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Vaudreuil

2008 Results

VAUDREUIL
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		213/213 polls
LIB	Yvon Marcoux	15,827	54.08	Elected
PQ	Claude Turcotte	8,789	30.03
ADQ	Lucie Boudreault	2,578	8.81
GRN	Julien Leclerc	1,083	3.70
QS	Maria Pia Chavez	543	1.86
IND	Kevin Côté	305	1.04
PR	Gilles Paquette	140	0.48

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Boudreault, Lucie	Action Démocratique du Québec
Chávez, Maria Pia	Québec Solidaire
Côté, Kevin	Independent
Leclerc, Julien	Green Party of Québec
Marcoux, Yvon	Quebec Liberal Party
Paquette, Gilles	Parti République du Québec
Turcotte, Claude	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Vaudreuil is located off the south-western tip of Montreal, near the Ontario border. The riding contains the following municipalities: Hudson, L'Île-Cadieux, L'Île-Perrot, Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot, Pincourt, Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Vaudreuil-Dorion and Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac.

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

Riding history: Vaudreuil first existed from 1830 to 1936. It changed to Vaudreuil-Soulanges in 1939. In the 1988 redistribution, Vaudreuil riding was re-established from 76.22 per cent of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.

In the 2001 redistribution, lost Pointe-Fortune, Rigaud, the parish of Ste-Justine-de-Newton, Ste-Marthe, St-Lazare and Très-Saint-Rédempteur (15,862 electors) to Soulanges riding to the west.

Political history: Vaudreuil-Soulanges: 1970, 1973 - LIB. 1976 - PQ 1981, 1985 - LIB.

Vaudreuil: Since 1989 - LIB.

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 60.77 per cent; Yes - 39.23 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 23.0 per cent French: 72.7 per cent Other: 4.3 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Vaudreuil-Soulanges

1976	Parti Québécois's Louise Cuerrier defeated Liberal Paul Phaneuf by 534 votes.
1981	Liberal Daniel Johnson defeated Cuerrier by 1,955 votes.
1985	Johnson defeated Parti Québécois's Gilles Thibault by 11,566 votes. Served as minister of industry and commerce, deputy house leader, Dec. 12, 1985 to June 23, 1988; president of Treasury Board and minister responsible for administration June 23, 1988 to Oct. 11, 1989.

Vaudreuil

1989	Johnson, the incumbent from Vaudreuil-Soulanges, defeated Parti Quécécois's Janelle Dominique. Served as president of Treasury Board June 23, 1988 to Jan. 11, 1994; minister responsible for administration and civil service, Oct. 11, 1989 to Jan. 11, 1994; deputy house leader, November 1989. Was acclaimed leader of Quebec Liberal Party, Dec. 14, 1993. Sworn in as premier, Jan. 11, 1994. Remained as premier until September 1994.
1994	Johnson defeated Parti Quécécois's Réjean Boyer by 9,107 votes. Johnson announced his resignation on March 2, 1998; replaced by Jean Charest as leader on April 30, 1998.
1998	Liberal Yvon Marcoux defeated Parti Quécécois's Yvon Faille by 6,711 votes.
2003	Marcoux defeated Faille by 8,917 votes.
2007	Marcoux defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Jean-Claude Levesque.

VAUDREUIL
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	206/206 polls
LIB	Yvon Marcoux	15,465	44.07	Elected
ADQ	Jean-Claude Levesque	8,787	25.04
PQ	Louisanne Chevrier	8,217	23.41
GRN	Jean-Yves Massenet	1,940	5.53
QS	Micheline Déry	686	1.95

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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