Results, Ridings & Candidates

Sherbrooke

2008 Results

SHERBROOKE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		215/215 polls
LIB	Jean Charest	13,694	45.21	Elected
PQ	Laurent-Paul Maheux	11,380	37.57
ADQ	Jacques Joly	2,065	6.82
QS	Christian Bibeau	1,956	6.46
GRN	Steve Dubois	1,016	3.35
IND	Hubert Richard	178	0.59

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Bibeau, Christian	Québec Solidaire
Charest, Jean	Quebec Liberal Party
Dubois, Steve	Green Party of Québec
Joly, Jacques	Action démocratique du Québec
Maheux, Laurent-Paul	Parti québécois
Richard, Hubert	Independent

Riding profile: Sherbrooke riding contains the Jacques-Cartier and Mont-Bellevue boroughs of the city of Sherbrooke.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1829. In the 1992 redistribution, it lost a small area to St-François and gained Sherbrooke polls from St-François and Orford.

In the 2001 redistribution, it lost to Johnson a small area from the north with 43 electors and to Orford a small area with five electors. Sherbrooke riding gained part of Ascot (4,452 electors) and part of Rock Forest (1,340 electors) from Saint-François and Orford ridings.

Political history: 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994 - PQ 1998, 2003 and 2007 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 53.28 per cent; No - 46.72 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 3.7 per cent French: 90.7 per cent Other: 5.5 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970, 1973	Liberal Jean-Paul Pépin won in 1970 and 1973.
1976	Parti Québécois's Gérard Gosselin defeated Pépin by 3,895 votes.
1981	Parti Québécois's Raynald Fréchette defeated Liberal Alain Cousineau. He was appointed minister of revenue, April 1981; minister responsible for labour, Sept. 9, 1982; minister of labour, Dec. 17, 1982; minister of justice and minister of labour, October 1985.
1985, 1989	Liberal André Hamel defeated Fréchette. Hamel was re-elected in 1989.
1994	Parti Québécois's Marie Malavoy defeated Liberal Gilles Lapointe by 1,391 votes. She was appointed minister of culture and communications, minister responsible for application of the French Language Charter, Sept. 26, 1994. She resigned from cabinet after it became public that she had voted in previous elections before she became a Canadian citizen but maintained her role as an MNA.
1998	Liberal Jean Charest defeated Parti Québécois's Malavoy by 907 votes. Having become Quebec Liberal leader on April 30, 1998, Charest became leader of the opposition following the 1998 general election.
2003	Charest defeated Malavoy by 2,520 votes. Charest was sworn in as premier on April 29, 2003.
2007	Charest defeated Parti Québécois's Claude Forgues. Charest became premier of the first minority government in Quebec since 1878.

SHERBROOKE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	212/212 polls
LIB	Jean Charest	13,136	36.56	Elected
PQ	Claude Forgues	11,804	32.85
ADQ	Michel Dumont	6,409	17.84
QS	Christian Bibeau	2,263	6.30
GRN	Steve Dubois	2,203	6.13
IND	Hubert Richard	115	0.32

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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