L'Assomption (provincial electoral district)

L'Assomption

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	François Legault Coalition Avenir Québec
District created	1829
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2011)	67,320
Electors (2012)[1]	51,041
Area (km²)[2]	226.9
Pop. density (per km²)	296.7
Census divisions	L'Assomption (part), Les Moulins (part)
Census subdivisions	L'Assomption, Repentigny (part), Terrebonne (part), Charlemagne, L'Épiphanie (city), L'Épiphanie (parish)

L'Assomption is a provincial electoral district in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes the city of L'Assomption, and parts of the cities of Repentigny and Terrebonne, as well as a few other municipalities.

It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada).

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Sulpice and part of the city of Repentigny to the newly created Repentigny electoral district, but it gained Charlemagne and a different part of the city of Repentigny from Masson; it also gained the city of L'Épiphanie and the parish of L'Épiphanie as well as the part of the city of L'Assomption that it did not already have from Rousseau; it also gained part of the city of Terrebonne from Terrebonne electoral district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

1. Étienne Mathieu, Conservative (1867–1871)
2. Onuphe Peltier, Conservative (1871–1880)
3. Joseph Marion, Conservative (1880–1886)
4. Ludger Forest, Liberal (1886–1890)
5. Joseph Marion, Conservative (1890–1900)
6. Joseph-Édouard Duhamel, Liberal (1900–1906)
7. Louis-Joseph Gauthier, Liberal (1906–1908)
8. Walter Reed, Liberal (1908–1935)
9. Paul Gouin, Action liberale nationale (1935–1936)
10. Adhémar Raynault, Union Nationale (1936–1939)
11. Bernard Bissonnette, Liberal (1939–1944)
12. Victor-Stanislas Chartrand, Union Nationale (1944–1962)
13. Frédéric Coiteux, Liberal (1962–1966)
14. Robert Lussier, Union Nationale (1966–1970)
15. Jean Perreault, Liberal (1970–1976)
16. Jacques Parizeau, Parti Québécois (1976–1984)
17. Jean-Guy Gervais, Liberal (1985–1989)
18. Jacques Parizeau, Parti Québécois (1989–1996)
19. Jean-Claude St-André, Parti Québécois (1996–2007)
20. Éric Laporte, Action démocratique (2007–2008)
21. Scott McKay, Parti Québécois (2008–2012)
22. François Legault, Coalition Avenir Québec (2012–Present)

Election results

Quebec general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	François Legault	18,719	49.38	+7.17
	Parti Québécois	Pierre Paquette	11,541	30.44	-9.12
	Liberal	Jean-Marc Bergevin	5,057	13.34	+1.80
	Québec solidaire	Sylvain Fournier	2,198	5.80	+2.20
	Option nationale	Gabriel Gauthier	226	0.60	-1.04
	Conservative	Charles-Étienne Raynault	169	0.45	–
Total valid votes			37,910	98.37	–
Total rejected ballots			666	1.73	–
Turnout			38,576	73.38	-7.05
Electors on the lists			52,567	–	–
	Coalition Avenir Québec hold		Swing		+8.14

Quebec general election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	François Legault	17,166	42.21	+23.69
	Parti Québécois	Lizabel Nitoi	16,088	39.56	-7.78
	Liberal	Lise Hébert	4,694	11.54	-16.21
	Québec solidaire	Sylvain Fournier	1,465	3.60	+0.54
	Option nationale	Evelyne Marcil	667	1.64	–
	Green	Christine Lebel	588	1.45	-1.28
Total valid votes			40,668	98.74	–
Total rejected ballots			519	1.26	–
Turnout			41,187	80.43	+17.22
Electors on the lists			51,210	–	–
	Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois		Swing		+15.74

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

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Scott McKay	15,438	42.77	+8.84
	Liberal	Christian Gauthier	11,348	31.44	+11.89
	Action démocratique	Éric Laporte	6,938	19.22	-19.98
	Québec solidaire	Olivier Huart	1,090	3.02	-0.07
	Green	Chantal Latour	940	2.60	-1.62
	Parti indépendantiste	Fanny Bérubé	341	0.94	–
Total valid votes			36,095	98.19	–
Total rejected ballots			666	1.81	–
Turnout			36,761	63.21	-12.95
Electors on the lists			58,156	–	–

Quebec general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Action démocratique	Éric Laporte	16,510	39.20	+21.16
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Claude St-André	14,287	33.93	-9.47
	Liberal	Benoit Verstraete	8,235	19.55	-16.55
	Green	Michel Ménard	1,777	4.22	+2.68
	Québec solidaire	Olivier Huart	1,303	3.09	+2.18*
Total valid votes			42,112	99.02	–
Total rejected ballots			415	0.98	–
Turnout			42,527	76.16	+1.00
Electors on the lists			55,838	–	–

