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Terrebonne

2008 Results

TERREBONNE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		229/229 polls
PQ	Mathieu Traversy	15,455	45.10	Elected
LIB	Chantal Leblanc	9,439	27.54
ADQ	Jean-François Therrien	7,377	21.53
GRN	Yoland Gilbert	1,103	3.22
QS	Sabrina Perreault	894	2.61

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Gilbert, Yoland	Green Party of Québec
Leblanc, Chantal	Quebec Liberal Party
Perreault, Sabrina	Québec Solidaire
Therrien, Jean-François	Action Démocratique du Québec
Traversy, Mathieu	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Terrebonne is located off the northeast of Montreal Island. It is a riding that is experiencing rapid growth and is home to a number of low- to middle-income homeowners. The riding contains the communities of Terrebonne and Lachenaie within the city of Terrebonne.

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

Riding history: Terrebonne has existed since the 1830 election. In the 1988 redistribution, a large part of the riding moved to Masson while 17 per cent of Groulx and 11.86 per cent of Rousseau were added.

In the 1992 redistribution, a large part of Terrebonne moved to the new Blainville riding and part of Masson was gained.

The only change in the 2001 redistribution was that a small area with no electors from the western part of the riding moved to Masson.

Political history: 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976-2003 - PQ 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 67.30 per cent; No - 32.70 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 1.8 per cent French: 96.3 per cent Other: 2.0 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970, 1973	Liberal Denis Hardy defeated Parti Québécois's Guy Mercier in 1970 and 1973. He was minister of cultural affairs as of November 1973; minister of communications, 1975-76.
1976	Parti Québécois's Élie Fallu defeated Hardy. Fallu ran in Groulx in 1981.
1981, 1985	Parti Québécois's Yves Blais won in 1981 and 1985. Blais ran in Masson in 1989.
1989	Parti Québécois's Jocelyne Caron defeated Liberal Marcel Lorrain by 2,940 votes.
1994	Caron defeated Liberal Danyelle Byles by 11,444 votes. Appointed chief government whip (first woman in Quebec to be appointed whip), Aug. 25, 1997.
1998	Caron defeated Liberal François Duval by 13,057 votes.
2003	Caron defeated Liberal Marcel Théorêt by 5,925 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québec's Jean-François Therrien defeated Caron.

TERREBONNE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	222/222 polls
ADQ	Jean-François Therrien	17,223	41.26	Elected
PQ	Jocelyne Caron	15,160	36.31
LIB	Chantal Leblanc	6,720	16.10
GRN	Pierre-Charles De Guise	1,508	3.61
QS	Jean Baril	1,136	2.72

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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