Papineau (electoral district)

Papineau
Quebec electoral district
	Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2015 federal election
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Marjorie Michel; Liberal
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District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2025
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)	110,750
Electors (2015)	78,515
Area (km²)	9.91
Pop. density (per km²)	11,175.6
Census division	Montreal
Census subdivision	Montreal

Papineau (French pronunciation: [papino]; formerly Papineau—Saint-Denis and Papineau—Saint-Michel) is a federal electoral district (riding) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which has been represented in the House of Commons since 1948. Its population in 2016 was 110,750. Justin Trudeau, the former Prime Minister of Canada and former leader of the Liberal Party, represented the riding from the 2008 federal election until he resigned in 2025. Trudeau became Liberal leader in a 2013 leadership election, succeeding Bob Rae, and prime minister when the Liberals returned to government in the 2015 Canadian federal election, succeeding Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

LegislatureHouse of Commons

MP

Marjorie Michel
Liberal

District created2003

First contested2004

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The name of the riding comes from a street in the Villeray neighbourhood, named after Joseph Papineau.

At nine square kilometres (3.5 square miles), it covers the second smallest area of any federal riding in Canada after Toronto Centre.^[3] Linguistically, 45% of residents list French as their mother tongue, 8% list English, and 47% list neither English nor French, with large groups speaking Spanish, Italian, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Pashtu, Bengali, Greek, and Arabic. Immigrants make up 40 percent of the riding's population.^[4]

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Parliament	Years		Party
Papineau Riding created from Hochelaga, Mercier, St. James and Saint-Denis
21st	1949–1953	Camillien Houde	Independent
22nd	1953–1957	Adrien Meunier	Independent Liberal
23rd	1957–1958		Liberal
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965	Guy Favreau
27th	1965–1967	Guy Favreau
27th	1967–1968	André Ouellet
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
Papineau—Saint-Michel
34th	1988–1993	André Ouellet	Liberal
35th	1993–1996	André Ouellet
35th	1996–1997	Pierre Pettigrew
Papineau—Saint-Denis
36th	1997–2000	Pierre Pettigrew	Liberal
37th	2000–2004	Pierre Pettigrew	Liberal
Papineau
38th	2004–2006	Pierre Pettigrew	Liberal
39th	2006–2008	Vivian Barbot	Bloc Québécois
40th	2008–2011	Justin Trudeau	Liberal
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present	Marjorie Michel

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Marjorie Michel	24,700	52.98	+2.68
	Bloc Québécois	Sophy Forget Bélec	7,726	16.57	+1.53
	New Democratic	Niall Ricardo	7,606	16.32	−6.36
	Conservative	Julio Rivera	4,927	10.57	+5.73
	Rhinoceros	Xavier Watso	676	1.45	+0.53
	People's	Noah Cherney	455	0.98	−1.36
	Communist	Stéphane Doucet	321	0.69	N/A
	Marxist–Leninist	Garnet Colly	208	0.45	+0.20
Total valid votes/expense limit			46,619	98.65
Total rejected ballots			640	1.35
Turnout			47,259	65.77
Eligible voters			71,853
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.58
Source: Elections Canada^[7]^[8]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Justin Trudeau	22,848	50.30	–0.82	$82,530.41
	New Democratic	Christine Paré	10,303	22.68	+3.48	$8,058.03
	Bloc Québécois	Nabila Ben Youssef	6,830	15.04	–0.96	$3,928.18
	Conservative	Julio Rivera	2,198	4.84	+0.6	$9,640.70
	Green	Alain Lepine	1,448	3.19	–4.18	$4,443.78
	People's	Christian Boutin	1,064	2.34	+1.71	$0.00
	Rhinoceros	Above Znoneofthe	418	0.92	+0.21	$0.00
	Marxist–Leninist	Garnet Colly	115	0.25	–	$0.00
	Independent	Raymond Martin	102	0.22	–	$0.00
	Independent	Béatrice Zako	97	0.21	–	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			45,423	98.07	-0.12	$107,828.60
Total rejected ballots			894	1.93	+0.12
Turnout			46,317	63.51	–3.66
Eligible voters			72,931
	Liberal hold		Swing		–2.15
Source: Elections Canada^[9]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Justin Trudeau	25,957	51.12	−0.86	$87,090.50
	New Democratic	Christine Paré	9,748	19.20	−6.67	$4,985.12
	Bloc Québécois	Christian Gagnon	8,124	16.00	+3.82	none listed
	Green	Juan Vazquez	3,741	7.37	+4.53	none listed
	Conservative	Sophie Veilleux	2,155	4.24	−0.47	$13,803.36
	Rhinoceros	Jean-Patrick Cacereco Berthiaume	363	0.71	+0.07	$119.67
	People's	Mark Sibthorpe	322	0.63	–	none listed
	Christian Heritage	Susanne Lefebvre	186	0.37	–	$356.56
	Independent	Alain Magnan	76	0.15	–	$0.00
	No affiliation	Luc Lupien	75	0.15	–	$0.00
	No affiliation	Steve Penner	34	0.07	–	$250.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,781	98.19	–	$106,263.74
Total rejected ballots			938	1.81	+0.45
Turnout			51,719	67.17	+1.73
Eligible voters			76,995
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.91
Source: Elections Canada^[10]^[11]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Justin Trudeau	26,391	51.98	+14.05	$129,821.55
	New Democratic	Anne Lagacé Dowson	13,132	25.87	−3.6	$111,652.95
	Bloc Québécois	Maxime Claveau	6,182	12.18	−12.71	$19,007.27
	Conservative	Yvon Vadnais	2,390	4.71	−0.33	$5,649.91
	Green	Danny Polifroni	1,443	2.84	+0.95	$82.71
	Independent	Chris Lloyd	505	0.99	–	$5,759.41
	Rhinoceros	Tommy Gaudet	323	0.64	–	–
	Independent	Kim Waldron	159	0.31	–	$2,101.20
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	142	0.28	−0.25	–
	No affiliation	Beverly Bernardo	103	0.2	–	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,770	98.64		$213,091.50
Total rejected ballots			698	1.36	–
Turnout			51,468	65.44	–
Eligible voters			78,649
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+8.83
Source: Elections Canada^[12]^[13]

