 Quebec electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | National Assembly of Quebec |
| District created | 1980 |
| District abolished | 2001 |
| First contested | 1981 |
| Last contested | 2002 (by-election)[1] |
| Demographics | |
| Census division(s) | Montreal (part) |
| Census subdivision(s) | Montreal (part) |
Viger was a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada.
It consisted of part of the Saint-Léonard, Rosemont and Mercier-Est neighbourhoods in Montreal.
It was created for the 1981 election. Its final general election was in 1998; there was also a by-election in 2002. It disappeared in the 2003 election as its territory was carved up and distributed among the new electoral district of Jeanne-Mance–Viger and the existing electoral districts of Anjou and Rosemont.
It was named jointly for Denis-Benjamin Viger and Jacques Viger,[2] who were prominent politicians in the 1830s and 1840s.
- ^ Although a new electoral map was decided in 2001, it did not go into effect until the next general election in 2003; by-elections were held using the old electoral map.
- ^ "Circonscription électorale de Jeanne-Mance–Viger". Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French). September 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-06.