Results, Ridings & Candidates

Laurier-Dorion

2008 Results

LAURIER-DORION
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		183/184 polls
LIB	Gerry Sklavounos	9,389	42.57	Elected
PQ	Badiona Bazin	7,507	34.04
QS	Ruba Ghazal	2,881	13.06
GRN	Michel Lemay	1,065	4.83
ADQ	Olivier Manceau	920	4.17
ML	Peter Macrisopoulos	208	0.94
IND	Michel Prairie	83	0.38

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NAME	PARTY
Badiona Bazin	Parti québécois
Ruba Ghazal	Québec solidaire
Michel Lemay	Green Party of Québec
Peter Macrisopoulos	Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec
Olivier Manceau	Action démocratique du Québec
Michel Prairie	Indépendant ou indépendante
Gerry Sklavounos	Quebec Liberal Party

Riding profile: Laurier-Dorion is located in central Montreal and contains the part of the city bounded by: Metropolitan Highway (40), Papineau Avenue, Jean-Talon East, Jean-Talon West, the CP railway line and the boundary of the city of Montreal with the town of Outremont and Town of Mount-Royal.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1992 from Laurier (24,365 electors) and Dorion (19,248 electors).

Political history: Laurier: 1966-1989 inclusive - LIB

Dorion: 1966 - LIB 1969 byelection - Union Nationale 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB

Laurier-Dorion 1994, 1998, 2003 - LIB 2004 byelection - PQ 2007 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 62.78 per cent; Yes - 37.22 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 5.8 per cent French: 42.9 per cent Other: 51.2 per cent (9.85 per cent Greek; 4.76 per cent Spanish; 4.41 per cent Punjabi; 3.74 per cent Italian; 3.14 per cent Portuguese) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Laurier

1966	Then Liberal René Lévesque, who had been elected in Montreal-Laurier in 1960 and 1962, defeated Union Nationale's Jacques Desjardins by 6,754 votes. He was appointed minister of public works and minister of hydraulic resources, July 1960; minister of natural resources, 1961-65; minister of family and social welfare, 1965 to June 16, 1966. Quit caucus, sat as an Independent after Oct. 14, 1967; founder of sovereignty movement association, Nov. 19, 1967. Became leader of the Parti Québécois on Oct. 14, 1968.
1970, 1973 and 1976	Liberal André Marchand defeated now Parti Québécois Lévesque. Marchand was re-elected in 1973 and 1976.
1981, 1985 and 1989	Liberal Christos Sirros defeated Parti Québécois's Nadia Assimopoulos. Sirros was re-elected in 1985 and 1989. He was made minister responsible for health and social services, October 1989; minister responsible for native affairs, October 1990; minister of natural resources, January to September 1994.

Dorion

1973	Liberal Alfred Bossé won in 1970 and 1973.
1976	Parti Québécois's Lise Payette defeated Bossé. She was appointed minister of consumers, co-operatives and financial institutions in November 1976; minister of state responsible for status of women, Sept. 21, 1979; minister of state for social development, November 1980 to April 1981. She is perhaps best known for her "Yvette" remarks regarding female "No" supporters during the 1980 referendum.
1981	Parti Québécois's Huguette Lachapelle defeated Liberal Henri-François Gautrin.
1985	Liberal Violette Trépanier defeated Lachapelle. She was appointed minister responsible for cultural communities, March 1989.
1989	Liberal Trépanier defeated Parti Québécois's Joseph Facal. She was appointed minister responsible for status of women and minister responsible for family, October 1989; minister of income security, January to September 1994.

Laurier-Dorion

1994	Liberal Christos Sirros defeated Parti Québécois's Benoit Henry.
1998	Sirros defeated Parti Québécois's Robert Loranger.
2003	Sirros defeated Parti Québécois's Tomas Arbieto. Sirros served as vice-president, or deputy speaker, of the national assembly from June 2003 to June 2004, when he resigned his seat and accepted a position as ambassador in Brussels.
September 2004 byelection	Parti Québécois's Elise Lefebvre defeated Liberal Voula Neofotistos by 483 votes.
2007	Liberal Gerry Sklavounos defeated Lefebvre.

LAURIER-DORION
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	179/179 polls
LIB	Gerry Sklavounos	12,054	39.64	Elected
PQ	Elsie Lefebvre	10,968	36.07
ADQ	Louise Levesque	2,874	9.45
QS	Ruba Ghazal	2,421	7.96
GRN	Sébastien Chagnon-Jean	1,639	5.39
IND	Vassilios Gerakis	170	0.56
ML	Peter Macrisopoulos	166	0.55
NA	Mostafa Ben Kirane	115	0.38

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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