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Matapédia

2008 Results

MATAPÉDIA
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		137/137 polls
PQ	Danielle Doyer	8,815	51.34	Elected
LIB	Jean-Yves Roy	5,828	33.94
ADQ	Cindy Rousseau	1,982	11.54
QS	Eve-Lyne Couturier	544	3.17

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

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Riding profile: Matapédia is located on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River on the Gaspé Peninsula. It contains the following municipalities: Albertville, Amqui, Causapscal, Grand-Métis, Lac-au-Saumon, La Rédemption, Les Boules, Les Hauteurs, Métis-sur-Mer, Mont-Joli, Padoue, Price, Saint-Alexandre-des-Lacs, Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici, Saint-Charles-Garnier, Saint-Cléophas, Saint-Damase, Saint-Donat, Sainte-Flavie, Sainte-Florence, Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski, Sainte-Irène, Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage, Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Sainte-Luce Luceville, Sainte-Marguerite, Saint-Moïse, Saint-Noël, Saint-Octave-de-Métis, Saint-Tharcisius, Saint-Vianney, Saint-Zénon-du-Lac-Humqui, Sayabec and Val-Brillant, as well as the hamlet of Routhierville.

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

Riding history: The riding has existed since the 1923 election. In the 1992 redistribution, it lost a small portion of the riding to Matane and gained Pointe-au-Père from Rimouski.

In the 2001 redistribution,10 per cent of the riding from the southwest corner, known as Pointe-au-Père (3,050 electors), moved back to Rimouski. It gained seven per cent of Matane. It also gained areas in the most westerly corner, including: Grand-Métis, Les Boules, Métis-sur-Mer, Padoue, Saint-Damase, Saint- Noël and Saint-Octave-de-Métis (2,012 electors).

Political history: 1960-1973 inclusive - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB Since 1994 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 64.30 per cent; No - 35.70 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.5 per cent French: 99.4 per cent Other: 0.1 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1960–1973	Liberal Bona Arsenault was elected in 1960, 1962, 1966, 1970 and 1973.
1976	Parti Québécois's Léopold Marquis defeated Liberal Arsenault by 5,458 votes.
1981	Parti Québécois's Marquis defeated Liberal Aldy Lévesque by 3,267 votes.
1985	Liberal Henri Paradis defeated Marquis by 2,096 votes.
1989	Paradis defeated Parti Québécois's Guy Dupont by 3,740 votes.
1994	Parti Québécois's Danielle Doyer defeated Paradis by 3,719 votes.
1998	Doyer defeated Liberal Jean-Maurice Lechasseur by 5,715 votes.
2003	Doyer defeated Liberal Gaston Pelletier by 2,858 votes.
2007	Doyer defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Rémy Villeneuve.

MATAPÉDIA
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	137/137 polls
PQ	Danielle Doyer	9,042	43.78	Elected
ADQ	Rémy Villeneuve	5,396	26.13
LIB	Normand Boulianne	5,137	24.87
QS	Dominic Fortin	551	2.67
GRN	Jean-François Guay	526	2.55

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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