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Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques

2008 Results

SAINTE-MARIE-SAINT-JACQUES
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		191/191 polls
PQ	Martin Lemay	9,135	46.21	Elected
LIB	Éric Prud'Homme	5,536	28.00
QS	Manon Massé	3,009	15.22
GRN	Annie Morel	1,089	5.51
ADQ	Dominic Boisvert	793	4.01
ML	Serge Lachapelle	207	1.05

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

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Candidates:

NAMES	PARTY
Boisvert, Dominic	Action Démocratique du Québec
Lachapelle, Serge	Parti Marxiste-Léniniste du Québec
Lemay, Martin	Parti Québécois
Massé, Manon	Québec Solidaire
Morel, Annie	Green Party of Québec
Prud'Homme, Éric	Quebec Liberal Party

Riding profile: Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques is located in southeast Montreal. The riding includes upscale Habitat 67 and Tropique Nord high-rises, the casino, most of old Montreal, the gay village and part of Chinatown. Sainte-Marie Saint-Jacques contains the part of Montreal bounded by: Rachel Street East, Frontenac and its extension, the St. Lawrence River passing around and including Sainte-Hélène Island and Notre-Dame Island, Victoria Bridge, Bonaventure Highway (10), Commune Street West, McGill Street, Saint-Antoine Street West, Saint-Antoine Street East, the extension of the Sanguinet Street, René-Lévesque Boulevard East and Saint-Laurent Boulevard.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in the 1988 redistribution out of 19,124 electors from Sainte-Marie and 24,626 from Saint-Jacques. In the 1992 redistribution, it lost area to Mercier and gained 10,954 electors from St-Louis.

In the 2001 redistribution, the area south of the CP rail line moved to Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and the northern boundary became Frontenac Street (5,130 electors).

Political history: Sainte-Marie: 1966, 1969 byelection - Union Nationale 1970 - PQ 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985 - LIB

Saint-Jacques: 1969 byelection - Union Nationale 1970-1981 inclusive - PQ 1983 byelection, 1984 election - LIB 1985 - PQ

Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques: Since 1989 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 58.65 per cent; No - 41.35 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 8.4 per cent French: 75.5 per cent Other: 16.1 per cent (3.4 per cent Spanish; 2.6 per cent Punjabi) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1989	Parti Québécois's André Boulerice, incumbent from Saint-Jacques, defeated Liberal Michel Laporte, incumbent from Sainte-Marie, by 5,450 votes.
1994	Boulerice defeated Liberal Martin Ore by 6,662 votes.
1998	Boulerice defeated Liberal Claude Longpré by 6,808 votes.
2003	Boulerice defeated Liberal Richard Brosseau by 6,808 votes. Boulerice resigned his seat on Sept. 12, 2005, prompting a byelection.
April 10, 2006 byelection	Parti Québécois's Martin Lemay defeated Liberal Nathalie Malépart by 1,762 votes.
2007	Lemay defeated Liberal Denise Dussault.

SAINTE-MARIE-SAINT-JACQUES
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	190/190 polls
PQ	Martin Lemay	10,501	41.34	Elected
LIB	Denise Dussault	6,021	23.70
QS	Manon Massé	3,596	14.16
ADQ	Jean-Stéphane Dupervil	2,733	10.76
GRN	Corinne Ardon	2,460	9.68
ML	Serge Lachapelle	92	0.36

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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