Results, Ridings and Candidates
Saint-Jean
2008 Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote Share (%) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST | 234/234 polls | |||
| BQ | Claude Bachand | 26,506 | 49.61 |
Elected |
| LIB | Claire Ste-Marie | 9,430 | 17.65 |
|
| CON | Marie-Josée Mercier | 9,281 | 17.37 |
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| NDP | Philippe Refghi | 5,529 | 10.35 |
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| GRN | Pierre Tremblay | 2,160 | 4.04 |
|
| IND | Guy Berger | 520 | 0.97 |
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This is a mixed urban and rural riding containing part of the regional county municipality of Le Haut-Richelieu and reaching south to the U.S. border. The major centres are St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, St-Luc and Iberville. CFB St-Jean is in this riding as well as a key customs office.
Manufacturing is the main industry, followed by retail trade and health and social services. The average family income is $69,442 and the unemployment rate is 4.8 per cent.
More than 94 per cent of residents cited French as their mother tongue in the 2006 census, while less than three per cent cited English. Only three per cent are immigrants.
The riding of St-Jean existed from 1867 to 1892. It was re-established in 1966 from St-Jean-Iberville-Napierville and Châteauguay-Huntingdon-Laprairie. The 1996 redistribution kept 94 per cent of the riding.
Population: 102,902 (2006 census; an increase of 8.2% since 2001)
Political History
Bloc Québécois MP Claude Bachand won a fifth term in 2006, easily defeating Conservative Francis Levesque.
Bachand captured 60 per cent of the vote in 2004, beating Liberal Michel Fecteau.
Liberal François Bourassa won in St-Jean from 1867 to 1891 inclusive and St-Jean-Iberville-Napierville was Liberal from 1896 up to the 1965 election. Progressive Conservative Paul Beaulieu won in 1965. Liberal Walter Smith won three terms starting in 1968, followed by another Liberal, Paul-André Masse, who won in 1979 and 1980.
PC André Bissonnette won in 1984, but resigned from his cabinet post as minister of state for transport in 1987 for alleged land flips in Quebec. In 1988, he was found not guilty of fraud, conspiracy and breach of trust. PC Clement Couture won in 1988, but was defeated in 1993.
- 1968-80 inclusive - LIB
- 1984, 1988 - PC
- 1993, 1997, 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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