Matane (provincial electoral district)
Quebec electoral district | |
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | National Assembly of Quebec |
District created | 1890 |
District abolished | 2011 |
First contested | 1890 |
Last contested | 2008 |
Demographics | |
Electors (2008)[1] | 27,977 |
Area (km²)[2] | 8,415.6 |
Census division(s) | La Haute-Gaspésie (all), Matane (all) |
Census subdivision(s) | Baie-des-Sables, Cap-Chat, Grosses-Roches, La Martre, Les Méchins, Marsoui, Matane, Mont-Saint-Pierre, Rivière-à-Claude, Saint-Adelme, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Sainte-Félicité, Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg, Saint-Léandre, Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine, Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, Sainte-Paule, Saint-René-de-Matane, Saint-Ulric; Coulée-des-Adolphe, Mont-Albert, Rivière-Bonjour |
Matane is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine regions of Quebec, Canada, that elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec.
It was created for the 1890 election from parts of Rimouski. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and its successor electoral districts were Matane-Matapédia and Gaspé.[3]
Geography[]
It is located at the western end of the Gaspé Peninsula, along the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
It consists of the municipalities of:
- Baie-des-Sables
- Cap-Chat
- Grosses-Roches
- La Martre
- Les Méchins
- Marsoui
- Matane
- Mont-Saint-Pierre
- Rivière-à-Claude
- Saint-Adelme
- Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg
- Saint-Léandre
- Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis
- Saint-René-de-Matane
- Saint-Ulric
- Sainte-Anne-des-Monts
- Sainte-Félicité
- Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine
- Sainte-Paule
It also consists of the unorganized territories of:
Linguistic demographics[]
- Francophone: 99.5%
- Anglophone: 0.3%
- Allophone: 0.1%
Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly[]
Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|---|
7th | 1890–1892 | Louis-Félix Pinault | Liberal | |
8th | 1892 | Edmund James Flynn | Conservative | |
1892–1897 | Louis-Félix Pinault | Liberal | ||
9th | 1897–1898 | |||
1899–1900 | Liberal | |||
10th | 1900–1904 | |||
11th | 1904–1908 | |||
12th | 1908–1912 | |||
13th | 1912–1916 | |||
14th | 1916–1918 | |||
1918–1919 | Octave Fortin | Liberal | ||
15th | 1919–1923 | Joseph Dufour | Liberal | |
16th | 1923–1927 | Liberal | ||
17th | 1927–1931 | |||
18th | 1931–1935 | |||
19th | 1935–1936 | |||
20th | 1936–1939 | Onésime Gagnon | Union nationale | |
21st | 1936–1939 | |||
22nd | 1944–1948 | |||
23rd | 1948–1952 | |||
24th | 1952–1956 | |||
25th | 1956–1958 | |||
1958–1960 | Union nationale | |||
26th | 1960–1962 | Liberal | ||
27th | 1962–1963 | |||
1964–1966 | Liberal | |||
28th | 1966–1970 | Jean Bienvenue | Liberal | |
29th | 1970–1973 | |||
30th | 1973–1976 | Marc-Yvan Côté | Liberal | |
31st | 1976–1981 | Yves Bérubé | Parti Québécois | |
32nd | 1981–1985 | |||
33rd | 1985–1989 | Claire-Hélène Hovington | Liberal | |
34th | 1989–1994 | |||
35th | 1994–1998 | Matthias Rioux | Parti Québécois | |
36th | 1998–2003 | |||
37th | 2003–2007 | Nancy Charest | Liberal | |
38th | 2007–2012 | Pascal Bérubé | Parti Québécois |
Electoral results[]
hide2003 Quebec general election | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Liberal | Nancy Charest | 7,602 | 40.84 | |||||
Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 7,569 | 40.67 | |||||
Action démocratique | Raynald Bernier | 3,005 | 16.14 | |||||
Independent | Nelson Gauthier | 178 | 0.96 | |||||
Independent | Nestor Turcotte | 135 | 0.73 | |||||
Green | David Lejeune | 124 | 0.67 |
hide2007 Quebec general election | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 7,830 | 39.10 | |||||
Liberal | Nancy Charest | 7,617 | 38.04 | |||||
Action démocratique | Donald Grenier | 3,980 | 19.88 | |||||
Québec solidaire | Brigitte Michaud | 358 | 1.79 | |||||
Green | François Vincent | 240 | 1.20 |
hide2008 Quebec general election | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 9,589 | 58.01 | |||||
Liberal | Eric Plourde | 5,503 | 33.29 | |||||
Action démocratique | Denis Paquette | 1,117 | 6.76 | |||||
Québec solidaire | Gilles Arteau | 320 | 1.94 |
1995 Quebec referendum | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side | Votes | % | |
Oui | 15,611 | 62.46 | |
Non | 9,381 | 37.54 |
1980 Quebec referendum | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side | Votes | % | |
Non | 12,285 | 52,41 | |
Oui | 11,154 | 47,59 |
References[]
- ^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=724§ion=population
- ^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=724§ion=superficie
- ^ Commission de la représentation électorale (January 2012). "The electoral map of Québec 2011: Final Report" (PDF). Retrieved March 21, 2012.
External links[]
- Information
- 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 Bas-Saint-Laurent region (as of 2001)
- Electoral map of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region (as of 2001)
- Quebec electoral map, 2001
Categories:
- Matane
- Former Quebec provincial electoral districts