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Riding ofLaSalle—Émard—Verdun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 39.66% ( 20.94) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 LaSalle-Emard-Verdun By-Election Results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A by-election was held in the federal riding ofLaSalle—Émard—Verdun inQuebec, Canada, on September 16, 2024, following the resignation of incumbentLiberal MPDavid Lametti.
While the riding was considered a "stronghold" for the Liberals, the by-election was expected by some to be a close race between the Liberals and the NDP, who ran "well known" Montreal city councillorCraig Sauvé.[1] The by-election was expected to be a three-way marginal with theBloc Québécois also having strong support in the riding.[2]
The by-election was held on the same day as one inElmwood—Transcona inManitoba and was considered a test for the government ofJustin Trudeau.[3] After results were announced, Trudeau said that his party had "a lot of work to do".[4][5]
The riding ofLaSalle—Émard—Verdun was vacated on February 1, 2024, following the resignation of Liberal MPDavid Lametti.[6] Lametti, who previously served asMinister of Justice and Attorney General inthe government ofJustin Trudeau, won the seat in2015.
The constituency is an urban Francophone riding located in the southwestern part ofMontreal containing parts of the boroughs ofLe Sud-Ouest,Verdun andLaSalle.[7] The riding has been held by the Liberals since its creation in 2015. Prior to 2015, this area of the city was split into two different ridings, with Verdun being in one riding (Jeanne-Le Ber from 2004 to 2016) and theLaSalle andVille-Émard areas being in another (LaSalle—Émard from 1988 to 2015). Both ridings went NDP during the "orange wave" of the2011 Canadian federal election. Prior to 2011, the LaSalle—Émard area has been reliably Liberal, while Verdun has been less-so, with the Bloc holding it from 2006 to 2011.
The total of 91 candidates broke the record for the longest list of candidates in a federal by-election, besting the 84 that ran in the2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election, both results being attributed to theLongest Ballot Committee, an organization protesting thefirst-past-the-post electoral system.[8] It was equalled inCarleton during the 2025 Canadian federal election, and is set to be broken and more than doubled during the2025 Battle River—Crowfoot federal by-election.
On July 19, Montreal city councillor Laura Palestini was selected by the Liberals as their candidate over others seeking the nomination[9] such as Eddy Kara, a political strategist,[10] Christopher Baenninger,Quebec Liberal candidate inSainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in2022 andSaint-Henri–Sainte-Anne in2023,[11] and Lori Morrison, Electoral Division 1 Commissioner of theLester B. Pearson School Board.[11] The party approached Charles Milliard, president of the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec, to run as their candidate in the by-election. He ultimately declined to run, preferring running in the2025 Quebec Liberal Party leadership election.[12]
On March 28,Craig Sauvé, independent city councillor for the district of Saint-Henri—Little-Burgundy—Pointe-Saint-Charles announced that he was standing for nomination for theNew Democratic Party's candidate.[13] He was officially nominated as the NDP candidate on April 28.[14]
On July 19, the Conservative Party announced that their candidate would be Louis Ialenti, a small business owner. He was previously the Conservative candidate forSaint-Léonard—Saint-Michel in 2021.[15]
The Bloc Québécois candidate wasLouis-Philippe Sauvé, a party staffer and the former communications and administration coordinator at the Institute for Research in Contemporary Economics.[16]
Gregory Yablunovsky was the PPC candidate. He was previously the party's candidate inSaint-Laurent in 2021 andLa Prairie in 2019.[17]
On May 27, it was announced that Jency Mercier had won the nomination race for the Green Party.[18]
Alain Paquette was theChristian Heritage Party candidate.[19]
On July 17, theRhinoceros Party announced that party leaderSébastien CoRhino would be the candidate.[20]
TheLongest Ballot Committee targeted theLaSalle—Émard—Verdun by-election[21] resulting in 77 independent candidates affiliated to the organization running in this riding.[22]
On August 14, the newly formedCanadian Future Party announced Mark Khoury as their candidate in the election.[23]
It was reported that Liberal campaign materials omitted the image ofJustin Trudeau, unlike other parties which used their party leader's picture.[24] The unpopularity of the federal government has been a consideration.[25] Senior Liberal figures considered the by-election a "must-win".[26]
| Polling Firm | Last Date of Polling | Link | LPC | BQ | NDP | CPC | PPC | Green | Margin of Error[1] | Sample Size[2] | Polling Method[3] |
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| Mainstreet Research | September 7-9, 2024 | [27] | 24.1 | 29.6 | 23.0 | 7.3 | N/a | N/a | ±4.7 pp | 443 | IVR |
| Mainstreet Research | July 9, 2024 | [28] | 29 | 26 | 25 | 14 | 1 | 3 | ±5.4 pp | 329 | IVR |
| Election 2021 | September 20, 2021 | 42.93 | 22.09 | 19.36 | 7.45 | 3.38 | 3.04 | — | 47,360 | — |
11,000 people voted in advance polling.[29]
| Canadian federal by-election,September 16, 2024:LaSalle—Émard—Verdun Resignation ofDavid Lametti | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Louis-Philippe Sauvé | 8,925 | 28.20 | +6.11 | ||||
| Liberal | Laura Palestini | 8,656 | 27.35 | -15.58 | ||||
| New Democratic | Craig Sauvé | 8,272 | 26.13 | +6.77 | ||||
| Conservative | Louis Ialenti | 3,641 | 11.50 | +4.05 | ||||
| Green | Jency Mercier | 557 | 1.76 | -1.28 | ||||
| Independent | Tina Jiu Ru Zhu | 198 | 0.63 | – | ||||
| People's | Gregory Yablunovsky | 159 | 0.50 | -2.88 | ||||
| Canadian Future | Mark Khoury | 93 | 0.29 | – | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Sébastien CoRhino | 67 | 0.21 | – | ||||
| Christian Heritage | Alain Paquette | 55 | 0.17 | – | ||||
| Marijuana | Steve Berthelot | 53 | 0.17 | – | ||||
| Independent | Lanna Palsson | 48 | 0.15 | – | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Normand Chouinard | 40 | 0.13 | – | ||||
| No Affiliation | Myriam Beaulieu | 40 | 0.13 | – | ||||
| Independent | Line Bélanger | 34 | 0.11 | – | ||||
| Independent | Marie-Hélène LeBel | 30 | 0.09 | – | ||||
| Independent | Pierre Samson | 29 | 0.09 | – | ||||
| Independent | Julie St-Amand | 24 | 0.08 | – | ||||
