Results, Ridings & Candidates

La Prairie

2008 Results

LA PRAIRIE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		228/228 polls
PQ	François Rebello	16,322	44.83	Elected
LIB	Marc Savard	13,621	37.41
ADQ	Monique Roy Verville	5,162	14.18
QS	Danielle Maire	759	2.08
IND	Martin McNeil	392	1.08
ML	Normand Chouinard	150	0.41

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: La Prairie is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Montreal Island. The riding contains the following municipalities: Candiac, Delson, La Prairie, Saint-Constant, Saint-Mathieu and Saint-Philippe.

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

Riding history: A previous riding of Laprairie existed from 1830 to 1919. The riding was re-established from Napierville-Laprairie before 1973 election.

In the re-distribution before the 1989 election, the riding kept 48.42 per cent of La Prairie and added 35.45 per cent of Châteauguay.

In the 2001 redistribution, the city of Sainte-Catherine, from the western part of the riding, moved to Châteauguay (10,817 electors).

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976 - PQ 1981, 1985 - LIB 1989, 1994, 1997 by-election, 1998 - PQ 2003 - LIB 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 60.05 per cent; No - 39.95 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 5.9 per cent French: 90.2 per cent Other: 3.7 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Paul Berthiaume, elected in Napierville-Laprairie in 1970, ran and won in this new riding. He was minister of state for transport as of November 1973; minister of state for finance, as of July 1975.
1976	Parti Québécois's Gilles Michaud defeated Liberal Berthiaume by 647 votes.
1981	Liberal Jean-Pierre Saintonge defeated Michaud by 328 votes.
1985	Liberal Saintonge defeated Parti Québécois's Estelle Lafontaine. He was appointed vice-president, or deputy speaker, of the national assembly in December 1985. Ran in La Pinière in 1989.
1989	Parti Québécois's Denis Lazure defeated Liberal Yvon Pommainville by 790 votes. (Lazure won in Chambly in 1976; in Bertrand in 1981; resigned in 1984. Was minister of social affairs and minister of citizens relations.)
1994	Parti Québécois's Lazure defeated Liberal Fernande Lussier. Lazure resigned in January 1996 and accepted a position as head of the Handicapped Persons' Office.
Feb. 14, 1996 byelection	Parti Québécois's Monique Simard defeated Liberal Bertrand Légaré. On Sept. 29, 1997, Simard was found guilty of voting illegally in the 1995 Montreal municipal election because she had not lived there for a year. Fined the minimum penalty of $100 on Oct. 31, 1997. Announced April 5, 1998, she would resign from the National Assembly May 1, 1998, and not run again.
1998	Parti Québécois's Serge Geoffrion defeated Liberal Lyne Rowley.
2003	Liberal Jean Dubuc defeated Gioffrion by 926 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Monique Roy Verville defeated Parti Québécois's François Rebello.

LA PRAIRIE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	224/224 polls
ADQ	Monique Roy Verville	14,458	33.84	Elected
PQ	François Rebello	13,113	30.69
LIB	Jean Dubuc	12,253	28.68
GRN	Louis Corbeil	1,605	3.76
QS	Antoine Pich	818	1.91
BP	Guy Latour	238	0.56
IND	Martin McNeil	179	0.42
ML	Normand Chouinard	60	0.14

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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