Results, Ridings & Candidates

Saint-Jean

2008 Results

SAINT-JEAN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		226/226 polls
PQ	Dave Turcotte	13,474	39.15	Elected
LIB	Jean-Pierre Paquin	12,568	36.52
ADQ	Lucille Méthé	6,266	18.21
GRN	Éric Beaudry	1,034	3.00
QS	Danielle Desmarais	768	2.23
PI	Martin Rioux	189	0.55
IND	Guillaume Tremblay	118	0.34

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Beaudry, Éric	Green Party of Québec
Desmarais, Danielle	Québec Solidaire
Méthé, Lucille	Action Démocratique du Québec
Paquin, Jean-Pierre	Quebec Liberal Party
Rioux, Martin	Parti indépendantiste
Tremblay, Guillaume	Independent
Turcotte, Dave	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Saint-Jean riding is located just north of the Quebec- New York border. It contains Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu and the part of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu that is west of the Richelieu River.

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

Riding history: The riding has existed since the 1854 election. It was called Saint-Jean-Napierville in the 1939 and 1941 elections.

In the 1992 redistribution, part of the riding moved to Beauharnois-Huntingdon.

In the 2001 redistribution, Lacolle and the parishes of Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix and Saint-Valentin were lost to Huntingdon from the southwest (4,726 electors).

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

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 56.14 per cent; No - 43.86 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 3.1 per cent French: 95.0 per cent Other: 1.9 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970	Liberal Jacques Veilleux defeated Parti Québécois's Jerome Proulx in 1970 and 1973.
1976	Proulx defeated Veilleux in 1976 and 1981. Proulx was the party whip 1976-79. He quit the PQ caucus on Nov. 22, 1984, after René Lévesque's statement that sovereignty should not be an issue in the next election. He sat as an Independent until December 1984 when he returned to the PQ caucus.
1985	Liberal Pierre Lorrain defeated Proulx by 7,451 votes. he was appointed president, or speaker, of the national assembly on Dec. 16, 1985.
1989	Liberal Michel Charbonneau defeated Parti Québécois's Roger Paquin by 5,190 votes.
1994	In the 1994 election, Paquin and Charbonneau were tied with 16, 536 votes, each. A special election was held one month later, on Oct. 24, 1994. Paquin won the second ballot by 532 votes.
1998	Paquin defeated Liberal Gilles Solbec by 3,770 votes.
2003	Liberal Jean-Pierre Paquin defeated Parti Québécois's incumbent Paquin by 1,335 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Lucille Méthé defeated Parti Québécois's Dave Turcotte.

SAINT-JEAN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	227/227 polls
ADQ	Lucille Méthé	17,189	42.22	Elected
PQ	Dave Turcotte	11,916	29.27
LIB	Jean-Pierre Paquin	10,131	24.88
QS	Guillaume Tremblay	1,478	3.63

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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