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Shefford

2008 Results

SHEFFORD
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		244/244 polls
ADQ	François Bonnardel	11,340	34.75	Elected
LIB	Jean-Claude Tremblay	11,277	34.56
PQ	Jean-François Arsenault	7,957	24.39
QS	Ginette Moreau	1,085	3.33
GRN	Martin Giard	790	2.42
IND	Lucie Piédalue	181	0.55

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Arsenault, Jean-François	Parti Québécois
Bonnardel, François	Action Démocratique du Québec
Giard, Martin	Green Party of Québec
Moreau, Ginette	Québec Solidaire
Piédalue, Lucie	Independent
Tremblay, Jean-Claude	Quebec Liberal Party

Riding profile: Shefford riding contains the following municipalities: Granby, Shefford, Warden and Waterloo.

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

Riding history: The riding was first created in the 1832 election. In the 2001 redistribution, nine per cent of the riding moved to Johnson, including an area from the north containing Roxton Pond, Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford parish and the township of Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton (4,698 electors).

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

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 52.18 per cent; No - 47.82 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 3.8 per cent French: 95.1 per cent Other: 1.1 per centSource: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Richard Verreault won in 1973 and 1976; defeated in 1981.
1981–1989	Parti Québécois's Roger Paré won in 1981, 1985 and 1989.
Feb. 28, 1994 byelection	Liberal Bernard Brodeur defeated Parti Québécois's Roger Nicolet by 4,132 votes.
1994	Brodeur defeated Parti Québécois's Jean-Marc Savoie by 1,323 votes.
1998	Brodeur defeated Parti Québécois's René Marois by 73 votes.
2003	Brodeur defeated Parti Québécois's Jean-François de la Chevrotière by 6,318 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Quebec's François Bonnardel defeated Brodeur by 5,746 votes.

SHEFFORD
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	247/247 polls
ADQ	François Bonnardel	16,648	42.12	Elected
LIB	Bernard Brodeur	10,897	27.57
PQ	Paul Sarrazin	9,280	23.48
QS	Ginette Moreau	1,310	3.31
GRN	Jean-François Arsenault	1,178	2.98
BP	Dominic Thibeault	210	0.53

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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