Results, Ridings and Candidates
Rivière-des-Mille-Îles
2008 Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote Share (%) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST | 245/245 polls | |||
| BQ | Luc Desnoyers | 23,216 | 45.68 |
Elected |
| CON | Claude Carignan | 9,911 | 19.50 |
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| LIB | Denis Joannette | 8,823 | 17.36 |
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| NDP | Normand Beaudet | 6,741 | 13.26 |
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| GRN | Marie Bédard | 2,134 | 4.20 |
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This urban riding is located on the shore of Rivière-des-Milles-Îles across from Laval. It contains that part of the regional county municipality of Deux-Montagnes comprised of the cities of Deux-Montagnes, St-Eustache and Ste-Marthe-sur-le-Lac and that part of Thérèse-de Blainville comprised of the city of Boisbriand.
Manufacturing is the most important industry in this riding, followed by retail trade and the service sector. The average family income is $76,281 and unemployment is 4.7 per cent.
Almost 88 per cent of the population cited French as their mother tongue in the 2006 census, while six per cent cited English. Less than five per cent of the residents are immigrants.
In 2004, 79 per cent of the riding was retained. The riding of Blainville-Deux Montagnes was created in the 1976 redistribution from 57 per cent of Terrebonne and 43 per cent of Argenteuil-Deux Montagnes. In 1996, the riding became St-Eustache-Ste-Thérèse and kept 71 per cent of Blainville-Deux Montagnes. The riding name was changed to Rivière-des-Mille-Îes in 1998.
Population: 97,258 (2006 census; an increase of 4.6% since 2001)
Political History
Bloc Québécois MP Gilles A. Perron trounced all comers once again in the 2006 election. Perron took 63 per cent of the vote, taking well over twice as many votes as the next-closest candidate.
In 2004, Perron won his third term with 61 per cent of the vote.
The former Terrebone riding had been Liberal since 1921, except for one PC win in 1958.
Liberal Francis Fox won in Argenteuil-Deux Montagnes in 1972 and 1974. Pierre Trudeau appointed him as solicitor general in 1976, but Fox resigned from that post in 1978. Fox won in Blainville-Deux Montagnes in 1979 and 1980, but was defeated in 1984. In recent years a lobbyist, he became Paul Martin's principal secretary in 2003.
PC Monique Landry won in Blainville-Deux Montagnes in 1984 and 1988. She was appointed minister for external relations and international development in 1986, minister of state for Indian and northern affairs in 1991, and secretary of state and minister of communications in 1993. The BQ's Paul Mercier was elected in Blainville-Deux Montagnes in 1993 and re-elected in 1997 in Terrebonne-Blainville.
Blainville-Deux Montagnes:
- 1979, 1980 - LIB
- 1984, 1988 - PC
- 1993 - BQ
St-Eustache-Ste-Thérèse:
- 1997 - BQ
Rivière-des-Milles-Îles:
- 2000, 2004, 2006 - BQ
Overall Results
| Party | Elected | Leading | Total | Vote Share (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Updated: Nov. 7, 2008, 5:00 PM EST | ||||
| CON | 143 | 0 | 143 | 37.63 |
| LIB | 77 | 0 | 77 | 26.24 |
| BQ | 49 | 0 | 49 | 9.97 |
| NDP | 37 | 0 | 37 | 18.20 |
| IND | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.65 |
| GRN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.80 |
| OTH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.51 |
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