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Marguerite-Bourgeoys

2008 Results

MARGUERITE-BOURGEOYS
Party Candidate Votes Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST 196/196 polls
LIB Monique Jérôme-Forget 14,490 Elected
PQ Félix Sylvestre-Kentzinger 4,750
ADQ Michel Beaudoin 1,900
QS Elena Tapia 752

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

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Riding profile: Marguerite-Bourgeoys is a south-central Montreal riding. More than 60 industrial companies, including Monsanto Canada and Publications Dumont printing plant are located here.

The riding contains the part of Montreal bounded by the boundary of the city of LaSalle with the towns of Lachine, Montreal and Verdun; the St. Lawrence River, including the islands of Chèvres, Diable and Hérons; the CP railway line; Newman Boulevard and Dollard Avenue and its extension.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1965 from parts of Jacques-Cartier and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce ridings.

In the 1992 redistribution, it kept all of the existing riding and added, from Verdun, 21 LaSalle polls (6,028 electors).

In the 2001 redistribution, it added, in the west, part of LaSalle bounded by: CP railway line, Newman Boulevard, 90th Avenue and the St. Lawrence River. (3,434 electors) from Marquette riding.

Political history: Since 1966 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 72.56 per cent; Yes - 27.44 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 28.7 per cent French: 44.5 per cent Other: 26.8 per cent (9.74 per cent Italian; 2.27 per cent Chinese; 2.04 per cent Spanish) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973

Liberal Fernand Lalonde defeated Parti Québécois's Michel Boileau. He was appointed minister of state, November 1973; minister of state for education and responsible for application of official language law, September 1974; solicitor general July 1975.

1981

Lalonde was re-elected in 1976 and 1981. He was deputy house leader, September 1982 to March 1984; resigned as MNA March 14, 1984.

June 18, 1984 byelection

Liberal Gilles Fortin defeated Parti Québécois's Maurice Maisonneuve.

1985

Fortin again defeated Maisonneuve.

1989

Liberal Liza Frulla defeated Equality Party's Philip Chrysafidis. She was appointed minister of communications, October 1989; minister of cultural affairs, October 1990 and minister of culture and communications and minister responsible for French-speaking communities, January to September 1994.

1994

Frulla defeated Parti Québécois's Alain Therrien. Resigned on June 19, 1998, the last day of sitting before summer break.

1998

Liberal Monique Jérôme-Forget defeated Parti Québécois's Therrien.

2003

Jérôme-Forget defeated Parti Québécois's Suzanne Groulx.

2007

Jérôme-Forget defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Martin Marquis. She is currently minister of finance, minister of government services and minister responsible for government administration.