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Jeanne-Mance-Viger

2008 Results

JEANNE-MANCE-VIGER
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		201/201 polls
LIB	Filomena Rotiroti	16,303	72.84	Elected
PQ	Christine Normandin	3,379	15.10
ADQ	Luigi Verrelli	1,736	7.76
QS	Céline Giguère	554	2.48
IND	Katia Proulx	284	1.27
ML	Garnet Colly	125	0.56

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

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Riding profile: Jeanne-Mance-Viger contains the borough of Saint-Léonard in the north part of Montreal.

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

Riding history: Riding created in 2001 redistribution from 87 per cent of Jeanne-Mance and 48 per cent Viger.

Political history: Jeanne-Mance 1962-1973 inclusive - LIB 1976 - PQ 1981-1998 inclusive - LIB

Jeanne-Mance Viger 2003, 2007 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum (Jeanne-Mance riding): No - 75.31 per cent; Yes - 24.69 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 7.4 per cent French: 38.9 per cent Other: 53.8 per cent (32.7 per cent Italian; 5.0 per cent Spanish; 5.0 per cent Arabic) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Jeanne-Mance

1962–1973	Liberal Aimé Brisson won in 1962 in Montreal-Jeanne-Mance and in Jeanne-Mance in 1966, 1970, 1973.
1976	Parti Québécois's Henri E. Laberge defeated Liberal Brisson.
1981–1998	Liberal Michel Bissonnet defeated Parti Québécois's Laberge. Bissonnet was re-elected in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 1998.

Jeanne-Mance Viger

2003	Liberal Bissonnet defeated Robert La Rose of the Parti Québécois.
2007	Liberal Bissonnet defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Carole Giroux. Bissonnet resigned Sept. 22, 2008, when he was elected mayor of Saint-Léonard in a byelection. The seat remains vacant.

JEANNE-MANCE-VIGER
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	193/193 polls
LIB	Michel Bissonnet	20,715	68.01	Elected
ADQ	Carole Giroux	4,571	15.01
PQ	Kamal El Batal	3,648	11.98
GRN	Hamadou Abdel K Nikiema	790	2.59
QS	Ramon Villaruel	635	2.08
ML	Stéphane Chénier	101	0.33

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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