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Saint-Hyacinthe - Bagot

2008 Results

Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot
Party Candidate Votes Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST 238/238 polls
BQ Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac 22,719 Elected
CON René Vincelette 10,203
NDP Brigitte Sansoucy 6,721
LIB Denise Tremblay 6,638
GRN Jacques Tétreault 1,771

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This riding is east of the St. Lawrence River in southern Quebec. It consists of the regional county municipalities of Acton and Les Maskoutains. The main centres are St-Hyacinthe, Acton Vale and Ste-Rosalie.

Manufacturing is the main industry, followed by retail trade, health and social services, and some agriculture. The average family income is $62,800 and unemployment is 5.8 per cent.

According to the 2006 census, 97 per cent of the population cited French as a mother tongue, while less than one per cent was anglophone. The total immigrant population is less than three per cent.

This riding was St-Hyacinthe from 1867 to 1911, St-Hyacinthe-Rouville from 1914 to 1933, St-Hyacinthe-Bagot from 1933 to 1966 and St-Hyacinthe from 1966 to 1981. In 1981, the name changed to St-Hyacinthe-Bagot. The 1996 redistribution kept 97 per cent of the riding and added five per cent of Shefford.

Population: 95,983 (2006 census; an increase of 2% since 2001)

Political History

The Bloc Québécois held onto this riding in a September, 2007 byelection but with a new candidate. Ève-Mary Thai Thi Lac ran for the BQ after MP Yvan Loubier resigned to run — unsuccessfully, as it turned out — for the Parti Québécois in the 2007 Quebec provincial election.

Loubier and the Bloc Québécois had held this riding since 1993. In 2006, Loubier beat Conservative Huguette Guilhaumon by more than 15,000 votes to win his fifth term. In 2004, he defeated his closest challenger by more than 19,000 votes.

Prior to that, Andrée Champagne of the Progressive Conservative party served for two terms. Marcel Ostiguy of the Liberal party was elected in a byelection in 1978 after the resignation of Conservative MP Claude Wagner, who was first elected federally in 1972.

Wagner had served earlier as a Liberal MNA and served as Quebec's attorney general and minister of justice. Wagner ran for the provincial Liberal leadership and lost to Robert Bourassa in 1970. In 1976, he ran for the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservatives, but lost to Joe Clark by 65 votes. Wagner was appointed to the Senate in 1978, but died a year later at 54.

Ostiguy served as MP until he was ousted by Champagne in 1984. Conservative J.-H.-Théogène Ricard served as MP for the riding from 1957 until 1972.

  • 1935-1953 inclusive - LIB
  • 1957-1974 inclusive - PC
  • 1978 byelection, 1979, 1980 - LIB
  • 1984, 1988 - PC
  • 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006 - BQ
  • 2007 byelection - BQ