels as Fletcher's Field High School...

|align="right"|22,799
|align="right"|91.45
|align="right"|-0.51
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|Richard C. Bougie
|align="right"|1,127
|align="right"|4.52
|align="right"|-0.89
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|New Democrat
|Heather Yampolsky
|align="right"|937
|align="right"|3.76
|align="right"|-
|-

|Christian Socialist

Parti du socialisme chrétien

The Parti du socialisme chrétien was a fringe political party in the Canadian province of Quebec. It fielded 103 candidates in the 1985 Quebec general election....

|Jocelyn Rivest
|align="right"|67
|align="right"|0.27
|align="right"|-
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|}
|-

|Liberal
|Herbert Marx
|align="right"|26,064
|align="right"|91.96
|align="right"|-4.52
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|André Daoust
|align="right"|1,532
|align="right"|5.41
|align="right"|+1.89
|-

|Libertarian
|Victor Levis
|align="right"|635
|align="right"|2.24
|align="right"|-
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|Union Nationale
|John Holmes
|align="right"|111
|align="right"|0.39
|align="right"|-
|-
|}

1980 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	36,365	95.88
	Oui	1,563	4.12

|-

|Liberal
|Herbert Marx
|align="right"|22,293
|align="right"|96.48
|align="right"|+28.45
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|David Levine
|align="right"|813
|align="right"|3.52
|align="right"|-1.21
|-
|}
|-

|Liberal
|Victor Charles Goldbloom

Victor Goldbloom

Victor Charles Goldbloom, is a Canadian pediatrician, lecturer, and politician.He was born in Montreal, the son of Alton Goldbloom and Annie Ballon. He studied at Selwyn House and Lower Canada College. He studied at McGill University receiving his BSc in 1944, his MD in 1945, his DipEd in 1950...

|align="right"|21,248
|align="right"|68.03
|align="right"|-25.74
|-

|Union Nationale
|Barry Fridhandler
|align="right"|7,058
|align="right"|22.60
|align="right"|+22.07
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|Jacques Mackay
|align="right"|1,476
|align="right"|4.73
|align="right"|+0.48
|-

|Democratic Alliance
|Elie Chalouh
|align="right"|950
|align="right"|3.04
|align="right"|-
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|Independent

Independent (politician)

|Max Wollach
|align="right"|417
|align="right"|1.33
|align="right"|-
|-

|Ralliement créditiste

Ralliement créditiste du Québec

The Ralliement créditiste du Québec was a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada that operated from 1970 to 1978. It promoted social credit theories of monetary reform, and acted as an outlet for the expression of rural...

|Gaëtan Gauthier
|align="right"|83
|align="right"|0.27
|align="right"|-1.18
|-
|}

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