District created 1867 First contested 1867 Province Québec Elector 41,572 | District re-created 1972 Last contested 2014 District abolished 1922 | |
MNA Richard MerliniLiberal Census divisions | ||
La Prairie is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It consists of the cities of Candiac, Delson, La Prairie and Saint-Philippe. Prior to 1988, it was spelled as one word: Laprairie.
It was originally created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada). Its final election was in 1919. It disappeared in the 1923 election and its successor electoral district was Napierville-Laprairie. It was recreated in for the 1973 election from parts of Chambly and Napierville-Laprairie.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Constant and Saint-Mathieu to the newly created Sanguinet electoral district.
Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly
- Césaire Thérien, Conservative Party (1867–1871)
- Andrew Esinhart, Conservative Party (1871–1875)
- Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois, Conservative Party (1875–1887)
- Odilon Goyette, Parti national (1887–1890)
- Georges Duhamel, Parti national (1890–1892)
- Cyrille Doyon, Conservative Party (1892–1897)
- Côme-Séraphin Cherrier, Liberal (1897–1908)
- Esioff-Léon Patenaude, Conservative Party (1908–1916)
- Wilfrid Cédilot, Liberal (1916–1923)
- did not exist (1923–1939), see Napierville-Laprairie
- did not exist (1939–1944), see Châteauguay-Laprairie
- did not exist (1944–1973), see Napierville-Laprairie
- Paul Berthiaume, Liberal (1973–1976)
- Gilles Michaud, Parti Québécois (1976–1981)
- Jean-Pierre Saintonge, Liberal (1981–1989)
- Denis Lazure, Parti Québécois (1989–1996)
- Monique Simard, Parti Québécois (1996–1998)
- Serge Geoffrion, Parti Québécois (1998–2003)
- Jean Dubuc, Liberal (2003–2007)
- Monique Roy Verville, Action démocratique (2007–2008)
- François Rebello, Parti Québécois (2008–2012); CAQ (2012)
- Stéphane Le Bouyonnec, CAQ (2012–2014)
- Richard Merlini, Liberal (2014–present)