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Prévost

2008 Results

PRÉVOST
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		250/250 polls
PQ	Gilles Robert	15,229	44.22	Elected
LIB	Jacques Gariépy	10,001	29.04
ADQ	Martin Camirand	7,193	20.88
QS	Lise Boivin	1,107	3.21
GRN	Bernard Antoun	913	2.65

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

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CANDIDATE	PARTY
Antoun, Bernard	Green Party of Québec
Boivin, Lise	Québec Solidaire
Camirand, Martin	Action Démocratique du Québec
Gariépy, Jacques	Quebec Liberal Party
Robert, Gilles	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Prévost riding is located in the lower Laurentians. It contains the towns of Prévost and Saint-Jérôme.

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

Riding history: Prévost was created in 1972 from parts of Montcalm and Terrebonne ridings. In 1992 redistribution, part of the riding moved to Bertrand.

In 2001 redistribution Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs parish (157 electors) was moved from the northwest of the riding to Bertrand.

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976 - PQ 1979 byelection - LIB 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1997 byelection, 1998, 2003 - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 62.91 per cent; No - 37.09 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 1.7 per cent French: 97.1 per cent Other: 1.0 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Bernard Parent defeated Parti Québécois's Jean-Claude Lauzon by 3,938 votes.
1976	Parti Québécois's Jean-Guy Cardinal defeated Liberal Parent by 7,569 votes. (Cardinal had been elected as a member of the Union Nationale in Bagot in a 1968 byelection and in 1970.) Cardinal was vice-president, or deputy speaker, until his death March 16, 1979.
Nov. 14, 1979 byelection	Liberal Solange Chaput-Rolland was elected.
1981	Parti Québécois's Robert Dean defeated Liberal Chaput-Rolland by 3,054 votes. Served as minister of Revenue, March-December 1984; appointed minister of Employment and Consultation, Dec. 20, 1984.
1985	Liberal Paul-André Forget defeated Parti Québécois's Dean by 2,659 votes.
1989	Liberal Forget defeated Parti Québécois's Bernard Morin by 3,423 votes.
1994	Parti Québécois's Daniel Paille defeated Liberal Forget by 4,110 votes. Minister of Industry, Commerce, Science and Technology, minister responsible for Technological Development and Innovatech Groups, Sept. 26, 1994 to Jan. 29, 1996. Was not re-appointed to cabinet by Premier Lucien Bouchard and later resigned.
April 28, 1997 byelection	Parti Québécois's Lucie Papineau defeated Liberal Normand Plouffe by 239 votes.
1998	Parti Québécois's Papineau defeated Liberal Jocelyne Cherry by 8,409 votes. Appointed minister for Industry and Trade, Jan 30, 2002.
2003	Papineau defeated Liberal Marie-Josée Gouin by 4,338 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Martin Camirand defeated incumbent Papineau.

PRÉVOST
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	251/251 polls
ADQ	Martin Camirand	15,996	39.30	Elected
PQ	Lucie Papineau	15,189	37.32
LIB	Richard Bélisle	7,929	19.48
QS	Mylène Jaccoud	1,588	3.90

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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