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Terrebonne - Blainville

2008 Results

Terrebonne-Blainville
Party Candidate Votes Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST 216/216 polls
BQ Diane Bourgeois 28,302 Elected
LIB Eva Nassif 8,937
CON Daniel Lebel 7,572
NDP Michel Le Clair 7,257
GRN Martin Drapeau 1,714
IND M. Cadieux 283

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This is a suburban riding on the shore of Rivière-des-Milles-Îles across from Laval. The riding contains parts of the regional county municipalities of Thérèse-de Blainville and Les Moulins. The cities of Blainville and Ste-Anne-des-Plaines and the former city of Terrebonne fall in the riding. Many residents work outside the riding in Montreal.

Manufacturing, retail trade and the service sector are the major industries in this riding. The average family income is $83,940 and unemployment is 4.4 per cent.

According to the 2006 census, 92 per cent of the population speak French as their first language, while 2.4 per cent speak English. The total immigrant population is 4.5 per cent. Only eight per cent of the population is older than 65.

The riding of Terrebonne-Blainville was created in the 1996 redistribution from 30 per cent of Terrebonne, 29 per cent of Blainville-Deux-Montagnes and nine per cent of Joliette. In 2004, 75 per cent of the riding was retained.

Population: 107,694 (2006 census; an increase of 16.9% since 2001)

Political History

The Bloc Québécois kept a strong hold on the riding in 2006 as Diane Bourgeois defeated Conservative Daniel Lebel to win her third term.

In the 2004 race, Bourgeois beat Liberal Pierre Gingras with 68 per cent of the vote. The BQ's Paul Mercier won in 1993 in Blainville-Deux Montagnes and in 1997 in Terrebonne-Blainville.

In Terrebonne, Liberal Joseph Roland Comtois was MP from 1968-1976, when he resigned to run in the Quebec election and lost. He came back and won the 1977 byelection and a further two terms in 1979 and 1980. In 1984, Progressive Conservative Robert Toupin defeated him. In 1986, Toupin left the PC caucus to sit as an Independent, briefly joined the New Democratic Party of Canada, then sat again as an Independent in 1987. In 1988, PC Jean-March Robitaille was elected, followed by the BQ's Benoît Sauvageau in 1993. In Blainville-Deux Montagnes, Liberal Francis Fox, formerly MP in Argenteuil-Deux Montagnes, won in 1979 and 1980. In 1984, PC Monique Landry defeated Fox. She was re-elected in 1988 and 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.

  • 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006 - BQ