Alfred-Pellan (Quebec)
After one day away, we're back to Quebec with Alfred-Pellan!
Alfred-Pellan has been in place as a riding since 2003, being previously named Laval East. We are entering the Quebec trend of ridings being named after people! Alfred-Pellan is named after, well, Alfred Pellan, Quebec painter and artist whose work spanned from art galleries, theatre costumes, and illustrations in books. Alfred-Pellan is in Laval, a suburb north of Montreal.
Politically, Alfred-Pellan is quite diverse like other Quebec ridings (who knew having four major parties in a province would make things competitive.) In the past ten years, it has been held by the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois, and twenty years before that, it was held by the Progressive Conservatives. The seat is currently held by Liberal MP Angelo Iacono.
There is *some* regionalism in the riding, the less densely populated areas went to the Bloc Quebecois, the more dense areas closer to the Riviere Des Prairies skewing heavily Liberal (Election Atlas). Similar to Abitibi—Témiscamingue, even though the riding has had diverse representation, it has had pretty wide margins of victory, the last time it went to the Bloc was the thinnest margin at less than 10 points. The riding was 40/78 in Quebec and 181/338 in Canada in 2019.
Rating:
Name: 4.6/10 - I'm not too sure how I feel about ridings being named for historical figures. On the one hand, he DID live in Aueteuil, Laval in the 1950's, so points for that, but I feel like a riding named for him would be more relevant in Quebec City or Montreal proper, where they have more ridings to name after whoever they want.
Shape: 7.2/10 - Almost everything is okay as it is shaped by the river, but I wish the west side was a bit cleaner with the neighbouring ridings.
Individuality: 5.6/10 - I think as far as suburban ridings it is pretty typical, but the elasticity is interesting and does set it apart to some extent.
Total: 17.4/30 (58%)
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