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Johnson

2008 Results

JOHNSON
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		192/192 polls
PQ	Étienne-Alexis Boucher	11,012	40.25	Elected
LIB	Denis Morin	8,478	30.99
ADQ	Éric Charbonneau	6,318	23.09
GRN	Pierre-Olivier Jetté	919	3.36
QS	Colombe Landry	634	2.32

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

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Riding Profile: Located in the Quebec heartland, Johnson contains the following municipalities: Acton Vale, Béthanie, Durham-Sud, L' Avenir, Lefebvre, Maricourt, Racine, Roxton, Roxton Falls, Roxton Pond, Ste-Cécile-de-Milton, Ste-Christine, St-Denis-de-Brompton, St-François-Xavier-de-Brompton, Ste-Hélène-de-Bagot, St-Joachim-de-Shefford, St-Nazaire-d'Acton, St-Théodore-d'Acton, St-Valérien-de-Milton, Stoke, Ulverton, Upton, Valcourt, Val-Joli, Wickham and Windsor. It also contains one borough of the city of Sherbrooke.

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

Riding history: Riding first existed in 1973 election and was created from parts of Drummond, Richmond, Bagot, Shefford. After redistribution in 1988, riding lost 5.6 per cent of its territory. In 1992 redistribution, three Saint-Eugene polls (679 electors) moved to Drummond riding.

In 2001 redistribution, lost 1.0 per cent to Richmond; added 9.0 per cent of Shefford, 0.09 per cent of Sherbrooke and 1.0 per cent of Saint-François. Gained Roxton Pond, St-Joachim-de-Shefford parish and township of Ste-Cécile-de-Milton (4,698 electors) in the southwest from Shefford. Gained the borough from the city of Sherbrooke (43 electors); a part of the city of Fleurimont from St-François (255 electors); and parts of St-Élie-d'Orford (67 electors) from Orford.

Political history: 1973 - LIB. 1974 byelection, 1976 - Union Nationale 1980 byelection - LIB. 1981-2003 inclusive - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 54.41 per cent; No - 45.59 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 2.0 per cent French: 97.4 per cent Other: 0.7 per cent Source: 2001 Statistics Canada census

1973	Liberal Jean-Claude Boutin defeated Parti Créditiste candidate Albert Claude. Resigned July 25, 1974, after charges of conflict of interest arose.
By-election on Aug. 28, 1974	Union Nationale's Maurice Bellemare defeated Liberal Jean-Claude Boutin. (Bellemare won in Champlain in 1944-1966 inclusive.)
1976	Union Nationale's Bellemare defeated Parti Québécois's Robert Normand. Interim leader of UN, March 1974 to May 1976. Parliamentary leader of UN May 1976 to Oct. 30, 1979. Resigned as MNA Dec. 19, 1979.
By-election on Nov. 17, 1980	Liberal Camille Picard defeated Parti Québécois's Carmen Juneau by 372 votes.
1981	Parti Québécois's Juneau defeated Liberal Picard by 806 votes. Parti Québécois's Juneau was re-elected in 1985 and 1989.
1994	Parti Québécois's Claude Boucher defeated Liberal Michel Daviau.
1998	Parti Québécois's Boucher defeated Liberal Marie Marier.
2003	Parti Québécois's Boucher defeated Liberal Nicole Brouillette.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Éric Charbonneau defeated Parti Québécois's Boucher by 180 votes.

JOHNSON
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	177/177 polls
ADQ	Éric Charbonneau	11,512	36.02	Elected
PQ	Claude Boucher	11,335	35.46
LIB	Nicole Brouillette	7,157	22.39
GRN	Benoit Lapierre	1,189	3.72
QS	Marcel Pinard	770	2.41

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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