Roberval

Last Updated: Thursday, November 27, 2008 | 4:56 PM ET

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Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Cadieux, Jacques L.	Action Démocratique du Québec
Girard, Sébastien	Parti Durable du Québec
Schmitt, Nicole	Québec Solidaire
Simard, Georges	Quebec Liberal Party
Trottier, Denis	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Roberval is the most rural riding in the Lac-St-Jean region. It contains the following municipalities: Albanel, Chambord, Dolbeau-Mistassini, Girardville, Lac-Bouchette, La Doré, Normandin, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Péribonka, Roberval, Saint-Augustin, Saint-Edmond, Saint-Eugène-d Argentenay, Saint-Félicien, Saint-François-de-Sales, Sainte-Hedwidge, Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, Saint-Prime, Saint-Stanislas and Saint-Thomas-Didyme.

It also contains the First Nation reserve of Mashteuiatsh.

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

Riding history: Riding created in 1931 election. No change in 1992 or 2001 redistributions.

Political history: 1962, 1966 - Union Nationale 1970, 1973, 1976 - LIB 1981, 1985 - PQ 1988 byelection, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ 2003 - LIB 2007 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 65.21 per cent; No - 34.79 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.3 per cent French: 98.8 per cent Other: 0.9 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1971, 1973 and 1976	Liberal Robert Lamontagne won in 1970, 1973, 1976
1981, 1985	Parti Québécois's Michel Gauthier won in 1981 and 1985. Gauthier resigned Feb 2, 1988.
June 20, 1988 byelection	Liberal Gaston Blackburn defeated Parti Québécois's Bernard Généreux by 6,796 votes. Blackburn was appointed minister responsible for environment, March 3, 1989.
1989	Liberal Blackburn again defeated Parti Québécois's Généreux, this time by 2,507 votes. Appointed minister of recreation, fish and game, October 1989; junior minister of transport and highways, Jan. 11, 1994.
1994	Parti Québécois's Benoît Laprise defeated Liberal Jean-Marc Gendron by 7,055 votes.
1998	Parti Québécois's Laprise defeated Liberal Pierre Thibeault by 11,310 votes. Laprise announced he would not run again in 2003.
2003	Liberal Karl Blackburn defeated Parti Québécois's Réjean Lalancette by 202 votes.
2007	Parti Québécois's Denis Trottier defeated Liberal Blackburn.

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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