Results, Ridings & Candidates

Westmount-Saint-Louis

2008 Results

WESTMOUNT-SAINT-LOUIS
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		191/191 polls
LIB	Jacques Chagnon	11,041	74.93	Elected
PQ	Daniella Johnson-Meneghini	1,525	10.35
GRN	Patrick Daoust	1,090	7.40
QS	Nadia Alexan	641	4.35
ADQ	Léonidas Priftakis	438	2.97

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

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Alexan, Nadia	Québec Solidaire
Chagnon, Jacques	Quebec Liberal Party
Daoust, Patrick	Green Party of Québec
Johnson-Meneghini, Daniella	Parti Québécois
Léonidas Priftakis	Action Démocratique du Québec

Riding profile: Westmount St-Louis is located in southeastern Montreal and contains the part of the city bounded by Côte-des-Neiges Road, Remembrance Road, Camillien-Houde Trail, Mont-Royal Avenue West, Esplanade Avenue, Rachel Street West, St-Laurent Boulevard, René-Lévesque Boulevard East, Sanguinet Street and its extension, St-Antoine Street East, St-Antoine Street West and the boundary of Westmount and Montreal.

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

Riding history: Riding was created in 1992 redistribution from parts of Westmount, St-Louis and Ste-Anne ridings.

In the 2001 redistribution, Westmount-St-Louis lost to St-Henri-Sainte-Anne in the south the part of Montreal bounded by St-Antoine Street West, McGill Street, Commune Street West, Bonaventure Highway, Lachine Canal and Atwater Avenue (7,811 electors).

Political history: Westmount 1970-1985 inclusive - LIB 1989 - Equality Party

Saint-Louis 1939-1989 - LIB

Westmount-Saint Louis Since 1994 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 84.77 per cent; Yes - 15.23 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 40.3 per cent French: 26.3 per cent Other: 33 per cent (6.7 per cent Chinese; 6.6 per cent Arabic) Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

Saint-Louis

1960–1981	Liberal Harry Blank represented this riding for seven consecutive terms (winning in 1960, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1973, 1976 and 1981). In 1985, Liberal leader Robert Bourassa refused to nominate Blank and he ran as an Independent, finishing third.
1985, 1989	Liberal Jacques Chagnon won in 1985 and 1989. Served a minister of education, minister responsible for Administration of Professional Laws, minister responsible for Administration of French Language Charter and minister responsible for the Quebec Tourism and Hotel Industry Institute Jan. 11 to Sept. 26, 1994.

Westmount

1970, 1973	Liberal Kevin Drummond won in 1970, 1973. Minister of Lands and Forests, May 12, 1970 to July 30, 1975; minister of Agriculture, July 30, 1975 to Nov. 26, 1976.
1976	Liberal George Springate defeated Union Nationale's Harold Fairhead. (Won in Ste-Anne in 1970 and 1973.)
1981, 1985	Liberal Richard French won in 1981 and 1985. Served as minister of Communications, Dec. 12, 1985 to Dec. 21, 1988; minister responsible for Technology in June 23 to July 6, 1988; minister of Supply and Services, Oct. 12 to Dec. 21, 1988. Resigned portfolio Dec. 21, 1988 over Bill 178.
1989	Equality Party's Richard Holden defeated Liberal William Cosgrove by 513 votes.

Westmount-Saint-Louis

1994	Liberal Jacques Chagnon, incumbent from St-Louis, defeated Parti Québécois's François Dagenais by 22,100 votes.
1998	Chagnon defeated Parti Québécois's Christian Armour by 21,635 votes.
2003	Chagnon defeated Parti Québécois's Denis Laroche by 15,843 votes.
2007	Chagnon defeated Green Party candidate Patrick Daoust by 11,037 votes.

WESTMOUNT-SAINT-LOUIS
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	187/187 polls
LIB	Jacques Chagnon	13,311	66.83	Elected
GRN	Patrick Daoust	2,517	12.64
PQ	Denise Laroche	1,679	8.43
ADQ	Caroline Morgan	1,538	7.72
QS	Nadia Alexan	800	4.02
ML	Nicholas Lin	72	0.36

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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