Results, Ridings & Candidates

René-Lévesque

2008 Results

RENÉ-LÉVESQUE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		146/146 polls
PQ	Marjolain Dufour	10,554	58.71	Elected
LIB	Patrick Sullivan	4,725	26.29
ADQ	Louis-Olivier Minville	2,198	12.23
QS	Stéphane Lessard	498	2.77

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

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CANDIDATE	PARTY
Dufour, Marjolain	Parti Québécois
Lessard, Stéphane	Québec Solidaire
Louis-Olivier Minville	Action Démocratique du Québec
Sullivan, Patrick	Quebec Liberal Party

Riding Profile: René-Lévesque is located on the lower north shore of the St. Lawrence River. It contains the following municipalities: Baie-Comeau, Baie-Trinité, Chute-aux-Outardes, Colombier, Forestville, Franquelin, Godbout, Les Bergeronnes, Les Escoumins, Longue-Rive, Pointe-aux-Outardes, Pointe-Lebel, Ragueneau, Sacré-Coeur, Sainte-Anne-de-Portneuf and Tadoussac.

It also contains the First Nations reserves of Betsiamites and Essipit and the hamlets of Manic-Deux and Manic-Cinq.

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

Riding history: The riding of René-Lévesque was created in 1948, but was named Saguenay until the 2001 redistribution.

Political history: 1970-1981 inclusive - PQ 1983 byelection, 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ 2002 byelection - ADQ 2003, 2007 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 73.33 per cent; No - 26.67 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.5 per cent French: 94.1 per cent Other: 5.3 per cent (4.9 per cent Innu-Naskapi) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970–1981	Parti Québécois's Lucien Lessard was first elected in 1970, and re-elected in 1973, 1976 and 1981. Appointed minister of Transport, November 1976; minister of Public Works and Supply, November 1976 to 1977; minister of Recreation, Hunting and Fishing and vice-president of the Treasury Board, September 1979; appointed minister of Recreation, Fish and Game, April 1981. Aware he would probably be dropped from cabinet, he resigned from cabinet on Sept. 2, 1982 before the Sept. 9, 1982 shuffle. Resigned as MNA on Nov. 9, 1982.
June 20, 1983 byelection, 1985 and 1989	Liberal Ghislain Maltais was elected. Liberal Maltais was re-elected in 1985 and 1989.
1994	Parti Québécois's Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon defeated Liberal Georges-Henri Gagné by 7,004 votes.
1998	Parti Québécois's Gagnon defeated Liberal Paul Fournier by 10,418 votes. Gagnon resigned on Sept. 16, 2001.
April 15, 2002 byelection	Action Démocratique du Québec's François Corriveau defeated Liberal Isabelle Melançon by 4,156 votes
2003	Parti Québécois's Marjolain Dufour defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Corriveau by 1,641 votes.
2007	Parti Québécois's Dufour defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's André Desrosiers.

RENÉ-LÉVESQUE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	144/144 polls
PQ	Marjolain Dufour	12,160	51.78	Elected
ADQ	André Desrosiers	6,642	28.28
LIB	François Désy	3,723	15.85
GRN	Styves Griffith	533	2.27
QS	Mylène Lapierre	426	1.81

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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