Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, QC — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Stéphane Lauzon, the Liberal candidate, won the riding with 22,093 votes (43.3% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Chantal Crête (NDP-New Democratic Party) with 12,650 votes (24.8%), defeated by a margin of 9,443 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Jonathan Beauchamp (Bloc Québécois, 19%) and Maxime Hupé-Labelle (Conservative, 11%).
Riding information
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Created through the 2012 redistribution, Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation runs along the Ottawa River from the western edge of Gatineau through the towns of Thurso, Montebello, and Grenville-sur-la-Rouge to Lachute and Brownsburg-Chatham, extending north into the Laurentian foothills toward Val-des-Bois and Duhamel. The riding draws territory from parts of the former Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel and Pontiac ridings, blending francophone and anglophone communities in a largely rural and semi-rural landscape.
Candidates
Stéphane Lauzon (Liberal) — Lauzon worked at the Canadian International Paper Company in the 1980s before returning to school in 1992 to become a certified vocational instructor, a profession he practised for twenty years. He later started a construction management company. In 2009, he was elected to the Gatineau city council, where he chaired the municipal committee on sports and recreational matters until resigning in 2015 to run federally.
Chantal Crête (NDP) — Crête carried the NDP banner in the new riding.
Jonathan Beauchamp (Bloc Québécois) — Beauchamp ran for the Bloc in the riding's inaugural federal contest.
Maxime Hupé-Labelle (Conservative) — Hupé-Labelle represented the Conservatives in Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation.
About the Riding
The riding's territory straddles the Ottawa River valley and the lower Laurentians, an area shaped by the lumber industry that once drove its economy. The Petite-Nation seigneury, established in the 17th century, lends its name to the eastern portion; Louis-Joseph Papineau's manor at Montebello remains a landmark. Today the economy relies on a mix of light manufacturing, agriculture, tourism, and the public sector, with many residents commuting to Gatineau and Ottawa for work. The town of Lachute hosts a major agricultural fair and is home to paper and textile industries, while Thurso's former paper mill was converted into a dissolving pulp production facility by Fortress Paper. Bilingualism defines the riding's character, with anglophone communities concentrated around Lachute and Grenville and francophone populations predominant elsewhere. As a newly created riding in 2015, there was no incumbent, and the contest centred on which party could best represent a geographically spread-out constituency with diverse economic needs.
