CBC - Quebec Votes 2003

RIDING: MÉGANTIC-COMPTON

Candidate

Party

Vote Count

Pop. Vote

Daniel Bouchard

Liberal Party of Que

11135

47.09%

Suzanne Durivage

Parti Québécois

7346

31.07%

Alain Boisvert

Action démocratique

4901

20.73%

Christian Poulin

Union des Forces

192

0.81%

Frank Moller

Equality Party

0.3%

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

132 of 132 polls reporting

MÉGANTIC-COMPTON

Candidates:

PQ        Suzanne Durivage
LIB      Daniel Bouchard
ADQ   Alain Boisvert
EP       Frank Moller
UFP     Christian Poulin

Riding History:
New riding in 1973 election.

1973 - LIB
1976 - UN
SINCE 1980 BY-EL - LIB

1995 REF:  NO - 52.84%  YES - 47.16%

Eastern townships riding - borders U.S.

Language Breakdown: % mother tongue - single answers
Anglo:  6.8%
Franco: 92.4%
Allo:   .7%

Mégantic-Compton riding contains the following municipalities: Ascot Corner, Audet, Bury, Chartierville, Cookshire, Dixville, Dudswell, East Angus, East Hereford, Eaton, Frontenac, Hampden, Lac-Drolet, Lac-Mégantic, Lambton, La Patrie, Lingwick,  Marston, Martinville, Milan, Nantes, Newport, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Piopolis,Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton, Sainte-Edwidge-de-Clifton, Saint-Herménégilde, Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton, Saint-Malo, Saint-Romain, Saint-Sébastien, Saint-Venant-de-Paquette, Scotstown, Stornoway, Stratford, Val-Racine, Weedon and Westbury.

Redistribution:
Riding created in 1972 from Mégantic, Compton and parts of Wolfe and Stanstead.

In 1992 redistribution:

kept all existing riding and gained Ascot Corner polls from Saint-François riding.

In 2001 redistribution:

kept 99% of riding; 1% moved to Saint-François;

gained 1% of Saint-François;

lost, to Saint-François, from SW corner, that part of Coaticook and the part of Saint-Camille in the riding (441 electors);

gained from Saint-François, in SW corner, the part of the municipality of Eaton in the riding (565 electors).

Political History:

[1994 = 94.94% MEGANTIC-COMPTON; 5.06% SAINT-FRANCOIS]
[2003 = 98% MÉGANTIC-COMPTON; 2% SAINT-FRANÇOIS]

In 1973, LIB J-OMER DIONNE, elected in Compton in 1970, won here.

In 1976, UN FERNAND GRENIER defeated LIB DIONNE by 2,502 votes. Grenier resigned on Jan 7/80 - was federal PC candidate in 1980.

In byelection on Nov. 17, 1980, LIB FABIEN BELANGER defeated PQ RICHARD LABELLE.

In 1981, LIB BELANGER defeated PQ NOEL LANDRY by 2,327 votes.

After death of Fabien Belanger on Oct. 2, 1983, a byelection was held in 1983.In the Dec. 5, 1983 byelection, LIB MADELEINE BELANGER (wife of Fabien) defeated PQ NOEL LANDRY, who ran again, by 7,529 votes.

LIB MADELEINE BÉLANGER was re-elected in 1985, 1989 and 1994.

In 1998, LIB BÉLANGER defeated PQ SUZANNE DURIVAGE by 2,336 votes. Bélanger announced Feb. 19, 2003 she would not be running again.