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Lotbinière

2008 Results

LOTBINIÈRE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		150/150 polls
ADQ	Sylvie Roy	9,615	43.75	Elected
LIB	Julie Champagne	7,540	34.31
PQ	Guy St-Pierre	4,238	19.28
QS	Guillaume Dorval	586	2.67

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

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Riding profile: Lotbinière is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, in between Montreal and Quebec City. It contains the following municipalities: Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent, Dosquet, Fortierville, Inverness, Laurier-Station, Laurierville, Leclercville, Lemieux, Lotbinière, Lyster, Manseau, Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur-d'Issoudun, Parisville, Saint-Agapit, Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Saint-Apollinaire, Sainte-Cécile-de-Lévrard, Sainte-Croix, Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Saint-Ferdinand, Saint-Flavien, Sainte-Françoise, Saint-Gilles, Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Sainte-Marie-de-Blandford, Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage, Saint-Pierre-Baptiste, Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, Sainte-Sophie-de-Lévrard, Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax, Saint-Sylvestre, Val-Alain and Villeroy.

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

Riding history: The riding has existed since the 1830 election. In the 1992 redistribution, it lost Saint-Jean-de-Brebeuf polls to Frontenac.

In the 2001 redistribution, it added three per cent of Frontenac riding - Saint-Ferdinand and Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax (2,164 electors) - as well as part of the municipality of Saint-Apollinaire (45 electors) from Chutes-de-la-Chaudière.

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976 - Union Nationale 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ 2003, 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 50.10 per cent; No - 49.90 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.5 per cent French: 99.0 per cent Other: 0.5 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Georges Massicotte defeated Parti Créditiste Jean-Louis Béland by 3,744 votes.
1976	Union Nationale Rodrigue Biron defeated Massicotte. Biron was elected party leader, May 23, 1976. Resigned as leader on March 3, 1980. Sat as Independent until Nov. 11, 1980, when he joined the PQ.
1981	Parti Québécois's Biron defeated Liberal Jean Tremblay. He was appointed minister of industry, commerce and tourism, April 30, 1981; minister of industry and commerce, September 1984 and December 1985.
1985	Liberal Lewis Camden defeated Biron.
1989	Liberal Camden defeated Parti Québécois's Alonzo Le Blanc.
1994	Parti Québécois's Jean-Guy Paré defeated incumbent Camden by 283 votes.
1998	Paré defeated Liberal Christian Lessard.
2003	Action Démocratique du Québec's Sylie Roy defeated Liberal Monique Drolet Glazier by 749 votes.
2007	Roy defeated Liberal Laurent Boissonneault.

LOTBINIÈRE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	144/144 polls
ADQ	Sylvie Roy	15,491	59.18	Elected
LIB	Laurent Boissonneault	5,741	21.93
PQ	Annie Thériault	4,313	16.48
QS	Catherine Drolet	632	2.41

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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