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Mégantic-Compton

2008 Results

MÉGANTIC-COMPTON
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		154/154 polls
LIB	Johanne Gonthier	9,204	45.32	Elected
PQ	Gloriane Blais	7,079	34.85
ADQ	Samuel Therrien	3,268	16.09
QS	Julie Dionne	760	3.74

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

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Riding profile: Mégantic-Compton is an Eastern Townships riding that runs along the borders of Vermont and Maine. It contains the following municipalities: Ascot Corner, Audet, Bury, Chartierville, Cookshire, Dixville, Dudswell, East Angus, East Hereford, Eaton, Frontenac, Hampden, Lac-Drolet, Lac-Mégantic, Lambton, La Patrie, Lingwick, Marston, Martinville, Milan, Nantes, Newport, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Piopolis, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton, Sainte-Edwidge-de-Clifton, Saint-Herménégilde, Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton, Saint-Malo, Saint-Romain, Saint-Sébastien, Saint-Venant-de-Paquette, Scotstown, Stornoway, Stratford, Val-Racine, Weedon and Westbury.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1972 from Mégantic, Compton and parts of Wolfe and Stanstead.

In the 1992 redistribution, it gained Ascot Corner polls from Saint-François riding.

In the 2001 redistribution, one per cent of the riding was exchanged with Saint-François riding, with a portion of Eaton moving into the riding (565 electors) and Coaticook and Saint-Camille leaving (441 electors).

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976 - Union Nationale Since 1980 byelection - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 52.71 per cent; Yes - 47.29 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 6.8 per cent French: 92.4 per cent Other: 0.7 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Omer Dionne, elected in Compton in 1970, defeated Parti Créditiste's Paul-André Latulipe.
1976	Union Nationale's Fernand Grenier defeated Liberal Dionne by 2,502 votes. Grenier resigned on Jan. 7, 1980, and was a federal Progressive Conservative candidate in 1980.
Nov. 17, 1980 byelection	Liberal Fabien Bélanger defeated Parti Québécois's Richard Labelle.
1981	Bélanger defeated Parti Québécois's Noël Landry by 2,327 votes. Bélanger died while in office Oct. 2, 1983.
Dec. 5, 1983 byelection	Liberal Madeleine Bélanger, wife of Fabien, defeated Landry by 7,529 votes.
1985, 1989, and 1994	Madeleine Bélanger was re-elected in 1985, 1989 and 1994.
1998	Madeleine Bélanger defeated Parti Québécois's Suzanne Durivage by 2,336 votes. Bélanger announced on Feb. 19, 2003 she would not be running again.
2003	Liberal Daniel Bouchard defeated Parti Québécois's Durivage by 3,789 votes. Bouchard sat as an Independent during an investigation into alleged violation of election laws. He pleaded guilty to charges of using the resources of a non-profit organization for which he worked to reimburse electoral contributions and did not run again.
2007	Liberal Johanne Gonthier defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Jocelyn Brouillette.

MÉGANTIC-COMPTON
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	148/148 polls
LIB	Johanne Gonthier	8,071	32.98	Elected
ADQ	Jocelyn Brouillette	7,862	32.12
PQ	Gloriane Blais	7,094	28.98
GRN	Sébastien Lanctôt	904	3.69
QS	Ludovick Nadeau	544	2.22

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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