Pierrefonds—Dollard

Pierrefonds—Dollard is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988. Its population was 108,587 at the 2016 Canadian Census.

Pierrefonds—Dollard

Quebec electoral district
Pierrefonds—Dollard in relation to other federal electoral districts in Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Sameer Zuberi Liberal
District created	1986
First contested	1988
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	108,587
Electors (2015)	84,978
Area (km²)[1]	53
Pop. density (per km²)	2,048.8
Census division(s)	Montreal
Census subdivision(s)	Montreal (part), Dollard-des-Ormeaux

This riding occupies the northwest part of the Island of Montreal on Lac des Deux-Montagnes and Rivière des Prairies. It contains the cities of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Pierrefonds, Roxboro and L'Île-Bizard. This riding is home to a number of pharmaceutical companies. Manufacturing is the main industry, followed by retail trade. Over 17% of the population has a university degree, while just over 4% has less than a Grade 9 education. The average family income is $75,497 with an unemployment rate of 6.5%.

According to the 2001 Canadian census, 37% of the population lists English as their mother tongue, while French is the first language for 32%. There are also significant populations who speak Arabic, Italian, Spanish and Chinese. This is an ethnically mixed riding, including Italian, East Indian and Chinese communities. The total immigrant population is almost 30%.

Geography

The district includes the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro, L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève and the city of Dollard-des-Ormeaux.

The neighbouring ridings are Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle, Lac-Saint-Louis, Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, Laval—Les Îles and Saint-Laurent—Cartierville.

History

This riding was established in 1986 by combining parts of Dollard and Vaudreuil ridings. The 1996 redistribution moved nine per cent of the population of the riding into Lac-St-Louis.

In the redistribution of 2004, 91% of the riding was retained.

There were no changes to this riding during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Pierrefonds—Dollard Riding created from Dollard and Vaudreuil
34th	1988–1993		Gerry Weiner	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Bernard Patry	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015		Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe	New Democratic
42nd	2015–2019		Frank Baylis	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021		Sameer Zuberi
44th	2021–present

Election results

2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Sameer Zuberi	29,296	56.0	-0.4	$68,651.52
	Conservative	Terry Roberts	10,893	20.8	+3.1	$32,454.19
	New Democratic	Maninderjit Kaur Tumbar	6,034	11.5	+1.2	$748.35
	Bloc Québécois	Nadia Bourque	4,141	7.9	-0.2	$2,242.01
	People's	Mark Sibthorpe	1,942	3.7	+2.4	$5,407.25
Total valid votes/expense limit			52,306	98.8	–	$111,883.95
Total rejected ballots			615	1.2
Turnout			52,921	64.7
Eligible voters			81,839
	Liberal hold		Swing		-1.8
Source: Elections Canada[2]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Sameer Zuberi	31,305	56.43	-2.23	$48,975.17
	Conservative	Mariam Ishak	9,797	17.66	-2.33	$34,368.98
	New Democratic	Bruno Ibrahim El-Khoury	5,687	10.25	-6.13	$6,127.99
	Bloc Québécois	Edline Henri	4,469	8.06	+4.57	none listed
	Green	Lisa Mintz	2,866	5.17	+3.69	$1,239.20
	People's	Lee Weishar	711	1.28	–	$4,040.64
	Independent	Martin Plante	394	0.71	–	$7,089.24
	Independent	Shahid Khan	242	0.44	–	$1,502.46
Total valid votes/expense limit			55,471	100.0
Total rejected ballots			682
Turnout			56,153	67.4
Eligible voters			83,369
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.05
Source: Elections Canada[3][4]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Frank Baylis	34,319	58.66	+28.19	$87,932.66
	Conservative	Valérie Assouline	11,694	19.99	-6.87	$108,288.54
	New Democratic	Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe	9,584	16.38	-17.75	$71,065.57
	Bloc Québécois	Natalie Laplante	2,043	3.49	-1.49	$2,860.59
	Green	Abraham Weizfeld	865	1.48	-2.08	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,505	100.00		$223,535.94
Total rejected ballots			368	–	–
Turnout			58,873	–	–
Eligible voters			84,978
Source: Elections Canada[5][6]

