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Cosmo Maciocia | |
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| Borough mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles and Montreal City Counciller | |
| In office 2005–2009 | |
| Succeeded by | Joe Magri |
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Viger | |
| In office 1981–2001 | |
| Preceded by | District was established in 1980 |
| Succeeded by | Anna Mancuso |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 2, 1942 Cantalupo nel Sannio, Italy |
| Political party | Liberal Union Montréal |
| Children | Alessia |
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.[1]
Background
[edit]He was born in Cantalupo nel Sannio, Molise, Italy, on February 2, 1942, and arrived in Canada in 1964.
City councillor in Saint-Léonard
[edit]He was a city councillor in Saint-Léonard in 1978.
Member of the legislature
[edit]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
[edit]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)
[edit]| 1994 Quebec general election: Viger | ||||||||
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| 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 | 29,165 | 10.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 527 | 2.32 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 29,692 | 84.12 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 35,299 | – | – | |||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| 1989 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 | 27,741 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 690 | |||||||
| Turnout | 28,431 | 76.27 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 37,275 | |||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
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