 Quebec electoral district | |||
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| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 2003 | ||
| First contested | 2004 | ||
| Last contested | 2021 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 110,750 | ||
| Electors (2015) | 78,515 | ||
| Area (km²)[2] | 9.91 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 11,175.6 | ||
| Census division(s) | Montreal | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Montreal | ||
Papineau (formerly Papineau—Saint-Denis and Papineau—Saint-Michel) is a federal electoral district in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1948. Its population in 2016 was 110,750. Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party, has represented the riding since the 2008 federal election. Trudeau became Liberal leader in a 2013 leadership election, succeeding Bob Rae, and prime minister when the Liberals returned to government in the 2015 Canadian federal election, succeeding Conservative leader Stephen Harper.
The name of the riding comes from a street in the Villeray neighbourhood, named after Joseph Papineau.
At nine square kilometres, it covers the second smallest area of any federal riding in Canada after Toronto Centre.[3] Linguistically, 45% of residents list French as their mother tongue, 8% list English, and 47% list neither English nor French, with large groups speaking Spanish, Italian, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Pashtu, Bengali, Greek, and Arabic. Immigrants make up 40 percent of the riding's population.[4]
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2017
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2017
- ^ Banerjee, Sidhartha (15 October 2008). "Leave leader talk to the pundits, rookie MP Justin Trudeau focused on riding". The Canadian Press. Retrieved 15 October 2008. [dead link]
- ^ "Canada Votes 2008: Papineau". CBC News. 15 October 2008. Retrieved 15 October 2008.