Results, Ridings & Candidates

Charlesbourg

2008 Results

CHARLESBOURG
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		234/234 polls
LIB	Michel Pigeon	14,196	42.35	Elected
ADQ	Catherine Morissette	9,814	29.28
PQ	Renaud Lapierre	8,449	25.20
QS	Martine Sanfaçon	1,063	3.17

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

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Riding profile: Charlesbourg contains the eastern part of Quebec City bounded as follows: Faune Street, Zoo Avenue, Notre-Dame Avenue, Saint-Aubert Street and its extension, Roches River and the boundary of Charlesbourg with the towns of Beauport and Quebec City.

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

Riding history: Riding first existed in 1973 election. Riding created in 1972 from parts of Chauveau and Montmorency. In 1992 redistribution, lost parts of four polls to and gained parts of three from Chauveau.

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1983 by-election, 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ 2003 - LIB 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 53.20 per cent; No - 46.80 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 1 per cent French: 97.5 per cent Other: 1.5 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal André Harvey, the incumbent from Chauveau in 1970, defeated Parti Québécois's Laval Grondines.
1976	Parti Québécois's Denis de Belleval defeated Liberal Harvey. Was vice-president of Treasury Board, 1976–78; appointed minister of public service, Nov. 16, 1976; minister of transport, Sept. 1979–81.
1981	Parti Québécois's de Belleval defeated Liberal Véronique Guimont-Barry. De Belleval did not return to cabinet after election. He resigned on Dec. 7, 1982, becoming vice-president at the engineering firm Lavalin.
1983 by-election, 1985, 1989	Liberal Marc-Yvan Côté defeated Parti Québécois's André Gingras. (Côté had been elected in Matane in 1973; defeated there in 1976). Côté was re-elected in 1985 and 1989. Appointed minister of transport and minister responsible for regional development, Dec. 12, 1985. Appointed minister of health and social services and minister responsible for electoral reform, October 1989; added portfolio of minister responsible for elderly, Oct. 5, 1990. Côté resigned in 1994.
1994	Parti Québécois's Jean Rochon defeated Liberal Robert Gingras. Appointed minister of health and social services, Sept. 26, 1994; added title of minister responsible for Quebec City region, Jan. 29, 1996.
1998	Parti Québécois's Rochon defeated Liberal Denis Roy by 33 votes. Dec. 15, 1998–March 8, 2001: served as minister responsible for research, science and technology; minister of state for labour, employment and social solidarity, March 8, 2001–Jan. 30, 2002. Appointed minister of state for human resources and labour, Jan. 30, 2002. Rochon announced on Jan. 26, 2003, that he wouldn't be running again.
2003	Liberal Éric Mercier defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Jonathan Julien.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Catherine Morissette defeated Liberal Mercier.

CHARLESBOURG
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	221/221 polls
ADQ	Catherine Morissette	17,200	43.24	Elected
LIB	Éric R. Mercier	10,862	27.30
PQ	Richard Marceau	9,835	24.72
GRN	Rama Borne MacDonald	1,038	2.61
QS	Réjean Dumais	847	2.13

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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