CBC - Quebec Votes 2003

RIDING: LAVAL-DES-RAPIDES

Candidate

Party

Vote Count

Pop. Vote

Alain Paquet

Liberal Party of Que

15189

44.72%

Serge Ménard

Parti Québécois

13213

38.9%

Philippe Laurin

Action démocratique

4693

13.82%

Louis-Philippe Verenka

Green Party

370

1.09%

Vincent Pelletier

Bloc-pot

339

Micheline Miche Marleau

Christian Democratic

162

0.48%

Last Updated Tue Apr 15 12:00:00 EDT 2003

185 of 185 polls reporting

LAVAL-DES-RAPIDES

Candidates :

PQ        x Serge Ménard
LIB         Alain Paquet
ADQ       Philippe Laurin
PDCQ    Micheline Michelle Marleau
BP        Vincent Pelletier
PVQ     Louis-Philippe Verenka

Riding History:
Riding first existed in 1981 election.

LAVAL: LIB from 1960-1976 incl.

FABRE: LIB in 1966, 1970, 1973; PQ in 1976

LAVAL-DES-RAPIDES:
1981 - PQ
1985, 1989 - LIB
1993 byelection, 1994, 1998 - PQ

1995 REF:  YES - 50.92%   NO - 49.08%

Riding Profile:
Central Laval riding.

Language Breakdown: % mother tongue - single answers
Anglo:  3.4%
Franco: 80.4%
Allo: 16.2% (3.5% Italian; 3.4% Arabic)

Laval-des-Rapides riding contains that part of the city of Laval bounded by: the Laval autroute (440), Papineau autoroute (19), Saint-Martin boulevard East, Notre-Dame-de-Fatima street and its extension, the boundary of the city of Laval in the rivière des Prairies and the Laurentian autoroute (15).

Redistribution:
Riding was created in 1980 from parts of Laval and Fabre.
No change in redistributions before 1989 and 1994 elections.

In 2001 redistribution:

kept 100% of riding; added 14% of Vimont;

added, from Vimont, in the north part of Laval bounded by: Laval autoroute, Papineau autoroute, Saint-Martin boulevard East, Saint-Martin Boulevard West and the Laurentian autoroute (8,101 electors)

Political History:
[2003 = 83% LAVAL-DES-RAPIDES; 17% VIMONT]

In 1981, PQ BERNARD LANDRY, elected in Fabre in 1976, won here. (Landry had been defeated in Joliette, 1970;in Joliette-Montcalm, 1973) Appointed Minister of State for Economic Development, Nov. 26, 1976; Minister responsible for External Trade, Sept. 9, 1982; Minister of International Relations and Minister responsible for External Trade, March 5, 1984; Minister of Finance, Oct. to Dec. 1985.

In 1985, LIB GUY BELANGER defeated PQ LANDRY by 2,111 votes. In 1989, LIB BELANGER defeated PQ FRANCOIS SHANKS by 2,199 votes. Bélanger, a strong nationalist, quit after several years of opposing his party on constitutional issues.

In byelection on December 13, 1993, after resignation of LIB BELANGER, PQ SERGE MÉNARD defeated LIB RAYMOND MONETTE by 1,680 votes.

In 1994, PQ MÉNARD again defeated LIB MONETTE, this time by 1,733 votes. Appointed Minister of Public Security, Sept. 26, 1994; Minister of State for Greater Montreal and Minister responsible for Montreal region, Jan. 29, 1996; Minister of Justice, Attorney-General, Minister responsible for administration of legislation respecting professions, Aug. 25, 1997

In 1998, PQ MÉNARD defeated LIB ROBERT LEFEBVRE by 1,441 votes. Appointed Minister of Public Security, Dec. 15, 1998. Appointed Minister of Transport and Minister responsible for Laval region, Jan. 30, 2002; added Minister of Public Security, Oct. 29, 2002.