Legislature House of Commons First contested 1949 District webpage profile, map Census division Gatineau | District created 1947 Last contested 2015 Province Québec Elector 83,651 | |
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MP Steve MacKinnon
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Gatineau is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 to 1988 and since 1997.
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It consists of part of the former city of Gatineau, Quebec as defined by its pre-2002 boundaries.
The adjacent ridings are Hull—Aylmer, Pontiac, Ottawa—Orléans, and Ottawa—Vanier.
History
The district was created in 1947 from parts of Hull and Wright ridings. In 1987, it was abolished when it was redistributed into Chapleau.
Gatineau electoral district was re-created from Gatineau—La Lièvre ridings in 1996.
Gatineau lost territory to Pontiac during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:
Assad represented Gatineau—La Lièvre from 1988 to 1997 which was known as Chapleau from 1987 to 1988. This district had similar borders to Gatineau.
Politics
Like most ridings in the Ouatouais, Gatineau had long been safe for the Liberals, save for a lone Progressive Conservative victory in their 1984 nationwide landslide. Even as the rest of Quebec turned its back on the Liberals, a large number of civil servants who worked in Ottawa kept it in Liberal hands.
However, in the 2006 election the Bloc Québécois won the seat. The Bloc managed to hold the seat with just over 29% of the vote in 2008, by far the lowest percentage for a winning candidate nationwide, due to a near-three-way split between themselves, the New Democratic Party and the Liberals. The riding was swept up in the massive NDP wave that swept through the province in the 2011 election.
In the 2015 election, Liberal candidate Steve MacKinnon, running a second time, defeated NDP incumbent Françoise Boivin in an upset with an almost 40-point swing.
1997–present
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election.
Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.
Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.