QUEBEC VOTES 2007

Riding Profiles

DISTRICT: BEAUCE-NORD
CandidatePartyVote CountVote ShareElected
Janvier GrondinADQ1912762.62% X
Claude DrouinLIB805626.38%
Denis CouturePQ23927.83%
Jérémie VachonGRN5251.72%
Christian DuboisQS3611.18%
Benoît RoyIND830.27%
March 27, 12:52:51 AM EDT 157 of 157 polls reporting

Beauce-Nord


Candidates:

PQ Couture, Denis
LIB Drouin, Claude
QS Dubois, Christian
ADQ Grondin, Janvier
IND Roy, Benoît
GRN Vachon, Jérémie


Riding Profile:
Riding is south of Quebec City - Heartland - Rural - small towns.

Language Breakdown: per cent mother tongue - single answers
Anglo: 0.5 per cent
Franco: 99.5 per cent
Allo: 0.2 per cent

Beauce-Nord contains the following municipalities: Beauceville, Frampton, St-Alfred, Sts-Anges, St-Bernard, St-Elzéar, St-Frédéric, Ste-Hénédine, St-Isidore, St-Joseph-de-Beauce, St-Joseph-des-érables, St-Jules, St-Lambert-de-Lauzon, Ste-Marguerite, Ste-Marie, St-Odilon-de-Cranbourne, St-Séverin, St-Victor, Scott, Tring-Jonction and Vallée-Jonction.

Riding Map:
From Elections Quebec:
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Riding History:

Riding first existed in 1973 election.

1973 - LIB
1976, 1981 - PQ
1985, 1989, 1994, 1998 - LIB
2003 - ADQ

1995 REF: NO - 54.27 per cent; YES - 45.73 per cent

Redistribution:
Riding was created from parts of Beauce, Dorchester and Lévis ridings.

In redistribution before 1989 election, some of old riding lost to Chutes-de-la-Chaudière and Lévis ridings.

In 2001 redistribution, kept all existing riding; added six per cent of Chutes-de-la-Chaudière; gained paroisse de Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon; (3,501 electors) from southern part of Chutes-de-la-Chaudière riding.

Political History:
[2003 = 91 per cent BEAUCE-NORD; nine per cent CHUTES-DE-LA-CHAUDIÈRE]

2003 ADQ JANVIER GRONDIN defeated LIB POULIN.
1998 LIB POULIN defeated PQ GASTON GOURDE.
1994 LIB NORMAND POULIN defeated PQ BENOIT L'HEUREUX by 61 votes.
1989 LIB AUDET defeated PQ HUGUES LABBE.
1985 LIB JEAN AUDET defeated PQ OUELLETTE.
1981 PQ OUELLETTE defeated LIB PAUL-EMILE DESCHENES.
Ouellette appointed minister of environment in September 1982.
1976 PQ OUELLETTE defeated LIB DENIS SYLVAIN by 412 votes.
1973 In new riding of Beauce-Nord, LIB DENIS SYLVAIN defeated PQ ADRIEN OUELLETTE.

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Overall Election Results
PartyElectedLeadingTotalVote Share
LIB4804833.08%
ADQ4104130.80%
PQ3603628.32%
QS0003.65%
GRN0003.89%
OTH000.26%
Last Update:March 27, 12:52:21 AM EDT
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