Manicouagan (electoral district)

Manicouagan
Quebec electoral district
	Manicouagan in relation to other Quebec federal electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Marilène Gill; Bloc Québécois
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District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2019
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)	92,518
Electors (2019)	72,256
Area (km²)	264,226
Pop. density (per km²)	0.35
Census division(s)	Basse-Côte-Nord Territory, Caniapiscau RCM, Manicouagan RCM, Minganie RCM, Sept-Rivières RCM
Census subdivision(s)	Baie-Comeau, Chute-aux-Outardes, Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, Fermont, Havre-Saint-Pierre, Pessamit, Port-Cartier, Sept-Îles, Maliotenam, Uashat

Manicouagan is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.

The riding was created in 1966 from parts of Charlevoix and Saguenay ridings.

The neighbouring ridings are Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine and Labrador.

This riding gained territory from Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

It is named after the Manicouagan crater.

Demographics[]

According to the Canada 2016 Census

Languages: (2016) 85.5% French, 8.7% Innu, 4.5% English, 0.6% Naskapi, 0.1% Spanish, 0.1% Arabic, 0.1% Italian, 0.1% Portuguese^[3]

Members of Parliament[]

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Manicouagan Riding created from Charlevoix and Saguenay
28th	1968–1972	Gustave Blouin	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980	André Maltais
32nd	1980–1984	André Maltais
33rd	1984–1988	Brian Mulroney	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993	Charles Langlois	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Bernard St-Laurent	Bloc Québécois
35th	1997–1997	Bernard St-Laurent	Independent
36th	1997–2000	Ghislain Fournier	Bloc Québécois
37th	2000–2004	Ghislain Fournier
38th	2004–2006	Gérard Asselin
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015	Jonathan Genest-Jourdain	New Democratic
42nd	2015–2019	Marilène Gill	Bloc Québécois
43rd	2019–present	Marilène Gill	Bloc Québécois

Election results[]

Graph of election results in Manicouagan (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

hide v 2021 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Thomas Gagné
	Bloc Québécois	Marilène Gill
	Free	Blanca Girard
	New Democratic	Nichola Saint-Jean
	Conservative	Rodrigue Vigneault
Total valid votes
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections Canada^[4]

hide v 2019 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Marilène Gill	21,768	53.90	+12.65	$18,875.24
	Liberal	Dave Savard	7,793	19.29	-10.08	$36,651.32
	Conservative	François Corriveau	7,771	19.24	+8.97	$30,489.35
	New Democratic	Colleen McCool	1,482	3.67	-13.84	$0.33
	Green	Jacques Gélineau	1,293	3.20	+1.6	none listed
	People's	Gabriel Côté	283	0.70		none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			40,390	100.0
Total rejected ballots			712
Turnout			41,102	56.9
Eligible voters			72,256
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		+11.37
Source: Elections Canada^[5]^[6]

hide2015 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Marilène Gill	17,338	41.25	+8.57	$19,611.43
	Liberal	Mario Tremblay	12,343	29.37	+23.86	$9,363.37
	New Democratic	Jonathan Genest-Jourdain	7,359	17.51	-30.17	$24,554.75
	Conservative	Yvon Boudreau	4,317	10.27	-1.36	$16,863.38
	Green	Nathan Grills	673	1.60	-0.91	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			42,030	100.00		$259,798.61
Total rejected ballots			645	1.51	–
Turnout			75,030	56.88	–
Eligible voters			75,030
	Bloc Québécois gain from New Democratic		Swing		+19.37
Source: Elections Canada^[7]^[8]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[9]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	18,458	47.67
	Bloc Québécois	12,654	32.68
	Conservative	4,502	11.63
	Liberal	2,131	5.50
	Green	972	2.51

hide2011 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jonathan Genest-Jourdain	16,437	48.93	+44.1
	Bloc Québécois	Gérard Asselin	10,495	31.24	-18.1
	Conservative	Gordon Ferguson	3,878	11.55	-15.5
	Liberal	André Forbes^{[fn 1]}	1,882	5.60	-9.7
	Green	Jacques Gélineau	898	2.67	-0.9
Total valid votes/Expense limit			33,590	100.00
Total rejected ballots			524	1.54	+0.1
Turnout			34,114	52.10	–
Eligible voters			65,481	–	–

hide2008 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Gérard Asselin	15,272	49.3	-1.8	$60,396
	Conservative	Pierre Breton	8,374	27.0	+8.0	$57,909
	Liberal	Randy Jones	4,737	15.3	+1.0	$3,407
	New Democratic	Michaël Chicoine	1,491	4.8	-8.0	$228
	Green	Jacques Gélineau	1,112	3.6	+1.3
Total valid votes/Expense limit			30,986	100.0	$99,164
Total rejected ballots			444	1.4
Turnout			31,430	–

hide2006 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Gérard Asselin	18,601	51.1	-7.4	$59,792
	Conservative	Pierre Paradis	6,910	19.0	+14.1	$9,560
	Liberal	Randy Jones	5,214	14.3	-10.6	$22,979
	New Democratic	Pierre Ducasse	4,657	12.8	+2.5	$20,006
	Green	Jacques Gélineau	824	2.3	+0.9
	Independent	Eric Viver	195	0.5	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			36,401	100.0	$92,367

hide2004 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Gérard Asselin	19,040	58.5	+5.3	$55,212
	Liberal	Anthony Detroio	8,097	24.9	-10.8	$54,120
	New Democratic	Pierre Ducasse	3,361	10.3	+8.6	$23,174
	Conservative	Pierre Paradis	1,601	4.9	-4.4^{[fn 2]}	$4,449
	Green	Les Parsons	444	1.4	–	$905
Total valid votes/Expense limit			32,543	100.0	$90,297

