Results, Ridings & Candidates

Saint-Maurice

2008 Results

SAINT-MAURICE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		163/163 polls
PQ	Claude Pinard	8,769	41.41	Elected
LIB	Céline Trépanier	8,138	38.43
ADQ	Robert Deschamps	3,119	14.73
GRN	Stéphane Normandin	447	2.11
QS	Allison Molesworth	429	2.03
IND	Yves Demers	276	1.30

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Yves Demers	Independent
Robert Deschamps	Action Démocratique du Québec
Allison Molesworth	Québec Solidaire
Stéphane Normandin	Green Party of Québec
Claude Pinard	Parti Québécois
Céline Trépanier	Quebec Liberal Party

Riding profile: Saint-Maurice riding contains the following municipalities: Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan and Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc. It also contains the following communities in Shawinigan: Lac-à-la-Tortue, Saint-Gérard-des-Laurentides, Shawinigan and Shawinigan-Sud.

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

Riding history: The riding was first created in 1792. In the 2001 redistribution, Saint-Maurice gained in the west from Maskinongé, adding part of Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc (15 electors), as well as an area from Laviolette with no electors.

Political history: 1966, 1973 - Union Nationale 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998, 2003 - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 55.99 per cent; No - 44.01 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.9 per cent French: 98.8 per cent Other: 0.4 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970	Union Nationale's Philippe Demers, who had won in 1966, defeated Parti Québécois's Yves Duhaime.
1973	Liberal Marcel Bérard defeated Duhaime.
1976	Duhaime defeated Bérard by 4,788 votes. He was appointed minister of tourism, fish and game, November 1976.
1981	Duhaime defeated Liberal Yvon Lemire by 4,863 votes. He was appointed minister of energy and resources, April 1981; minister of finance, Nov. 27, 1984 (after Jacques Parizeau resigned).
1985, 1989	Liberal Lemire ran again and won in 1985 and 1989.
1994	Parti Québécois's Claude Pinard defeated Lemire by 2,137 votes.
1998	Pinard defeated Liberal Serge Aubry by 3,728 votes.
2003	Pinard defeated Liberal Bob Vallières by 628 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Robert Deschamps defeated Pinard.

SAINT-MAURICE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	158/158 polls
ADQ	Robert Deschamps	9,772	37.76	Elected
PQ	Claude Pinard	8,474	32.75
LIB	France Beaulieu	6,447	24.91
QS	Marianne Mathis	798	3.08
IND	Francis Mondou	387	1.50

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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