Results, Ridings & Candidates

Outremont

2008 Results

OUTREMONT
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		171/171 polls
LIB	Raymond Bachand	10,571	54.21	Elected
PQ	Sophie Fréchette	4,919	25.23
QS	May Chiu	2,228	11.43
GRN	Maxime Simard	1,204	6.17
ADQ	Christian Collard	577	2.96

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

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Candidate	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: This riding is a contrasting mix of francophone elites in Outremont, bohemians in Mile End and multi-ethnic, working-class residents in Côte des Neiges.

Outremont contains the part of Montreal bounded by: the boundary of the borough of Outremont with Town of Mount-Royal and the CP railway line, the extension of Esplanade Avenue, Fairmount Avenue West, Mont-Royal West Avenue, Camillien-Houde track, Remembrance Street, Côte-des-Neiges Street, the boundary of the towns of Montreal and Westmount, Côte-Saint-Luc Street, Décarie Highway (15) and Côte-Sainte-Catherine Street.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1965 from part of Montreal-Outremont.

In the redistribution before the 1989 election, it preserved all of the old riding and added 5.26 per cent of Westmount.

In the 1992 redistribution, lost part of the riding to Mont-Royal and gained areas from Mercier and Westmount ridings.

Political history: Since 1939 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 65.61 per cent; Yes - 34.39 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 15.5 per cent French: 52.9 per cent Other: 31.6 per cent (3.6 per cent Arabic; 2.5 per cent Spanish; 2.5 per cent Chinese) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1966, 1970 and1973	Liberal Jérôme Choquette won in 1966, 1970 and 1973. He was minister of financial institutions, companies and co-operatives, May to October 1970; minister of justice, May 1970 to July 1975; minister of education, July to September 1975. Resigned on Sept. 26, 1975. Founded the Parti National Populaire with Fabien Roy on Dec. 14, 1975. Became leader of the party Oct. 24, 1976.
1976	Liberal André Raynauld defeated Parti Québécois's Pierre Harvey by 2,387 votes. Choquette was third with 14.2 per cent of the vote. Choquette quit PNP in March 1977 and rejoined the Liberals on Jan. 16, 1978. Raynauld resigned on June 3, 1980.
Nov. 17, 1980, byelection, 1981 and 1985	Liberal Pierre Fortier defeated Parti Québécois's Nicole Boily. Fortier was re-elected in 1981 and 1985. He was appointed minister responsible for privatization, Dec. 12, 1985; minister responsible for finances and for privatization, August 1986.
1989	Liberal Gérald Tremblay defeated Parti Québécois's Marc Langevin by 2,964 votes. He was appointed minister of industry, trade and technology, October 1989; minister of industry, trade, science and technology, Jan. 11, 1994.
1994	Tremblay defeated Parti Québécois's Salomon Cohen by 9,528 votes. On March 14, 1996, he announced he was returning to the private sector, saying he was not happy with federalist strategy in the 1995 sovereignty referendum.
June 10, 1996, byelection	Liberal Pierre-Étienne Laporte defeated Parti Québécois's Armand Elbaz.
1998	Laporte defeated Parti Québécois's Jean-François Thuot by 8,172 votes.
2003	Liberal Yves Séguin defeated Parti Québécois's Marilyse Lapierre by 6,057 votes. He was appointed minister of finance but resigned on May 9, 2005, over differences with Liberal Leader Jean Charest.
Dec. 12, 2005, byelection	Liberal Raymond Bachand defeated Parti Québécois's Farouk Karim by 1,930 votes.
2007	Bachand defeated Parti Québécois's Salim Laaroussi.

OUTREMONT
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	171/171 polls
LIB	Raymond Bachand	11,861	47.03	Elected
PQ	Salim Laaroussi	5,928	23.51
GRN	Luc Côté	2,723	10.80
QS	Sujata Dey	2,303	9.13
ADQ	Pierre Harvey	2,236	8.87
IND	Romain Angeles	101	0.40
ML	Yvon Breton	68	0.27

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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