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L'Assomption

2008 Results

L'ASSOMPTION
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		235/235 polls
PQ	Scott McKay	15,494	42.75	Elected
LIB	Christian Gauthier	11,384	31.41
ADQ	Éric Laporte	6,977	19.25
QS	Olivier Huard	1,099	3.03
GRN	Chantal Latour	946	2.61
PI	Fanny Bérubé	341	0.94

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

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NAME	PARTY
Bérubé, Fanny	Parti Indépendantiste
Gauthier, Christian	Quebec Liberal Party
Huard, Olivier	Québec Solidaire
Laporte, Éric	Action Démocratique du Québec
Latour, Chantal	Green Party of Québec
McKay, Scott	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: L'Assomption riding contains the city of Repentigny and the Saint-Sulpice parish. It also contains the eastern portion of the city of L'Assomption.

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

Riding history: The riding has existed since 1829. In the 1988 redistribution, a portion of the riding moved to Masson. L'Assomption kept 73.57 per cent of the former riding. In the 1992 redistribution, it lost Saint-Gerard-Majella to Rousseau.

Political history: 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985 by-election, 1985 - LIB 1989 - 2003 - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 63.65 per cent; No - 36.35 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 1.2 per cent French: 97.2 per cent Other: 1.7 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970, 1973	Liberal Jean Perreault defeated Parti Québécois's Pierre Desjardins in 1970 and 1973.
1976	Parti Québécois's Jacques Parizeau defeated Liberal J. Roland Comtois. (Parizeau had been defeated in Ahuntsic in 1970 and in Crémazie in 1973.) He was appointed minister of finance and minister of revenue, November 1976; president of the Treasury Board, 1976 to 1981.
1981	Parizeau defeated Liberal André Ouellette. He was appointed minister of finance and minister of financial institutions and co-operatives, April 30, 1981. He was one of the so-called Group of 12 who resigned from cabinet on Nov. 22, 1984, after René Lévesque said that sovereignty should not be an issue in the next election. He resigned as MNA on Nov. 27, 1984.
June 3, 1985 byelection	Liberal Jean-Guy Gervais defeated Progressive Conservative André Asselin.
1985	Gervais defeated Parti Québécois's Bernard Bastien by 216 votes.
1989	Parti Québécois's Parizeau defeated Gervais. (Parizeau had been elected PQ leader on March 18, 1988.)
1994	Parizeau defeated Liberal Luc Archambault. He was sworn in as premier and minister responsible for native affairs, Sept. 26, 1994; interim minister of culture and communications and minister responsible for application of the French Language Charter, Jan. 30 to Aug. 2, 1995. Parizeau resigned on Jan. 29, 1996.
June 10, 1996 byelection	Parti Québécois's Jean-Claude St-André defeated Liberal Fernand Prud'homme.
1998	St-André defeated Liberal Michel Tremblay by 10,745 votes.
2003	St-André defeated Liberal Sylvie Thouain.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Éric Laporte defeated Parti Québécois's St-André.

L'ASSOMPTION
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	235/235 polls
ADQ	Éric Laporte	16,510	39.20	Elected
PQ	Jean-Claude St-André	14,287	33.93
LIB	Benoit Verstraete	8,235	19.55
GRN	Michel Ménard	1,777	4.22
QS	Olivier Huard	1,303	3.09

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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