Results, Ridings & Candidates

Rivière-du-Loup

2008 Results

RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		165/165 polls
ADQ	Mario Dumont	11,115	51.75	Elected
LIB	Jean-Pierre Rioux	5,795	26.98
PQ	Stephan Shields	3,049	14.20
IND	Victor-Lévy Beaulieu	607	2.83
GRN	Alain Gagnon	513	2.39
QS	Stacy Larouche	400	1.86

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

View these results in the interactive map »

Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Lévy-Beaulieu, Victor	Independent
Dumont, Mario	ADQ
Gagnon, Alain	Green Party of Quebec
Larouche, Stacy	Québec Solidaire
Rioux, Jean-Pierre	Liberal Party of Quebec
Shields, Stephan	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Rivière-du-Loup riding is located on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River and contains the following municipalities: L'Isle-Verte, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Rivière-du-Loup, Saint-Antonin, Saint-Arsène, Saint-Clément, Saint-Cyprien, Saint-Éloi, Saint-Épiphane, Sainte-Françoise, Saint-François-Xavier-de-Viger, Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna, Saint-Guy, Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup, Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux, Saint-Médard, Saint-Modeste, Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, Sainte-Rita, Saint-Simon and Trois-Pistoles. Riding also contains the First Nation reserves of Cacouna and Whitworth.

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

Riding history: Rivière-du-Loup began with the 1931 election. It saw only minor changes in 1988 redistribution.

In the 2001 redistribution Saint-Guy, Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux, Saint-Médard and Saint-Simon were added from Rimouski (1,136 electors).

Political history: 1966 - Union Nationale 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB Since 1994 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 54.59 per cent; No - 45.41 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.4 per cent French: 99.5 per cent Other: 0.2 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970 and 1973	Liberal Paul Lafrance won in 1970 and 1973.
1976 and 1981	Parti Québécois's Jules Boucher defeated Liberal Lafrance in 1976 and was re-elected in 1981. Boucher resigned from the PQ to sit as an Independent on Jan. 28, 1985 after René Lévesque's statement that sovereignty should not be an issue in the next election
1985	Liberal Albert Côté defeated Parti Québécois's Denise Levesque by 2,304 votes. Appointed minister responsible for forests, December 1985.
1989	Côté defeated Parti Québécois's Harold LeBel by 2,581 votes. Reappointed minister responsible for forests, Oct. 11, 1989; minister of forests, January 1991. Côté resigned on Jan. 7, 1994.
1994	Mario Dumont, leader of the Action Démocratique du Québec, defeated Parti Québécois's Harold LeBel by 6,699 votes.
1998	Dumont defeated Parti Québécois's Lise Chouinard by 4,589 votes.
2003	Dumont defeated Liberal Jacques Morin by 7,867 votes.
2007	Dumont defeated Liberal Jean D'Amour. Dumont became leader of the opposition as the ADQ won 41 seats in the National Assembly.

RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	158/158 polls
ADQ	Mario Dumont	15,270	58.59	Elected
LIB	Jean D'Amour	7,337	28.15
PQ	Hugues Belzile	2,817	10.81
GRN	Martin Poirier	639	2.45

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

Choose a format to view results for all ridings and parties:

Launch interactive map Results tables

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

My Riding & Riding Talk

Have your say about what's important in your own riding. Read profiles about your candidates, get riding-related information and join the debate.

Find My Riding

List All Ridings

Back

Change My Riding List All Ridings

Quebec Votes Headlines

Separatist-bashing in Ottawa may have helped PQ: While Stephen Harper toasted a federalist victory in the Quebec election, some sovereigntists suggested Tuesday they might have him to thank for their higher-than-expected score.
Charest says he's here to stay after majority win: Quebec Premier Jean Charest had barely finished lunch the day after his third straight election win and he already found himself defending his appetite to see the term through.
Is Ottawa in the cards for Dumont?: Just one day after Mario Dumont announced his plan to quit Quebec politics, federal Conservatives were envisioning the prospect of luring the one-time right-wing wonderkid to Ottawa.
Charest wins 3rd mandate in Quebec: Jean Charest's political gamble has paid off: Quebecers handed his Liberal party a majority Monday night.
PQ gains help Marois rebuild party from disastrous 2007 election: Less than two years removed from being reduced to the province's third party, Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois guided her troops back to Official Opposition status Monday.
Dumont to step down after ADQ defeat: Action Démocratique du Québec Leader Mario Dumont is resigning as head of the party he founded after suffering a crushing defeat in Monday's election.
Almost half of Quebec voters shunned polls: Elections Quebec is calling Monday's historically low voter turnout a catastrophe.
In Montreal, plus ça change...: The status quo prevailed on the Island of Montreal on Monday night, with virtually no change in the city's provincial political alignments except for a breakthrough win by Québec Solidaire.
QS's Amir Khadir prevails over PQ in Montreal's Mercier riding: Community activist and physician Amir Khadir has been elected in Montreal's Mercier riding, beating Parti Québécois incumbent Daniel Turp.
Liberals gain in Abitibi-Témiscamingue region: The Liberals have dented the Parti Québécois's hold on the four ridings in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.

Quebec Votes Features