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Saint-Hyacinthe

2008 Results

SAINT-HYACINTHE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		224/224 polls
PQ	Émilien Pelletier	11,822	38.07	Elected
LIB	Claude Corbeil	11,609	37.38
ADQ	Claude L'Écuyer	5,690	18.32
GRN	Louis-Pierre Beaudry	975	3.14
QS	Richard Gingras	957	3.08

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Beaudry, Louis-Pierre	Green Party of Québec
Corbeil, Claude	Quebec Liberal Party
Gingras, Richard	Québec Solidaire
L'Écuyer, Claude	Action Démocratique du Québec
Pelletier, Émilien	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Saint-Hyacinthe riding contains the following municipalities: Saint-Barnabé-Sud, Saint-Damase, Saint-Dominique, Saint-Hugues, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Liboire and Saint-Simon.

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

Riding history: The riding has existed since the 1830 election. In the 1988 redistribution, 2.53 per cent of Johnson riding was moved to Saint-Hyacinthe. There was no change in the 1992 or 2001 redistributions.

Political history: 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976 - Union Nationale 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998, 2003 - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 55.30 per cent; No - 44.70 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.8 per cent French: 98.2 per cent Other: 1.2 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970, 1973	Liberal Fernand Cornellier won in 1970 and 1973; was third in 1976.
1976	Union Nationale's Fabien Cordeau defeated Parti Québécois's Charles Tremblay by 58 votes.
1981	Parti Québécois's Maurice Dupré defeated Liberal Roger Duceppe by 2,597 votes.
1985	Liberal Charles Messier defeated Dupré by 523 votes.
1989	Messier defeated Parti Québécois's Laurent Denis by 3,350 votes.
1994	Parti Québécois's Léandre Dion defeated Liberal Gabriel Michaud by 1,092 votes.
1998	Dion defeated Liberal Jean-François Milette by 5,107 votes.
2003	Dion defeated Liberal Pierre Solis by 733 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Claude L'Écuyer defeated Dion.

SAINT-HYACINTHE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	210/210 polls
ADQ	Claude L'Écuyer	13,216	35.77	Elected
PQ	Léandre Dion	11,879	32.15
LIB	Claude Corbeil	9,563	25.88
GRN	Catherine Desrochers	1,265	3.42
QS	Richard Gingras	1,029	2.78

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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