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Bourassa-Sauvé

2008 Results

BOURASSA-SAUVÉ
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		219/219 polls
LIB	Line Beauchamp	13,736	61.16	Elected
PQ	Roland Carrier	6,059	26.98
ADQ	Guy Mailloux	1,933	8.61
QS	Enrico Gambardella	732	3.26

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

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Riding profile: Bourassa-Sauvé contains that part of Montreal bounded by the Prairies River and Henri-Bourassa Boulevard on the east, Saint-Michel Boulevard to the south and CN railway tracks to the north and west.

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

Riding history: The riding of Bourassa-Sauvé was created in a 2001 redistribution from the entire Sauvé riding and 57 per cent of Bourassa riding (18,541 electors). The remaining 43 per cent of Bourassa is now in Crémazie riding. Sauvé is the northern part of present Bourassa-Sauvé (32,548 electors).

Political history: 2003, 2007 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 56.67 per cent; Yes - 43.33 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 4.7 per cent French: 63.6 per cent Other: 31.8 per cent (12.17 per cent Italian; 7.84 per cent Creole) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Bourassa

1970	Liberal Georges-Émery Tremblay won in 1966 and 1970. Appointed minister of Transport, 1970. He was later named president, Office of Quebec Highways, and seat became vacant Sept. 19, 1973.
1973	Liberal Lise Bacon defeated Parti Québécois's Yves Michaud by 3,889 votes. Appointed minister of State Social Affairs; minister for Consumers, Co-Ops And Financial Institutions; minister of Immigration.
1976	Parti Québécois's Patrice Laplante defeated Liberal Bacon.
1981	Parti Québécois's Laplante defeated Liberal Augustin Roy by 923 votes.
1985, 1989	Liberal Louise Robic won in 1985 and 1989. Appointed minister of Cultural Communities And Immigration; associate minister of Health And Social Services; associate minister of Finance.
1994	Liberal Yvon Charbonneau defeated Parti Québécois's Pierre Seguin. Charbonneau resigned in 1997 to run federally.
1997 by-election, 1998	Liberal Michèle Lamquin-Ethier defeated Parti Québécois's Claudel Toussaint in both elections.

Sauvé

1973, 1976, 1981	Parti Québécois's Jacques-Yvan Morin won in 1973 1976, 1981. Served as minister of Education, deputy premier, minister of State for Cultural and Scientific Development, minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. After he was told Intergovernmental Affairs would be divided between two other ministers, Morin resigned on March 5, 1984.
1984 by-election, 1985, 1989, 1994	Liberal Marcel Parent defeated Parti Québécois candidates in these four consecutive elections.
1998	Liberal Line Beauchamp defeated Parti Québécois's Umberto Di-Genova by 6,712 votes.

Bourassa-Sauvé

2003	Liberal Beauchamp defeated Parti Québécois's Kettly Beauregard by 11,098 votes.
2007	Liberal Beauchamp defeated Parti Québécois's Roland Carrier. Appointed minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks.

BOURASSA-SAUVÉ
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	221/221 polls
LIB	Line Beauchamp	15,730	50.03	Elected
PQ	Roland Carrier	7,140	22.71
ADQ	Guy Mailloux	6,430	20.45
QS	Marie-Noëlle Doucet-Paquin	1,083	3.44
GRN	Marie-Ange Germain	895	2.85
IND	Charles-Antoine Gabriel	161	0.51

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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