Gaspé (provincial electoral district)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Gaspé | |
|---|---|
| National Assembly Member | Guy Lelièvre Parti Québécois |
| Electors, 2007 | 27,763 [1] |
| Electoral district created | 1972 |
| Region | Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine |
Gaspé is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It was created in 1972 from a merger of a portion the electoral district of Gaspé-Nord and the electoral division of Gaspé-Sud which both existed from 1931 to 1972. The riding also existed from 1867 to 1927.
Contents |
[edit] Geography
The riding is located on the eastern edge of the Gaspé Peninsula.
It consists of the municipalities of:
- Cloridorme
- Gaspé
- Grande-Rivière
- Grande-Vallée
- Murdochville
- Pabos
- Percé
- Petite-Vallée
- Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé.
[edit] Linguistic demographics
- Francophone: 91.3%
- Anglophone: 8.4%
- Allophone: 0.2%
[edit] Members of Legislative Assembly
[edit] Gaspé riding
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1867-1871 | Pierre-Étienne Fortin | Conservative | |
| 2nd | 1871-1873 | |||
| 1873 By-Election | 1873-1875 | |||
| 3rd | 1875-1877 | |||
| 1877 By-Election | 1877-1878 | |||
| 4th | 1878-1879 | Edmund James Flynn | Conservative | |
| 1879 By-Election | 1879-1881 | |||
| 5th | 1881-1884 | |||
| 1884 By-Election | 1884-1886 | |||
| 6th | 1886-1890 | |||
| 7th | 1890-1892 | Achille-Ferdinand Carrier | Liberal | |
| 8th | 1892-1897 | Edmund James Flynn | Conservative | |
| 9th | 1897-1900 | |||
| 10th | 1900-1904 | Xavier Kennedy | Liberal | |
| 11th | 1904-1908 | Louis-Joseph Lemieux | Liberal | |
| 12th | 1908-1910 | |||
| 1910 By-Election | 1910-1912 | Joseph-Léonide Perron | Liberal | |
| 13th | 1912-1916 | Gustave Lemieux | Liberal | |
| 14th | 1916-1919 | |||
| 15th | 1919-1923 | |||
| 16th | 1923-1927 | |||
| 17th | 1927-1931 | |||
[edit] Gaspé-Nord riding
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18th | 1931-1935 | Thomas Côté | Liberal | |
| 19th | 1935-1936 | |||
| 20th | 1936-1939 | Joseph-Alphonse Pelletier | Union nationale | |
| 21st | 1939-1944 | Perreault Casgrain | Liberal | |
| 22nd | 1944-1948 | Joseph-Alphonse Pelletier | Union nationale | |
| 23rd | 1948-1952 | Robert Lévesque | Liberal | |
| 24th | 1952-1956 | Alphonse Couturier | Union nationale | |
| 25th | 1956-1960 | |||
| 26th | 1960-1962 | Claude Jourdain | Liberal | |
| 27th | 1962-1966 | François Gagnon | Union nationale | |
[edit] Gaspé-Sud riding
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18th | 1931-1935 | Alexandre Chouinard | Liberal | |
| 19th | 1935-1936 | |||
| 20th | 1936-1939 | Camille Eugène Pouliot | Union nationale | |
| 21st | 1939-1944 | |||
| 22nd | 1944-1948 | |||
| 23rd | 1948-1952 | |||
| 24th | 1952-1956 | |||
| 25th | 1956-1960 | |||
| 26th | 1960-1962 | |||
| 27th | 1962-1966 | Guy Fortier | Liberal | |
[edit] Members of the National Assembly
[edit] Gaspé-Nord riding
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28th | 1966-1970 | François Gagnon | Union nationale | |
| 29th | 1970-1973 | |||
[edit] Gaspé-Sud riding
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28th | 1966-1970 | Guy Fortier | Liberal | |
| 29th | 1970-1973 | |||
[edit] Gaspé riding
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30th | 1973-1976 | Guy Fortier | Liberal | |
| 31st | 1976-1981 | Michel Le Moignan | Union nationale | |
| 32nd | 1981-1985 | Henri Lemay | Parti québécois | |
| 33rd | 1985-1989 | André Beaudin | Liberal | |
| 34th | 1989-1994 | |||
| 35th | 1994-1998 | Guy Lelièvre | Parti québécois | |
| 36th | 1998-2003 | |||
| 37th | 2003-2007 | |||
| 38th | 2007- | |||
[edit] Electoral results
| Quebec general election, 2007 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Parti québécois | Guy Lelièvre | 7,662 | 40.96 | ||
| Liberal | Georges Mamelonet | 7,022 | 37.54 | ||
| Action démocratique | Bruno Cloutier | 3,162 | 16.91 | ||
| Québec solidaire | Annie Chouinard | 858 | 4.59 | ||
| Quebec general election, 2003 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Parti québécois | Guy Lelièvre | 9,033 | 47.40 | ||
| Liberal | Johnny Gérard | 8,052 | 42.26 | ||
| Action démocratique | Denis Paradis | 1,743 | 9.15 | ||
| Green | Luc-Reno Fournier | 227 | 1.19 | ||
| 1995 Quebec referendum | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Side | Votes | % | |
| Oui | 15,186 | 58.50 | |
| Non | 10,771 | 41.50 | |
| 1980 Quebec referendum | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Side | Votes | % | |
| Non | 14,941 | 58.88 | |
| Oui | 10,435 | 41.12 | |
[edit] References
- Quebec Votes 2007, Riding Profiles Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 25 February 2007
- Information on the Electoral Divisions Holding Elections Directeur Général des Élections du Québec, retrieved 25 February 2007
- Référendum du 30 octobre 1995 Directeur Général des Élections du Québec, retrieved 25 February 2007
- Gaspé election results
- Gaspé-Nord election results
- Gaspé-Sud election results
- Map of Gaspé
- Quebec electoral map
[edit] Neighbouring electoral districts
 |
Duplessis |
|
|||||
| Matane |  |
Îles-de-la-Madeleine | |||||
 Gaspé  |
|||||||
 |
|||||||
| Bonaventure |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
