Results, Ridings & Candidates

Mercier

2008 Results

MERCIER
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		172/172 polls
QS	Amir Khadir	8,861	38.06	Elected
PQ	Daniel Turp	7,989	34.32
LIB	Catherine Emond	4,940	21.22
GRN	Olivier Adam	833	3.58
ADQ	Élisa Fortin-Toutant	575	2.47
PI	Jean-Marc Labrèche	83	0.36

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

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Riding profile: Mercier riding contains that part of central Montreal bounded by: the CP railway line, Rachel Street East, Rachel Street West, L'Esplanade Avenue and Fairmount Avenue West.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1965 from Montreal-Mercier.

In the 1992 redistribution, it lost area to Outremont and gained, in the west, parts of St-Louis and Ste-Marie-St-Jacques.

Political history: 1966, 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976-1998 inclusive - PQ 2001 byelection - LIB 2003 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 62.77 per cent; No - 37.23 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 7.5 per cent French: 78.9 per cent Other: 13.7 per cent (three per cent Portuguese; three per cent Spanish) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1966–1973	Liberal Robert Bourassa won here in 1966, 1970 and 1973. Bourassa was elected leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec, Jan. 17, 1970. He was sworn in as premier and minister of finance, May 12, 1970; minister of intergovernmental affairs, February 1971 to February 1972 and October to November 1976.
1976	Parti Québécois's Gérald Godin defeated Bourassa by 3,736 votes. He was appointed minister of immigration in November 1980.
1981–1989	Godin defeated Liberal Yves Beriault by 3,919 votes. He served as minister of cultural communities and immigration; minister of state for cultural and scientific development; minister responsible for application of the French language charter; minister responsible for linguistic affairs; minister of cultural affairs. Godin was re-elected in 1985 and 1989.
1994	Parti Québécois's Robert Perreault defeated Liberal Alda Viero by 8,044 votes. Appointed minister of public security, Jan. 29, 1996; minister of state for the Montreal region, Aug. 25, 1997.
1998	Perreault defeated Liberal Elizabeth Da Silva by 8,547 votes. He was minister of citizenship and immigration, Dec. 15, 1998 to Oct. 6, 2000 — the date he resigned as minister and MNA after having announced on Sept. 28, 2000, that he was leaving politics for personal reasons. He said he had entered politics to help Quebec achieve sovereignty and with no referendum on the horizon, it was time to move on. The PQ had problems with its potential candidates for the byelection. Former Gouin MNA Yves Michaud planned to run but was soon caught up in a scandal over comments made regarding the Jewish community. Claudel Toussaint replaced Michaud as the PQ candidate, but information was then released that Toussaint had been accused of conjugal violence a year earlier (the charges were withdrawn).
April 9, 2001 byelection	Liberal Nathalie Rochefort defeated Toussaint by 1,038 votes.
2003	Parti Québécois's Daniel Turp defeated Liberal Rochefort by 4,920 votes.
2007	Turp defeated Québec Solidaire candidate Amir Khadir.

MERCIER
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	170/170 polls
PQ	Daniel Turp	9,426	33.35	Elected
QS	Amir Khadir	8,303	29.38
LIB	Nathalie Rochefort	5,601	19.82
GRN	Sylvain Valiquette	2,398	8.48
ADQ	Gabriel Tupula Yamba	2,381	8.42
BP	Nicky Tanguay	156	0.55

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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