Les Pays-d'en-Haut (electoral district)
| Quebec electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 2023 | ||
| First contested | 2025 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2021)[1] | 106,834 | ||
| Electors (2025) | 94,957 | ||
| Census division(s) | Les Pays-d'en-Haut, Argenteuil, Matawinie, Montcalm, La Rivière-du-Nord | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Saint-Colomban, Sainte-Adèle, Prévost, Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Hippolyte, Saint-Calixte, Chertsey, Morin-Heights, Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs, Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard | ||
Les Pays-d'en-Haut (English: The Upper Countries) is a federal electoral district in Quebec. It was created by the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution and legally defined by the 2023 representation order for Quebec, which came into effect for the 2025 Canadian federal election.
Geography
Les Pays-d'en-Haut was created to accommodate population growth in the Laurentides and Lanaudière regions. It comprises the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality as well as parts of the neighbouring Regional County Municipalities of Argenteuil, Matawinie, Montcalm, and La Rivière-du-Nord.[2][3]
Demographics
According to the 2021 Canadian census[4]
- Racial groups: 98.1% White, 1.9% Visible minority
- Languages: 91.5% French, 7.5% English
- Religions: 64.7% Christian (58.1% Catholic, 6.6% Other), 34.3% No religion
- Median income: $42,000 (2020)
- Average income: $53,950 (2020)
History
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Pays-d'en-Haut Riding created from Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, Joliette, Laurentides—Labelle, Mirabel, Montcalm, and Rivière-du-Nord |
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| 45th | 2025–present | Tim Watchorn | Liberal | |
Election results
| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Tim Watchorn | 26,967 | 41.04 | +15.15 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Ariane Charbonneau | 23,750 | 36.15 | -11.39 | ||||
| Conservative | Vincent Leroux | 11,816 | 17.98 | +6.32 | ||||
| New Democratic | Eric-Abel Baland | 1,493 | 2.27 | -4.62 | ||||
| Green | Karine Steinberger | 1,038 | 1.58 | +0.05 | ||||
| People's | George Mogiljansky | 639 | 0.97 | -3.36 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 65,703 | 98.73 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 848 | 1.27 | ||||||
| Turnout | 66,551 | 69.76 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 95,406 | |||||||
| Liberal notional gain from Bloc Québécois | Swing | +13.27 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[5][6] | ||||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. | ||||||||
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[7] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Bloc Québécois | 26,240 | 47.54 | |
| Liberal | 14,290 | 25.89 | |
| Conservative | 6,436 | 11.66 | |
| New Democratic | 3,800 | 6.89 | |
| People's | 2,388 | 4.33 | |
| Green | 844 | 1.53 | |
| Others | 1,192 | 2.16 | |
References
- ^ "Les Pays-d'en-Haut – Final boundaries". Federal Electoral Districts Redistribution. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- ^ "Proposal of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Quebec" (PDF). Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Quebec. 29 July 2022. pp. 17–18.
- ^ "Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Quebec" (PDF). Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Quebec. 22 September 2023. pp. 40–41.
- ^ "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Les Pays-d'en-Haut [Federal electoral district (2023 Representation Order)], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- ^ "Voter information service". Elections Canada. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
- ^ "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". Elections Canada. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
- ^ "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved 9 April 2024.