Nineteen out of 59 Quebec NDP MPs do not yet have a riding office. CBC

Some Quebec residents are having trouble contacting their Members of Parliament because 19 of them still don't have riding offices or local telephone numbers.

Two months after the May 2 election, a third of the 59 New Democrats elected do not have a working telephone or office space, including Hélène Laverdière, the rookie MP who unseated former Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe in Laurier-Sainte-Marie.

Environmental activist Claire Leduc has been trying to contact her MP in Chambly-Borduas since the election to talk about a compost site in Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Que.

"We went to his office, but there's nothing — absolutely nothing," Leduc said. "It's completely dark."

Her MP, Matthew Dubé, has signed an office lease, but has not yet hired staff to man the phones.

On the website for the Parliament of Canada, constituency addresses for nearly 20 MPs are listed as pending. www.parl.gc.ca

"The session has adjourned, so we will now be able to put more emphasis on serving the population, but we've been giving 110 per cent so far," Dubé said.

Directory assistance also still has the name "Gilles Duceppe" listed as the MP for Laurier-Saint-Marie.

Laverdière said she will be opening her office on the weekend.

She explained the delay, saying normally there is a three-month period between an election and when the House starts sitting again, but this time around MPs only had one month.

"We've tried to cram in hiring staff, getting all our administrative things sorted out in Ottawa, getting our training and finding an office," Laverdière said.

Even though constituency offices are not up and running, that "doesn't mean people haven't started to work," she added.

Laverdière joked that her riding office has been functioning well with "four BlackBerrys."