Results, Ridings & Candidates

Verdun

2008 Results

VERDUN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		184/184 polls
LIB	Henri-François Gautrin	11,223	47.70	Elected
PQ	Richard Langlais	8,314	35.34
ADQ	Moscou Côté	1,411	6.00
QS	Chantale Michaud	1,215	5.16
GRN	Sébastien Beausoleil	1,087	4.62
IND	Sylvie R. Tremblay	216	0.92
IND	Robert Lindblad	61	0.26

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Sébastien Beausoleil	Green Party of Québec
Moscou Côté	Action Démocratique du Québec
Henri-François Gautrin	Quebec Liberal Party
Richard Langlais	Parti Québécois
Robert Lindblad	Independent
Chantale Michaud	Québec Solidaire
Sylvie R. Tremblay	Independent

Riding profile: Verdun riding is on the south-east point of Montreal and is made up of the city's borough of Verdun.

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

Riding history: Verdun riding was created in 1965 from the Montreal-Verdun riding. In the 1992 redistribution, Verdun lost polls in LaSalle to Marguerite-Bourgeoys and gained Verdun polls from Sainte-Anne riding when it was eliminated. Following this redistribution, the riding was comprised of 54.32 per cent of Verdun and 45.68 per cent of Sainte-Anne when compared to the previous election.

Political history: Sainte-Anne 1970 - LIB. 1976 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB.

Verdun Since 1966 - LIB.

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 59.66 per cent; Yes - 40.34 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 18.3 per cent French: 68.4 per cent Other: 13.3 per cent (2.8 per cent Chinese; 1.9 per cent Arabic) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Sainte-Anne

1973	Liberal incumbent George Springate defeated Parti Québécois's Pierre Bergevin.
1976	Parti Québécois's Jean-Marc Lacoste defeated Liberal Bruno Fortin.
1981, 1985	Liberal Maximilien Polak defeated Lacoste and was re-elected in 1985.
1989	Liberal Norman Cherry defeated Parti Québécois's Gilles Cormier by 1,112 votes.

Verdun

1970-1981	Liberal Lucien Caron won in 1970, 1973, 1976 and 1981.
1985	Liberal Paul Gobeil defeated Parti Québécois's Paul Asselin by 7,954 votes. Served as president of the Treasury Board and minister responsible for administration, Dec. 12, 1985 to June 23, 1988; minister of international affairs, June 23, 1988 to Oct. 11, 1989.
1989	Liberal Henri-François Gautrin defeated Parti Québécois's Maurice Roch by 1,367 votes.
1994	Gautrin defeated Parti Québécois's Richard Holden by 6,429 votes.
1998	Gautrin defeated Parti Québécois's Yves Bernard by 5,771 votes.
2003	Gautrin defeated Parti Québécois's Denis Martel by 6,410 votes. Served as minister for online government, Feb. 18, 2005 to Feb. 27, 2006; minister of government services, Feb. 27, 2006 to April 18, 2007.
2007	Gautrin defeated Parti Québécois's Richard Langlais. Currently deputy government house leader.

VERDUN
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	190/190 polls
LIB	Henri-François Gautrin	12,204	40.94	Elected
PQ	Richard Langlais	8,688	29.14
ADQ	Sylvie Tremblay	5,239	17.57
GRN	Pierre-Yves McSween	1,868	6.27
QS	David Fennario	1,430	4.80
CDP	Gilles Noël	118	0.40
BP	Sala Samghour	106	0.36
IND	Robert Lindblad	83	0.28
ML	Normand Fournier	74	0.25

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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