Argenteuil (provincial electoral district)

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Argenteuil
National Assembly Member	David Whissell Liberal
Electors, 2007	39,278 [1]
Electoral district created	1853
Region	Laurentides

Argenteuil is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It was created in 1853.

Contents 1 Members of Parliament of the Province of Canada 2 Members of Legislative Assembly 3 Members of the National Assembly 4 Geography 5 Linguistic demographics 6 Electoral results 7 References 8 Neighbouring electoral districts

[edit] Members of Parliament of the Province of Canada

• Sydney Robert Bellingham (1854-1860)
• John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (1860-1867)

[edit] Members of Legislative Assembly

• Sydney Robert Bellingham, Conservative Party (1867-1878)
• Robert Greenshields Meikle, Liberal (1878-1881)
• William Owens, Conservative Party (1881-1892)
• William John Simpson, Conservative Party (1892-1897)
• William Alexander Weir, Liberal (1897-1910)
• John Hay, Liberal (1910-1912)
• Harry Slater, Conservative Party (1912-1916)
• John Hay , Liberal (1916-1925)
• Joseph-Léon Saint-Jacques, Conservative Party (1925-1927)
• Georges Dansereau, Liberal (1927-1948)
• William McOvat Cottingham, Union Nationale (1948-1966)

[edit] Members of the National Assembly

• Zoël Saindon, Liberal (1966-1978)
• Claude Ryan, Liberal (1979-1994)
• Régent L. Beaudet, Liberal (1994-1997)
• David Whissell, Liberal (1998-present)

[edit] Geography

It consists of the municipalities of:

• Arundel
• Barkmere
• Brownsburg-Chatham
• Gore
• Grenville
• Grenville-sur-la-Rouge
• Harrington
• Lac-des-Seize-Îles
• Lachute
• Mille-Isles
• Montcalm
• Morin-Heights
• Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard
• Saint-André-d'Argenteuil
• Saint-Colomban
• Wentworth
• Wentworth-Nord

[edit] Linguistic demographics

• Francophone: 81.3%
• Anglophone: 16.6%
• Allophone: 2.1%

[edit] Electoral results

Quebec general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Whissell	10,025	37.59	-15.74
	Action démocratique	Georges Lapointe	7,906	29.65	+11.21
	Parti Québécois	John Saywell	6,891	25.84	+0.93
	Green	Claude Sabourin	1,244	4.67	+2.58
	Québec solidaire	Guy Dufresne	600	2.25

Quebec general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Whissell	12,645	53.33
	Parti Québécois	Georges Lapointe	5,906	24.91
	Action démocratique	Sylvain Demers	4,372	18.44
	Green	Claude Sabourin	496	2.09
	Bloc pot	Yannick Charpentier	292	1.23

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	21,571	50.31
	Oui	21,304	49.69

[edit] References

• Quebec Votes 2007, Riding Profiles Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 25 February 2007
• Information on the Electoral Divisions Holding Elections Directeur Général des Élections du Québec, retrieved 25 February 2007
• Référendum du 30 octobre 1995 Directeur Général des Élections du Québec, retrieved 25 February 2007
• 1867-2007 Election results
• Map of Argenteuil
• Quebec electoral map

[edit] Neighbouring electoral districts

		Labelle, Bertrand		v • d • e
	Papineau		Prévost, Mirabel
		Argenteuil

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