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Marguerite-D'Youville

2008 Results

MARGUERITE-D'YOUVILLE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		203/203 polls
PQ	Monique Richard	14,545	39.82	Elected
LIB	Jean-Robert Grenier	13,096	35.85
ADQ	Simon-Pierre Diamond	6,731	18.43
GRN	Thomas Goyette-Levac	1,097	3.00
QS	Hugo Bergeron	1,059	2.90

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

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Riding profile: Marguerite-D'Youville is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Montreal Island. The riding contains the town of Sainte-Julie and the city of Boucherville, including the Boucherville Islands, except for the southern half of Sainte-Marguerite Island.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in the 1992 redistribution from part of Bertrand riding. Remainder of Bertrand went to Verchères. No change in the 2001 redistribution.

Political history: Bertrand 1981 - PQ 1985 byelection - LIB 1985, 1989 - PQ

Marguerite-D'Youville 1994, 1998 - PQ 2003 - LIB 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty: Yes - 59.01 per cent; No - 40.99 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 2.0 per cent French: 95.8 per cent Other: 2.1 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Bertrand

1981	Parti Québécois's Denis Lazure, elected in Chambly in 1976, won here. He was minister of state for social development, minister responsible for handicapped persons, 1981; minister responsible for citizens relations in September 1982. One of the so-called Group of 12 who quit cabinet and the national assembly on Dec. 4, 1984, after René Lévesque's statement that sovereignty should not be an issue in the next election.
June 3, 1985 byelection	Liberal Robert Bourassa defeated Parti Québécois's Francine Lalonde.
1985	Parti Québécois's Jean-Guy Parent defeated Bourassa by 229 votes. Parent was minister of international trade from October to December 1985 (before election).
1989	Parti Québécois's François Beaulne defeated Liberal Estelle Lessard.

Marguerite-D'Youville

1994	Parti Québécois's François Beaulne, incumbent from Bertrand, defeated Liberal Claude Savaria by 6,906 votes.
1998	Beaulne defeated Liberal Guy Lafrance by 866 votes.
2003	Liberal Pierre Moreau defeated Beaulne.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Simon-Pierre Diamond defeated Parti Québécois's Sébastien Gagnon.

MARGUERITE-D'YOUVILLE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	216/216 polls
ADQ	Simon-Pierre Diamond	15,572	37.08	Elected
PQ	Sébastien Gagnon	13,017	31.00
LIB	Pierre Moreau	11,390	27.12
QS	Daniel Michelin	2,014	4.80

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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