Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Marc-Aurèle-Fortin — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Yves Robillard, the Liberal candidate, won the riding with 22,323 votes (40.9% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Marie-Josée Lemieux (NDP-New Democratic Party) with 12,827 votes (23.5%), defeated by a margin of 9,496 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Patrice Jasmin-Tremblay (Bloc Québécois, 22%) and Nicolas Makridis (Conservative, 12%).
Riding information
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Situated entirely within the city of Laval, Marc-Aurèle-Fortin takes in the neighbourhoods of Sainte-Rose, Auteuil, the eastern portion of Fabreville, and the western edge of Vimont. Named for the celebrated Quebec landscape painter, the riding was substantially redrawn during the 2012 redistribution, shedding territory to neighbouring Thérèse-De Blainville and Rivière-des-Mille-Îles while absorbing sections from other Laval-area ridings.
Candidates
Yves Robillard (Liberal) — Born in 1942 in Verdun, Robillard spent much of his career in public relations and political consulting before entering electoral politics at the age of 73. He campaigned on the Liberal platform of infrastructure investment and middle-class tax relief, promising to advocate for federal funding to address Laval's growing infrastructure needs.
Marie-Josée Lemieux (NDP) — Lemieux launched her campaign in the riding and was supported by NDP members from the Laval area.
Patrice Jasmin-Tremblay (Bloc Québécois) — A sovereigntist activist, Jasmin-Tremblay pledged to hold regular public assemblies to maintain accountability between elections. He campaigned on defending Quebec's interests at the federal level.
Nicolas Makridis (Conservative) — Makridis carried the Conservative banner in a riding where the party had limited traction.
About the Riding
Laval is Quebec's third-largest city, with a population that exceeded 400,000 by the 2011 census. The Marc-Aurèle-Fortin portion of the island encompasses older residential districts in Sainte-Rose alongside newer suburban development in Auteuil and Vimont. Public transit connections to Montreal via the Société de transport de Laval and commuter rail were a persistent concern, as was the need for upgraded recreational and sports infrastructure. The riding had been held by the NDP since the 2011 orange wave, which itself had broken a stretch of consecutive Bloc Québécois victories. Heading into 2015, the contest was widely seen as a battle between a resurgent Liberal Party and an NDP caucus trying to defend its 2011 gains across suburban Quebec.