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe	16,390	34.13	+23.58	$2,044.16
	Liberal	Bernard Patry	14,632	30.47	-16.47	$59,064.10
	Conservative	Agop Evereklian	12,901	26.86	+1.03	$107,835.83
	Bloc Québécois	Nicolas Jolicoeur	2,392	4.98	-4.55	$3,427.37
	Green	Jonathan Lumer	1,710	3.56	-3.35	$8,330.03
Total valid votes/expense limit			48,025	100.00
Total rejected ballots			343	0.71	+0.06
Turnout			48,368	59.20	+1.39
Eligible voters			81,704	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bernard Patry	21,468	46.94	-4.18	$44,617
	Conservative	Pierre-Olivier Brunelle	11,815	25.83	+2.75	$85,049
	New Democratic	Shameem Siddiqui	4,823	10.55	+2.87	$0
	Bloc Québécois	Reny Gagnon	4,357	9.53	-2.84	$6,647
	Green	Ryan Young	3,161	6.91	+1.37	$1,652
	Marxist–Leninist	Marsha Fine	111	0.24	+0.04
Total valid votes/expense limit			45,735	100.00	$85,897
Total rejected ballots			300	0.65	-0.04
Turnout			46,035	57.81	-2.08

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bernard Patry	24,388	51.12	-12.45	$40,479
	Conservative	Don Rae	11,013	23.08	+12.32	$51,979
	Bloc Québécois	Denis Martel	5,901	12.37	-3.58	$9,446
	New Democratic	Shameem Siddiqui	3,664	7.68	+2.21	$3,754
	Green	Leo Williams	2,645	5.54	+2.53	$1,073
	Marxist–Leninist	Garnet Colly	96	0.20	+0.05
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,707	100.00	$80,758
Total rejected ballots			331	0.69	-0.08
Turnout			48,038	59.89	+0.13

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bernard Patry	29,601	63.57	-9.28	$43,521
	Bloc Québécois	Marie-Hélène Brunet	7,426	15.95	+4.96	$9,961
	Conservative	Andrea Paine	5,010	10.76	-1.22	$30,293
	New Democratic	Danielle Lustgarten	2,545	5.47	+3.42	$3,022
	Green	Theodore Kouretas	1,401	3.01	–
	Marijuana	Jean-François Labrecque	511	1.10	-1.03
	Marxist–Leninist	Garnet Colly	71	0.15	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			46,565	100.00	$79,686
Total rejected ballots			365	0.78
Turnout			46,930	58.76

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bernard Patry	39,357	72.85	+6.42
	Bloc Québécois	Sylvie Brousseau	5,937	10.99	+0.22
	Alliance	Neil Drabkin	3,481	6.44	+4.48
	Progressive Conservative	John Profit	2,991	5.54	-12.67
	Marijuana	Jean-François Labrecque	1,149	2.13
	New Democratic	Adam Hodgins	1,109	2.05	+0.22
Total valid votes			54,024	100.00

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bernard Patry	38,476	66.43	+1.45
	Progressive Conservative	Neil Drabkin	10,546	18.21	+5.03
	Bloc Québécois	Normand Jean D'Ambrosio	6,239	10.77	-6.64
	Reform	Robert Laganière	1,134	1.96
	New Democratic	David Lyons	1,060	1.83	+0.43
	Natural Law	Céline Chamard	465	0.80	+0.02
Total valid votes			57,920	100.00

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bernard Patry	39,947	64.98	+24.77
	Bloc Québécois	René de Cotret Opzoomer	10,712	17.41
	Progressive Conservative	Gerry Weiner	8,106	13.18	-36.59
	New Democratic	Catherine J. Rideout-Erais	864	1.40	-5.57
	Natural Law	Ruby Finkelstein	480	0.78
	National	Carlos Roldan	474	0.77
	Libertarian	Hugh Rowe	410	0.67	+0.12
	Independent	Lionel Albert	386	0.63
	Commonwealth of Canada	Glenford Charles	108	0.18	+0.04
Total valid votes			61,514	100.00

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Gerry Weiner	27,532	49.77
	Liberal	Bernard Patry	22,244	40.21
	New Democratic	Pierre Razik	3,854	6.97
	Rhinoceros	Jean-François Lafond	856	1.55
	Independent	William Short	452	0.82
	Libertarian	Hugh Rowe	302	0.55
	Commonwealth of Canada	Michel Haddad	77	0.14
Total valid votes			55,317	100.00

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References

• "Pierrefonds—Dollard (Code 24049) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2012
2. "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
3. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
4. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
5. Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Pierrefonds—Dollard, 30 September 2015
6. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates

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