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Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

2008 Results

NOTRE-DAME-DE-GRÂCE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		171/171 polls
LIB	Kathleen Weil	11,485	67.99	Elected
GRN	Peter McQueen	2,430	14.39
PQ	Fabrice Martel	2,307	13.66
ADQ	Matthew Conway	481	2.85
ML	Linda Sullivan	124	0.73
IND	David Sommer Rovins	64	0.38

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

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Candidate:

NAME	PARTY
Bachand, Raymond	Quebec Liberal Party
Chiu, May	Québec Solidaire
Collard, Christian	Action Démocratique du Québec
Fréchette, Sophie	Parti Québécois
Simard, Maxime	Green Party of Québec

Riding profile: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is composed of trendy middle-class Montreal neighbourhoods near Monkland Avenue and working-class St-Raymond district south of the tracks. Notre-Dame-de-Grâce riding contains the part of Montreal bounded by: the boundary of the town of Montreal West with the town of Côte-Saint-Luc, Fielding Avenue, Côte-Saint-Luc Street, the western boundary of Westmount, Ville-Marie Highway (720), Décarie Expressway (15), Lachine Canal, the boundary of the city of Montreal with the towns of LaSalle and Lachine and the limit of the towns of Montreal West and Lachine.

Riding map: From Elections Quebec: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (PDF) (Acrobat Reader required - download free Acrobat Reader.)

Riding history: The riding was created in the 1965 redistribution from part of Montreal-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. In the redistribution before the 1989 election, it kept all of the old riding and added 6.92 per cent of Saint-Henri. In the 1992 redistribution, it lost part of the riding to D'Arcy-McGee and gained part of Westmont, which was eliminated that year.

Political history: 1939-1987 byelection, inclusive - LIB 1989 - Equality Party 1994-2007 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 86.57 per cent; Yes - 13.43 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 45.0 per cent French: 27.4 per cent Other: 27.6 per cent (4.5 per cent Italian; 2.7 per cent Chinese) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1968 byelection, 1970 and 1973	Liberal William Tetley won Dec. 4, 1968, byelection. He was re-elected in 1970 and 1973. He was minister of revenue, May to October 1970; minister of financial institutions, companies and co-operatives, October 1970; minister of public works and supply, July 1975.
1976	Liberal Bryce Mackasey defeated Union Nationale's Francis Donaldson by 4,429 votes.
1978, 1981 and 1985	Liberal Reed Scowen won a July 5, 1978, byelection held after Mackasey resigned. Scowen was re-elected in 1981 and 1985. He resigned on June 17, 1987, and was appointed Quebec consul general to London, U.K. in August 1987.
Sept. 14, 1987 byelection	Liberal Harold Thuringer defeated New Democrat Hélène Guay by 5,074.
1989	Equality Party's Gord Atkinson defeated Liberal Thuringer by 2,090 votes.
1994	Liberal Russell Copeman defeated Parti Québécois's Denise Plamondon by 17,961 votes.
1998	Copeman defeated Parti Québécois's Chantal Pelletier by 18,741 votes.
2003	Copeman defeated Parti Québécois's Laurent Malépart by 18,741 votes.
2007	Copeman defeated Green candidate Peter McQueen.

NOTRE-DAME-DE-GRÂCE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	166/166 polls
LIB	Russell Copeman	14,825	61.66	Elected
GRN	Peter McQueen	3,839	15.97
PQ	Sophie Fréchette	2,460	10.23
ADQ	Julie Clouatre	1,745	7.26
QS	David Mandel	1,105	4.60
ML	Linda Sullivan	70	0.29

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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