Results, Ridings & Candidates

Iberville

2008 Results

IBERVILLE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		187/187 polls
PQ	Marie Bouillé	11,698	41.26	Elected
LIB	André Riedl	9,075	32.01
ADQ	Lyne Denechaud	6,087	21.47
GRN	Guy Berger	882	3.11
QS	André Dupuis	612	2.16

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

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Riding profile: Iberville is a rural, south-shore riding that borders the U.S. It contains the following municipalities Ange-Gardien, Henryville, Marieville, Mont-St-Grégoire, Noyan, Rougemont, St-Alexandre, Ste-Angèle-de-Monnoir, Ste-Anne-de-Sabrevois, Ste-Brigide-d'Iberville, St-Césaire, St-Georges-de-Clarenceville, St-Paul-d'Abbotsford, St-Pie, St-Sébastien and Venise-en-Québec.

It also contains the part of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu east of the Richelieu River.

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

Riding history: Riding first existed in 1854 election. In 1992 redistribution, St-Jean-Baptiste polls moved to Borduas riding. In 2001 redistribution, kept 91 per cent of riding; nine per cent moved to Brome-Missisquoi.

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

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 56.28 per cent; No - 43.72 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 3.1 per cent French: 95.6 per cent Other: 1.4 per cent Source: 2001 Statistics Canada census

1973	Liberal Jacques R. Tremblay defeated Parti Créditiste Paul-Yvon Hamel. Parti Québécois's Marcel Pépin was third.
1976	Parti Québécois's Jacques Beauséjour defeated Union Nationale's Urbain Morin. Liberal Jacques Tremblay was third.
1981	Parti Québécois's Beauséjour defeated Liberal Jean Guite.
1985	Liberal Tremblay defeated Parti Québécois's Beauséjour.
1989	Liberal Yvon Lafrance defeated Parti Québécois's Gilles Leduc. He quit the Liberals on Feb. 9, 1994 and sat as an Independent, saying he was going to join the Action Démocratique du Québec. When he quit, he said Liberals had stifled all constitutional debate since the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord.
1994	Parti Québécois's Richard Le Hir defeated Liberal Lyse Lafrance-Charlebois. Minister responsible for Restructuring, Sept. 26, 1994 to Nov. 9, 1995. December 1995 was forced out of PQ caucus while auditor general investigated conflict of interest allegations over the awarding of contracts to study impact of separation. He was cleared and asked to return to caucus but said the premier never got back to him. On April 30, 1996, he said he was leaving PQ to sit as an Independent. He said the PQ had been taken over by hardliners and the premier's overtures to non-francophones were a "vulgar public relations exercise."
1998	Parti Québécois's Jean-Paul Bergeron defeated Liberal Sylvain Lapointe.
2003	Liberal Jean Rioux defeated Parti Québécois's Bergeron by 921 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's André Riedl defeated Parti Québécois's Marie Bouillé. Liberal Rioux finished third.

IBERVILLE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	190/190 polls
ADQ	André Riedl	14,395	42.27	Elected
PQ	Marie Bouillé	9,236	27.12
LIB	Jean Rioux	8,431	24.76
GRN	Alexandre Labbé	1,218	3.58
QS	Danielle Desmarais	777	2.28

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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