Results, Ridings & Candidates

Vanier

2008 Results

VANIER
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		226/226 polls
LIB	Patrick Huot	13,077	38.33	Elected
ADQ	Sylvain Légaré	12,599	36.93
PQ	Eric Boucher	7,512	22.02
QS	Monique Voisine	931	2.73

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Boucher, Éric	Parti Québécois
Huot, Patrick	Quebec Liberal Party
Légaré, Sylvain	Action Démocratique du Québec
Voisine, Monique	Québec Solidaire

Riding profile: Vanier riding contains the Quebec City borough of Les Rivières, which is made up of the communities of Lebourgneuf, Duberger, Les Saules and Vanier.

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

Riding history: Vanier was created in 1972 from parts of St-Sauveur, Limoilou and Louis-Hébert ridings.

In the 1992 redistribution, lost areas to Limoilou, Chaveau and La Peltrie and gained areas from La Peltrie and Chaveau.

In the 2001 redistribution, the area bounded by Wilfrid-Hamel Boulevard, Lamontagne Avenue, 18th Street, 3rd Avenue, St-Charles River and the border of Quebec and Vanier (6,801 electors) moved to Taschereau riding. In the west, the part of the city bounded by the Saint-Charles River, the border between Quebec City and Loretteville, Félix-Leclerc Highway, the border between Quebec City and L'Ancienne-Lorette and Ste-Foy and Henri-IV Highway (4,636 electors) was gained from La Peltrie.

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ 2003 - LIB 2004 byelection, 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 55.24 per cent; No - 44.76 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 1.1 per cent French: 96.9 per cent Other: 2.1 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Fernand Dufour defeated Parti Québécois's J. Arthur Bédard.
1976, 1981	Parti Québécois's Jean-François Bertrand defeated Liberal Dufour in 1976 and was re-elected in 1981. Served as minister of Communications, April 30, 1981 to Dec. 12, 1985; government house leader, Feb. 23, 1982 to March 5, 1984; deputy government house leader, March 12, 1984 to Oct. 23, 1985.
1985	Liberal Jean-Guy Lemieux defeated Parti Québécois's Bertrand in 1985 and was re-elected 1989.
1994	Parti Québécois's Diane Barbeau defeated Liberal André Morin by 8,799 votes.
1998	Barbeau defeated Liberal Marc Robert by 2,477 votes.
2003	Liberal Marc Bellemare defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Normand Morin by 4,466 votes. Served as minister of Justice, April 29, 2003 to April 27, 2004. One day later he resigned as an MNA.
Sept. 20, 2004 byelection	Action Démocratique du Québec's Sylvain Légaré defeated Liberal Michel Beaudoin by 4,500 votes.
2007	Légaré defeated Liberal Jean-Claude L'Abbée.

VANIER
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	227/227 polls
ADQ	Sylvain Légaré	20,653	51.04	Elected
LIB	Jean-Claude L'Abbée	9,925	24.53
PQ	Sylvain Lévesque	7,716	19.07
GRN	Lucien Gravelle	1,189	2.94
QS	Marie Dionne	865	2.14
CDP	Louis Casgrain	115	0.28

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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