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Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne

2008 Results

SAINT-HENRI-SAINTE-ANNE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		222/222 polls
LIB	Marguerite Blais	10,552	45.85	Elected
PQ	Frédéric Isaya	8,535	37.08
QS	Marie-Eve Rancourt	1,471	6.39
ADQ	Claude Ludovic Mbany	1,326	5.76
GRN	Tim Landry	985	4.28
ML	Jean-Paul Bédard	146	0.63

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Bédard, Jean-Paul	Parti Marxiste-Léniniste du Québec
Blais, Marguerite	Quebec Liberal Party
Isaya, Frédéric	Parti Québécois
Landry, Tim	Green Party of Québec
Mbany, Claude Ludovic	Action Démocratique du Québec
Rancourt, Marie-Eve	Québec Solidaire

Riding profile: Saint-Henri-Saint-Anne is a south-central Montreal riding. It contains the part of Montreal bounded by: the boundary of Montreal and Westmount, Saint-Antoine Street West, McGill Street, Commune Street West, Bonaventure Highway (10), the Victoria Bridge, the St. Lawrence River, the boundary of the borough of Montreal with the towns of Verdun and LaSalle, the Lachine Canal, Décarie Highway (15) and the Ville-Marie Highway (720).

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

Riding history: The riding was created in the 1992 redistribution from all of Saint-Henri riding and part of Sainte-Anne riding. In the 2001 redistribution, the riding gained, from Westmount-Saint-Louis in the northwest, the part of Montreal bounded by Saint-Antoine Street West, McGill Street, Commune Street West, Bonaventure Highway, the Lachine Canal and Atwater Avenue (7,811 electors).

Political History: 1994, 1998, 2003, 2007 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 53.13 per cent; Yes - 46.87 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 16.6 per cent French: 64.3 per cent Other: 19.1 per cent (three per cent Spanish; three per cent Italian) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Sainte-Anne

1970, 1973	Liberal George Springate was elected in 1970 and 1973. Springate ran in Westmount in 1976.
1976	Parti Québécois's Jean-Marc Lacoste won in 1976. Liberal Maximilien Polak won in 1981 and 1985.
1989	Liberal Normand Cherry won in 1989. Cherry was appointed minister for cultural communities, October 1989; minister of labour, October 1990; minister of transport, Jan. 11, 1994. He was the Liberal candidate in St-Laurent in 1994.

Saint-Henri

1976	Parti Québécois's Jacques Couture won in 1976. He served as minister of immigration and minister of labour and manpower. Couture resigned from cabinet on Nov. 6 1980 and quit as MNA Jan. 30, 1981. He did not want to remain after the loss of the 1980 sovereignty referendum.
1981	Liberal Roma Hains won in 1981 and 1985.
1989	Liberal Nicole Loiselle defeated Parti Québécois's Francine Lalonde by 479 votes.

Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne

1994	Loiselle, incumbent from Saint-Henri, defeated Parti Québécois's Réjean Thomas by 641 votes.
1998	Loiselle defeated Parti Québécois's Luc Labelle by 2,307 votes.
2003	Loiselle defeated Parti Québécois's Raymond Munger by 6,174 votes.
2007	Liberal Marguerite Blais defeated Parti Québécois's Robin Philpot. She was appointed minister responsible for seniors.

SAINT-HENRI-SAINTE-ANNE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	213/213 polls
LIB	Marguerite Blais	11,915	38.47	Elected
PQ	Robin Philpot	9,172	29.62
ADQ	Chantal Beauregard	5,422	17.51
GRN	Shawna O'Flaherty	2,179	7.04
QS	Arthur Sandborn	2,037	6.58
CDP	Andrzej Jastrzebski	141	0.46
ML	Rachel Hoffman	103	0.33

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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