Results, Ridings & Candidates

Saint-Laurent

2008 Results

SAINT-LAURENT
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		205/205 polls
LIB	Jacques P. Dupuis	15,663	74.39	Elected
PQ	Gabrielle Dufour-Turcotte	3,505	16.65
ADQ	Jose Fiorilo	1,009	4.79
QS	Bill Sloan	731	3.47
ML	Fernand Deschamps	147	0.70

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Deschamps, Fernand	Parti Marxiste-Léniniste du Québec
Dufour-Turcotte, Gabrielle	Parti Québécois
Dupuis, Jacques P.	Quebec Liberal Party
Fiorilo, Jose	Action Démocratique du Québec
Sloan, Bill	Québec Solidaire

Riding profile: Saint-Laurent is a multicultural riding in Montreal that contains the part of the city bounded by: the boundary of the boroughs of Montreal and Pierrefonds, the Prairies River including the Île aux Chats, the Laurentian Highway (15), the boundary of the towns of Montreal and Saint-Laurent, O'Brien Avenue, Côte-Vertu Boulevard, Sainte-Croix Avenue and the boundary of the Saint-Laurent borough with Mount-Royal, Montreal, Côte-Saint-Luc, Lachine, Dorval, Dollard-des-Ormeaux and Pierrefonds.

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

Riding history: Saint-Laurent was created in 1965 from parts of Laval and Jacques-Cartier ridings. There have been no changes to the riding in recent redistributions.

Political history: Since 1966 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 82.85 per cent; Yes - 17.15 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 17.5 per cent French: 35.0 per cent Other: 47.5 per cent (8.0 per cent Arabic; 6.0 per cent Chinese; 4.3 per cent Greek) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973–1981	Liberal Claude Forget won in 1973, 1976 and 1981. He was appointed minister of social affairs in November 1973. Forget resigned on Nov. 19, 1981, saying he thought that, technically speaking, the government was in a state of bankruptcy.
Apr. 5, 1982 byelection	Liberal Germain Leduc defeated Parti Québécois's Michel Boisvert.
1985	Leduc defeated Parti Québécois's Michel Larouche by 16,367 votes. Leduc resigned to create a vacancy for recently re-elected Liberal leader Robert Bourassa.
Jan. 20, 1986 byelection	Bourassa defeated New Democrat Sid Ingerman. (The Parti Québécois did not run a candidate). Bourassa had been elected in a byelection in Bertrand in 1985 but defeated in the 1985 general election.
1989	Bourassa defeated Equality Party's Ciro Paul Scotti by 8,392 votes.
1994	Liberal Normand Cherry, incumbent from Sainte-Anne, defeated Parti Québécois's Louis Thibaudeau, by 20,109 votes.
1998	Liberal Jacques Dupuis defeated Parti Québécois's Yves Beauregard by 22,551 votes.
2003	Dupuis defeated Parti Québécois's William Fayad by 20,189 votes.
2007	Dupuis defeated Fayad.

SAINT-LAURENT
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	217/217 polls
LIB	Jacques P. Dupuis	19,970	67.68	Elected
PQ	William Fayad	3,447	11.68
ADQ	Jose Fiorilo	3,373	11.43
GRN	Stephen Marchant	1,718	5.82
QS	Wissam Saliba	856	2.90
ML	Fernand Deschamps	141	0.48

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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