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Beauharnois

2008 Results

BEAUHARNOIS
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		205/205 polls
PQ	Guy Leclair	12,349	47.15	Elected
LIB	Louis-Charles Roy	8,811	33.64
ADQ	Michael Betts	3,311	12.64
QS	Maxime Larue Bourdages	681	2.60
GRN	Stéphanie Théorêt	570	2.18
IND	Christian Grenon	467	1.78

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

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Riding profile: Bordered by the United States and Ontario, Beauharnois contains the following municipalities: Beauharnois, Grande-Île, St-Étienne-de-Beauharnois, St-Louis-de-Gonzague, St-Stanislas-de-Kostka, St-Timothée and Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.

The riding also includes the Quebec portion of the Akwesasne First Nations reserve.

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

Riding history: In 2001 redistribution: Beauharnois-Huntingdon riding split into Beauharnois and Huntingdon ridings. Only Beauharnois itself and St-Etienne-de-Beauharnois remained. The riding of Beauharnois was created in the 2001 redistribution from 67 per cent of Salaberry-Soulanges and five per cent of Châteauguay.

From Salaberry-Soulanges, 13 per cent of Beauharnois-Huntingdon and five per cent of Châteauguay: from Salaberry-Soulanges, the area east of the St. Lawrence River, Grande-Île, Melocheville, St-Timothée, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and the parishes of St-Louis-de-Gonzague and St-Stanislas-de-Kostka (34,365 electors).

From Beauharnois-Huntingdon: Beauharnois and St-Étienne-de-Beauharnois (5,465 electors); from southwest corner of Châteauguay: Maple Grove (2,042 electors).

Political history: Beauharnois: 1962-1973 inclusive - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985 - LIB 2003, 2007 - PQ

Beauharnois-Huntingdon: 1989, 1994, 1998 - LIB

Salaberry-Soulanges: 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 46.28 per cent; No - 53.72 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 3.0 per cent French: 96.2 per cent Other: 0.8 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Beauharnois

1981	Parti Québécois's Laurent Lavigne won in 1976 and 1981.
1985	Liberal Serge Marcil won in 1985.
2003	Parti Québécois's Serge Deslières defeated Liberal Mario Faubert by 639 votes.
2007	Parti Québécois's Deslières defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Michael Betts.

Salaberry-Soulanges

*1989*	Liberal Serge Marcil, incumbent from Beauharnois, defeated Parti Québécois's Jean Rivest. Appointed minister of employment, Jan. 11, 1994.
1994	Parti Québécois's Serge Deslières defeated Liberal Marcil by 1,009 votes.
1998	Parti Québécois's Deslières defeated Liberal Marie-Andrée McSween.

BEAUHARNOIS
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	189/189 polls
PQ	Serge Deslières	12,967	41.08	Elected
ADQ	Michael Betts	9,262	29.34
LIB	Jean-Guy Hudon	7,679	24.32
GRN	Éric Desormeaux	1,061	3.36
QS	Normand Perry	600	1.90

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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