Chutes-de-la-Chaudière (electoral district)

Chutes-de-la-Chaudière

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Marc Picard Coalition Avenir Québec
District created	1988
First contested	1989
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2006)	68,114
Electors (2014)[1]	55,587
Area (km²)[2]	325.5
Pop. density (per km²)	209.3
Census divisions	Lévis (part)
Census subdivisions	Lévis (part)

Chutes-de-la-Chaudière is a provincial electoral district in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located within the city of Lévis, and comprises part of the borough of Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est (the part that is south of Autoroute 20) and all of the borough of Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Ouest.

It was created for the 1989 election from parts of Beauce-Nord and Lévis electoral districts. For that first election only, its name was Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière.

Members of the National Assembly

1. Denise Carrier-Perreault, Parti Québécois (1989–2003)
2. Marc Picard, Action démocratique (2003–2009); Independent (2009–2011); CAQ (2011–present)

Election results

Quebec general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Marc Picard	21,288	47.70
	Liberal	Ghyslain Vaillancourt	14,548	32.51
	Parti Québécois	Catherine Paré	5,758	12.90
	Québec solidaire	Olivier Bolduc	1,973	4.42
	Conservative	Benoit Cloutier	589	1.32
	Parti des sans Parti	Dave Gagné	272	0.61
	Option nationale	Alexis Lévesque-Morin	236	0.53
Total valid votes			44,625	99.04
Total rejected ballots			433	0.96
Turnout			45,058	81.06
Electors on the lists			55,587	–

Quebec general election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Marc Picard	24,267	53.79	+9.02
	Liberal	Réal St-Laurent	10,356	22.96	-7.76
	Parti Québécois	Daniel Lachance	7,678	17.02	-4.41
	Québec solidaire	Eveline Gueppe	1,727	3.83	+0.74
	Green	Marielle Parent	622	1.38
	Conservative	Renaud Grégoire	462	1.02
Total valid votes			45,112	98.11	–
Total rejected ballots			869	1.89	–
Turnout			45,981	84.12
Electors on the lists			54,662	–	–
	Coalition Avenir Québec hold		Swing		+8.39

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

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	Marc Picard	15,536	44.77
	Liberal	Réal St-Laurent	10,657	30.71
	Parti Québécois	Marîe Raiche	7,437	21.43
	Québec solidaire	Marie-Hélène Côté-Brochu	1,070	3.08

Quebec general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	Marc Picard	24,378	58.99	+20.17
	Parti Québécois	Yvan Loubier	7,618	18.43	-7.89
	Liberal	France Proulx	7,292	17.65	-15.50
	Green	Jean-Luc Bugnon	1,183	2.86	-
	Québec solidaire	Éveline Gueppe	854	2.07	+0.36*

* Result compared to UFP

Quebec general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	Marc Picard	14,759	38.82	+20.17
	Liberal	Pauline Houde-Landry	12,601	33.15	+2.83
	Parti Québécois	Antoine Dubé	10,007	26.32	-23.30
	UFP	Jean Bernatchez	649	1.71	-

Quebec general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Denise Carrier-Perreault	22,577	49.62	-2.18
	Liberal	Christian Jobin	13,796	30.32	+7.67
	Action démocratique	Daniel Jacques	8,486	18.65	+0.81
	Socialist Democracy	Mario Trépanier	358	0.79	-1.26
	Independent	Steve Caouette	286	0.63	-

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	29,456	60.06
	Non	19,587	39.94

Quebec general election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Denise Carrier-Perreault	21,091	51.80	+2.86
	Liberal	Shirley Baril	9,220	22.65	-22.95
	Action démocratique	Jacques Bussières	7,263	17.84	-
	Independent	Alphonse Bernard Carrier	904	2.22	-
	New Democrat	Mario Trépanier	834	2.05	-2.59
	Independent	Jean Duchesneau	640	1.57	-
	Independent	Pierre Chamberland	483	1.19	-
	Natural Law	Eddy Gagné	279	0.69	-

Quebec general election, 1989
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	Denise Carrier-Perreault	15,889	48.94
	Liberal	Denis Therrien	14,805	45.60
	New Democrat	Dany Gravel	1,505	4.64
	Socialist Movement	Bertrand Gignac	270	0.83

References

1. http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions-2011.php?bsq=659&section=population
2. http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions-2011.php?bsq=659&section=superficie

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)

Maps

• 2011 map (PDF)
• 2001 map (Flash)

  2001–2011 changes (Flash)

  1992–2001 changes (Flash)

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

Neighbouring electoral districts