LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, QC — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
LaSalle—Émard—Verdun — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 David Lametti, the Liberal candidate, won the riding with 23,603 votes (43.9% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Hélène LeBlanc (NDP-New Democratic Party) with 15,566 votes (29.0%), defeated by a margin of 8,037 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Gilbert Paquette (Bloc Québécois, 17%) and Mohammad Zamir (Conservative, 7%).
Riding information
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Created through the 2012 redistribution and contesting its first federal election in 2015, LaSalle—Émard—Verdun combines the borough of Verdun, part of the borough of LaSalle, and the neighbourhoods of Ville-Émard and Côte-Saint-Paul from the Le Sud-Ouest borough. This urban francophone riding sits in southwestern Montreal, running along the St. Lawrence River and the Lachine Canal.
Candidates
David Lametti (Liberal) — A full professor of law at McGill University specializing in intellectual property and property theory, Lametti held degrees from the University of Toronto, McGill, Yale Law School, and a doctorate from Oxford. He had clerked for Justice Peter Cory at the Supreme Court of Canada and co-founded McGill’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy.
Hélène LeBlanc (NDP) — Elected in 2011 in the former LaSalle—Émard riding, LeBlanc served as the NDP’s critic for science and technology under Jack Layton and later as industry critic under Thomas Mulcair. She sought re-election in the newly configured riding.
Gilbert Paquette (Bloc Québécois) — A professor emeritus at the Université TÉLUQ and founder of the LICEF research institute, Paquette had served as a member of the National Assembly for Rosemont from 1976 to 1985 and held the post of Minister of Science and Technology under Premier René Lévesque.
Mohammad Zamir (Conservative) — Zamir carried the Conservative banner in this solidly francophone Montreal riding.
Lorraine Banville (Green Party) — Banville represented the Green Party in the riding’s first election.
About the Riding
The neighbourhoods composing LaSalle—Émard—Verdun reflect a cross-section of Montreal’s southwestern urban fabric. Verdun, once an independent city, developed as a working-class residential district along the riverfront and had been experiencing steady gentrification by 2015, with young professionals drawn to its housing stock and proximity to downtown. The Lachine Canal corridor, formerly an industrial heartland, had been revitalized with cycling paths, condominiums, and mixed-use developments since its reopening to recreational boating in 2002. LaSalle’s residential streets and Angrignon Park—one of Montreal’s largest green spaces at 97 hectares—provide a more suburban character. Ville-Émard and Côte-Saint-Paul retained their working-class roots. Affordable housing, public transit investment, and economic development along the canal were prominent local concerns heading into the 2015 vote.
