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Beauce-Sud

2008 Results

BEAUCE-SUD
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		205/205 polls
LIB	Robert Dutil	12,138	43.37	Elected
ADQ	Claude Morin	11,499	41.09
PQ	André Côté	2,959	10.57
GRN	Francis Cossette	749	2.68
IND	Léo Doyon	332	1.19
QS	Anne-Marie Provost	307	1.10

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

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Riding profile: Beauce-Sud is a rural riding that borders the United States. It contains the following municipalities: Courcelles, Lac-Poulin, La Guadeloupe, Notre-Dame-des-Pins, Ste-Aurélie, St-Benjamin, St-Benoît-Labre, Ste-Clotilde-de-Beauce, St-Côme-Linière, St-Éphrem-de-Beauce, St-Évariste-de-Forsyth, St-Gédéon, St-Gédéon-de-Beauce, St-Georges, St-Hilaire-de-Dorset, St-Honoré-de-Shenley, St-Ludger, St-Martin, St-Philibert, St-Prosper, St-René, St-Robert-Bellarmin, St-Simon-les-Mines, St-Théophile and St-Zacharie.

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

Riding history: Riding first existed in 1973 election and was created from parts of Beauce, Dorchester, Frontenac and Mégantic ridings.

In redistribution before 1989 election, lost small part of riding to Beauce-Nord.

Political history: 1973 - Parti Créditiste 1976 - Parti Nationale Populaire 1979-2003 inclusive - LIB 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 57.54 per cent; Yes - 42.46 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.6 per cent French: 99.3 per cent Other: 0.1 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Parti Créditiste candidate Fabien Roy defeated Liberal Paul-H. Lacasse by 895 votes. Roy served as leader of Parti Créditiste from 1973-1974. Expelled from party Nov. 3, 1975. Founded Parti National Populaire, with Jérôme Choquette.
1976	Roy, now with the Parti National Populaire, defeated Liberal Guy Lebel. Roy resigned seat on April 5, 1979. Liberal Hermann Mathieu was elected in byelection held on Nov. 14, 1979.
1981, 1985 and 1989	Liberal Mathieu defeated Parti Québécois's Bernard Mathieu by 97 votes. Liberal Robert Dutil won in 1985 and 1989. Served as minister responsible for fisheries; minister responsible for health and social services; minister responsible for family, health and social services; minister of communications and minister of supply and services.
1994	Liberal Paul-Eugene Quirion defeated Parti Québécois's Paul-Andre Busque by 164 votes. After the death of Quirion, a by-election was called for April 28, 1997.
April 28, 1997, by-election	Liberal Diane Leblanc defeated Parti Québécois's Richard Busque.
2003	Liberal Leblanc defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Claude Lemieux by 1,308 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Claude Morin defeated Liberal Leblanc.

BEAUCE-SUD
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	195/195 polls
ADQ	Claude Morin	19,371	56.82	Elected
LIB	Diane Leblanc	10,301	30.22
PQ	André Côté	3,582	10.51
QS	Marie-Claude Bisson	835	2.45

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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