Brossard-Saint-Lambert (Quebec) 39/338

Brossard-Saint-Lambert (Quebec)

Today we're in Quebec with Brossard-Saint-Lambert.

Brossard-Saint-Lambert has existed as a riding since the 2012 redistribution. The population centers are, well, Brossard (85,721 in 2016) and Saint-Lambert (21,861 in 2016). The riding is a suburb of Montreal, connected to Montreal by the Samuel de Champlain bridge. The riding has a large Chinese population, about 15% of Brossard is of Chinese origin, higher than the Quebec-wide proportion of 1.5%.

Politically, this riding is similar to the rest of Quebec in terms of trends. The riding was safe Liberal until the Bloc took it in 2006, the Liberals took it back in 2008, but in 2011 Hoang Mai of the NDP swung the seat 28 points, going from 4th place the previous election to winning the seat with a comfortable margin of 14 points. The seat is currently held by Liberal MP Alexandra Mendès.

This seat is somewhat notorious for re-running candidates. Marcel Lussier ran in four elections as a Bloc MP, the second one he won. Alexandra Mendès has also ran in four elections, winning three of them. Hoang Mai ran in three elections, winning one. Oddly enough, there was the exact same roster of candidates in 2008 and 2011, barring the Green candidate, but the same Marxist-Leninist ran in both elections. In 2019, the riding was 64/78 in Quebec and 271/338 in Canada by margin.

Rating:

Name: 9.0/10 - I appreciate how simple it is, just wish the names were shorter but whatever.

Shape: 7.6/10 - It isn't awful, pretty clean lines in as far as Quebec goes.

Individuality: 8.2/10 - It is cool that they re-ran the candidates again and again, but it doesn't really reflect in their vote total.

Total: 24.8/30 (82.7%)

See you tomorrow in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound!