Viger (electoral district)
Provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada
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Viger was a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada.
 Quebec electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | National Assembly of Quebec |
| District created | 1980 |
| District abolished | 2001 |
| First contested | 1981 |
| Last contested | 2002 (by-election)[1] |
| Demographics | |
| Census division | Montreal (part) |
| Census subdivision | Montreal (part) |
It consisted of part of the then city of Saint-Léonard later turned borough, Rosemont and Mercier-Est neighbourhoods in Montreal.
It was created for the 1981 election. Its final general election was in 1998; there was also a by-election in 2002. It disappeared in the 2003 election as its territory was carved up and distributed among the new electoral district of Jeanne-Mance–Viger and the existing electoral districts of Anjou, Rosemont and Viau .
It was named jointly for Denis-Benjamin Viger and Jacques Viger,[2] who were prominent politicians in the 1830s and 1840s.
Members of the National Assembly
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riding created from Jeanne-Mance and Viau | ||||
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | Cosmo Maciocia | Liberal | |
| 33rd | 1985–1989 | |||
| 34th | 1989–1994 | |||
| 35th | 1994–1998 | |||
| 36th | 1998–2001 | |||
| 2002–2003 | Anna Mancuso | |||
| Dissolved into Jeanne-Mance–Viger, Rosemont, Anjou-Louis-Riel, Viau | ||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Anna Mancuso | 8353 | 72.26 | +7.46 | |
| Parti Québécois | Claude Villeneuve | 1741 | 15.06 | -10.89 | |
| Action démocratique | Gaetano Giumento | 1245 | 10.77 | +2.57 | |
| Green | Adam Jastrzebski | 221 | 1.91 | - | |
| 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 | - | |
| 1995 Quebec referendum | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Side | Votes | % | |
| Non | 23,209 | 67.88 | |
| Oui | 10.982 | 32.12 | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Cosmo Maciocia | 18743 | 64.27 | +3.54 | |
| Parti Québécois | Umberto Di Genova | 8529 | 29.24 | +0.13 | |
| New Democratic | Jean-Guy Couture | 1485 | 5.09 | - | |
| Natural Law | Denis Lacroix | 223 | 0.76 | - | |
| Parti des travailleurs du Québec | Roberto Barba | 100 | 0.34 | - | |
| Marxist–Leninist | Claude Brunelle | 85 | 0.29 | - | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Cosmo Maciocia | 16847 | 60.73 | -7.66 | |
| Parti Québécois | Michel Dupont | 8075 | 29.11 | +2.04 | |
| Equality | David De Santis | 1831 | 6.60 | - | |
| Green | Rolf Bramann | 877 | 3.16 | +2.15 | |
| Marxist–Leninist | Catherine Commandeur | 111 | 0.40 | - | |
| 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 | ||
