La Prairie (provincial electoral district)

La Prairie
Quebec electoral district
Coordinates:45°22′55″N 73°28′01″W / 45.382°N 73.467°W / 45.382; -73.467
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureNational Assembly of Quebec
MNA
 
 
 
Christian Dubé
Coalition Avenir Québec
District created1867
District abolished1922
District re-created1972
First contested1867, 1973
Last contested1923, 2018
Demographics
Population (2006)76,004
Electors (2012)[1]41,572
Area (km²)[2]143.2
Pop. density (per km²)530.8
Census division(s)Roussillon (part)
Census subdivision(s)Candiac, Delson, La Prairie, Saint-Philippe

La Prairie is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably consists of the city of La Prairie and three other smaller cities. Prior to 1988, it was spelled as one word: Laprairie.[3]

It was originally created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada). Its final election was in 1919. It disappeared in the 1923 election and its successor electoral district was Napierville-Laprairie. It was recreated in for the 1973 election from parts of Chambly and Napierville-Laprairie.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Constant and Saint-Mathieu to the newly created Sanguinet electoral district.

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  3. ^ "La Prairie: History of the electoral division". Elections Quebec. Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. Retrieved 2012-05-06.[permanent dead link]