Results, Ridings & Candidates

Pontiac

2008 Results

PONTIAC
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		187/187 polls
LIB	Charlotte L'Écuyer	12,960	66.11	Elected
PQ	Nathalie Lepage	3,553	18.12
ADQ	Christian Toussaint	1,215	6.20
GRN	Gail Lemmon Walker	950	4.85
QS	Charmain Levy	804	4.10
ML	Lisa Leblanc	122	0.62

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

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CANDIDATE:	PARTY:
Leblanc, Lisa	Parti Marxiste-Léniniste du Québec
L'Ecuyer, Charlotte	Quebec Liberal Party
Walker, Gail Lemmon	Green Party of Québec
Lepage, Nathalie	Parti Québécois
Levy, Charmain	Québec Solidaire
Toussaint, Christian	Action Démocratique du Québec

Riding profile: Pontiac stretches from Aylmer into vast forests of north-central Quebec. Outside the suburban pocket of Aylmer, home to many federal public servants, the major industries are farming and logging.

The Pontiac electoral district consists of the following municipalities: Alleyn-et-Cawood, Bristol, Bryson, Campbell's Bay, Chichester, Clarendon, Fort-Coulonge, Grand-Calumet, Leslie-Clapham-et-Huddersfield, L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Litchfield, Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Pontiac, Portage-du-Fort, Rapides-des-Joachims, Shawville, Sheen-Esher-Aberdeen-et-Malakoff, Thorne and Waltham.

It also contains the part of the City of Gatineau corresponding to what was the city of Aylmer prior to amalgamation in 2002.

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

Riding history: Riding first existed in the 1854 election. In the 2001 redistribution, it lost the unorganized territory of Lac-Pythonga in the north and gained in the east Alleyn-et-Cawood united townships and the unorganized territory of Lac-Nilgaut, all with Gatineau riding.

Political history: Since 1981 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 87.23 per cent; Yes - 12.77 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 39.4 per cent French: 55.7 per cent Other: 4.8 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1981	Liberal Robert Middlemiss defeated Parti Québécois's William Bedwell by 10,466 votes.
1985	Middlemiss defeated Parti Québécois's Normand Auclair by 10,265 votes.
1989	Middlemiss defeated Unity Party's Mark Alexander by 3,255 votes. Appointed minister responsible for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, October 1989; minister responsible for Transport, October 1990; minister of Public Security, January to September 1994.
1994	Middlemiss defeated Parti Québécois's Françoise Trudeau-Reeves by 18,883 votes.
1998	Middlemiss defeated Parti Québécois's L. Hubert Leduc by 17,933 votes.
2003	Liberal Charlotte L'Écuyer defeated Parti Québécois's Luc Côté by 14,671 votes.
2007	Liberal L'Écuyer defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Victor Bilodeau.

PONTIAC
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	191/191 polls
LIB	Charlotte L'Écuyer	14,817	58.52	Elected
ADQ	Victor Bilodeau	3,943	15.57
PQ	Patrick Robert-Meunier	3,257	12.86
GRN	Brian Gibb	2,498	9.87
QS	Jessica Squires	739	2.92
ML	David Ethier-April	66	0.26

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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