|
Mount Royal ((フランス語:Mont-Royal)) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1925. Its population in 2006 was 98,888. The riding is among the strongest Liberal ridings in the country. Réal Caouette, long-time leader of the Social Credit Party in Quebec, once said that a mailbox could win the Liberal nomination in Mount Royal and still win election just because it was red (the traditional colour of the Liberal Party). The Liberals have held the riding continuously since 1940, and have only been seriously threatened three times since then—in 1958, 1984 and 2011. Its best-known MP is former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who represented the riding from 1965 to 1984. Its current MP, Irwin Cotler, has held the seat since 1999 when he won a riding-record 91.98 percent of the vote in a by-election. However, over the past few elections the Conservative Party has narrowed the gap, most recently through star candidate Saulie Zajdel, since prosecuted for influence peddling in past activities at the municipal level. Once the English name of this riding was eliminated in the 2012 electoral redistribution but reversed by the Riding Name Change Act, 2014. The riding has a large Jewish population, the second largest in Canada—36.3 percent. Mount Royal and Thornhill in Ontario are the only two districts in Canada where Judaism is the most commonly practised religion. ==Geography== The district includes the City of Côte Saint-Luc, the Towns of Mount Royal and Hampstead, the neighbourhood of Snowdon and the western part of the neighbourhood of Côte-des-Neiges in the City of Montreal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Royal (electoral district)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|