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Chambly - Borduas

2008 Results

Chambly-Borduas
Party Candidate Votes Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST 216/216 polls
BQ Yves Lessard 31,641 Elected
LIB Gabriel Arsenault 10,649
CON Suzanne Chartrand 9,564
NDP Serge Gélinas 9,007
GRN Olivier Adam 2,456

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This largely suburban riding is located southeast of Montreal. It includes the cities of Marieville and Richelieu, the municipality of St-Mathias-sur-Richelieu and part of the regional municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu. The riding also contains Beleoil, Chambly, Carignan, St-Basile-le-Grand, Otterburn Park and Mont-St-Hilaire.

Manufacturing and retail are both vital to the riding's economy.

Only four per cent of residents cited English as their mother tongue in the 2006 census. The total immigrant population is under four per cent. The average family income is $83,570 and unemployment is 4.5 per cent.

In the 2004 redistribution, this riding was renamed Chambly-Borduas. The riding of Chambly-Rouville was established in 1933 and renamed Chambly in 1966. In 1996, parts of Shefford, St-Hyacinthe-Bagot and Verchères riding were added.

Population: 116,925 (2006 census; an increase of 11.4% since 2001)

Political History

The Bloc Québécois has held this riding since 1993. Yves Lassard won decisively in 2006 with almost 55 per cent of the vote. He first won the riding in 2004, with about 60 per cent of the vote.

In 2000, the Bloc's Ghislain Lebel defeated Liberal Denis Caron by 8,684 votes. Lebel was first elected in 1993. In 2002, he became an Independent after he criticized the deal between the PQ government and the northern Innu and said he wouldn't accept the terms under which Duceppe would allow him to return to the BQ caucus.

This riding voted Liberal from 1933 to 1980 inclusive, except for the 1958 Diefenbaker sweep. Liberal Raymond Dupont was elected MP in 1979 and 1980. In 1984, PC Richard Grise defeated him and went on to win again in 1988. Grise resigned his seat in 1989 after being sentenced to one day in jail and fined $20,000 for fraud and breach of trust.

In the 1990 byelection, New Democrat Phil Edmonston defeated Liberal Clifford Lincoln by 19,998 votes, becoming the first New Democrat to be elected in Quebec. He had come second, behind Grise, in 1988. Edmonston is author of the Lemon-Aid new and used car guides.

  • 1968-80 inclusive - LIB
  • 1984, 1988 - PC
  • 1990 byelection - NDP
  • 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006 - BQ