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Kamouraska-Témiscouata

2008 Results

KAMOURASKA-TÉMISCOUATA
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		158/158 polls
LIB	Claude Béchard	11,048	53.70	Elected
ADQ	Ian Sénéchal	4,436	21.56
PQ	Michel Forget	4,351	21.15
QS	Manon Côté	604	2.94
IND	Alexie Plourde	134	0.65

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

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Riding profile: Kamouraska-Témiscouata is a lower-St. Lawrence riding that borders the U.S. and New Brunswick. It contains the following municipalities: Auclair, Cabano, Dégelis, Kamouraska, La Pocatière, Lejeune, Mont-Carmel, Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Packington, Pohénégamook, Rivière-Bleue, Rivière-Ouelle, St-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, St-André, Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, St-Athanase, St-Bruno-de-Kamouraska, St-Denis, St-Elzéar-de-Témiscouata, St-Eusèbe, St-Gabriel-Lalemant, St-Germain, Ste-Hélène, St-Honoré-de-Témiscouata, St-Jean-de-la-Lande, St-Joseph-de-Kamouraska, St-Juste-du-Lac, St-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Ste-Louise, St-Marc-du-Lac-Long, St-Michel-du-Squatec, St-Onésime-d'Ixworth, St-Pacôme, St-Pascal, St-Philippe-de-Néri, St-Pierre-de-Lamy and St-Roch-des-Aulnaies.

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

Riding history: Riding created in 1972 from ridings of Kamouraska, Témiscouata and L'Islet. There were minor changes in redistributions before 1989 and 1994 elections.

Political history: 1973 - LIB. 1976, 1981 - PQ Since 1985 - LIB.

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 52.66; No - 47.34

Language breakdown: English: 0.2 per cent French: 99.7 per cent Other: 0.1 per cent Source: 2001 Statistics Canada census

1973	Liberal Jean-Marie Pelletier, who had been elected in Kamouraska in 1970, ran in this new riding and defeated Parti Créditiste's Normand Dumont by 5,266 votes.
1976	Parti Québécois's Léonard Lévesque defeated Pelletier by 310 votes.
1981	Lévesque defeated Liberal Reginald Grand'Maison.
1985	Liberal France Dionne defeated Lévesque.
1989	Dionne defeated Parti Québécois's Claudette Dorval.
1994	Dionne defeated Parti Québécois's Hélène Alarie by 386 votes, then later in the year resigned to run federally.
Oct. 6, 1997 byelection	Liberal Claude Béchard defeated Parti Québécois's Denis Simard.
1998	Béchard again defeated Simard, by 110 votes.
2003	Béchard defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Pierre Lévesque.
2007	Béchard defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Gérald Beaulieu.

KAMOURASKA-TÉMISCOUATA
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	158/158 polls
LIB	Claude Béchard	9,787	39.62	Elected
ADQ	Gérald Beaulieu	9,074	36.74
PQ	Nancy Gagnon	4,804	19.45
QS	Céline Tremblay	521	2.11
GRN	Lise Lebel	515	2.08

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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