Results, Ridings & Candidates

Montmorency

2008 Results

MONTMORENCY
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		212/212 polls
LIB	Raymond Bernier	12,536	36.52	Elected
ADQ	Hubert Benoit	11,375	33.14
PQ	Jacques Nadeau	8,784	25.59
QS	Lucie Charbonneau	751	2.19
GRN	Jacques Legros	726	2.12
PI	Luc Duranleau	153	0.45

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

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Candidate	Party
Benoit, Hubert	Action Démocratique du Québec
Bernier, Raymond	Quebec Liberal Party
Charbonneau, Lucie	Québec Solidaire
Duranleau, Luc	Parti indépendantiste
Legros, Jacques	Green Party of Québec
Nadeau, Jacques	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Montmorency riding is just east of Quebec City and contains the following municipalities: Boischatel, Château-Richer, L'Ange-Gardien, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval, Sainte-Famille, Saint-François, Saint-Jean, Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Sainte-Pétronille and Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans. It also contains the part of Quebec City bounded by: the boundary of Quebec City with the municipalities of Lac-Beauport, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval and Boischatel, the limit of Quebec City in the channel of the Orléans Island, Félix-Leclerc Highway (40), Saint-David Avenue, its extension and the boundary of the towns of Beauport and Charlesbourg.

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

Riding history: The riding has existed since the 1830 election. It lost 8.58 per cent of electors in the 1988 redistribution.

In the 2001 redistribution, 15 per cent of Montmorency moved to Jean-Lesage. From the southwest corner, the part of Beauport bounded by: Félix-Leclerc Highway, the St. Lawrence River, de l'Académie Street, Royale Avenue and Seigneuriale Street (8,554 electors) changed ridings.

Political history: 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1991 byelection, 1994, 1998, 2003 - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 58.41 per cent; No - 41.59 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.6 per cent French: 99 per cent Other: 0.5 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Marcel Bédard defeated Parti Québécois's Clément Richard by 5,973 votes.
1976, 1981	Richard defeated Bédard in 1976 and was re-elected in 1981. Richard was president of the national assembly, December 1976-1980; minister of communications, 1980-81. He served as minister of cultural affairs, April 1981 to October 1985.
1985, 1989	Liberal Yves Séguin won in 1985 and 1989. He was appointed minister of revenue in 1987; minister of labour in 1988. Séguin resigned from cabinet, Sept 13, 1990, and as MNA, Dec. 21, 1990. (He was elected in the Outremont riding in 2003 and became finance minister. In 2005, he resigned again – this time from the cabinet of Jean Charest.)
Aug. 12, 1991 byelection	Parti Québécois's Jean Filion defeated Liberal Claude Desjardins by 5,439 votes.
1994	Filion defeated Liberal France Lefrançois Bouchard by 13,068 votes. Filion abstained from voting on Parti Québécois's budget on May 23, 1995. On May 25, 1995, Premier Jacques Parizeau's office said he was removed from two committees and if he missed more than two caucus meetings, he would be out of caucus for the session. On June 12, 1995, Filion announced he would sit as an Independent sovereigntist. He said the punishment imposed by Parizeau was "immoderate."
1998	Parti Québécois's François Simard defeated Liberal Jacques Langlois by 5,128 votes. He was appointed minister for the environment and water, Jan. 30, 2002.
2003	Liberal Raymond Bernier defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Jean-François Paquet by 1,887 votes. Simard came third, trailing Paquet by 573 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Hubert Benoît defeated Bernier.

MONTMORENCY
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	217/217 polls
ADQ	Hubert Benoît	20,654	50.87	Elected
LIB	Raymond Bernier	9,120	22.46
PQ	Daniel Leblond	8,372	20.62
GRN	Julien Rodrigue	1,169	2.88
QS	Jacques Legros	772	1.90
IND	François Martin	356	0.88
CDP	Denise Jetté-Cloutier	160	0.39

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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