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Jacques-Cartier

2008 Results

JACQUES-CARTIER
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		214/214 polls
LIB	Geoffrey Kelley	20,428	80.71	Elected
GRN	Ryan Young	1,895	7.49
PQ	Olivier Gendreau	1,555	6.14
ADQ	Marie-Hélène Trudel	980	3.87
QS	Marianne Breton Fontaine	364	1.44
ML	Marsha Fine	87	0.34

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

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Riding profile: Jacques-Cartier is located in the southwest part of Montreal island and contains the following municipalities: Baie-d'Urfé, Beaconsfield, Pointe-Claire and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. It also contains the part of Montreal corresponding to the parts of the town of Kirkland situated to the southeast of a dividing line made up of the Félix-Leclerc Highway (40), Ste-Marie Street, St-Charles Boulevard and Hymus Boulevard.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1855 election. In redistribution before 1989 election, it kept 75.98 per cent of the original Jacques-Cartier and added 28.45 per cent of Nelligan.

In 2001 redistribution, it kept 72 per cent of the previous riding; added 20 per cent of Nelligan; and lost 28 per cent to Marquette. Lost the eastern part of the riding that includes Dorval and l'Île-Dorval (13,849 electors) to Marquette. Gained from Nelligan Baie-d Urfé, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and parts of the town of Kirkland bounded as follows: Félix-Leclerc Highway (40), Ste-Marie Street and border of Kirkland and Beaconsfield, as well as the area bounded by Ste-Marie Street, St-Charles Boulevard, Hymus Boulevard and the border of Kirkland with Pointe-Claire and Beaconsfield (12,388 electors).

Political history: 1939-1985 inclusive - LIB 1989 - Equality Party Since 1994 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 91.02 per cent; Yes - 8.98 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 55.3 per cent French: 27 per cent Other: 17.6 per cent (3.80 per cent Italian) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1960–1976	Liberal Noël St-Germain won in 1966, 1970, 1973 and 1976.
1981, 1985	Liberal Joan Dougherty defeated Parti Québécois's Don Waye in 1981 and 1985.
1989	Equality Party's Neil Cameron defeated Liberal Dougherty by 802 votes.
1994	Liberal Geoff Kelley defeated Parti Québécois's Maurice Crépeau. Equality Party's Cameron was third.
1998	Liberal Kelley defeated Parti Québécois's Guy Amyot.
2003	Liberal Kelley defeated Parti Québécois's Amyot.
2007	Liberal Kelley defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Walter Rulli by 18,508 votes.

JACQUES-CARTIER
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	209/209 polls
LIB	Geoffrey Kelley	22,381	70.12	Elected
ADQ	Walter Rulli	3,973	12.45
GRN	Ryan Young	3,545	11.11
PQ	Sophia Caporicci	1,352	4.24
QS	Jill Hanley	501	1.57
IND	Andy Srougi	166	0.52

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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