Papineau (electoral district)

Geography

Political geography

Demographics

History

Former boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election results

Papineau, 2003–present

Papineau—Saint-Denis, 1996–2003

Papineau—Saint-Michel, 1987–1996

Papineau, 1947–1987

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2011 federal election poll-by-poll redistribution ^[14]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	17,407	37.93
	New Democratic	13,625	29.47
	Bloc Québécois	11,421	24.89
	Conservative	2,314	5.04
	Green	868	1.89
	Others	357	0.78

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Justin Trudeau	16,429	38.41	−3.06
	New Democratic	Marcos Radhames Tejada	12,102	28.29	+19.55
	Bloc Québécois	Vivian Barbot	11,091	25.93	−12.76
	Conservative	Shama Chopra	2,021	4.73	−2.90
	Green	Danny Polifroni	806	1.88	−0.96
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	228	0.53
	Not affiliated¹	Joseph Young	95	0.22
Total valid votes			42,772	100.0
Total rejected ballots			588
Turnout			43,330
Source: Official Results, Elections Canada. ¹ Communist League

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Justin Trudeau	17,724	41.47	+2.99	$76,857
	Bloc Québécois	Vivian Barbot	16,535	38.69	−2.06	$70,872
	New Democratic	Costa Zafiropoulos	3,734	8.74	+1.04	$5,745
	Conservative	Mustaque Sarker	3,262	7.63	−0.69	$44,958
	Green	Ingrid Hein	1,213	2.84	−0.76	$814
	Independent	Mahmood Raza Baig	267	0.62	+0.20
Total valid votes/expense limit			42,735	100.00		$81,172
Total rejected ballots			576	1.33
Turnout			43,311	61.77
Eligible voters			70,115
	Liberal gain from Bloc Québécois		Swing		+2.53
Baig's share of popular vote as an independent candidate is compared to his share in the 2006 general election as a Canadian Action Party candidate.
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Vivian Barbot	17,775	40.75	+0.79	$50,886
	Liberal	Pierre Pettigrew	16,785	38.48	-2.62	$75,541
	Conservative	Mustaque Sarker	3,630	8.32	+3.55	$34,951
	New Democratic	Marc Hasbani	3,358	7.70	-1.07	$2,568
	Green	Louis-Philippe Verenka	1,572	3.60	+1.03	$181
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	317	0.73	+0.32
	Canadian Action	Mahmood-Raza Baig	185	0.42	–	$2,007
Total valid votes/Expense limit			43,622	100.00	$76,023
	Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal		Swing		+1.71
Source: Elections Canada^[15]

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Pierre Pettigrew	16,892	41.10	-13.00
	Bloc Québécois	Martine Carrière	16,424	39.96	+13.36	$48,511
	New Democratic	André Frappier	3,603	8.77	+4.29	$28,566
	Conservative	Mustaque Sarker	1,961	4.77	-2.74	$38,564
	Green	Adam Jastrzebski	1,058	2.57	+0.02
	Marijuana	Christelle Dusablon-Pelletier	490	1.19	-0.81
	Communist	André Parizeau	252	0.61		$825
	Independent	Jimmy Garoufalis	250	0.61		$2,607
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	169	0.41	-0.68
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,099	100.00	$75,103
	Liberal hold		Swing		-13.18
Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election, and not the vote Sarker received as an independent candidate.