Results, Ridings & Candidates

Viau

2008 Results

VIAU
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		168/168 polls
LIB	Emmanuel Dubourg	10,705	58.60	Elected
PQ	Martine Banolok	4,783	26.18
ADQ	Martin Fournier	1,186	6.49
QS	Rosa Matilde Dutra	916	5.01
GRN	Michel Cummings	678	3.71

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Banolok, Martine	Parti Québécois
Cummings, Michel	Green Party of Québec
Dubourg, Emmanuel	Quebec Liberal Party
Dutra, Rosa Matilde	Québec Solidaire
Fournier, Martin	Action Démocratique du Québec

Riding profile: Viau riding contains that part of Montreal bounded by the CN railway line, the boundary of Montreal with Montreal-North and St-Léonard, 24th Avenue, Bélanger Street and Papineau Avenue.

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

Riding history: Riding created in 1972 from parts of Olier, Dorion, Gouin and Jeanne-Mance ridings. In the 1992 redistribution, a part of Dorion riding was added.

In the 2001 redistribution, 4.0 per cent of the riding was moved to Gouin. The area bounded by the border of Montreal with St-Léonard, D'Hérelle Street and Pie-IX Boulevard (5,226 electors) was added in the north from Jeanne-Mance. In the northeast, the part of the city bounded by the border of Montreal with St- Léonard, 24th Avenue, Bélanger Street, Pie-IX Boulevard and the Metropolitan Highway was added from Viger.

Political history: 1973 - LIB 1976 - PQ Since 1981 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 68.92 per cent; Yes - 31.08 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 3.6 per cent French: 46.5 per cent Other: 50 per cent (12.9 per cent Italian; 9.1 per cent Spanish; 8.0 per cent Creole; 3.7 per cent Vietnamese; 3.6 per cent Chinese) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Fernand Picard, who won in Olier in 1966 and 1970, took the seat.
1976	Parti Québécois's Charles Lefebvre defeated Liberal Fernand Sauvé by 1,932 votes.
1981	Liberal William Cusano defeated Lefebvre by 4,103 votes.
1985	Cusano defeated Parti Québécois's Marie-Claire Nivolon by 9,658 votes.
1989	Cusano defeated Parti Québécois's André Corneau by 6,781 votes.
1994	Cusano defeated Parti Québécois's Raphaël Delli Gatti by 9,483 votes.
1998	Cusano defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Luc Leclerc by 13,560 votes.
2003	Cusano defeated Parti Québécois's Maka Kotto by 11,561 votes.
2007	Liberal Emmanuel Dubourg defeated Parti Québécois's Naima Mimoune.

VIAU
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	164/164 polls
LIB	Emmanuel Dubourg	12,917	51.92	Elected
PQ	Naima Mimoune	5,406	21.73
ADQ	Sylvie Fontaine	4,157	16.71
QS	Valérie Lavoie	1,231	4.95
GRN	Simon Bernier	1,169	4.70

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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