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Beauce-Nord

2008 Results

BEAUCE-NORD
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		170/170 polls
ADQ	Janvier Grondin	12,633	49.93	Elected
LIB	Richard Lehoux	9,612	37.99
PQ	Mireille Mercier-Roy	2,297	9.08
GRN	Francis Paré	381	1.51
QS	Emilie Guimond-Bélanger	264	1.04
IND	Benoît Roy	116	0.46

All results are unofficial until final ballot counts are verified by Elections Quebec.

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Riding profile: Beauce-Nord, a rural riding located south of Quebec City, contains the following municipalities: Beauceville, Frampton, St-Alfred, Sts-Anges, St-Bernard, St-Elzéar, St-Frédéric, Ste-Hénédine, St-Isidore, St-Joseph-de-Beauce, St-Joseph-des-érables, St-Jules, St-Lambert-de-Lauzon, Ste-Marguerite, Ste-Marie, St-Odilon-de-Cranbourne, St-Séverin, St-Victor, Scott, Tring-Jonction and Vallée-Jonction.

Riding map: From Elections Quebec: Beauce-Nord (PDF) (Acrobat Reader required - download free Acrobat Reader.)

Riding history: Riding first existed in 1973 election. It was created from parts of Beauce, Dorchester and Lévis ridings in 1972.

In redistribution before 1989 election, some of the old riding was lost to Chutes-de-la-Chaudière and Lévis ridings.

In 2001 redistribution, Beauce-Nord kept all of the existing riding and added six per cent of Chutes-de-la-Chaudière; it gained Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon parish (3,501 electors) from the southern part of Chutes-de-la-Chaudière riding.

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989, 1994, 1998 - LIB 2003, 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 55.37 per cent; Yes - 44.63 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.5 per cent French: 99.5 per cent Other: 0.2 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	In new riding of Beauce-Nord, Liberal Denis Sylvain defeated Parti Québécois's Adrien Ouelette.
1976	Parti Québécois's Ouelette defeated Liberal Denis Sylvain by 412 votes.
1981	Parti Québécois's Ouelette defeated Liberal Paul-Emile Deschênes. Ouellette appointed environment minister in September 1982.
1985	Liberal Jean Audet defeated Parti Québécois's Ouellette.
1989	Liberal Audet defeated Parti Québécois's Hugues Labbe.
1994	Liberal Normand Poulin defeated Parti Québécois's Benoit L'Heureux by 61 votes.
1998	Liberal Poulin defeated Parti Québécois's Gaston Gourde.
2003	Action Démocratique du Québec's Janvier Grondin defeated Liberal Poulin.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Grondin defeated Liberal Claude Drouin.

BEAUCE-NORD
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	157/157 polls
ADQ	Janvier Grondin	19,127	62.62	Elected
LIB	Claude Drouin	8,056	26.38
PQ	Denis Couture	2,392	7.83
GRN	Jérémie Vachon	525	1.72
QS	Christian Dubois	361	1.18
IND	Benoît Roy	83	0.27

Overall Results

Overall Election Results
Party	Elected	Leading	Total	Vote Share (%)
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008, 1:11 AM EST
LIB	66	0	66	42.06
PQ	51	0	51	35.15
ADQ	7	0	7	16.35
QS	1	0	1	3.80
GRN	0	0	0	2.19
OTH	0	0	0	0.45

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