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Vachon

2008 Results

VACHON
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		187/187 polls
PQ	Camil Bouchard	13,203	48.39	Elected
LIB	Georges Painchaud	8,802	32.26
ADQ	Jean-François Denis	3,776	13.84
GRN	Denis Durand	886	3.25
QS	Vincent Lagacé	615	2.25

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Camil Bouchard	Parti Québécois
Jean-François Denis	Action Démocratique du Québec
Denis Durand	Green Party of Québec
Vincent Lagacé	Québec Solidaire
Georges Painchaud	Quebec Liberal Party

Riding profile: Vachon is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Montreal Island. It contains largely blue-collar communities with many young families. It includes the part of Longueuil bounded by the CN railway line along Maricourt Boulevard and the boundary of St-Hubert with the following towns: Longueuil, Boucherville, St-Bruno-de-Montarville, Carignan, Brossard and Greenfield Park.

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

Riding history: The riding was created in 1980 from part of Taillon riding. In the 1992 redistribution, Vachon lost 51 polls in St-Hubert to Laporte riding.

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

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 56.76 per cent; No - 43.24 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 7.6 per cent French: 86.5 per cent Other: 5.9 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1981	Parti Québécois's David Payne defeated Liberal Jacques Roy by 5,699 votes.
1985	Liberal Christiane Pelchat defeated Payne in 1985 and 1989. Pelchat did not run in 1994, saying she had to resume work on her law degree, which was interrupted in 1985, or lose 45 credits earned at Laval.
1994	Payne ran again and defeated LIB André Nadeau by 3,531 votes.
1998	Payne defeated Liberal Sophie Joncas by 5,238 votes.
2003	Parti Québécois's Camil Bouchard defeated Liberal Brigitte Mercier by 219 votes.
2007	Bouchard defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Maro Akoury.

VACHON
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	179/179 polls
PQ	Camil Bouchard	11,581	34.63	Elected
ADQ	Maro Akoury	11,349	33.93
LIB	Brigitte Mercier	8,383	25.06
GRN	Denis Durand	1,371	4.10
QS	Richard St-Onge	762	2.28

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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