# Cosmo Maciocia

Cosmo Maciocia (born February 2, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a city councillor in Montreal, Quebec.

## Background

He was born in Cantalupo nel Sannio, Molise, Italy, on February 2, 1942, and arrived in Canada in 1964.

## City councillor in Saint-Léonard

He was a city councillor in Saint-Léonard in 1978.

## Member of the legislature

He successfully ran as a Liberal candidate to the provincial legislature for the district of Viger in 1981. He was re-elected in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 1998.
He was Parliamentary Assistant from 1985 to 1994.

## Back in city politics

In the wake of the province-wide municipal merger of 2001, Maciocia gave up his seat and ran as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (French: Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l'Île de Montréal or UCIM) in the district of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin. The party is now known as Union Montréal.
In 2005, he was elected as borough mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles-Montréal-Est, and retained his position as mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles following the 2006 demerger of Montréal-Est.
Maciocia is a member of Montreal's executive committee.
He did not choose to run again in the 2009 Montreal municipal election, but his seat was retained for Union Montréal by Joe Magri.

## Electoral record (incomplete)

vte1994 Quebec general election: Viger :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Cosmo Maciocia (incumbent) | 18,743 | 64.27 | |
| | Parti Québécois | Umberto di Genova | 8,529 | 29.24 | |
| | New Democratic | Jean-Guy Couture | 1,485 | 5.09 | |
| | Natural Law | Denis Lacroix | 223 | 0.76 | |
| | Innovator | Roberto Barba | 100 | 0.34 | |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Claude Brunelle | 85 | 0.29 | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 29,165 | 10.00 | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 527 | 2.32 | – |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 29,692 | 84.12 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 35,299 | – | – |
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. |||||||
vte1989 Quebec general election: Viger :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Cosmo Maciocia | 16,847 | 60.73 |
| | Parti Québécois | Michel Dupont | 8,075 | 29.11 |
| | Equality | David De Santis | 1,831 | 6.60 |
| | Green | Rolf Bramann | 877 | 3.16 |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Catherine Commandeur | 111 | 0.40 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 27,741 | 100.00 |
| Rejected and declined votes | Rejected and declined votes | Rejected and declined votes | 690 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 28,431 | 76.27 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 37,275 |
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. |||||||

## Footnotes

* ↑ "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
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