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Taschereau

2008 Results

TASCHEREAU
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		217/217 polls
PQ	Agnès Maltais	11,768	44.22	Elected
LIB	Hébert Dufour	7,845	29.48
ADQ	Renée-Claude Lizotte	3,563	13.39
QS	Serge Roy	2,241	8.42
GRN	Antonine Yaccarini	1,048	3.94
PI	Mélanie Thériault	149	0.56

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Hébert Dufour	Quebec Liberal Party
Renée-Claude Lizotte	Action Démocratique du Québec
Agnès Maltais	Parti Québécois
Serge Roy	Québec Solidaire
Mélanie Thériault	Parti indépendantiste
Antonine Yaccarini	Green Party of Québec

Riding profile: Taschereau riding contains the parish of Notre-Dame-des-Anges and the part of Quebec City bounded by: the Saint-Charles River, the St. Lawrence River, the boundary of the towns of Quebec and Sillery, the cliff, the fortification wall, Grande Allée Est, Grande Allée Ouest, Avenue des Érables, Chemin Sainte-Foy, eastern limit of the land of the Saint-Joseph-de-Saint-Vallier School, Coteau Ste-Geneviève, Avenue St-Sacrement, Boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel, the boundary of Quebec City and Vanier, Wilfrid-Hamel Boulevard, Lamontagne Avenue, 18th Street and the CN railway line.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1972 from parts of Jean-Talon and Saint-Sauveur ridings.

In the 1992 redistribution, Taschereau gained part of Jean-Talon.

In the 2001 redistribution, it gained from Vanier the part of Quebec City bounded by: Wilfrid-Hamel Boulevard, Lamontagne Avenue, 18th Street, 3rd Avenue, St-Charles River and the border of Quebec City and Vanier (6,801 electors). It also gained from Limoilou the part of Quebec City bounded by: 18th Street, the CN railway line, St-Charles River and 3rd Avenue (5,337 electors).

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

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 59.05 per cent; No - 40.95 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 1.9 per cent French: 94.4 per cent Other: 3.5 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Irénée Bonnier won in 1973.
1976, 1981	Parti Québécois's Richard Guay won in 1976 and 1981. He was defeated in 1985. Guay became president, or speaker, of the national assembly March 23, 1983.
1985, 1989	Liberal Jean Leclerc won in 1985 and 1989. He was appointed junior minister for government services and vice-president of the Treasury Board, Jan. 11, 1994.
1994	Parti Québécois's André Gaulin defeated Liberal Jean-Guy Gilbert by 5,783 votes.
1998	Parti Québécois's Agnès Maltais defeated Liberal Claude Doré by 2,534 votes. She was minister of culture and communications, Dec. 15, 1998 to March 8, 2001; minister for health, social services and youth protection, March 8, 2001 to Jan. 30, 2002; minister for employment, as of Jan. 30, 2002.
2003	Maltais defeated Liberal Michel Beaudoin by 1,685 votes.
2007	Maltais defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Caroline Pageau.

TASCHEREAU
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	213/215 polls
PQ	Agnès Maltais	12,311	37.11	Elected
ADQ	Caroline Pageau	9,137	27.54
LIB	Philippe Cannon	7,051	21.25
QS	Serge Roy	2,736	8.25
GRN	Yonnel Bonaventure	1,859	5.60
IND	Luc Schulz	81	0.24

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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