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Vimont

2008 Results

VIMONT
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		227/227 polls
LIB	Vincent Auclair	16,217	47.78	Elected
PQ	Rachel Demers	12,257	36.11
ADQ	Pierre Brien	3,932	11.58
QS	Audrey Boisvert	1,537	4.53

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Auclair, Vincent	Quebec Liberal Party
Boisvert, Audrey	Québec Solidaire
Brien, Pierre	Action Démocratique du Québec
Demers, Rachel	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Vimont riding contains that part of the city of Laval bounded by: the Mille Îles River, the extension of the division line of lots 46 and 47 of Ste-Rose parish's territory, the division line of lots 1 and 2 of the territory of Ste-Rose Village, the CP railway line, Ste-Rose Boulevard East, Laurentides Boulevard, Lacasse Avenue, the right of way of the Papineau Highway (19), Laval Highway (440), the overhead electric power line, Édith Street, Edgar Street, Foster Street, Félix Street, Dagenais Boulevard West and the Laurentian Highway (15).

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

Riding history: Riding created in 1980 from parts of ridings of Fabre and Mille-Îles.

In 1992 redistribution, lost polls to Mille-Îles and Laval-des Rapides ridings, but gained part of Fabre.

Political history: 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ 2002 byelection - ADQ 2003, 2007 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 51.14 per cent; No - 48.86 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 4.6 per cent French: 82.3 per cent Other: 13.1 per cent (6.65 per cent Italian; 2.0 per cent Arabic) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1981	Parti Québécois's Jean-Guy Rodrigue won. Served as minister of Energy and Resources, Nov. 27, 1984 to Oct. 16, 1985; minister of Education Science and Technology, Oct. 16 to Dec. 12, 1985.
1985	Liberal Jean-Paul Théorêt defeated Parti Québécois's Rodrigue by 1,409 votes. Resigned on May 23, 1989. Defeated as candidate for mayor of Laval in 1989.
1989	Liberal Benoît Fradet defeated Parti Québécois's David Cliche by 583 votes.
1994	Cliche defeated Liberal Fradet by 128 votes. Appointed minister of Environment and Wildlife and minister responsible for Laval Region, Jan. 29, 1996; minister of state for Tourism, Aug. 25, 1997.
1998	Cliche defeated Liberal François Macerola by 1,853 votes. Served as minister responsible for Information Highway and Government Services, Dec. 15, 1998 to March 8, 2001; minister for Science, Research and Technology, March 8, 2001 to Jan. 29, 2002. Resigned the night before a cabinet shuffle.
June 17, 2002 byelection	Action Démocratique du Québec's François Gaudreau defeated Liberal Vincent Auclair by 5,127 votes.
2003	Auclair defeated Parti Québecois's Normand Dupont by 5,043 votes. Incumbent Gaudreau came third, trailing Auclair by 10,681 votes.
2007	Auclair defeated Action Démocratique du Québec's Dupont.

VIMONT
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	231/231 polls
LIB	Vincent Auclair	14,942	35.94	Elected
ADQ	François Gaudreau	12,897	31.02
PQ	Marie-France Charbonneau	11,255	27.07
GRN	Catherine Ouellet-Cummings	1,606	3.86
QS	Mickael Labrie	879	2.11

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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