MNA Martin CoiteuxLiberal First contested 1981 Population (2011) 80,510 Elector 58,147 | District created 1980 Last contested 2014 Province Québec | |
Nelligan is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It comprises most of the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough and all of the L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève borough of Montreal, and the city of Kirkland.
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It was created for the 1981 election from parts of Pointe-Claire and Robert-Baldwin electoral districts.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Senneville to the Jacques-Cartier electoral district but gained from it the part of Kirkland that it did not already have. It also lost a small part of Pierrefonds-Roxboro to the Robert-Baldwin electoral district.
It was named after a Quebec poet, Émile Nelligan.
Linguistic demographics
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Members of the National Assembly
- Clifford Lincoln, Liberal (1981–1989)
- Russell Williams, Liberal (1989–2004)
- Yolande James, Liberal (2004–2014)
- Martin Coiteux, Liberal (2014–present)
Election results
* Result compared to Action démocratique
* Increase is from UFP