Gatineau is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from since 1949. Between 1987 and 1996, it was known as "Gatineau—La Lièvre".

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Gatineau

Quebec electoral district
Gatineau in relation to districts in the Gatineau/Hull region (2003 boundaries)
Coordinates:	45.500°N 75.677°W / 45.500; -75.677
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Steve MacKinnon Liberal
District created	1947
First contested	1949
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	107,464
Electors (2019)	84,463
Area (km²)[2]	125
Pop. density (per km²)	859.7
Census division(s)	Gatineau
Census subdivision(s)	Gatineau

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It consists of part of the former city of Gatineau, Quebec as defined by its pre-2002 boundaries.

The adjacent ridings are Hull—Aylmer, Pontiac, Ottawa—Orléans, and Ottawa—Vanier.

According to the 2021 Canadian census^[3]

Ethnic groups: 81.8% White, 6.8% Black, 4.4% Indigenous, 3.4% Arab, 1.6% Latin American

Languages: 80.1% French, 6.7% English, 2.5% Arabic, 1.6% Spanish

Religions: 67.6% Christian (55.6% Catholic, 12.0% Other), 3.3% Muslim, 28.3% None

Median income: $45,600 (2020)

Average income: $51,550 (2020)

The district was created in 1947 from parts of Hull and Wright ridings. In 1987, it was renamed to Chapleau, and then to Gatineau—La Lièvre in 1988. It was renamed back to "Gatineau" in 1996.

Gatineau lost territory to Pontiac during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Like most ridings in the Outaouais, Gatineau had long been safe for the Liberals, save for a lone Progressive Conservative victory in their 1984 nationwide landslide. Even as the rest of Quebec turned its back on the Liberals, a large number of civil servants who worked in Ottawa kept it in Liberal hands.

However, in the 2006 election the Bloc Québécois won the seat. The Bloc managed to hold the seat with just over 29% of the vote in 2008, by far the lowest percentage for a winning candidate nationwide, due to a near-three-way split between themselves, the New Democratic Party and the Liberals. The riding was swept up in the massive NDP wave that swept through the province in the 2011 election.

In the 2015 election, Liberal candidate Steve MacKinnon, running a second time, defeated NDP incumbent Françoise Boivin in an upset with an almost 40-point swing.

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