Berthier (provincial electoral district)

Berthier

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	André Villeneuve Parti Québécois
District created	1867
First contested	1867
Last contested	2012
Demographics
Population (2006)	68,669
Electors (2012)	55,819
Area (km²)	10,354.1
Pop. density (per km²)	6.6
Census divisions	D'Autray (all), Matawinie (part)
Census subdivisions	Berthierville, La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Lanoraie, Lavaltrie, Mandeville, Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Saint-Barthélemy, Sainte-Béatrix, Saint-Cléophas-de-Brandon, Saint-Côme, Saint-Cuthbert, Saint-Damien, Saint-Didace, Sainte-Élisabeth, Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Saint-Gabriel, Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola, Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare, Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Saint-Norbert, Saint-Zénon; Manawan; Baie-Atibenne, Baie-de-la-Bouteille, Baie-Obaoca, Lac-Cabasta, Lac-Devenyns, Lac-du-Taureau, Lac-Legendre, Lac-Matawin, Lac-Minaki, Lac-Santé, Saint-Guillaume-Nord

Berthier is a provincial electoral district in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes the municipalities of Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Saint-Come and Mandeville.

It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada).

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Sainte-Mélanie to the Joliette electoral district but gained Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare from that same electoral district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

1. Louis-Joseph Moll, Conservative (1867–1871)
2. Louis Sylvestre, Liberal (1871–1878)
3. Joseph Robillard, Conservative (1878–1886)
4. Louis Sylvestre, Liberal (1886–1889)
5. Omer Dostaler, Liberal (1890)
6. Cuthbert-Alphonse Chenevert, Liberal (1890–1892)
7. Victor Allard, Conservative (1892–1897)
8. Cuthbert-Alphonse Chenevert, Liberal (1897–1903)
9. Joseph Lafontaine, Liberal (1904–1912)
10. Joseph-Olivier Gadoury, Conservative (1912–1916)
11. Joseph Lafontaine, Liberal (1916–1919)
12. Simeon Lafrenière, Liberal (1919–1925)
13. Amédée Sylvestre, Liberal (1925–1927)
14. Cléophas Bastien, Liberal (1927–1944)
15. Armand Sylvestre, Liberal (1944–1948)
16. Azéllus Lavallée, Union nationale (1948–1962)
17. Lucien McGuire, Liberal (1962–1966)
18. Guy Gauthier, Union nationale (1966–1973)
19. Michel Denis, Liberal (1973–1976)
20. Jean-Guy Mercier, Parti Québécois (1976–1981)
21. Albert Houde, Liberal (1981–1994)
22. Gilles Baril, Parti Québécois (1994–2002)
23. Marie Grégoire, Action démocratique (2002–2003)
24. Alexandre Bourdeau, Parti Québécois (2003–2007)
25. François Benjamin, Action démocratique (2007–2008)
26. André Villeneuve, Parti Québécois (2008–present)

Election results

Quebec general election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	André Villeneuve	19,584	46.94	+4.33
	Coalition Avenir Québec	François Benjamin	13,454	32.25	+6.54
	Liberal	Catherine Haulard	5,477	13.13	-12.88
	Québec solidaire	Louise Beaudry	2,015	4.83	+1.90
	Green	Dany Ouellet	518	1.24	-1.48
	Option nationale	Raymond Guay	452	1.08	–
	Coalition pour la constituante	Pierre Baril	221	0.53	–
Total valid votes			41,721	98.53	–
Total rejected ballots			624	1.47	–
Turnout			42,345	75.69	+15.26
Electors on the lists			55,944	–	–

^ Change is based on redistributed results. Coalition Avenir change is from Action démocratique.

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	André Villeneuve	13,776	42.50	+7.77
	Liberal	Norman Blackburn	8,435	26.02	+8.63
	Action démocratique	François Benjamin	8,358	25.79	-16.45
	Québec solidaire	Jocelyne Dupuis	934	2.88	+0.05
	Green	Yan Beaudry	911	2.81	-0.01
Total valid votes			32,414	98.16	–
Total rejected ballots			608	1.84	–
Turnout			33,022	60.43	-12.30
Electors on the lists			54,647	–	–

Quebec general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Action démocratique	François Benjamin	16,242	42.24	+10.38
	Parti Québécois	Alexandre Bourdeau	13,354	34.73	-0.27
	Liberal	Carole Majeau	6,687	17.39	-13.93
	Québec solidaire	Jocelyne Dupuis	1,087	2.83	+1.00*
	Green	André Chauvette	1,084	2.82	–
Total valid votes			38,454	98.89	–
Total rejected ballots			432	1.11	–
Turnout			38,886	72.73	+3.36
Electors on the lists			53,464	–	–

* Result compared to UFP

Quebec general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Alexandre Bourdeau	12,101	35.00	+7.08
	Action démocratique	Marie Grégoire	11,014	31.86	-19.14
	Liberal	Carole Majeau	10,828	31.32	+10.25
	UFP	Pierre Gravel	632	1.83	–
Total valid votes			34,575	98.45	–
Total rejected ballots			546	1.55	–
Turnout			35,121	69.37	+4.00
Electors on the lists			50,631	–	–

Quebec provincial by-election, June 17, 2002
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Action démocratique	Marie Grégoire	16,389	51.00	+37.35
	Parti Québécois	David Levine	8,973	27.92	-25.66
	Liberal	Carole Majeau	6,771	21.07	-10.19
Total valid votes			32,133	98.42	–
Total rejected ballots			515	1.58	–
Turnout			32,648	65.37	-14.14
Electors on the lists			49,941	–	–

Quebec general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Gilles Baril	20,074	53.58	−0.08
	Liberal	Sylvie Thouin	11,710	31.26	−5.04
	Action démocratique	Robert Robitaille	5,113	13.65	+5.31
	Socialist Democracy	François Rivest	297	0.79	–
	Natural Law	Louise Roy	268	0.72	+0.01
Total valid votes			37,462	98.59	–
Rejected and declined votes			535	1.41	–
Turnout			37,997	79.51	−2.51
Electors on the lists			47,790	–	–
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	25,986	63.02
	Non	15,249	36.98

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (QuébecPolitique)

Maps

• 2011 map (PDF)
• 2001 map (Flash)

  2001–2011 changes (Flash)

  1992–2001 changes (Flash)

• Electoral map of Lanaudière region
• Quebec electoral map, 2011