Results, Ridings & Candidates

Robert-Baldwin

2008 Results

ROBERT-BALDWIN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		220/220 polls
LIB	Pierre Marsan	17,078	81.07	Elected
PQ	Alexandre Pagé-Chassé	1,602	7.61
GRN	Maryse Goulet	1,059	5.03
ADQ	Alexandra Lauzon	877	4.16
QS	Sarah Landry	375	1.78
ML	Nicholas Lin	74	0.35

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Goulet, Maryse	Green Party of Québec
Landry, Sarah	Québec Solidaire
Lauzon, Alexandra	Action Démocratique du Québec
Lin, Nicholas	Parti Marxiste-Léniniste du Québec
Marsan, Pierre	Quebec Liberal Party
Pagé-Chassé, Alexandre	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Robert-Baldwin contains the part of Montreal bounded by: the Prairies River, the boundary of the borough of Pierrefonds with the boroughs of Montreal and Saint-Laurent, the boundary of Dollard-des-Ormeaux with the boroughs of Saint-Laurent, Dorval, Pointe-Claire, Kirkland and Pierrefonds, Saint John's Boulevard, Pierrefonds Boulevard, Sources Boulevard and its extension.

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

Riding history: Robert-Baldwin was created in 1965 from part of the Jacques-Cartier riding.

In the 1988 redistribution, 10,081 moved electors to Nelligan. In 1992 a portion of Nelligan was moved to this riding.

Political history: 1966 - Independent Since 1970 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 89.83 per cent; Yes - 10.17 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 42.0 per cent French: 26.1 per cent Other: 32.0 per cent (5.2 per cent Arabic; 3.0 per cent Greek; 3.2 per cent Italian) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1966, 1970	Independent Arthur-Ewen Séguin defeated Liberal Norman Wray. Re-elected as a Liberal in 1973.
1973	Liberal Jean Cournoyer defeated Parti Québécois's Serge Brodeur by 21,106 votes. Cournoyer had won as a Union Nationale candidate in a 1969 byelection in St-Jacques; defeated in 1970; elected as Liberal in byelection in Chambly on Feb. 8, 1971. Served as minister of labour and manpower, Oct. 29, 1970 to 1975; added minister of civil service, 1972; appointed minister of natural resources, 1975. Cournoyer ran in Richelieu in 1976 and was defeated.
1976, 1981	Liberal John O'Gallagher won in 1976 and 1981.
1985	Liberal Pierre MacDonald defeated Parti Québécois's Michelle Dozois by 22,368 votes. Appointed minister of external trade and minister of technological development, December 1985. Minister of industry, commerce and technological development, July 6, 1988.
1989	Liberal Sam Elkas defeated Equality Party's Adrian Waller by 1,384 votes. Appointed minister of transport and public security, 1989; minister of transport Oct. 5, 1990 to Jan. 11, 1994. After being nominated for the 1994 election, Elkas said on July 20, 1994 that he had decided to give a younger candidate a chance.
1994	Liberal Pierre Marsan defeated Parti Québécois's Nicolas Tetrault by 26,324 votes.
1998	Marsan defeated Parti Québécois's André Allard by 28,208 votes.
2003	Marsan defeated Parti Québécois's Alphonse Boisrond by 26,257 votes.
2007	Marsan defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Ginette Lemire by 18,890 votes.

ROBERT-BALDWIN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	215/215 polls
LIB	Pierre Marsan	22,131	74.75	Elected
ADQ	Ginette Lemire	3,243	10.95
GRN	Shawn Katz	2,136	7.21
PQ	Alexandre Pagé-Chassé	1,578	5.33
QS	Jocelyne Messih	517	1.75

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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