Resigning MP Boulerice’s Montreal riding expected to be a Bloc-Liberal contest, say strategists

Unless New Democrats can find a 'superstar candidate,' then they have 'zero chance' of holding the riding once five-time MP Alexandre Boulerice steps down, says Liberal strategist Jonathan Kalles.

Five-term former NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice announced he would be leaving federal politics to run provincially as a Québec Solidaire candidate on April 27.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ELEANOR WAND

April 27, 2026

Now-former NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice’s coming departure from federal politics has the Bloc Québécois hungry to snatch up the MP’s longtime safe New Democrat seat in central Montreal, say strategists.

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