Summary: Voters here will send a rookie MP to Ottawa. Boundary redistribution sees the current incumbent, Mylène Freeman, running in the new riding of Mirabel.
Boundaries: This riding was formerly known as Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel. It now includes Notre-Dame-de la Salette, L’Ange Gardien, and the Masson-Angers and Buckingham sectors of the city of Gatineau.
Last Election: In Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel, NDP Freeman earned 44.3 per cent of the vote to defeat the four-term Bloc Québécois MP Mario Laframboise, who earned 29.0 per cent. Voters within the new boundaries of this riding voted 45.0 per cent NDP in 2011, and 23.3 per cent BQ.
History: The former versions of this riding were solidly Bloc Quebecois from 1993 until the NDP claimed the seat in 2011. The last conservative to win here was PC Lise Bourgault in 1988, and it’s been even longer since a Liberal won – Robert Gourd in 1980.
Candidates
Conservative: Maxime Hupé-Labelle, former policy analyst, Library and Archives of Canada
NDP: Chantal Crête, psychology professor, University of Ottawa
Liberal: Stéphane Lauzon, Gatineau municipal councillor since 2009
Bloc Québécois: Jonathan Beauchamp, former Chief of Staff for Gilles Duceppe
Green: Audrey Lamarche
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