Results, Ridings & Candidates

Bertrand

2008 Results

BERTRAND
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		228/228 polls
PQ	Claude Cousineau	14,970	49.02	Elected
LIB	Isabelle Lord	10,424	34.13
ADQ	Diane Bellemare	3,463	11.34
QS	Mylène Jaccoud	843	2.76
GRN	Michelle L. Déry	839	2.75

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

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Riding profile: Bertrand is located in the Laurentians and contains the following municipalities: Chertsey, Entrelacs, Estérel, Ivry-sur-le-Lac, Lantier, Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci, Piedmond, Prévost, Sainte-Adèle, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Sainte-Agathe-Nord, Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs, Saint-Donat, Saint-Hippolyte, Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides, Sainte-Marguerite Estérel, Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, Val-David, Val-des-Lacs and Val-Morin.

It also includes the First Nations reserve of Doncaster.

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

Riding history:After the 1992 redistribution, none of the old riding remained. No comparisons should be made between old Bertrand and new Bertrand, as it is no longer a South Shore riding. The majority of the original Bertrand is now in the new riding called Marguerite-D'Youville.

The current incarnation of Bertrand was created from parts of Rousseau, Prévost and Labelle ridings in 1992.

In 2001 redistribution: Kept all existing riding and added 0.7 per cent of Rousseau and 0.3 per cent of Prévost Gained from Prévost, in southwest corner the part of the Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs parish in Prévost (164 electors) Gained Chertsey municipality in the south from the northern part of Rousseau (309 electors)

Political history: 1994, 1997 by-election - LIB 1998, 2003, 2007 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 53.77 per cent; No - 46.23 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 5.9 per cent French: 92.1 per cent Other: 2 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Rousseau

1981, 1985	Parti Québécois's René Blouin won in 1981; defeated by Liberal Robert Thérien in 1985.
1989	Liberal Thérien defeated Parti Québécois's Murielle Angers-Turpin.

Labelle

1981	Parti Québécois's Jacques Leonard defeated Liberal Damien Hetu.
1985	Liberal Hetu defeated Parti Québécois's Yvon Cormier.

Prévost

1979	Parti Québécois's Jean-Guy Cardinal won in 1976. After his death, Liberal Solange Chaput-Rolland was elected in a by-election on Nov. 14, 1979.
1981	Parti Québécois's Robert Dean defeated Chaput-Rolland in 1981.
1985, 1989	Liberal Paul-André Forget defeated Parti Québécois's Dean in 1985. Forget won again in 1989.

Bertrand

1994	Liberal Robert Thérien defeated Parti Québécois's Monique Simard by 146 votes. The results in this riding were contested. Simard said Liberals with primary residences in Montreal voted here because their votes were needed more than in Montreal. Thérein tried unsuccessfully to get the case stopped and he appealed each decision against him. On Feb. 21, 1996, he was found guilty of having voted illegally and inciting others to do so. The election was declared void. The decision was upheld on appeal.
Byelection Oct. 6, 1997	Liberal Denis Chalifoux defeated Parti Québécois's Bernard Grenier by 2,753 votes.
1998	Parti Québécois's Claude Cousineau defeated Liberal Chalifoux by 743 votes.
2003	Parti Québécois's Cousineau defeated Liberal Michelle Montpetit.
2007	Parti Québécois's Cousineau defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Sylvain Charron.

BERTRAND
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	228/228 polls
PQ	Claude Cousineau	13,672	37.01	Elected
ADQ	Sylvain Charron	11,188	30.29
LIB	Daniel Desjardins	9,092	24.61
GRN	Richard Savignac	1,762	4.77
QS	Jocelyne Lavoie	1,226	3.32

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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