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Jonquière

2008 Results

JONQUIÈRE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		196/196 polls
PQ	Sylvain Gaudreault	13,077	47.68	Elected
LIB	Martine Girard	10,367	37.80
ADQ	Marc Jomphe	2,913	10.62
QS	Gabrielle Desbiens	1,068	3.89

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

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Riding profile: Jonquière is located in the Lac-St-Jean area and contains the towns of Jonquière and Lac-Kénogami, part of the city of Saguenay.

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

Riding history: Riding created in 1965 from riding of Jonquière-Kénogami and has not had any redistributions since 1972.

Political history: 1966, 1970, 1973 - LIB. 1976, 1981 - PQ 1983 byelection - LIB. 1985, 1989, 1994, 1996 byelection, 1998 - PQ 2001 byelection, 2003 - LIB. 2007 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 71.02 per cent; No - 28.98 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.8 per cent French: 98.8 per cent Other: 0.4 per cent Source: 2001 Statistics Canada census

1966, 1970, 1973	Liberal Gérald Harvey won.
1976, 1981	Parti Québécois's Claude Vaillancourt defeated Harvey in 1976 and 1981. Served as deputy speaker from May 1979 to November 1980, and as speaker from Nov. 11, 1980 to March 23, 1983. He resigned as an MNA on June 29, 1983 after being named provincial court judge for the district of Roberval.
Dec. 5, 1983 byelection	Liberal Aline Saint-Amand defeated Parti Québécois's Céline Gagnon.
1985, 1989	Parti Québécois's Francis Dufour defeated Saint-Amand in 1985 and 1989.
1994	Dufour defeated Liberal Stéphane Dallaire. On Nov. 21, 1995, Dufour said he had already spoken to Lucien Bouchard about giving up his seat for him. On Jan. 16, 1996, he resigned.
Feb. 21, 1996 byelection	Bouchard, with Liberals not running a candidate, defeated "Canada!" candidate George Butcher by 24,416 votes. Sworn in as premier on Jan. 29, 1996.
1998	Bouchard defeated Liberal Guylaine Caron. Resigned as president of Parti Québécois on Jan. 11, 2001, saying he recognized his efforts to quickly relaunch the debate on the national question had been in vain; said he needed to get back to his children. He remained premier until March 8, 2001.
Oct. 1, 2001 byelection	Liberal Françoise Gauthier defeated Parti Québécois's Nicole Racine.
2003	Gauthier defeated Parti Québécois's Myrtha Laflamme.
2007	Parti Québécois's Sylvain Gaudreault defeated Gauthier.

JONQUIÈRE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	196/196 polls
PQ	Sylvain Gaudreault	12,789	39.14	Elected
LIB	Françoise Gauthier	11,275	34.51
ADQ	Marc Jomphe	6,528	19.98
GRN	Dominic Rouette	1,073	3.28
QS	Sylvain Bergeron	934	2.86
NA	Pierre Laliberté	72	0.22

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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