Repentigny (electoral district)

Repentigny

Quebec electoral district
Repentigny in relation to other Quebec federal electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Monique Pauzé Bloc Québécois
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	111,191
Electors (2015)	91,542
Area (km²)	198
Pop. density (per km²)	561.6
Census divisions	L'Assomption
Census subdivisions	Charlemagne, L'Assomption, Repentigny, Saint-Sulpice

Repentigny is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

It consists solely and entirely of the Regional County Municipality of L'Assomption.

Ethnic groups: 98.7% White
Languages: 97.3% French, 1.1% English, 1.3% Others
Religions: 94.5% Catholic, 1.3% Protestant, 3.4% No religion
Average income: $30,277

Repentigny had long been one of the most separatist ridings in Quebec. In the 2006 election, every single poll was won by the Bloc Québécois. However, the riding was caught up in the New Democratic Party tsunami that swept through the province five years later.

It was created in 1996 from parts of Joliette and Terrebonne ridings.

It consisted initially of the cities of Charlemagne, Lachenaie, Mascouche and Repentigny; and the Parish Municipality of La Plaine in the County Regional Municipality of Les Moulins.

This riding lost territory to Montcalm during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Fr. Gravel chose not to run again, citing pressure from the Church. Party activist Nicolas Dufour secured the Bloc nomination, becoming one of their youngest candidates. Réjean Bellemare ran again for the NDP. The Bloc held the riding handily, with the NDP securing one of the party's four second-place finishes in the province.

MP Benoît Sauvageau was killed in a car accident on August 28, 2006. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for a by-election on October 22, 2006 with a polling day of November 27, 2006.

There had been a lot of pressure from opposition parties for Public Works Minister Michael Fortier, a Conservative senator, to run here; however, he has declined. Fortier was appointed to the Senate and the Cabinet to represent Greater Montreal which elected no Conservatives in the last federal election, while Fortier pledged to resign from the Senate and seek election to the House of Commons in the next federal election. Instead, the Conservative candidate was Stéphane Bourgon, a lawyer. The Bloc Québécois, of which Sauvageau was a member, ran Raymond Gravel, a Roman Catholic priest. The New Democratic Party candidate was union activist and former Canadian Navy member Réjean Bellemare, who had also run for the NDP in the previous general election.