Results, Ridings & Candidates

Richmond

2008 Results

RICHMOND
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		176/176 polls
LIB	Yvon Vallières	11,657	51.50	Elected
PQ	Martyne Prévost	6,535	28.87
ADQ	Jean-Philippe Hamel	3,682	16.27
QS	Michel Reesor	760	3.36

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

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CANDIDATE	PARTY
Hamel, Jean-Philippe	Action Démocratique du Québec
Prévost, Martyne	Parti Québécois
Reesor, Michel	Québec Solidaire
Vallières, Yvons	Quebec Liberal Party

Riding profile: Richmond is located in the Eastern Townships. The riding contains the following municipalities: Asbestos, Beaulac-Garthby, Cleveland, Danville, Ham-Nord Kingsbury, Kingsey Falls, Melbourne, Notre-Dame-de-Ham, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil, Richmond, Saint-Adrien, Saint-Albert, Saint-Camille, Saint-Claude, Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton, Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Sainte-Élisabeth-de-Warwick, Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey, Saint-Fortunat, Saint-Georges-de-Windsor, Saint-Joseph-de-Ham-Sud, Saint-Lucien, Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens, Saint-Rémi de-Tingwick, Saint-Samuel, Sainte-Séraphine,Tingwick, Warwick and Wotton.

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

Riding history: Richmond first existed in the 1890 election. In the redistribution in 1988, the riding added 8.85 per cent of Drummond and 7.66 per cent of Arthabaska.

In the 2001 redistribution Richmond gained in the south from Johnson riding, a part of the town of Richmond (1,222 electors), as well as area in the southwest from Mégantic-Compton with no electors.

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976 - Union Nationale Since 1981 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 53.15 per cent; No - 46.85 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 5.9 per cent French: 93.3 per cent Other: 0.9 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Yvon Vallières defeated Ralliement Créditiste's Yvon Brochu.
1976	Now-Union Nationale's Brochu defeated Liberal Vallières.
1981, 1985, 1989	Vallières won in 1981, 1985 and 1989. Appointed minister responsible for transportation, Oct. 11, 1989; minister responsible for agriculture, fisheries and food, Oct. 5, 1990 - Jan 11, 1994.
1994	Vallières defeated Parti Québécois's Richard Arsenault by 4,061 votes. Served as chief government whip.
1998	Vallières defeated Parti Québécois's Joaquin Bastida by 4,654 votes.
2003	Vallières defeated Parti Québécois's André Blais by 8,618 votes. Served as minister responsible for the Central Quebec region, Feb. 27, 2006 - April 8, 2007.
2007		Vallières defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Pierre Hébert.

RICHMOND
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	166/166 polls
LIB	Yvon Vallières	11,257	42.32	Elected
ADQ	Pierre Hébert	8,179	30.75
PQ	Martyne Prévost	5,485	20.62
GRN	Frédérick Clerson-Guicherd	805	3.03
QS	Danielle Maire	746	2.80
IND	Claude Bergeron	129	0.48

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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