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Nicolet-Yamaska

2008 Results

NICOLET-YAMASKA
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		154/154 polls
PQ	Jean-Martin Aussant	8,132	35.17	Elected
LIB	Mario Landry	7,991	34.56
ADQ	Eric Dorion	6,052	26.17
QS	Marianne Mathis	950	4.11

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

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Candidate	Riding
Aussant, Jean-Martin	Parti Québécois
Dorion, Eric	Action Démocratique du Québec
Landry, Mario	Quebec Liberal Party
Mathis, Marianne	Québec Solidaire

Riding profile: This riding is located in Quebec's heartland. Its residents live primarily on farms between Montreal and Quebec City on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.

The Nicolet-Yamaska riding contains the following municipalities: Aston-Jonction, Baie-du-Febvre, Bécancour, Daveluyville, Grand-Saint-Esprit, La Visitation-de-Yamaska, Maddington, Nicolet, Pierreville, Sainte-Anne-du-Sault, Saint-Bonaventure, Sainte-Brigitte-des-Saults, Saint-Célestin, Saint-David,Saint-Elphège, Sainte-Eulalie, Saint-François-du-Lac, Saint-Gérard-Majella, Saint-Guillaume, Saint-Joachim-de-Courval, Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu, Sainte-Monique, Sainte-Perpétue, Saint-Pie-de-Guire, Saint-Sylvère, Saint-Wenceslas and Saint-Zéphirin-de-Courval. The First Nation reserves of Odanak and Wôlinak are also in the riding.

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

Riding history: Nicolet-Yamaska was created in 1972 from Nicolet, Yamaska, Bagot and Arthabaska. The riding was named Nicolet in 1981 and 1985 but switched back to Nicolet-Yamaska in 1989.

In 2001 redistribution, lost area from southwest corner to Richelieu (no electors).

Political history: Nicolet-Yamaska: 1973 - LIB. 1976 - Union Nationale

Nicolet: 1981 - PQ 1985 - LIB.

Nicolet-Yamaska: 1989 - LIB. 1994, 1998, 2003 - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 56.50 per cent; No - 43.50 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.6 per cent French: 98.3 per cent Other: 1.0 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Benjamin Faucher, who won Yamaska in 1966, defeated Union Nationale's Clément Vincent, who had been elected in Nicolet in 1966 and 1970.
1976	Union Nationale's Serge Fontaine defeated Faucher by 750 votes.
1981 (Nicolet)	Parti Québécois's Yves Beaumier defeated Liberal Réal Lambert by 362 votes. Fontaine was third, with 503 votes less than Lambert.
1985 (Nicolet)	Liberal Maurice Richard defeated Beaumier by 5,395 votes.
1989 (Nicolet-Yamaska)	Richard defeated Parti Québécois's Guy Vachon by 6,223.
1994	Parti Québécois's Michel Morin defeated incumbent Richard by 907 votes.
1998	Morin defeated Liberal Daniel McMahon by 3,797 votes.
2003	Morin defeated Liberal Jean Rousseau by 1,856 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Éric Dorion defeated Parti Québécois's Donald Martel.

NICOLET-YAMASKA
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	151/151 polls
ADQ	Éric Dorion	10,839	41.18	Elected
PQ	Donald Martel	7,455	28.32
LIB	Yves Baril	6,770	25.72
QS	Jean Proulx	1,121	4.26
IND	Simonne Lizotte	138	0.52

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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