hide2000 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Ghislain Fournier	11,595	53.2	+6.2
	Liberal	Robert Labadie	7,770	35.7	-5.5
	Alliance	Laurette De Champlain	1,197	5.5	n/a
	Progressive Conservative	Gaby-Gabriel Robert	830	3.8	-3.9
	New Democratic	Normand Caplette	386	1.8	-2.2
Total valid votes			21,778	100.0

hide1997 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Ghislain Fournier	12,203	47.1	-7.9
	Liberal	André Maltais	10,671	41.2	+20.1
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Allard	2,009	7.7	-14.5
	New Democratic	Pierre Ducasse	1,041	4.0	+2.3
Total valid votes			25,924	100.0

hide1993 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Bernard St-Laurent	14,859	55.0	n/a^{[fn 3]}
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Langlois	6,024	22.3	-39.4
	Liberal	Rita Lavoie	5,694	21.1	-1.8
	New Democratic	Eric Hébert	451	1.7	-12.8
Total valid votes			27,028	100.0

hide1988 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Langlois	17,126	61.7	-9.9
	Liberal	Sylvain Garneau	6,355	22.9	-1.6
	New Democratic	Carol Guay	4,008	14.4	+12.1
	Commonwealth of Canada	Alan John York	281	1.0	+0.8
Total valid votes			27,770	100.0

hide1984 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Mulroney	28,208	71.6	+56.1
	Liberal	André Maltais	9,640	24.5	-44.2
	New Democratic	Denis Faubert	939	2.4	-4.4
	Parti nationaliste	Laurian Dupont	536	1.4
	Commonwealth of Canada	Raynald Rouleau	101	0.3
Total valid votes			39,424	100.0

hide1980 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Maltais	21,499	68.6	10.0
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Blouin	4,844	15.5	-0.2
	New Democratic	Roger Muller	2,111	6.7	+0.1
	Social Credit	Marcel Brin	1,184	3.8	-13.2
	Rhinoceros	Yves Truchon	841	2.7
	Rhinoceros	Denis Tarzan Bédard	715	2.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Lisette Paradis	125	0.4
Total valid votes			31,319	100.0

hide1979 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Maltais	18,528	58.6	-8.6
	Social Credit	Paul-Henri Tremblay	5,378	17.0
	Progressive Conservative	Denyse Patry	4,948	15.6	-1.0
	New Democratic	Carole Noel	2,105	6.7	-6.8
	Union populaire	Gilles Verrier	659	2.1
Total valid votes			31,618	100.0

hide1974 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gustave Blouin	16,220	67.2	+10.7
	Progressive Conservative	Alban Malenfant	4,024	16.7	+1.1
	New Democratic	Raymond Perron	3,247	13.4	+6.2
	Marxist–Leninist	Gilles Verrier	659	2.7
Total valid votes			24,150	100.0

hide1972 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gustave Blouin	16,780	56.5	-4.1
	Social Credit	Lionel-Joseph Desjardins	6,136	20.7	+12.8
	Progressive Conservative	Jerry Giles	4,625	15.6	-4.8
	New Democratic	Jean-Maurice Pinel	2,156	7.3	-3.8
Total valid votes			29,697	100.0

hide1968 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Gustave Blouin	13,504	60.6
	Progressive Conservative	Jerry Giles	4,539	20.4
	New Democratic	Louis Rioux	2,463	11.1
	Ralliement créditiste	Roger Boulanger	1,761	7.9
Total valid votes			22,267	100.0

Notes[]

^ André Forbes was nominated as a Liberal, but lost party support just before the nomination deadline. Instead of resigning, he continued to run as an Independent. He appears on the ballot as a Liberal.^[10]^[11]
^ Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
^ No BQ candidate in 1988 for comparison.

References[]

"(Code 24039) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
Riding history from the Library of Parliament

Notes[]

^ Statistics Canada: 2016
^ Statistics Canada: 2016
^ "First Official Language Spoken (7), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 2016 Census - 100% Data". 2 August 2017.
^ "Confirmed candidates — Manicouagan". Elections Canada. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Manicouagan, 30 September 2015
^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
^ Booted Liberal candidate still in the race. TheSpec.com, 11 April 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
^ Controversial Quebec Liberal to remain in race. CBC News, 11 April 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Mount Royal	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1984–1988	Succeeded by Charlevoix

Coordinates: 51°31′N 66°08′W / 51.51°N 66.14°W / 51.51; -66.14

[12] André Forbes was nominated as a Liberal, but lost party support just before the nomination deadline. Instead of resigning, he continued to run as an Independent. He appears on the ballot as a Liberal.^[10]^[11]

[13] Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

[14] No BQ candidate in 1988 for comparison.

[1] Statistics Canada: 2016

[2] Statistics Canada: 2016

[3] "First Official Language Spoken (7), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 2016 Census - 100% Data". 2 August 2017.

[4] "Confirmed candidates — Manicouagan". Elections Canada. Retrieved 20 September 2021.

[5] "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.

[6] "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 11, 2019.

[7] Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Manicouagan, 30 September 2015

[8] Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine

[9] Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

[10] Booted Liberal candidate still in the race. TheSpec.com, 11 April 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

[11] Controversial Quebec Liberal to remain in race. CBC News, 11 April 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

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Manicouagan (electoral district)

Contents

Demographics[]

Members of Parliament[]

Election results[]

See also[]

Notes[]

References[]

Notes[]

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Conservative	Chicoutimi—Le Fjord