Results, Ridings & Candidates

Saint-François

2008 Results

SAINT-FRANÇOIS
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		194/194 polls
LIB	Monique Gagnon-Tremblay	13,327	46.96	Elected
PQ	Réjean Hébert	11,845	41.74
ADQ	Vincent Marmion	2,230	7.86
QS	Sandy Tremblay	769	2.71
IND	François Mailly	210	0.74

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Gagnon-Tremblay, Monique	Quebec Liberal Party
Hébert, Réjean	Parti Québécois
Mailly, François	Independent
Marmion, Vincent	Action Démocratique du Québec
Tremblay, Sandy	Québec Solidaire

Riding profile: Saint-François riding contains the following municipalities: Coaticook, Compton and Waterville. It also contains two boroughs of the City of Sherbrooke.

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

Riding history: Saint-François was created in 1972 from parts of Sherbrooke, Compton and Richmond.

In the 1988 redistribution, the riding lost a portion to Orford. In the 1992 redistribution, it lost areas to Sherbrooke and Mégantic-Compton.

In the 2001 redistribution, it lost part of Ascot that was in the riding (4,452 electors) to Sherbrooke; Hatley Canton (582 electors) to Orford; part of Eaton (565 electors) in the northeast to Mégantic-Compton; part of Fleurimont (255 electors) in the north to Johnson. It gained parts of Coaticook from Orford and Mégantic-Compton (6,096 and 441 electors, respectively).

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ Since 1985 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 50.16 per cent; No - 49.84 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 7.7 per cent French: 90.5 per cent Other: 1.9 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Gérard Déziel defeated Parti Québécois's Robert Sabourin.
1976, 1981	Parti Québécois's Réal Rancourt won in 1976 and 1981; lost in 1985, 1989.
1985, 1989	Liberal Monique Gagnon-Tremblay won in 1985, 1989. She was appointed minister responsible for the status of women, December 1985; minister of cultural communities and immigration, March 1989; vice-president of the Treasury Board, Sept. 25, 1989; minister of finance, October 1993; deputy premier, president of Treasury Board and minister responsible for administration and public service, Jan. 11-Sept. 1994.
1994	Liberal Gagnon-Tremblay defeated Parti Québécois's René Turcotte by 2,616 votes.
1998	Gagnon-Tremblay defeated Parti Québécois's Frédéric Dubé by 3,679 votes.
2003	Gagnon-Tremblay defeated Parti Québécois's Guillaume Breault-Duncan by 6,536 votes.
2007	Gagnon-Tremblay defeated Parti Québécois's Mariette Fugère.

SAINT-FRANÇOIS
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	208/208 polls
LIB	Monique Gagnon-Tremblay	12,523	37.84	Elected
PQ	Mariette Fugère	9,798	29.60
ADQ	François Rioux	7,892	23.85
GRN	Anick Proulx	1,772	5.35
QS	Suzanne Thériault	1,111	3.36

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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