Results, Ridings & Candidates

Marie-Victorin

2008 Results

MARIE-VICTORIN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		166/166 polls
PQ	Bernard Drainville	11,026	51.56	Elected
LIB	Isabelle Mercille	6,185	28.92
ADQ	Roger Dagenais	2,369	11.08
QS	Sébastien Robert	957	4.48
GRN	Réal Langelier	665	3.11
PI	Yves Ménard	182	0.85

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

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NAME	PARTY
Dagenais, Roger	Action Démocratique du Québec
Drainville, Bernard	Parti Québécois
Langelier, Réal	Green Party of Québec
Ménard, Yves	Parti Indépendantiste
Mercille, Isabelle	Quebec Liberal Party
Robert, Sébastien	Québec Solidaire

Riding profile: Marie-Victorin is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Montreal Island. The riding contains the part of the city of Longueuil bounded by: the extension of Chambly Street, Jacques-Cartier Boulevard West to Sainte-Hélène Street, from that intersection a line in a southerly direction until the city's boundary with Saint-Hubert, and the limit of Longueuil with the towns of LeMoyne and Saint-Lambert.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1980 from parts of Taillon and Laporte.

In the 1992 redistribution, it gained Longueuil polls from Laporte and a small area from Taillon.

Political history: 1981 - PQ 1984 byelection - LIB Since 1985 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 60.54 per cent; No - 39.46 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 2.5 per cent French: 88.7 per cent Other: 8.8 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1981	Parti Québécois's Pierre Marois, who won in Laporte in 1976, defeated Liberal Lise Vachon Marcotte. Was minister of state for social development from Nov. 26, 1976, and minister of labour and manpower from Nov. 6, 1980. He was appointed minister of labour, manpower and income security, April 30, 1981; minister of manpower and income security, Sept. 9, 1982 to Nov. 24, 1983; resigned as minister and MNA on November 24, 1983.
June 18, 1984 byelection	Liberal Guy Pratt defeated Parti Québécois's Pierre Nantel.
1985	Parti Québécois's Cécile Vermette defeated Pratt by 335 votes.
1989	Vermette defeated Liberal Michel Timpério.
1994	Vermette defeated Liberal Serge Privé.
1998	Vermette defeated Liberal Gilbert Côté.
2003	Vermette defeated Liberal Jean-Marc Pelletier.
2007	Parti Québécois's Bernard Drainville defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Roger Dagenais.

MARIE-VICTORIN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	163/163 polls
PQ	Bernard Drainville	11,055	39.60	Elected
ADQ	Roger Dagenais	7,928	28.40
LIB	Nic Leblanc	5,974	21.40
QS	François Cyr	1,420	5.09
GRN	Réal Langelier	1,327	4.75
BP	Richard Lemagnifique	211	0.76

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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