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Masson

2008 Results

MASSON
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		260/260 polls
PQ	Guillaume Tremblay	17,997	50.65	Elected
LIB	David Grégoire	8,174	23.00
ADQ	Ginette Grandmont	7,436	20.93
GRN	Michel Paulette	954	2.68
QS	Gabriel Poirier	716	2.01
PI	Bertrand Lefebvre	257	0.72

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

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Riding profile: Masson is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, just off Montreal Island. The riding contains the towns of Charlemagne, Le Gardeur and Mascouche. It also contains the La Plaine portion of the city of Terrebonne.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1988 from 26.43 per cent of L'Assomption and 53.62 per cent of Terrebonne.

In the 1992 redistribution, it lost L'Epiphanie to Rousseau and Lachenaie to Terrebonne and in 2001, it lost an area from the southeast corner with only two electors to Terrebonne.

Political history: Terrebonne 1970, 1973 - LIB 1981, 1985 - PQ

Masson 1989, 1994, 1998, 2003 - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 71.02 per cent; No - 28.98 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 2.0 per cent French: 96.8 per cent Other: 1.2 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Terrebonne

1970 and 1973	Liberal Denis Hardy defeated Parti Québécois's Guy Mercier.
1976	Parti Québécois's Élie Fallu defeated Liberal Hardy by 7,899 votes.
1981, 1985	Parti Québécois's Yves Blais defeated Liberal candidates in 1981 and 1985

Masson

1989	Parti Québécois's Blais, incumbent from Terrebonne, defeated Liberal Micheline Croteau-René
1994	Blais defeated Liberal Alain Leclerc by 14,490 votes.
1998	Parti Québécois's Gilles Labbé defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Éric Parent by 12,615 votes. Labbé opted not to run again in 2003.
2003	Parti Québécois's Luc Thériault defeated Liberal Richard Marcotte by 12,615 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Ginette Grandmont defeated Thériault.

MASSON
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	244/244 polls
ADQ	Ginette Grandmont	18,772	43.88	Elected
PQ	Luc Thériault	15,318	35.80
LIB	Denise Cloutier	6,064	14.17
GRN	Jean Bonneau	1,567	3.66
QS	Marco Legrand	1,062	2.48

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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