Pontiac (provincial electoral district)

Pontiac
Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureNational Assembly of Quebec
MNA
 
 
 
André Fortin
Liberal
District created1867
District abolished1972
District re-created1980
First contested1867, 1981
Last contested1970, 2022
Demographics
Population (2006)61,595
Electors (2012)[1]48,370
Area (km²)[2]14,683.8
Pop. density (per km²)4.2
Census division(s)Gatineau (part), Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais (part), Pontiac
Census subdivision(s)Gatineau (part), Alleyn-et-Cawood, Bristol, Bryson, Campbell's Bay, Chichester, Clarendon, Fort-Coulonge, L'Île-du-Grand-Calumet, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Litchfield, Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Otter Lake, Pontiac, Portage-du-Fort, Rapides-des-Joachims, Shawville, Sheenboro, Thorne, Waltham; Lac-Nilgaut

Pontiac is a provincial electoral district in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes parts of the city of Gatineau as well as the municipalities of Pontiac, Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Shawville and Clarendon.

It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada). Its final election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 election and its successor electoral district was Pontiac-Témiscamingue.

However, Pontiac–Témiscamingue disappeared in the 1981 election and its successor electoral district was the re-created Pontiac.

It was named after Chief Pontiac, who led Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763 in the Great Lakes region.

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