Pontiac (provincial electoral district)

Pontiac

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	André Fortin Liberal
District created	1867
District abolished	1972
District re-created	1980
First contested	1867
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2006)	61,595
Electors (2012)[1]	48,370
Area (km²)[2]	14,683.8
Pop. density (per km²)	4.2
Census divisions	Gatineau (part), Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais (part), Pontiac
Census subdivisions	Gatineau (part), Alleyn-et-Cawood, Bristol, Bryson, Campbell's Bay, Chichester, Clarendon, Fort-Coulonge, L'Île-du-Grand-Calumet, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Litchfield, Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Otter Lake, Pontiac, Portage-du-Fort, Rapides-des-Joachims, Shawville, Sheenboro, Thorne, Waltham; Lac-Nilgaut

Pontiac is a provincial electoral district in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes the Aylmer sector of the city of Gatineau as well as the municipalities of Pontiac, Shawville, Fort Coulonge, Sheenboro, Bryson and Waltham.

It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada). Its final election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 election and its successor electoral district was Pontiac-Témiscamingue.

However, Pontiac–Témiscamingue disappeared in the 1981 election and its successor electoral district was the re-created Pontiac.

It was named after Chief Pontiac, who led Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763 in the Great Lakes region.

Members of the Legislative Assembly/National Assembly

This riding has elected the following members to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (1857–1866), Legislative Assembly of Quebec (1867–1968) and the National Assembly of Quebec (1968–present):

• John Egan, (1854–1857)
• George Bryson, Conservative (1857–1858) by-election
• Edmund Heath, Conservative (1858–1861)
• John Poupore, Conservative (1861–1874)
• Levi Ruggles Church, Conservative (1874–1881)
• Thomas Bryson, Conservative (1881–1883)
• William Joseph Poupore, Conservative (1883–1892)
• David Gillies, Liberal (1892–1908)
• Tancrède-Charles Gaboury, Liberal 1908–1912
• George Benjamin Campbell, Conservative (1912–1916)
• William Hodgins, Liberal (1916–1919)
• Wallace Reginald McDonald, Liberal (1919–1935)
• Edward Charles Lawn, Liberal (1935–1948)
• Raymond Thomas Johnson, Union Nationale (1948–1970)
• Jean-Guy Larivière, Liberal (1970–1973)
• did not exist (1973–1981), see Pontiac-Témiscamingue
• Robert Middlemiss, Liberal (1981–2003)
• Charlotte L'Écuyer, Liberal (2003–2014)
• André Fortin, Liberal (2014–present)

Election results

* Increase is from Action Democratique du Quebec (ADQ)

* Increase is from UFP

References

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)

Maps

• 2011 map (PDF)
• 2001 map (Flash)

  2001–2011 changes (Flash)

  1992–2001 changes (Flash)

• Electoral map of Outaouais region
• Quebec electoral map, 2011

Neighbouring electoral districts

		Abitibi-Est
	Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue		Gatineau, Hull
		Pontiac