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Deux-Montagnes

2008 Results

DEUX-MONTAGNES
Party Candidate Votes Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST 198/198 polls
PQ Benoit Charette 11,932 Elected
LIB Marie-France Daoust 8,979
ADQ Lucie Leblanc 4,983
GRN Guy Rainville 1,168
QS Julien Demers 632

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

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Located on the north-east shore of Deux-Montagnes Lake, west of Montreal, Deux-Montagnes riding contains the towns of Deux-Montagnes and Saint-Eustache. Kanesatake is also in the riding.

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

Riding history: Riding created in 1853. No change in 1988 and 1992 redistributions.

In 2001 redistribution, kept 71 per cent of riding; 29 per cent moved to new Mirabel riding.

Political history: 1960-1973 inclusive - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998, 2003 - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 57.32 per cent; No - 42.68 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 8.3 per cent French: 89.7 per cent Other: 2 per cent Source: 2001 Statistics Canada census

1970, 1973

Liberal Jean-Paul L'Allier won in 1970 and 1973. Appointed minister of communications, 1970; minister of civil service, 1970-72; 1970-76 , responsible for office of Franco-Québécois pour la Jeunesse. Minister of communications, 1973; minister of cultural affairs, 1975-76.

1976

Parti Québécois's Pierre de Bellefeuille defeated Liberal L'Allier.

1981

Parti Québécois's de Bellefeuille defeated Liberal Yvon Belair. Left PQ caucus to sit as an Independent on Nov. 20, 1984, one of several to leave after René Lévesque stated that sovereignty should not be an issue in the next campaign.

1985

Liberal Yolande Legault defeated Parti Québécois's Yves Lauzon. Pierre de Bellefeuille, running for the Parti Indépendantiste, was third with 2,274 votes.

1989

Liberal Jean-Guy Bergeron defeated Parti Québécois's Hélène Robert by 515 votes. Bergeron had been the riding's Union Nationale candidate in 1966, 1970.

1994

Parti Québécois's Robert defeated Liberal Francine Labelle.

1998

Parti Québécois's Robert defeated Liberal Robert Fragasso.

2003

Parti Québécois's Robert defeated Liberal Marc Lauzon.

2007

Action Démocratique du Québec's Lucie Leblanc defeated Parti Québécois's Daniel Goyer.