Cosmo Maciocia
Canadian politician
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Cosmo Maciocia (born February 2, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a city councillor in Montreal, Quebec.[1]
Cosmo Maciocia | |
|---|---|
| Borough mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles and Montreal City Counciller | |
| In office 2005–2009 | |
| Succeeded by | Joe Magri |
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Viger | |
| In office 1981–2001 | |
| Preceded by | District was established in 1980 |
| Succeeded by | Anna Mancuso |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 2, 1942 |
| Party | Liberal Union Montréal |
| Children | Alessia |
Background
He was born in Cantalupo nel Sannio, Molise, Italy, on February 2, 1942, and arrived in Canada in 1964.
City councillor in Saint-Léonard
He was a city councillor in Saint-Léonard in 1978.
Member of the legislature
He successfully ran as a Liberal candidate to the provincial legislature for the district of Viger in 1981. He was re-elected in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 1998.
He was Parliamentary Assistant from 1985 to 1994.
Back in city politics
In the wake of the province-wide municipal merger of 2001, Maciocia gave up his seat and ran as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (French: Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l'Île de Montréal or UCIM) in the district of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin. The party is now known as Union Montréal.
In 2005, he was elected as borough mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles-Montréal-Est, and retained his position as mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles following the 2006 demerger of Montréal-Est.
Maciocia is a member of Montreal's executive committee.
He did not choose to run again in the 2009 Montreal municipal election, but his seat was retained for Union Montréal by Joe Magri.
Provinical electoral record
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Cosmo Maciocia | 18715 | 64.80 | +0.53 | |
| Parti Québécois | Marie Di Corpo | 7496 | 25.95 | -3.29 | |
| Action démocratique | Jacques Gauthier | 2369 | 8.20 | - | |
| Socialist Democracy | Alain Bernatchez | 168 | 0.58 | - | |
| Parti innovateur du Québec | Tommy Audet | 135 | 0.47 | - | |
| 1994 Quebec general election: Viger | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Cosmo Maciocia (incumbent) | 18,743 | 64.27 | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Umberto di Genova | 8,529 | 29.24 | |||||
| New Democratic | Jean-Guy Couture | 1,485 | 5.09 | |||||
| Natural Law | Denis Lacroix | 223 | 0.76 | |||||
| Innovator | Roberto Barba | 100 | 0.34 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Claude Brunelle | 85 | 0.29 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 29,165 | 10.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 527 | 2.32 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 29,692 | 84.12 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 35,299 | – | – | |||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| 1989 Quebec general election: Viger | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Cosmo Maciocia | 16,847 | 60.73 | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Michel Dupont | 8,075 | 29.11 | |||||
| Equality | David De Santis | 1,831 | 6.60 | |||||
| Green | Rolf Bramann | 877 | 3.16 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Catherine Commandeur | 111 | 0.40 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 27,741 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 690 | |||||||
| Turnout | 28,431 | 76.27 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 37,275 | |||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Cosmo Maciocia | 20060 | 68.28 | +8.83 | |
| Parti Québécois | André Normandeau | 7954 | 27.07 | -11.71 | |
| New Democratic | Renée Sigouin | 617 | 2.10 | - | |
| Green | Marius Henry | 295 | 1.01 | - | |
| Parti indépendantiste | Jacques Binette | 235 | 0.80 | - | |
| Independent | Amin Hachem | 131 | 0.45 | - | |
| Christian Socialist | Christian Rivest | 86 | 0.29 | - | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Cosmo Maciocia | 18794 | 59.37 | ||
| Parti Québécois | Paul Doyon | 12266 | 38.74 | ||
| Union Nationale | J. François Emond | 598 | 1.89 | ||
Municipal
| 2005 Montreal municipal election: Borough Mayor Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Union Montreal | Cosmo Maciocia | 14,113 | 50.30 | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Colette Paul | 12,189 | 43.44 | |||||
| ÉVM | Marius Minier | 1,757 | 6.26 | |||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 28,059 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | – | – | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | – | – | – | |||||
