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Laval-des-Rapides

2008 Results

LAVAL-DES-RAPIDES
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		203/203 polls
LIB	Alain Paquet	11,551	43.64	Elected
PQ	Marc Demers	10,264	38.78
ADQ	Robert Goulet	2,727	10.30
GRN	Nicholas Sarrazin	779	2.94
QS	Sylvie Des Rochers	758	2.86
PI	Mathieu Desbiens	151	0.57
IND	Jacques Frigon	125	0.47
ML	Yvon Breton	114	0.43

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

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Candidates:

Name	Party
Breton, Yvon	Parti Marxiste-Léniniste du Qué
Demers, Marc	Parti Québécois
Des Rochers, Sylvie	Québec Solidaire
Desbiens, Mathieu	Parti Indépendantiste
Frigon, Jacques	Indépendant
Goulet, Robert	Action Démocratique du Québec
Paquet, Alain	Quebec Liberal Party
Sarrazin, Nicholas	Green Party of Québec

Riding profile: Laval-des-Rapides riding contains that part of the city of Laval bounded by: the Laval Highway (440), Papineau Highway (19), Saint-Martin Boulevard East, Notre-Dame-de-Fatima Street and its extension, the boundary of the city of Laval in the Prairies River and the Laurentian Highway (15).

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1980 from parts of Laval and Fabre. In the 2001 redistribution, it added 14 per cent of Vimont in the north part of Laval bounded by: Laval Highway, Papineau Highway, Saint-Martin Boulevard East, Saint-Martin Boulevard West and the Laurentian Highway (8,101 electors).

Political history: Laval 1960-1976 inclusive - LIB

Fabre 1966, 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976 - PQ

Laval-des-Rapides 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1993 byelection, 1994, 1998 - PQ 2003, 2007 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 50.92 per cent; No - 49.08 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 3.4 per cent French: 80.4 per cent Other: 16.2 per cent (3.5 per cent Italian; 3.4 per cent Arabic) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1981	Parti Québécois's Bernard Landry, elected in Fabre in 1976, won here. (Landry had been defeated in Joliette in 1970 and in Joliette-Montcalm in 1973.) He was appointed minister of state for economic development, Nov. 26, 1976; minister responsible for external trade, Sept. 9, 1982; minister of international relations and minister responsible for external trade, March 5, 1984; minister of finance, October to December 1985.
1985	Liberal Guy Bélanger defeated Landry.
1989	Bélanger defeated Parti Québécois's François Shanks. Bélanger, a strong nationalist, quit after several years of opposing his party on constitutional issues.
Dec. 13, 1993 byelection	After resignation of Bélanger, Parti Québécois's Serge Ménard defeated Liberal Raymond Monette.
1994	Ménard again defeated Monette. He was appointed minister of public security, Sept. 26, 1994; minister responsible for Montreal region, Jan. 29, 1996; minister of justice, attorney general, minister responsible for administration of legislation respecting professions, Aug. 25, 1997
1998	Ménard defeated Liberal Robert Lefebvre. He was appointed minister of public security, Dec. 15, 1998; minister of transport and minister responsible for Laval region, Jan. 30, 2002; minister of public security, Oct. 29, 2002.
2003	Liberal Alain Paquet defeated Parti Québécois's Ménard.
2007	Paquet defeated Parti Québécois's Marc Demers.

LAVAL-DES-RAPIDES
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	195/195 polls
LIB	Alain Paquet	11,532	34.39	Elected
PQ	Marc Demers	10,048	29.97
ADQ	Robert Goulet	9,344	27.87
GRN	Michel Lefebvre	1,460	4.35
QS	Nicole Caron	1,145	3.41

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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