CBC - Quebec Votes 2003

RIDING: D'ARCY-MCGEE

Candidate

Party

Vote Count

Pop. Vote

Lawrence S. Bergman

Liberal Party of Que

23833

90.8%

Mathieu Breault

Parti Québécois

1086

4.14%

William F. Shaw

Equality Party

537

2.05%

Sylvain James Bowes

Action démocratique

517

1.97%

Blair T. Longley

Bloc-pot

276

1.05%

Last Updated Tue Apr 15 12:00:00 EDT 2003

161 of 161 polls reporting

D'ARCY-MCGEE

Candidates:

PQ        Mathieu Breault
LIB     x Lawrence S.  Bergman
ADQ      Sylvain James Bowes
EP        William F. Shaw
BP        Blair T. Longley

Riding History:
Riding first existed in 1966 election.

1966-1985 incl - LIB
1989 - EP
1994, 1998 - LIB

1995 REF:  NO - 96.38%   YES - 3.62%

Riding Profile:
West Montreal riding.

Language Breakdown: % mother tongue - single answers
Anglo: 46.7%
Franco: 16.6%
Allo: 36.8% (2.98% Italian; 2.57 Arabic)

D'Arcy-McGee contains that part of Montreal bounded by: the Hampstead portion of the borough of Côte St. Luc-Hampstead-Montreal West, the CPR railway line, the Décarie autoroute (15), Côte-Saint-Luc Rd., Fielding Ave., the Montreal-West portion of the borough of Côte St. Luc-Hampstead-Montreal West and the limit of the Côte-Saint-Luc portion of portion of the borough of Côte St. Luc-Hampstead-Montreal West with the following towns: Montreal-West, Lachine, St-Laurent and Montreal.

Redistribution:
Riding created in 1965 from parts of Montreal-Outremont and Westmount-Saint-Georges.

In 1992 redistribution, kept all riding except for small area which moved to Mont-Royal; added area from NDG.

No change in 2001 redistribution.

Political History:

[1994 = 90.03% D'ARCY-MCGEE; 9.97% NOTRE-DAME-DE-GRACE]

LIB VICTOR GOLDBLOOM won in 1966, 1970 1973 and 1976. Goldbloom was Minister of State responsible for Quality of Environment, 1970-73. Appointed Minister of Municipal Affairs and Minister of Environment, Nov. 1973. Goldbloom resigned on Oct. 16, 1979 after Claude Ryan became leader.

In Nov. 26, 1979 byelection, LIB HERBERT MARX defeated PQ DAVID LEVINE by 21,480 votes. MARX was re-elected in 1981 and 1985. Appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General and Minister responsible for Consumer Protection, Dec. 1985; added Solicitor General in 1987; Minister of Public Security, Aug. to Dec., 1988. MARX resigned from Cabinet over Bill 178 on Dec. 21, 1988. Resigned his seat on June 30, 1989.

In 1989, EP LEADER ROBERT LIBMAN defeated LIB GARY WAXMAN by 6,069 votes.
Libman left Equality Party and sat as an Independent.

In 1994, LIB LAWRENCE BERGMAN defeated, by 11,269 votes, ROBERT LIBMAN, who was running as an unaffiliated candidate. In 1998, LIB BERGMAN defeated EP BERNARD KING by 27,668 votes.