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Marquette

2008 Results

MARQUETTE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		220/220 polls
LIB	François Ouimet	13,471	56.21	Elected
PQ	Catherine Major	6,451	26.92
ADQ	Marc-Antoine Desjardins	2,062	8.60
GRN	Réjean Malette	1,308	5.46
QS	Manuel Teigeiro	588	2.45
ML	Yves Le Seigle	86	0.36

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

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Riding profile: Marquette is a west Montreal riding with mostly blue-collar residents. It contains the city of Dorval and the part of Montreal bounded by: the borders of the towns of LaSalle and Lachine, the extension of Dollard Avenue, Newman Boulevard, the CP railway line and the St. Lawrence River.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1980 from parts of Marguerite-Bourgeoys, Jacques-Cartier and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce ridings. After the 1988 redistribution, the riding contained 76.66 per cent of Marquette and 24 per cent of Jacques-Cartier.

In the 2001 redistribution, it lost nine per cent of the riding in the east (3,434 electors), as a portion of the borough of LaSalle moved to Marguerite-Bourgeoys. Marquette also gained 28 per cent of Jacques-Cartier (13,849 electors), with the addition of Dorval and Dorval Island.

Political history: Since 1981 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 61.46 per cent; Yes - 38.54 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 28.7 per cent French: 57.7 per cent Other: 13.6 per cent (2.5 per cent Italian) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1981, 1985 and 1989	Liberal Claude Dauphin won in 1981, 1985 and 1989: Dauphin resigned on Jan 10, 1994. Later named Quebec's representative in Boston.
1994	Liberal François Ouimet defeated Parti Québécois's Robert Farineau by 5,728 votes.
1998	Ouimet defeated Parti Québécois's Yannick Proulx by 6,845 votes.
2003	Ouimet defeated Parti Québécois's Yves Beauregard by 13,460 votes.
2007	Ouimet defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Mark Yerbury.

MARQUETTE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	209/209 polls
LIB	François Ouimet	14,985	47.76	Elected
ADQ	Mark Yerbury	6,464	20.60
PQ	Daniel Hurteau	6,448	20.55
GRN	Réjean Malette	2,313	7.37
QS	Johanne Létourneau	944	3.01
IND	Russell Wood	220	0.70

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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