CBC - Quebec Votes 2003

RIDING: MARIE-VICTORIN

Candidate

Party

Vote Count

Pop. Vote

Cécile Vermette

Parti Québécois

12725

45.37%

Jean-Marc Pelletier

Liberal Party of Que

9800

34.94%

Michel Lalonde

Action démocratique

4373

15.59%

Pierre Losier-Côté

Bloc-pot

462

1.65%

Marc Lambert

Union des Forces

452

1.61%

Daniel Tavéra

Independent

134

0.48%

Olivier Waché

Christian Democratic

104

0.37%

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

158 of 158 polls reporting

MARIE-VICTORIN

Candidates:

PQ        x Cécile Vermette
LIB          Jean-Marc Pelletier
ADQ        Michel Lalonde
UFP        Marc Lambert
BP          Pierre Losier-Côté
PDCQ     Olivier Waché
IND        Daniel Tavéra

Riding History:
New riding in 1981.

1981 - PQ
1984 Byelection - LIB
1985, 1989, 1994, 1998 - PQ

1995 REF:  YES - 60.54%  NO - 39.46%

Riding Profile:
South shore riding.

Language Breakdown: % mother tongue - single answers
Anglo:  2.5%
Franco: 88.7%
Allo:  8.8%

Marie-Victorin riding contains that part of the city of Longueuil bounded by: the St. Lawrence River, the extension of the chemin de Chambly, Jacques-Cartier boulevard West up to its intersection with Sainte-Hélène street, from that intersection a line in a southerly direction until the boundary of the towns of Longueuil and Saint-Hubert, such limit and the limit of the city of Longueuil with the towns of LeMoyne and Saint-Lambert.

Redistribution:
Riding created in 1980 from parts of Taillon and Laporte.

In 1992 redistribution, kept all existing riding and gained small area from Taillon and Longueuil polls from Laporte.

No change in 2001 redistribution.

Political History:
[1994 = 82.83% MARIE-VICTORIN; 17.17% LAPORTE]

In 1981, PQ PIERRE MAROIS, who had won in Laporte in 1976, won here. (Marois defeated: Chambly, 1970; Chambly byelection, 1971; Laporte, 1973) Had been appointed Minister of State for Social Development, Nov. 26, 1976; Minister of Labour and Manpower on Nov. 6, 1980. Appointed Minister of Labour, Manpower and Income Security, Apr. 30, 1981; Minister of Manpower and Income Security, Sept. 9, 1982 to Nov. 24, 1983; Resigned as Minister and MNA on November 24, 1983.

In June 18/84 byelection LIB GUY PRATT defeated PQ PIERRE NANTEL by 3,891.

In 1985, PQ CÉCILE VERMETTE defeated LIB PRATT by 335 votes.

In 1989, PQ VERMETTE defeated LIB MICHEL TIMPERIO by 3,546 votes.

In 1994, PQ VERMETTE defeated LIB SERGE PRIVE by 7,390 votes.

In 1998, PQ VERMETTE defeated LIB GILBERT COTE by 5,816 votes.