Cosmo Maciocia
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 | Cantalupo nel Sannio, Italy | February 2, 1942
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[]
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 .
Electoral record (incomplete)[]
hide1994 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. |
show1989 Quebec general election: Viger |
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Footnotes[]
- ^ "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Italian emigrants to Canada
- Montreal city councillors
- Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
- 21st-century Canadian politicians
- Liberal Party, Quebec MNA stubs