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Louis-Hébert

2008 Results

LOUIS-HÉBERT
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		219/219 polls
LIB	Sam Hamad	17,627	48.82	Elected
PQ	Françoise Mercure	10,508	29.10
ADQ	Jean Nobert	5,863	16.24
GRN	Carl Lavoie	1,069	2.96
QS	Dominique Gautron	1,037	2.87

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

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Riding profile: Louis-Hébert riding contains the part of Quebec City bounded by: the southern limit of the right of way of Wilfrid-Hamel Boulevard, the boundary of the city of Sainte-Foy with the towns of L'Ancienne-Lorette and Quebec City, Henri-IV Highway (73), Charest Highway (440), du Vallon Highway (740), Quatre-Bourgeois Street, Pierre-Laporte Bridge, the St. Lawrence River and the boundary of the towns of Cap-Rouge and Sainte-Foy with the municipality of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1965 from parts of Quebec-Comté and Quebec-Est ridings. Minor change in redistribution before 1994 election.

In the 2001 redistribution, it lost 28 per cent to Jean-Talon - part of Sillery and Sainte-Foy (7,283 electors). Added 30 per cent of La Peltrie - in the west, Cap-Rouge and the part of Sainte-Foy bounded by Wilfrid-Hamel Boulevard, the border of Sainte-Foy and L'Ancienne-Lorette, Duplessis Highway, Félix-Leclerc Highway, Cap-Rouge River and the border of Sainte-Foy with Cap-Rouge and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures (16,287 electors).

Political history: 1966, 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1982 by-election 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ 2003, 2007 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 53.01 per cent; No - 46.99 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 2.2 per cent French: 94.4 per cent Other: 3.5 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Gaston Desjardins defeated Parti Québécois's Claude Morin by 777 votes.
1976	Parti Québécois's Morin defeated Liberal Jean Marchand. He was appointed minister of intergovernmental affairs, Nov. 26, 1976.
1981	Parti Québécois's Morin defeated Liberal Michelle Rousseau Méthot. He was reappointed minister of intergovernmental affairs. After 1981 constitutional negotiations, he resigned on Dec. 29, 1981.
April 5, 1982 byelection	Liberal Réjean Doyon defeated Parti Québécois's Jean F. Keable. (Keable had been head of a royal commission into police wrongdoing.)
1985	Liberal Réjean Doyon defeated Parti Québécois's Louise Beaudoin. (Beaudoin had been defeated in Jean-Talon in 1976 and in a 1979 byelection.)
1989	Doyon defeated Parti Québécois's Guy Bertrand by 885 votes.
1994	Parti Québécois's Paul Bégin defeated Independent André Arthur. Arthur is currently an Independent MP for the federal riding of Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier. Bégin was appointed minister of justice, attorney general and minister responsible for administration of legislation respecting professional laws, Sept. 26. 1994; minister responsible for Côte-Nord region, Jan. 29, 1996; minister of environment and wildlife, Aug. 25, 1997.
1998	Bégin defeated Liberal Pierre Boulanger. He was minister of environment, Dec. 15, 1998 to March 8, 2001; minister responsible for the Quebec region, Dec. 15, 1998 to Dec. 17, 1999; minister of revenue, Nov. 19, 1999 to March 8, 2001; minister responsible for the national capital region, Dec. 17, 1999 to June 21, 2001; minister of justice and attorney general as of March 8, 2001. On Oct. 28, 2002, Bégin resigned, saying the Parti Québécois talks about its sovereignty goal but doesn't act to promote an independent Quebec. He said he would sit as an Independent. He did not run in the next election.
2003	Liberal Sam Hamad defeated Parti Québécois's Line-Sylvie Perron.
2007	Hamad defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Jean Nobert.

LOUIS-HÉBERT
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	213/213 polls
LIB	Sam Hamad	14,410	34.51	Elected
ADQ	Jean Nobert	13,572	32.51
PQ	André Joli-Coeur	10,435	24.99
GRN	André Larocque	1,774	4.25
QS	Catherine Lebossé	1,336	3.20
CDP	Claude Cloutier	225	0.54

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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