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RIDING: SHERBROOKE |
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Candidate |
Party |
Vote Count |
Pop. Vote |
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Jean Charest |
Liberal Party of Que |
16327 |
46.83%
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Marie Malavoy |
Parti Québécois |
13807 |
39.6%
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Peter Downey |
Action démocratique |
4169 |
11.96%
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Normand Gilbert |
Union des Forces |
496 |
1.42%
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Serge Lachapelle |
Marxiste-léninste |
64 |
0.18%
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SHERBROOKE
Candidates:
PQ Marie Malavoy
LIB x Jean Charest
ADQ Peter Downey
UFP Normand Gilbert
PMLQ Serge Lachapelle
Riding History:
Riding was created in 1829
1976, 1981 - PQ
1985, 1989 - LIB
1994 - PQ
1998 - LIB
1995 REF: YES - 53.68% NO - 46.32%
Riding Profile:
Sherbrooke riding contains boroughs 4 and 6 of the city of Sherbrooke.
Language Breakdown: % mother tongue - single answers
Anglo: 3.7%
Franco: 90.7%
Allo: 5.5%
Redistribution:
In 1992 redistribution, lost small area to St-Francois and gained Sherbrooke polls from St-Francois and Orford.
In 2001 redistribution:
kept 99% of riding; .09% moved to Johnson and .01% to Orford;
gained 11% of Saint-François and 2% of Orford;
lost to Johnson, small area from north with 43 electors;
lost to Orford, small area with 5 electors;
gained, in south, from Saint-François, that part of Ascot which had been in the riding (4,452 electors);
gained, in south, from Orford, the part of Ascot included in the riding and part Rock Forest (1,340 electors);
Political History:
[1994 = 99.93% SHERBROOKE; .07% ORFORD]
[2003 = 87% SHERBROOKE; 10% SAINT-FRANÇOIS; 3% ORFORD]
LIB JEAN-PAUL PEPIN won in 1970 and 1973.
In 1976, PQ GERARD GOSSELIN defeated LIB PEPIN by 3,895 votes.
NOW PQ RAYNALD FRECHETTE won in 1981; defeated in 1985. Appointed Minister of Revenue, April 1981; Minister responsible for Labour, Sept. 9, 1982; Minister of Labour, Dec. 17, 1982; Minister of Justice & Minister of Labour, Oct. 1985.
LIB ANDRE HAMEL won in 1985, 1989.
In 1994, PQ MARIE MALAVOY defeated LIB GILLES LAPOINTE by 1,391 votes. Appointed Minister of Culture and Communications, Minister responsible for Application of French Language Charter, Sept. 26, 1994 - Resigned after it became public that she had voted in previous elections, before she became a Canadian citizen.
In 1998, LIB JEAN CHAREST defeated PQ MALAVOY by 907 votes. Charest had become Quebec Liberal Leader on April 30, 1998.
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