# Montréal-Verdun

Montréal-Verdun (French pronunciation:) was a former provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
It was created for the 1923 election from part of Jacques-Cartier electoral district. Its final election was in 1962. It disappeared in the 1966 election and its successor electoral district was Verdun.

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

* Pierre-Auguste Lafleur, Conservative Party - Union Nationale (1923–1939)
* Joseph-Jean-Léopold Comeau, Liberal (1939–1944)
* Lionel-Alfred Ross, Liberal (1944–1960)
* George O'Reilly, Liberal (1960–1964)
* Claude Wagner, Liberal (1964–1966)

## Election results

1923 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | 4,801 | 73.26 |
| | Liberal | Joseph Élie | 1,752 | 26.74 |
1927 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | 4,685 | 53.17 |
| | Liberal | Joseph-Alfred-Aquila Leclair | 4,127 | 46.83 |
1931 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Conservative | Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | 7,074 | 51.12 |
| Liberal | Charles Norton Allen | 5,942 | 42.94 |
| Independent Liberal | Hervé Ferland | 822 | 5.94 |
1935 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Conservative | Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | 6,518 | 49.06 |
| Liberal | Adélard Leduc | 3,501 | 26.35 |
| Independent Liberal | Hervé Ferland | 3,268 | 24.60 |
1936 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Union Nationale | Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | 7,502 | 56.23 |
| Independent Liberal | Hervé Ferland | 3,876 | 29.05 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | John Cuppello | 1,469 | 11.01 |
| Liberal | Henri-Joseph Duhamel | 495 | 3.71 |
1939 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Joseph-Jean-Léopold Comeau | 4,449 | 50.91 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Robert Louis Calder | 2,513 | 28.76 |
| Union Nationale | Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | 1,415 | 16.19 |
| Action libérale nationale | Georges Daoust | 362 | 4.14 |
1944 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Lionel-Alfred Ross | 8,793 | 36.62 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Louis-Philippe Lebel | 6,039 | 25.15 |
| Bloc populaire | Louis-Philippe Hurtubise | 3,263 | 13.59 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Hervé Ferland | 3,015 | 12.56 |
| Union Nationale | Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | 2,899 | 12.07 |
1948 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Lionel-Alfred Ross | 12,639 | 52.74 |
| Union Nationale | Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | 6,622 | 27.63 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | William Dodge | 3,544 | 14.79 |
| Union des Électeurs | Donat Fortin | 1,052 | 4.39 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | John Robertson | 110 | 0.46 |
1952 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Lionel-Alfred Ross | 17,219 | 62.17 |
| Union Nationale | William Herbert O'Connor | 7,179 | 25.92 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Thérèse Casgrain | 2,857 | 10.31 |
| Union des Électeurs | Donat Fortin | 1,052 | 4.39 |
| Independent workers | William Betchley | 443 | 1.60 |
| | Georges Grenier | Desisted |
1956 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Lionel-Alfred Ross | 20,175 | 70.12 |
| Union Nationale | Albert Ouellette | 6,814 | 23.68 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | William Dodge | 1,785 | 6.20 |
1960 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | George O'Reilly | 18,354 | 57.64 |
| Union Nationale | Arthur Therrien | 12,957 | 40.69 |
| Independent Liberal | James Quinn | 269 | 0.84 |
| Communist | Frank Brenton | 163 | 0.51 |
| Independent Union Nationale | Kalil David | 97 | 0.30 |
1962 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | George O'Reilly | 21,208 | 65.98 |
| | Union Nationale | Laurent Gendron | 10,934 | 34.02 |
Quebec provincial by-election, 1964 :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Claude Wagner | 18,203 | 68.48 |
| Union Nationale | Arthur Therrien | 8,231 | 30.97 |
| Independent | Henri Paquet | 147 | 0.55 |