Mount Royal (electoral district)

Mount Royal

Quebec electoral district
Mount Royal in relation to other federal electoral districts in Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Anthony Housefather Liberal
District created	1924
First contested	1925
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	103,320
Electors (2019)	73,163
Area (km²)[2]	23
Pop. density (per km²)	4,492.2
Census division(s)	Montreal
Census subdivision(s)	Montreal (part), Côte Saint-Luc, Mont Royal, Hampstead

Mount Royal (French: Mont-Royal) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1925. Its population in 2006 was 98,888.

The riding is among the strongest Liberal ridings in the country. Réal Caouette, long-time leader of the Social Credit Party in Quebec, once said that a mailbox could win the Liberal nomination in Mount Royal and still win election just because it was red (the traditional colour of the Liberal Party). The Liberals have held the riding continuously since 1940, and have only been seriously threatened three times since then—in 1958, 1984 and 2011.

Its best-known MP is former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who represented the riding from 1965 to 1984. Its current MP, Anthony Housefather, was elected on 19 October 2015, garnering 50.3% of the vote,^[3] and was profiled as one of 10 rookie MPs to watch in the new parliament.^[4]

The riding's English name was eliminated in the 2012 electoral redistribution but was reversed by the Riding Name Change Act, 2014.

The riding has a large Jewish population, the second-largest in Canada at 30.7 percent.^[5] It is one of only two ridings in Canada with a Jewish plurality (the other being Thornhill in the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario).^{[citation needed]}