Dr. Djaouida Sellah | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament forSaint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert | |
| In office May 2, 2011 – August 4, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Carole Lavallée |
| Succeeded by | Riding dissolved |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Political party | New Democratic Party |
| Residence(s) | Longueuil,Quebec |
| Profession | Physician, Lecturer, Citizen Mediator |
Djaouida Sellah (Arabic:دجويدا سيلاه) is aCanadian politician. Sellah represented the riding ofSaint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert in theHouse of Commons from2011 to 2015. Following her tenure in parliament, she served as president of theNew Democratic Party of Quebec in 2018.
Sellah was born inAlgiers,Algeria. Her mother was amidwife and her father was killed in theAlgerian War of Independence. She was a volunteer doctor for theRed Crescent during theGulf War inBaghdad. She then went toKuala Lumpur with her husband who was working as a translator. The two came toQuebec in 1998. Sellah has three children. At the time of her election, she was president of theAssociation québécoise des médecins diplômés hors Canada et États-Unis, supporting the recognition of qualifications of foreign-trained doctors.[1]
Sellah entered politics ahead of the2011 Canadian federal election seeking the NDP nomination forLongueuil—Pierre-Boucher of which she lost toPierre Nantel.[2] She was then nominated by the party for the riding ofSaint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert and was elected as part of the "Orange Wave" that swept Quebec, defeating three-termBloc QuébécoisMPCarole Lavallée.[3]
Sellah was the first Canadian politician elected who was born in Algeria.[4](NDP). In parliament, Sellah served on the Health Committee for the 1st session of the 41st Parliament, and she then served on the Standing Committee of the Status of Woment. She also served as the assistant Health Critic for the NDP from 2012 until 2013.
Sellah ran in the2015 election in the new Riding ofMontarville, but placed third behindLiberalMichel Picard, whom she had defeated in 2011.[5] Sellah was once again the NDP's candidate for Montarville for the2019 election;[6] she came in third with a reduced percentage. She ran for the NDP again in the2021 Election, but was unsuccessful.[7]
Following the death ofJack Layton, Sellah endorsedTom Mulcair to be the next leader of theNew Democratic Party. Sellah ran for president of the NDP in 2016 to replaceRebecca Blaikie,[8] but ultimately lost toMarit Stiles. In the2017 NDP leadership election, Sellah supportedCharlie Angus.[9]
Sellah was the president of theNew Democratic Party of Quebec during 2018. She was the New Democratic Party of Quebec's candidate inLa Pinière for the2018 Quebec general election.[10]
| 2025 Canadian federal election:Honoré-Mercier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Éric St-Pierre | 29,947 | 60.16 | +0.16 | ||||
| Conservative | Ingrid Fernanda Megni | 10,692 | 21.48 | +10.94 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Edline Henri | 6,435 | 12.93 | -3.35 | ||||
| New Democratic | Djaouida Sellah | 1,787 | 3.59 | -3.73 | ||||
| Green | Gaëtan Bérard | 568 | 1.14 | -0.36 | ||||
| People's | Marie-Louise Beauchamp | 351 | 0.71 | -3.48 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 49,780 | 98.34 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 838 | 1.66 | -0.31 | |||||
| Turnout | 50,618 | 65.09 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 77,770 | |||||||
| Liberalnotional hold | Swing | -5.39 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[11][12] | ||||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. | ||||||||
| 2021 Canadian federal election:Montarville | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Stéphane Bergeron | 26,011 | 45.3 | +2.5 | $26,513.08 | |||
| Liberal | Marie-Ève Pelchat | 19,974 | 34.8 | -0.8 | $56,659.78 | |||
| Conservative | Julie Sauvageau | 5,460 | 9.5 | +2.5 | $4,343.53 | |||
| New Democratic | Djaouida Sellah | 4,809 | 8.4 | ±0.0 | $596.30 | |||
| People's | Natasha Hynes | 1,218 | 2.1 | +1.3 | $1,269.78 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 57,472 | 98.2 | – | $110,040.39 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,033 | 1.8 | ||||||
| Turnout | 58,505 | 74.7 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 78,273 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécoishold | Swing | +1.7 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[13] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election:Montarville | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Stéphane Bergeron | 25,366 | 42.8 | +14.38 | $22,609.89 | |||
| Liberal | Michel Picard | 21,061 | 35.6 | +3.06 | $55,495.41 | |||
| New Democratic | Djaouida Sellah | 4,984 | 8.4 | -16.28 | $1,715.58 | |||
| Conservative | Julie Sauvageau | 4,138 | 7.0 | -3.85 | $11,784.17 | |||
| Green | Jean-Charles Pelland | 2,967 | 5.0 | +2.6 | $3,869.64 | |||
| People's | Julie Lavallée | 501 | 0.8 | – | none listed | |||
| Rhinoceros | Thomas Thibault-Vincent | 211 | 0.4 | – | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 59,228 | 100 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 742 | |||||||
| Turnout | 59,970 | 77.8% | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 77,097 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécoisgain fromLiberal | Swing | +5.66 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[14][15] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Michel Picard | 18,848 | 32.54 | +20.03 | – | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Catherine Fournier | 16,460 | 28.42 | -0.66 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Djaouida Sellah | 14,296 | 24.68 | -19.85 | – | |||
| Conservative | Stéphane Duranleau | 6,284 | 10.85 | +1.25 | – | |||
| Green | Olivier Adam | 1,388 | 2.40 | -0.05 | – | |||
| Libertarian | Claude Leclair | 641 | 1.11 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 57,917 | 100.00 | $207,758.92 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 881 | 1.50 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 58,798 | 77.86 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 75,521 | |||||||
| Liberalgain fromNew Democratic | Swing | +19.94 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[16][17] | ||||||||
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Djaouida Sellah | 24,361 | 44.6 | +31.1 | $3,406.84 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Carole Lavallée | 15,384 | 28.2 | -16.8 | $83,400.22 | |||
| Liberal | Michel Picard | 7,423 | 13.6 | -8.6 | $42,960.83 | |||
| Conservative | Nicole Charbonneau Barron | 5,887 | 10.8 | -4.6 | $19,838.46 | |||
| Green | Germain Denoncourt | 1,523 | 2.8 | -1.0 | $3,017.79 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 54,578 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 780 | 1.4 | 0.0 | |||||
| Turnout | 55,358 | 67.5 | -0.2 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 82,023 | – | – | |||||
| 2018 Quebec general election:La Pinière | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Gaétan Barrette | 15,476 | 47.07 | -11.22 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Sylvia Baronian | 9,480 | 28.83 | +16.25 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Marie Pagès | 3,300 | 10.04 | +6.16 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Suzanne Gagnon | 2,921 | 8.88 | -15.6 | ||||
| Green | Aziza Dini | 585 | 1.78 | -0.13 | ||||
| Conservative | Anwar El Youbi | 435 | 1.32 | +0.66 | ||||
| New Democratic | Djaouida Sellah | 354 | 1.08 | |||||
| Independent | Patrick Hayes | 168 | 0.51 | |||||
| Independent | Fang Hu | 161 | 0.49 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 32,880 | 98.69 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 435 | 1.31 | ||||||
| Turnout | 33,315 | 61.09 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 54,534 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | -13.735 | ||||||