CBC - Quebec Votes 2003

RIDING: PAPINEAU

Candidate

Party

Vote Count

Pop. Vote

Norman MacMillan

Liberal Party of Que

17922

58.06%

Gilles Hébert

Parti Québécois

8264

26.77%

Serge Charette

Action démocratique

3824

12.39%

Nathalie Gratton

Green Party

577

1.87%

Dominique Marceau

Union des Forces

282

0.91%

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

204 of 204 polls reporting

PAPINEAU

Candidates:

PQ          Gilles Hébert
LIB       x Norman MacMillan
PVQ        Nathalie Gratton
ADQ       Serge Charette
UFP         Dominique Marceau

Riding History:
Riding first existed in 1923 election.

1970, 1973 - LIB
1976 - PQ
SINCE 1981 - LIB

1995 REF:  NO - 64.49%   YES - 35.51%

Riding Profile:

Language Breakdown: % mother tongue - single answers
Anglo:  7.2%
Franco: 91.8%
Allo:  1.1%

Riding stretches from Buckingham to just beyond Montebello and into the cottage-and-lake hinterland north of the Ottawa River.

Papineau riding contains the following municipalities: Boileau, Bowman, Chénéville, Duhamel, Fassett, Lac-des-Plages, Lac-Simon,L'Ange-Gardien, Lochaber, Lochaber-Partie-Ouest, Mayo, Montebello,Montpellier, Mulgrave-et-Derry, Namur, Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-Partie-Nord, Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette,Papineauville, Plaisance, Ripon, Saint-André-Avellin, Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk, Saint-Sixte, Thurso, Val-des-Bois and Val-des-Monts.

It also contains that part of the Ville de Gatineau bounded by: autoroute de l'Outaouais (50), montée Mineault, the boundary of the Ville de Gatineau with the Municipalité de L'Ange-Gardien and the Canton de Lochaber-Partie-Ouest, the rivière des Outaouais, the extension of the chemin du Lac so as to include 785 boulevard Hurtubise and 756 rue Notre-Dame, chemin du Lac, boulevard Maloney Est, boulevard Lorrain, the CPR railway line and the rivière Blanche.

Redistribution:
In 1992 redistribution, lost 3 Amherst polls to Labelle riding - loss of about 600 electors. This was the only change.

kept 99.84% of riding; .16% to Labelle; gained 13% of Chapleau;

lost to Labelle, from NE corner - Amherst poll (84 electors)

added from Chapleau, in SW corner, area from east of Gatineau bounded by: autoroute de l'Outaouais, border of Gatineau and Masson-Angers, boul Maloney East, boul Lorrain, CPR railway line and rivière Blanche (8,077 electors);

added small area from Gatineau with no electors.

Political History:

[2003 = 84% PAPINEAU; 16% CHAPLEAU]

LIB MARK ASSAD won in 1973 and 1976.

In 1976, PQ JEAN ALFRED defeated LIB NORMAND RACICOT by 67 votes. Alfred,a Haitian,the first black to be elected to National Assembly, resigned from PQ on Aug 29, 1980, after dispute over support for the Duvalier regime in Haiti. Returned to PQ caucus on March 10, 1981. Alfred ran in Chapleau in 1981.

LIB MARK ASSAD won in 1981 and 1985. Assad resigned to run federally in 1988.

In byelection on May 29, 1989, LIB NORMAN MACMILLAN defeated PQ PAUL ANDRE DAVID by 1,025 votes.

In 1989, LIB MacMILLAN again defeated PQ DAVID, this time by 612 votes.

In 1994, LIB MacMILLAN defeated PQ PAUL ANDRE DAVID by 3,381 votes.

In 1998, LIB MacMILLAN defeated PQ BENOIT CAMPEAU by 4,848 votes.