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Marc-Aurèle-Fortin

2008 Results

Marc-Aurèle-Fortin
Party Candidate Votes Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST 227/227 polls
BQ Serge Ménard 25,491 Elected
LIB Robert Frégeau 13,829
CON Claude Moreau 7,769
NDP Benoît Beauchamp 6,907
GRN Lise Bissonnette 2,171

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One of Quebec's newer ridings, this one is split by Rivière-des-Milles-Îles. East of the river, it contains the cities of Bois-des-Filion, Lorraine, Rosemère and Ste-Thérèse, which are part of the regional county municipality of Thérèse-De Blainville. West of the river it contains that part of Laval from Rivière-des-Milles-Îles east to the hydro transmission line and between Avenue Papineau, Rue Riopelle, Boulevard René-Laennec, hydro line 1156-57 and Boulevard des Laurentides in north and Autoroute des Laurentides in the south.

The 2006 census shows that retail trade, manufacturing and health and social services are major sources of employment. The average family income is $89,803 with an unemployment rate of 4.3 per cent.

Just over 84 per cent of residents cite French as a mother tongue, five per cent cite English and 2.2 per cent are Italian-speaking. The total immigrant population is 8.6 per cent. Twenty-three per cent of residents over age 25 have a university certificate or degree.

The riding of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin was created in the 2004 redistribution from 30 per cent of Laval Centre, 25 per cent of Terrebonne-Blainville, 21 per cent of Rivière-des-Milles-Îles and 10 per cent of Laval Est.

Population: 107,149 (2006 census; an increase of 8.2% since 2001)

Political History

Bloc Québécois incumbent Serge Menard was re-elected by a wide margin in 2006, easily outdistancing Conservative Claude Moreau by more than 15,000 votes.

This riding was new in 2004 when Ménard won more than twice the votes of Liberal Nancy Girard, the runner-up, to earn his first term as an MP.

In 2000, in Laval Centre, the BQ's Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral defeated Liberal Pierre Lafleur by 42 votes. It was her third term. In Terrebonne-Blainville in the 2000 election, BQ Diane Bourgeois defeated Liberal F.H. Liberge to win a first term. In Rivière-Des-Milles-Iles, BQ Gilles A. Perron defeated Liberal Robert Fragasso to win a second term.

Laval Centre was the riding held by Jeanne Sauvé in 1979 and in 1980. She was appointed Speaker in 1980, and served as governor general from 1984 to 1990. She was the first woman to hold these posts. In 1984, Liberal Raymond Garneau was elected and in 1988, Progressive Conservative Jacques Tétreault won.

  • 2004, 2006 - BQ