QUEBEC VOTES 2007

Riding Profiles

DISTRICT: JOHNSON
CandidatePartyVote CountVote ShareElected
Éric CharbonneauADQ1151236.02% X
Claude BoucherPQ1133535.46%
Nicole BrouilletteLIB715722.39%
Benoit LapierreGRN11893.72%
Marcel PinardQS7702.41%
March 27, 12:52:51 AM EDT 177 of 177 polls reporting

Johnson


Candidates:

PQ Boucher, Claude
LIB Brouillette, Nicole
ADQ Charbonneau, Eric
GRN Lapierre, Benoit
QS Pinard, Marcel


Riding Profile:
Heartland of Quebec riding.

Language Breakdown: per cent mother tongue - single answers
Anglo: 2 per cent
Franco: 97.4 per cent
Allo: 0.7 per cent

Johnson contains the following municipalities: Acton Vale, Béthanie, Durham-Sud, L' Avenir, Lefebvre, Maricourt, Racine, Roxton, Roxton Falls, Roxton Pond, Ste-Cécile-de-Milton, Ste-Christine, St-Denis-de-Brompton, St-François-Xavier-de-Brompton, Ste-Hélène-de-Bagot, St-Joachim-de-Shefford, St-Nazaire-d'Acton, St-Théodore-d'Acton, St-Valérien-de-Milton, Stoke, Ulverton, Upton, Valcourt, Val-Joli, Wickham and Windsor. It also contains one borough of the city of Sherbrooke.

Riding Map:
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Riding History:

Riding first existed in 1973 election.

1973 - LIB
1974 Byelection, 1976 - UN
1980 Byelection - LIB
SINCE 1981 - PQ

1995 REF: YES - 54.82 per cent NO - 45.18 per cent

Redistribution:

Riding created from parts of Drummond, Richmond, Bagot, Shefford.

After redistribution before 1989 election, riding consisted of 94.74 per cent of former riding.In 1992 redistribution, three Saint-Eugene polls (679 electors) moved from this riding to Drummond riding.

In 2001 redistribution:

  • kept 99 per cent of riding; one per cent to Richmond; added nine per cent of Shefford, o.09 per cent of Sherbrooke and one per cent of Saint-François.
  • lost in north to Richmond the part of Richmond that had been in riding (1,222 electors).
  • gained in southwest from Shefford: Roxton Pond, St-Joachim-de-Shefford parish and Township of Ste-Cécile-de-Milton (4,698 electors).
  • gained from Sherbrooke the part of the City of Sherbrooke included in borough one (43 electors).
  • gained from St-François that part of the city of Fleurimont that had been in riding (255 electors).
  • gained from Orford small area - parts of St-Élie-d'Orford (67 electors).


    • Political History:
    [2003 = 88.1 per cent JOHNSON; 11.1 per cent SHEFFORD; 0.6 per cent SAINT-FRANCOIS; 0.1 per cent SHERBROOKE; 0.1 per cent ORFORD]
    2003 PQ BOUCHER defeated LIB NICOLE BROUILLETTE.
    1998 PQ BOUCHER defeated LIB MARIE MARIER.
    1994 PQ CLAUDE BOUCHER defeated LIB MICHEL DAVIAU.
    1981 PQ JUNEAU defeated LIB PICARD by 806 votes. PQ JUNEAU was re-elected in 1985 and 1989.
    Byelection on Nov. 17, 1980 LIB CAMILLE PICARD defeated PQ CARMEN JUNEAU by 372 votes.
    1976 UN BELLEMARE defeated PQ ROBERT NORMAND. Interim leader of UN, March 1974 to May 1976. Parliamentary leader of UN May 1976 to Oct. 30, 1979. Resigned as MNA Dec. 19, 1979.
    Byelection on Aug. 28, 1974 UN MAURICE BELLEMARE defeated LIB J-C BOUTIN. (Bellemare won in Champlain in 1944-1966 inclusive.)
    1973 LIB JEAN-CLAUDE BOUTIN defeated Creditiste ALBERT CLAUDE. Resigned July 25, 1974 after charges of conflict of interest arose.

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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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