Mégantic (provincial electoral district)

Mégantic

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Ghislain Bolduc Liberal
District created	1867
District abolished	1972
District re-created	2011
First contested	1867
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2011)	49,055
Electors (2014)	38,589
Area (km²)	5,266.8
Pop. density (per km²)	9.3
Census divisions	Coaticook (part), Le Granit (part), Le Val-Saint-François (part), Les Appalaches (part)
Census subdivisions	Ascot Corner, Audet, Beaulac-Garthby, Bury, Chartierville, Cookshire-Eaton, Disraeli (parish), Disraeli (city), Dudswell, East Angus, Frontenac, Hampden, Lac-Drolet, Lac-Mégantic, Lambton, La Patrie, Lingwick, Marston, Milan, Nantes, Newport, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Piopolis, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton, Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton, Sainte-Praxède, Saint-Romain, Saint-Sébastien, Scotstown, Stoke, Stornoway, Stratford, Val-Racine, Weedon, Westbury

Mégantic is a provincial electoral district in the Estrie and Chaudière-Appalaches regions of Quebec, Canada.

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). It was abolished before the 1973 election and its territory was mostly divided between Lotbinière and Frontenac; a small part also went to Arthabaska. Despite the name, none of the territory of Mégantic went into the newly created Mégantic-Compton. However, Mégantic-Compton was abolished before the 2012 election and its successor electoral district was the recreated Mégantic, which contains most of the former area Mégantic-Compton, as well as parts of Johnson, Richmond, and Frontenac as they existed prior to the 2012 election.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

• George Irvine, Conservative - Liberal (1867–1876)
• Andrew Kennedy, Conservative (1876–1878)
• George Irvine, Liberal (1878–1884)
• John Whyte, Liberal (1884–1886)
• Andrew Stuart Johnson, Conservative (1886–1888)
• William Rhodes, Liberal (1888–1890)
• Andrew Stuart Johnson, Conservative (1890–1892)
• James King, Conservative (1892–1897)
• George Robert Smith, Liberal (1897–1908)
• David Henry Pennington, Conservative (1908–1912)
• Joseph Demers, Liberal (1912–1916)
• Laureat Lapierre, Liberal (1916–1935)
• Tancrède Labbé, Action liberale nationale - Union Nationale (1935–1939)
• Louis Houde, Liberal (1939–1940)
• Tancrède Labbé, Union Nationale (1940–1956)
• Joseph-Émile Fortin, Union Nationale (1957–1960)
• Émilien Maheux, Liberal (1960–1966)
• Marc Bergeron, Union Nationale (1966–1970)
• Bernard Dumont, Ralliement créditiste du Québec (1970–1973)
• did not exist (1973–2012), see Mégantic-Compton
• Ghislain Bolduc, Liberal (2012–present)

Election results

2012 - present

Quebec general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ghislain Bolduc	10,840	40.79	+5.70
	Parti Québécois	Isabelle Hallé	7,879	29.65	-1.57
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Pierre-Luc Boulanger	6,078	22.87	-2.75
	Québec solidaire	Ludovick Nadeau	1,541	5.80	+0.40
	Option nationale	Évelyne Beaudin	236	0.89	-0.78
Total valid votes			26,574	98.59	–
Total rejected ballots			381	1.41	–
Turnout			26,955	69.85	-4.59
Electors on the lists			38,589	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		+3.64

Quebec general election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ghislain Bolduc	9,946	35.09	-9.32
	Parti Québécois	Gloriane Blais	8,847	31.22	-4.35
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Raymonde Lapointe	7,260	25.62	+9.49
	Québec solidaire	William Leclerc Bellavance	1,531	5.40	+1.74
	Option nationale	Jasmin Roy-Rouleau	473	1.67	–
	Independent	Jacques Audet	178	0.63	–
	Independent	Jean-Luc Perron	106	0.37	–
Total valid votes			28,341	98.76	–
Total rejected ballots			355	1.24	–
Turnout			28,696	74.44
Electors on the lists			38,548	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.49

^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ.

1867 - 1970

Quebec general election, 1970
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Ralliement créditiste	Bernard Dumont	8,201	28.79	–
	Union Nationale	Marc Bergeron	7,700	27.04	-19.34
	Liberal	Paul-E. Giguère	6,954	24.42	-19.67
	Parti Québécois	Guy Lebel	5,626	19.75	+10.22*
Total valid votes			28,481	96.02	–
Total rejected ballots			1,181	3.98	–
Turnout			29,662	88.09	+4.01
Electors on the lists			33,674	–	–

* Result compared to Ralliement national

Quebec general election, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Union Nationale	Marc Bergeron	11,894	46.38
	Liberal	Pierre-Émilien Maheux	11,306	44.09
	Ralliement national	Harold Vachon	2,443	9.53
Total valid votes			25,643	98.59
Total rejected ballots			367	1.41
Turnout			26,010	84.08
Electors on the lists			30,936	–

Quebec general election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Pierre-Émilien Maheux	13,182	55.05
	Union Nationale	Joseph-Henri Paquet	10,762	44.95
Total valid votes			23,944	99.28
Total rejected ballots			173	0.72
Turnout			24,117	88.95
Electors on the lists			27,114	–

Quebec general election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Pierre-Émilien Maheux	14,221	59.22
	Union Nationale	Joseph-Émile Fortin	9,794	40.78
Total valid votes			24,015	98.56
Total rejected ballots			351	1.44
Turnout			24,366	88.95
Electors on the lists			26,520	–

Quebec provincial by-election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Union Nationale	Joseph-Émile Fortin	13,799	64.77
	Liberal	Pierre-Émilien Maheux	7,504	35.23
Total valid votes			21,303	99.11
Total rejected ballots			191	0.89
Turnout			21,494	84.10
Electors on the lists			25,559	–

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (QuébecPolitique) (for 2012-present)
• Election results (QuébecPolitique) (for 1867-1970)

Maps

• 2011 map (PDF)

  2001–2011 changes to Mégantic-Compton (Flash)

• Electoral map of Estrie region
• Electoral map of Chaudière-Appalaches region
• Quebec electoral map, 2011