Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz is a former municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz has an area, as of 2009[update], of 15.2 square kilometers (5.9 sq mi).

[5] It consists of the villages of Saint-Légier and La Chiésaz along with a number of hamlets.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Cross bottony Vert fimbrated Or.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (3,377 or 83.0%) as their first language, with German being second most common (383 or 9.4%) and English being third (119 or 2.9%).

[13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 19.02% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,447 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 51.3%.

[9] There were 1,937 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.4% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 32, of which 24 were in agriculture and 7 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 394 or 37.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 49 or 4.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 31 or 3.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 23 or 2.2% were in the information industry, 4 or 0.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 64 or 6.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 69 or 6.6% were in education and 314 or 30.1% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 1,374 or 33.8% were Roman Catholic, while 1,769 or 43.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.