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Nelligan

2008 Results

NELLIGAN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		218/218 polls
LIB	Yolande James	18,039	72.08	Elected
PQ	Anaïs Valiquette L'Heureux	3,634	14.52
GRN	Jonathan Théorêt	1,556	6.22
ADQ	François Savard	1,418	5.67
QS	Elahé Machouf	378	1.51

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

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Candidate	Party
James, Yolande	Quebec Liberal Party
Machouf, Elahé	Québec Solidaire
Savard, François	Action Démocratique du Québec
Théorêt, Jonathan	Green Party of Québec
Valiquette L'Heureux, Anaïs	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Nelligan riding is located in the west of Montreal Island and contains the part of Montreal bounded as follows: the boundary of the cities of Montreal and Laval, the Prairies River, extension of des Sources Boulevard, Pierrefonds Boulevard, Saint-Jean Boulevard, the boundary of the towns of Pierrefonds and Dollard-des-Ormeaux, the boundary of the city of Kirkland with the towns of Dollard-des-Ormeaux and Pointe-Claire, Hymus Boulevard and Saint-Charles Boulevard, Chemin Sainte-Marie, Félix-Leclerc Highway (40), the boundary of the towns of Kirkland and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, the boundary of the city of Pierrefonds with the town of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, the boundary of the town of Senneville with the town of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Vaudreuil Bay and Deux Montagnes Lake.

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

Riding history: Riding created in 1980 from parts of Pointe-Claire and Robert-Baldwin. After 1988 redistribution, riding was 71.31 per cent Nelligan and 21.68 per cent Robert-Baldwin. 12,220 electors moved to Jacques-Cartier. In 1992 redistribution, lost area from northeast to Robert-Baldwin.

In 2001 redistribution, 20 per cent moved to Jacques-Cartier, including Baie-d'Urfé, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and two parts of the town of Kirkland bounded as follows: Félix-Leclerc Highway, Sainte-Marie Street and the border of Kirkland and Beaconsfield; and Sainte-Marie Street, Saint-Charles Boulevard, Hymus Boulevard and border of Kirkland with Pointe-Claire and Beaconsfield (12,388 electors).

Political history: Since 1981 - LIB.

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 81.80 per cent; Yes - 18.18 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 34.7 per cent French: 42.5 per cent Other: 22.8 per cent (5 per cent Italian; 3 per cent Vietnamese) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1981, 1985	Liberal Clifford Lincoln won in 1981 and 1985. Appointed minister of the environment, Dec. 12, 1985. Resigned his portfolio on Dec. 21, 1988 because of Bill 178, an attempt to tone down the French-language charter.
1989	Liberal Russell Williams defeated Equality Party's Jean-Pierre Isoré by 6,035 votes. Williams was appointed minister responsible for the anglophone community, in January 1994.
1994	Williams defeated Parti Québécois's Denise Cypihot by 25,794 votes.
1998	Williams defeated Parti Québécois's André Tremblay by 28,206 votes.
2003	Williams defeated Parti Québécois's Micaël Poirier by 23,326 votes, before resigning his seat on March 9, 2004.
Sept. 20, 2004 by-election	Liberal Yolande James defeated Independent Michel Gibson by 3,774 votes.
2007	James defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Jean Lecavalier by 15,362 votes.

NELLIGAN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	228/228 polls
LIB	Yolande James	21,458	63.82	Elected
ADQ	Jean Lecavalier	6,096	18.13
PQ	Dorothée Morin	2,977	8.85
GRN	Jonathan Théorêt	2,560	7.61
QS	Elahé Machouf	532	1.58

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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