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Orford

2008 Results

ORFORD
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		227/227 polls
LIB	Pierre Reid	14,728	43.46	Elected
PQ	Michel Breton	12,470	36.80
ADQ	Pierre Harvey	4,525	13.35
QS	Patricia Tremblay	1,135	3.35
GRN	Louis Hamel	1,030	3.04

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

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Candidate	Party
Breton, Michel	Parti Québécois
Hamel, Louis	Green Party of Québec
Harvey, Pierre	Action Démocratique du Québec
Reid, Pierre	Quebec Liberal Party
Tremblay, Patricia	Québec Solidaire

Riding profile: Orford is located in the Eastern Townships and borders the state of Vermont. The riding consists of the following municipalities: Ayer's Cliff, Barnston-Ouest, Hatley, Magog, North Hatley, Ogden, Omerville, Orford, Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, Stanstead and Stanstead-East. It also contains a portion of the city of Sherbrooke.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1972 from the Stanstead riding and parts of Shefford and Sherbrooke ridings. Minor changes in the 1988 and 1992 redistributions.

In the 2001 redistribution, nine per cent of the riding moved to Saint-François, two per cent to Sherbrooke and one per cent to Johnson. It also gained one per cent of Saint-François and 0.01 per cent of Sherbrooke. It lost a portion of Coaticook in the southeast part of the riding (6,096 electors) to Saint-François. In the northeast, it lost part of Ascot and part of Rock Forest (1,340 electors) to Sherbrooke. It lost parts of Saint-Élie-d'Orford (67 electors) to Johnson.

Gained Hatley from Saint-François (582 electors) and a small area with five electors from Sherbrooke.

Political history: Since 1973 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 52.69 per cent; Yes - 47.31 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 11.0 per cent French: 88.0 per cent Other: 1.0 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973–1985	Liberal Georges Vaillancourt won in this new riding. He was minister of state for municipal affairs, 1973-75; minister of state for agriculture, July 1975 to November 1976. Vaillancourt was re-elected in 1976, 1981 and 1985.
1989	Liberal Robert Benoît defeated Parti Québécois's Henri Bourassa by 7,635 votes.
1994	Benoît defeated Parti Québécois's Ginette Therrien by 3,787 votes.
1998	Benoît defeated Parti Québécois's Olivier Désilets by 4,916 votes. Benoît announced on Feb. 27, 2003, he would not be running again.
2003	Liberal Pierre Reid defeated Parti Québécois's Yvan Bélair by 6,247 votes.
2007	Reid defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Steve Bourassa.

ORFORD
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	231/231 polls
LIB	Pierre Reid	13,050	33.29	Elected
ADQ	Steve Bourassa	11,798	30.09
PQ	Michel Breton	11,153	28.45
GRN	Louis Hamel	1,798	4.59
QS	Patricia Tremblay	1,404	3.58

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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