Shefford (provincial electoral district)

Shefford

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1867
District abolished	2011
First contested	1867
Last contested	2008
Demographics
Electors (2008)	56,143
Area (km²)	292.68
Census divisions	La Haute-Yamaska (part)
Census subdivisions	Granby, Shefford, Warden, Waterloo

Shefford is a former provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. As of its final election, it included the cities of Granby and Waterloo.

It was created for the 1867 election (and existed prior to that in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada). Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and the successor electoral districts were Granby and Brome-Missisquoi.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

• Michel-Adrien Bessette, Conservative Party (1867–1871)
• Maurice Laframboise, Liberal (1871–1878)
• Joseph Lafontaine, Liberal (1878–1881)
• Isidore Frégeau, Conservative Party (1881–1886)
• Thomas Brassard, Liberal (1886–1887)
• Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois, Liberal (1888–1892)
• Adolphe-François Savaria, Conservative Party (1892–1897)
• Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois, Liberal (1897–1903)
• Auguste Mathieu, Liberal (1904)
• Ludger-Pierre Bernard, Conservative Party (1904–1912)
• William Stephen Bullock, Liberal (1912–1931)
• Robert-Raoul Bachand, Liberal (1931–1935)
• Hector Choquette, Action liberale nationale - Union Nationale (1935–1939)
• Charles Munson Bullock, Liberal (1939–1944)
• Hector Choquette, Union Nationale (1944–1952)
• Gaston Ledoux, Liberal (1952–1956)
• Armand Russell, Union Nationale (1956–1973)
• Richard Verreault, Liberal (1973–1981)
• Roger Paré, Parti Québécois (1981–1994)
• Bernard Brodeur, Liberal (1994–2007)
• François Bonnardel, ADQ (2007–2012), CAQ (2012)

Election results

Quebec general election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	François Bonnardel	11,271	34.63
	Liberal	Jean-Claude Tremblay	11,201	34.42
	Parti Québécois	Jean-François Arseneault	8,019	24.64
	Québec solidaire	Ginette Moreau	1,085	3.33
	Green	Martin Giard	789	2.42	–
	Independent	Lucie Piédalue	181	0.56

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (Elections Quebec)

Maps

• 2001 map (Flash)

  2001–2011 changes (Flash)

  1992–2001 changes (Flash)

• Electoral map of Montérégie region (as of 2001)
• Quebec electoral map, 2001