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La Pinière

2008 Results

LA PINIÈRE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		221/221 polls
LIB	Fatima Houda-Pepin	17,480	61.44	Elected
PQ	Jocelyne Duguay-Varfalvy	7,046	24.77
ADQ	Marc-André Beauchemin	2,822	9.92
QS	Nadine Beaudoin	971	3.41
ML	Serge Patenaude	131	0.46

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

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NAME	PARTY
Beauchemin, Marc-André	Action Démocratique du Québec
Beaudoin, Nadine	Québec Solidaire
Duguay-Varfalvy, Jocelyne	Parti Québécois
Houda-Pépin, Fatima	Quebec Liberal Party
Patenaude, Serge	Parti Marxiste-Léniniste du Québec

Riding profile: La Pinière is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River and is made up of the city of Brossard as it existed as of Feb. 1, 2007.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1988 from 69.71 per cent (36,584 electors) of La Prairie. In the 2001 redistribution, it lost a small area (part of Saint-Lambert) to Laporte (no electors involved).

Political history: La Prairie 1973 - LIB 1976 - PQ 1981, 1985 - LIB

La Pinière Since 1989 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 66.88 per cent; Yes - 33.12 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 14.2 per cent French: 57.5 per cent Other: 28.4 per cent (8.0 per cent Chinese; 2.7 per cent Arabic; 2.4 Greek) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

La Prairie

1973	Liberal Paul Berthiaume, who had been elected in Napierville-Laprairie in 1970, won in this new riding.
1976	Parti Québécois's Gilles Michaud defeated Liberal Berthiaume by 647 votes.
1981	Liberal Jean-Pierre Saintonge defeated Parti Québécois's Michaud by 328 votes.
1985	Saintonge defeated Parti Québécois's Estelle Lafontaine. Saintonge ran in La Pinière in 1989.

La Pinière

1989	Liberal Saintonge, incumbent from La Prairie, ran in this new riding and defeated Parti Québécois's Christiane Rouillard Lafontaine by 6,985 votes. Saintonge was elected president of the national assembly Nov. 28, 1989.
1994	Liberal Fatima Houda-Pepin defeated Parti Québécois's André Kahlé.
1998	Liberal Houda-Pepin defeated Parti Québécois's Marià Teresa Pérez-Hudon.
2003	Liberal Houda-Pepin defeated Parti Québécois's Marcel Lussier.
2007	Liberal Houda-Pepin defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Marc-André Beauchemin.

LA PINIÈRE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	223/223 polls
LIB	Fatima Houda-Pepin	17,786	50.44	Elected
ADQ	Marc-André Beauchemin	8,654	24.54
PQ	Saloua Hassoun	6,281	17.81
GRN	Claude Breton	1,684	4.78
QS	Jean-Claude Bernheim	860	2.44

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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