Summary: This new riding will send a new MP to Ottawa in 2015. The NDP candidate is the brother of Sylvain Chicoine, who won Châteauguay-St. Constant for the NDP in 2011.
Boundaries: This riding, south of Montreal, was carved out of Châteauguay-Saint-Constant and Brossard-La Prairie. It includes Candiac, Delson, La Prairie, and Kahnawake Reserve no 14.
Last Election: In 2011, voters within this new riding’s boundaries voted 50.0 per cent NDP, 25.7 per cent Bloc Québecois, and 13.2 per cent Liberal.
History: Both of the former ridings that make up this new riding elected NDP members in 2011. Châteauguay-Saint-Constant had supported the BQ prior to that, and Brossard-La Prairie had mostly supported the Liberals.
Candidates
Conservative: Yves Perras, realtor
NDP: Pierre Chicoine, owner of a packaging company
Liberal: Jean-Claude Poissant, dairy and grain farmer, and a municipal councillor for Saint-Philippe
Bloc Québécois: Christian Picard, business consultant
Green: Joanne Tomas
Marxist-Leninist: Normand Chouinard
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