Canadian September By-election Orgy

[Hatman 🍁]

part of the NDG (Notre Dame de Grace for the unenlightened) neighbourhood is located in the Westmount riding.  My best friend lives there during the school year, and I stayed over there a couple of weeks ago, and he showed my the letter he got in the mail from the former MP about MP services during the vacancy. Anyways, hopefully I'll get to head down there before the election and take some pictures.

BTW, do you have a 2006 poll-by-poll map for Westmount-VM?

Nope. However, from looking at the results, the NDP won at least two polls

[Hatman 🍁]

Members from Westmount-Ville-Marie since 1935


1935-1940: Robert S. White, CPC
1940-1954: Douglas Charles Abbott, LPC
1954-1958: George Carlyle Marler, LPC
1958-1962: Ross Webster, PC
1962-1979: Charles Mills Drury, LPC
1979-1988: Donald Johnston, LPC
1988-1994: David Berger, LPC
1995-2008: Lucienne Robillard, LPC

I was having trouble finding a riding with Westmount in it from before 1935.

[Verily]

A loss in Westmount-Ville Marie would be more than a Liberal disaster. Has any other party held the seat representing Westmount?

As you said, only twice (and both times while Westmount proper was split across two seats). Of course, Outremont and its predecessors Laurier-Outremont and Outremont-Saint-Jean had only gone non-Liberal once ever, too (PC 1988-1993) before it elected Mulcair.

Over the past few decades the Liberals have also lost (apparently forever in the case of Laurier) many historic strongholds in the centre of Montreal.

Well, the Liberals lost all sorts of former strongholds all over Quebec to the Bloc when the Bloc formed (although in many cases they'd lost them to the PCs in 1984 first). And, LOL, the Rhinos took second in Laurier in 1980.

On a related note, Laurier—Sainte-Marie would be a really interesting by-election. Resign, Duceppe!

[Hatman 🍁]

Members from Guelph

1867-1876: David Sirton, LPC
1876-1882: Donald Guthrie, LPC
1882-1896: James Innes, LPC
1896-1900: Christian Kloepfer, CPC
1900-1935: Hugh Guthrie, LPC/CPC
1935-1949: Robert William Gladstone, LPC
1949-1957: Henry Alfred Hosking, LPC
1957-1974: Alfred Dryden Hales, PC
1974-1979: Frank W. Maine, LPC
1979-1980: Albert Fish, PC
1980-1984: Jim Schroder, LPC
1984-1993: Bill Winegard, PC
1993-2008: Brenda Chamberlain, LPC

as you can see, the riding is a bit of a bellwether, but has trended Liberal. 

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On a related note, Laurier—Sainte-Marie would be a really interesting by-election. Resign, Duceppe!

Seconded

[Hatman 🍁]

MPPs from Guelph:
1867-1876: Peter Gow, OLP
1876-1879: James Massie, OLP
1879-1886: James Laidlaw, OLP
1886-1894: Donald Guthrie, OLP
1894-1902: John Mutrie, OLP
1902-1910: Joseph Patrick Downey, Cons
1910-1911: John Ransom Howitt, Cons
1911-1914: Henry Chadwick Scholfield, Cons
1914-1919: Samuel Carter, Lib-Proh.
1919-1923: Caleb Buckland, Cons
1923-1931: Goldie Lincoln, Cons
1931-1934: Duncan Paul Munro, OLP
1934-1943: James Harold King, OLP
1943-1945: Leslie Hancock, CCF
1945-1955: William Ernest Hamilton, PC
1955-1985: Harry A. Worton, OLP
1985-1990: Rick Ferraro, OLP
1990-1995: Derek Fletcher, NDP
1995-2003: Brenda Elliott, PC
2003-present: Liz Sandals, OLP

[Filuwaúrdjan]

1955-1985: Harry A. Worton, OLP

OLP was the rural conservative party for most of that time, of course.

[Verily]

1955-1985: Harry A. Worton, OLP

OLP was the rural conservative party for most of that time, of course.

The era of the Red Tories and the Blue Grits.

[Hatman 🍁]

1955-1985: Harry A. Worton, OLP

OLP was the rural conservative party for most of that time, of course.

The era of the Red Tories and the Blue Grits.

Yes, the era when Lowell Green (Ottawa's answer to Rush Limbaugh) ran for the Liberals!