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Cosmo Maciocia

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Cosmo Maciocia
Borough mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles and Montreal City Counciller
In office
2005–2009
Succeeded byJoe Magri
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Viger
In office
1981–2001
Preceded byDistrict was established in 1980
Succeeded byAnna Mancuso
Personal details
Born (1942-02-02) February 2, 1942 (age 82)
Cantalupo nel Sannio, Italy
Political partyLiberal
Union Montréal
ChildrenAlessia

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

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He was born in Cantalupo nel Sannio, Molise, Italy, on February 2, 1942, and arrived in Canada in 1964.

City councillor in Saint-Léonard

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He was a city councillor in Saint-Léonard in 1978.

Member of the legislature

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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

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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)

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1994 Quebec general election: Viger
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

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  1. ^ "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.