The district included the City of Westmount as well as Old Montreal and the southwestern part of Downtown Montreal in the Borough of Ville-Marie, the western part of The Plateau in the Borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal and the part of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce east of Hingston Avenue in the Borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in the City of Montreal.

Much of their support was concentrated in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, where they won a handful of polls.

In the 2011 election, the NDP surge held the Liberals to a tight margin of victory of 642 votes.

The electoral district was created in 1996 from parts of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Saint-Henri—Westmount ridings.

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament: Note: Change is from 2000 redistributed results.