Papineau (provincial electoral district)
 Quebec electoral district
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | National Assembly of Quebec | ||
| MNA |
Liberal |
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| District created | 1922 | ||
| First contested | 1923 | ||
| Last contested | 2012 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Electors (2012) | 56,601 | ||
| Area (km²) | 3,648.1 | ||
| Census subdivisions | Gatineau (part), Boileau, Bowman, Chénéville, Duhamel, Fassett, Lac-des-Plages, Lac-Simon, L'Ange-Gardien, Lochaber, Lochaber-Partie-Ouest, Mayo, Montebello, Montpellier, Mulgrave-et-Derry, Namur, Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Papineauville, Plaisance, Ripon, Saint-André-Avellin, Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk, Saint-Sixte, Thurso, Val-des-Bois | ||
Papineau is a provincial electoral district located in the Outaouais region of Quebec, which elects members to the National Assembly. It includes part of the City of Gatineau, and municipalities such as Val-des-Bois, Thurso, Papineauville, Montebello, Ripon and Montpellier.
It was created for the 1923 election from part of Labelle.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Val-des-Monts to Gatineau electoral district but gained some territory in the city of Gatineau from Chapleau electoral district.
The riding was named after Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian politician and leader of the Quebec Patriotes in the 19th century.
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