* Result compared to UFP

Quebec general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Claude St-André	16,965	43.40	-8.10
	Liberal	Sylvie Thouin	14,111	36.10	+10.86
	Action démocratique	Daniel Labrecque	7,053	18.04	-3.81
	Green	Bob Aubin	602	1.54	–
	UFP	Gilbert Morin	356	0.91	–
Total valid votes			39,087	98.61	–
Total rejected ballots			551	1.39	–
Turnout			39,638	75.16	-6.63
Electors on the lists			52,736	–	–

Quebec general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Claude St-André	21,071	51.50	-3.83
	Liberal	G. Michel Tremblay	10,326	25.24	-2.36
	Action démocratique	Marie Grégoire	8,941	21.85	+5.61
	Bloc Pot	Denis Therrien	365	0.89	–
	Socialist Democracy	Richard-Olivier Mayer	214	0.52	-0.31
Total valid votes			40,917	99.04	–
Total rejected ballots			397	0.96	–
Turnout			41,314	81.79	+32.82
Electors on the lists			50,513	–	–

Quebec provincial by-election, June 10, 1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Claude St-André	12,931	55.33	-0.71
	Liberal	Fernand Prud’homme	6,451	27.60	-0.20
	Action démocratique	Robert Landreville	3,795	16.24	+1.02
	Socialist Democracy	Jocelyne Dupuis	195	0.83	–
Total valid votes			23,372	98.15	–
Total rejected ballots			440	1.85	–
Turnout			23,812	48.97	-36.63
Electors on the lists			48,626	–	–

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	29,095	63.65
	Non	16,614	36.35

Quebec general election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Jacques Parizeau	21,809	56.04	+0.52
	Liberal	Luc Archambault	10,817	27.80	-12.39
	Action démocratique	Éric Boisselle	5,925	15.22	–
	Natural Law	Lisette Proulx	366	0.94	–
Total valid votes			38,917	98.12	–
Total rejected ballots			744	1.88	–
Turnout			39,661	85.60	+5.33
Electors on the lists			46,334	–	–

1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	28,287	70.78
	Oui	11,677	29.22

Quebec general election, 1989
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Jacques Parizeau	18,590	55.52	+14.16
	Liberal	Jean-Guy Gervais	13,456	40.19	-1.74
	Green	Bryan Speight	1,439	4.30	–
Total valid votes			33,485	97.76	–
Total rejected ballots			766	2.24	–
Turnout			34,251	80.27	+3.21
Electors on the lists			42,670	–	–

Quebec general election, 1985
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Jean-Guy Gervais	15,627	41.93	-4.78
	Parti Québécois	Bernard Bastien	15,411	41.36	+21.42
	Progressive Conservative	André Asselin	5,429	14.57	-17.22
	Parti indépendantiste	Yves Senécal	422	1.13	–
	Union Nationale	Pierre-Bernard Labelle	273	0.73	–
	United Social Credit	Hervé Bélisle	103	0.28	-0.61
Total valid votes			37,265	98.44	–
Total rejected ballots			590	1.56	–
Turnout			37,855	77.06	+21.98
Electors on the lists			49,127	–	–

Quebec provincial by-election, June 3, 1985
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Jean-Guy Gervais	12,019	46.71	+13.59
	Progressive Conservative	André Asselin	8,180	31.79	–
	Parti Québécois	Denis Taillon	5,131	19.94	-41.67
	United Social Credit	Jean-Paul Poulin	229	0.89	–
	Republic of Canada	Jacques Lambert	174	0.68	–
Total valid votes			25,733	97.03	–
Total rejected ballots			789	2.97	–
Turnout			26,522	55.08	-31.96
Electors on the lists			48,148	–	–

Quebec general election, 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Jacques Parizeau	22,605	61.61	+7.12
	Liberal	André Ouellette	12,150	33.12	+8.38
	Union Nationale	Paul Marsan	1,934	5.27	-11.53
Total valid votes			36,689	98.82	–
Total rejected ballots			439	1.18	–
Turnout			37,128	87.04	-2.20
Electors on the lists			42,657	–	–

1980 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	30,125	51.14
	Non	28,786	48.86

References

1. http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions-2011.php?bsq=363&section=population
2. http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions-2011.php?bsq=363&section=superficie

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (QuébecPolitique)

Maps

• 2011 map (PDF)
• 2001 map (Flash)

  2001–2011 changes (Flash)

  1992–2001 changes (Flash)

• Electoral map of Lanaudière region
• Quebec electoral map, 2011

Neighbouring electoral districts