Summary: Newly returned Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe is looking to win back the seat he held here for 21 years. He’ll have to defeat Hélène Laverdière, the NDP MP who ousted him in 2011.
Boundaries: This downtown Montreal riding includes Cote Saint-Louis, eastern parts of The Plateau and Mile End, the eastern part of downtown Montreal, and the western part of Centre-Sud. Its boundaries have changed only slightly for this election.
Last Election: NDP Laverdière defeated BQ Duceppe by 5,382 votes. Had the current riding boundaries been in effect, the NDP margin of victory would have gone up to 5,896 votes.
History: Voters in this riding had supported Duceppe from the first time he offered for the fledgling Bloc Québécois party in 1990. He won easy victories in each election until the NDP upset in 2011.
Demographics: The median age of 35.6 makes it the fourth youngest riding in the province. Just 52.8 per cent of people identified as Christian in the 2011 National Household Survey, the third lowest percentage in Quebec.
Candidates
Conservative: Daniel Gaudreau
NDP: Hélène Laverdière, MP
Liberal: Christine Poirier, small business owner
Bloc Québécois: Gilles Duceppe, Party Leader
Green: Cyrille Giraud
Communist: Pierre Fontaine
Libertarian: Stephane Beaulieu
Marxist-Leninist: Serge Lachapelle
Independent: Luc Bernatchez
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