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Laporte

2008 Results

LAPORTE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		190/190 polls
LIB	Nicole Ménard	12,823	49.01	Elected
PQ	Robert Pellan	8,765	33.50
ADQ	Alain Dépatie	2,462	9.41
GRN	Richard Morisset	1,162	4.44
QS	Michèle St-Denis	954	3.65

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

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NAME	PARTY
Chouinard, Normand	Parti Marxiste-Léniniste du Québec
Maire, Danielle	Québec Solidaire
Mc Neil, Martin	Indépendant
Rebello, François	Parti Québécois
Roy Verville, Monique	Action Démocratique du Québec
Savard, Marc	Quebec Liberal Party

Riding profile: Laporte is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. It contains the city of Saint-Lambert and the following parts of the city of Longueuil: Greenfield Park, the LeMoyne district of Vieux-Longueuil and the Laflèche district of Saint-Hubert.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1972 from parts of Taillon and Chambly ridings. In the 1992 redistribution, it held on to the major part of the riding. It lost 7,233 electors to Marie-Victorin and gained 12,057 from Vanier. In the 2001 redistribution, it gained a small area (part of Saint-Lambert) from La Pinière (no electors involved).

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976 - PQ Since 1981 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 59.03 per cent; Yes - 40.97 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 18.3 per cent French: 72.7 per cent Other: 9.0 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal André Déom defeated Parti Québécois's Pierre Marois by 372 votes.
1976	Parti Québécois's Marois defeated Liberal Jean-Jacques Lemieux. She was appointed minister of state for social development, Nov. 26, 1976; minister of labour, Nov. 6, 1980. Marois ran in Marie-Victorin in 1981.
1981, 1985 and 1989	Liberal André Bourbeau won in 1981, 1985 and 1989. He was appointed minister of municipal affairs and minister responsible for housing, December 1985; minister of manpower and income security, January 1989; minister of manpower, income security and skills development, October 1989; minister of finance, January to September 1994.
1994	Liberal Bourbeau defeated Parti Québécois's Annick Bélanger.
1998	Bourbeau defeated Parti Québécois's Jocelyne Pellerin.
2003	Liberal Michel Audet defeated Parti Québécois's Clément Arcand.
2007	Liberal Nicole Ménard defeated Parti Québécois's Robert Pellan.

LAPORTE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	190/190 polls
LIB	Nicole Ménard	13,219	40.85	Elected
PQ	Robert Pellan	8,137	25.14
ADQ	Michel Beaudoin	7,689	23.76
GRN	Richard Morisset	1,998	6.17
QS	Michèle St-Denis	1,318	4.07

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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