CHAPTER 11
Quebec West: the demographics
Figure 2 -- The ridings of Quebec West
Figure 3 -- The boundaries of Quebec West
Figure 4 -- The Montreal Area Ridings of Quebec West
Notes:
The Quebec West ridings listed under the
“Ranking” column in Figure 2 -- The ridings of Quebec West are ranked
according to percentage of non-Francophone per riding, in descending order. The
raw data was kindly supplied by the office of Le Directeur général des
elections du Québec on July 3, 2008. I subsequently formatted the data with
various spreadsheet functions such as percentage of non-Francophone per riding,
etc. I list all 125 Quebec ridings in Appendix B -- Language Demographics for
all 125 Quebec Ridings.
The reader will note that Ungava, ranked 11 in terms of non-Francophone
percentage and Pontiac, ranked 21, are not included in Quebec West, despite the
fact that their non-Francophone percentages are higher than other ridings that
are included. This is because these ridings do not provide a contiguous
connection to the other ridings of Quebec West. Ridings that have relatively low
non-Francophone percentages are included for either of two reasons: (1) to
maintain the integrity of the Montreal area; or (2) because they provide a
contiguous connection to the Ontario border.
The population of Quebec West is approximately 34% of the total population of
Quebec.
As stated previously, the number of non-Francophones in Quebec West is
approximately 75% of all of Quebec’s non-Francophone.
The number of Francophones in Quebec West is approximately 24% of the total
number of Francophones in all of Quebec.
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