| Independent | Laura Vegys | 23 | 0.07 | – | ||||
| No Affiliation | Manon Marie Lili Desbiens | 21 | 0.07 | – | ||||
| Independent | Alain Bourgault | 21 | 0.07 | – | ||||
| Independent | Mark Moutter | 20 | 0.06 | – | ||||
| Independent | Charles Lemieux | 19 | 0.06 | – | ||||
| Independent | Peter Barry Clarke | 19 | 0.06 | – | ||||
| Independent | Guillaume Paradis | 19 | 0.06 | – | ||||
| Independent | Hans Armando Vargas | 17 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | Felix-Antoine Hamel | 17 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | Martin Croteau | 17 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | Daniel Gagnon | 17 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | Matéo Martin | 16 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | Daniel St-Pierre | 16 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | John "The Engineer" Turmel | 16 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | Alex Banks | 16 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | Agnieszka Marszalek | 15 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| No Affiliation | Fang Hu | 15 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | Nassim Barhoumi | 15 | 0.05 | – | ||||
| Independent | Connie Lukawski | 14 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Alain Lamontagne | 14 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Marie-Eve Vermette | 14 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Glen MacDonald | 14 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Mylène Bonneau | 14 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Martin Acetaria Caesar Jubinville | 13 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Réal BatRhino Martel | 13 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Andrew Davidson | 13 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Ryan Huard | 13 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | John Dale | 12 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | John Francis O'Flynn | 12 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Jaël Champagne Gareau | 12 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Mário Stocco | 12 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Jacques-Eric Guy | 12 | 0.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Yusuf Nasihi | 11 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Antony George Ernest Marcil | 11 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Samuel Ducharme | 11 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Christian Baril | 11 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Alexandra Engering | 11 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Danny Légaré | 10 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Timothy Schoen | 10 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Marc Corriveau | 10 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Mark Dejewski | 9 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Krzysztof Krzywinski | 9 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Grayson Pollard | 8 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Michael Bednarski | 8 | 0.03 | – | ||||
| Independent | Donovan Eckstrom | 7 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Lorant Polya | 7 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Judy D. Hill | 7 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Adam Smith | 6 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Jordan Wong | 6 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Jeani Boudreault | 6 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| No Affiliation | Katy Le Rougetel | 6 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Elliot Wand | 5 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Darcy Justin Vanderwater | 5 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Gavin Vanderwater | 5 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Lajos Polya | 5 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Michael Skirzynski | 5 | 0.02 | – | ||||
| Independent | Gerrit Dogger | 4 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Harout Manougian | 4 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Roger Sherwood | 4 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Spencer Rocchi | 4 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Patrick Strzalkowski | 4 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Anthony Hamel | 3 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Julian Selody | 3 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Erle Stanley Bowman | 3 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Dji-Pé Frazer | 3 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Benjamin Teichman | 3 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Winston Neutel | 2 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Blake Hamilton | 2 | 0.01 | – | ||||
| Independent | Wallace Richard Rowat | 1 | 0.00 | – | ||||
| Independent | Pascal St-Amand | 1 | 0.00 | – | ||||
| Independent | David Erland | 1 | 0.00 | – | ||||
| Independent | Daniel Stuckless | 0 | 0.00 | – | ||||
| Independent | Ysack Dupont | 0 | 0.00 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 31,653 | 97.77 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 723 | 2.23 | +0.09 | |||||
| Turnout | 32,376 | 40.84 | -19.75 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 79,268 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécoisgain fromLiberal | Swing | +10.81 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[30] | ||||||||
| 2021 Canadian federal election:LaSalle—Émard—Verdun | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | David Lametti | 20,330 | 42.93 | -0.60 | $55,842.59 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Raphaël Guérard | 10,461 | 22.09 | -2.00 | $9,992.28 | |||
| New Democratic | Jason De Lierre | 9,168 | 19.36 | +2.89 | $2,674.57 | |||
| Conservative | Janina Moran | 3,530 | 7.45 | +0.41 | $714.88 | |||
| People's | Michel Walsh | 1,600 | 3.38 | +2.44 | $2,295.27 | |||
| Green | Sarah Carter | 1,439 | 3.04 | -3.80 | $0.00 | |||
| Free | Pascal Antonin | 636 | 1.34 | N/A | $2.73 | |||
| Communist | J.P. Fortin | 196 | 0.41 | N/A | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,360 | 97.86 | – | $110,554.58 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,036 | 2.14 | +0.52 | |||||
| Turnout | 48,396 | 60.59 | -3.78 | |||||
| Registered voters | 79,869 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | +0.70 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[31] | ||||||||
