Mégantic-Compton

Mégantic-Compton

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1972
First contested	1973
Last contested	2008
Demographics
Population (2006)	44,624
Electors (2008)[1]	34,153
Area (km²)[2]	5,322.14
Census divisions	Coaticook (part), Le Granit (part), Le Haut-Saint-François (all)
Census subdivisions	Ascot Corner, Audet, Bury, Chartierville, Cookshire-Eaton, Dixville, Dudswell, East Angus, East Hereford, Frontenac, Hampden, Lac-Drolet, Lac-Mégantic, Lambton, La Patrie, Lingwick, Marston, Martinville, Milan, Nantes, Newport, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Piopolis, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton, Sainte-Edwidge-de-Clifton, Saint-Herménégilde, Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton, Saint-Malo, Saint-Romain, Saint-Sébastien, Saint-Venant-de-Paquette, Scotstown, Stornoway, Stratford, Val-Racine, Weedon, Westbury

Megantic-Compton is a former provincial electoral district in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. As of its final election, it included the municipalities of East Angus, Cookshire-Eaton, Lac-Mégantic, Weedon, Lac-Drolet and Chartierville.

It was created for the 1973 election from parts of Frontenac, Compton, and Wolfe electoral districts; despite the name, it did not include any part of the territory of the former Mégantic electoral district. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and the successor electoral district was the recreated Mégantic.^[3]

Members of National Assembly

• Omer Dionne, Liberal (1973–1976)
• Fernand Grenier, Union Nationale (1976–1980)
• Fabien Bélanger, Liberal (1980–1983)
• Madeleine Bélanger, Liberal (1983–2003)
• Daniel Bouchard, Liberal – Independent (2003–2007)
• Johanne Gonthier, Liberal (2007–2012)

Election results

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Johanne Gonthier	9,204	45.09
	Parti Québécois	Gloriane Blais	7,170	35.13
	Action démocratique	Samuel Therrien	3,268	16.01
	Québec solidaire	Julie Dionne	769	3.77

Quebec general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Johanne Gonthier	8,701	32.98
	Action démocratique	Jocelyn Brouillette	7,861	32.12
	Parti Québécois	Gloriane Blais	7,095	28.99
	Green	Sébastien Lanctôt	904	3.69	–
	Québec solidaire	Ludovick Nadeau	544	2.22

Quebec general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Daniel Bouchard	11,135	47.09
	Parti Québécois	Suzanne Durivage	7,347	31.07
	Action démocratique	Alain Boisvert	4,901	20.73
	UFP	Christian Poulin	193	0.82
	Equality	Frank Moller	71	0.30

Quebec general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	12,675	50.49
	Parti Québécois	Suzanne Durivage	10,339	41.18
	Action démocratique	Olivier Chalifoux	1,835	7.31
	PDS	Yves Couturier	174	0.69
	Equality	Frank Moller	81	0.32

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	14,535	52.71
	Oui	13,042	47.29

Quebec general election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	12,799	53.95
	Parti Québécois	Jacques Blais	10,051	42.36
	Natural Law	Christian Simard	444	1.87
	Equality	Matthew Begbie	431	1.82

Quebec general election, 1989
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	12,608	60.39
	Parti Québécois	Léon Ducharme	6,246	29.92
	Equality	Frank Moller	1,039	4.98
	Green	Pierre Gilbert	740	3.54
	Parti 51	Edmond Trudeau	245	1.17

Quebec general election, 1985
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	12,865	59.48
	Parti Québécois	Maurice Bernier	8,708	37.35
	NDP	Joseph Lemoine	594	2.75
	Christian Socialist	Steeve Stratford	91	0.42

Mégantic-Compton by-election December 5, 1983
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	13,711	67.60
	Parti Québécois	Noël Landry	6,182	30.48
	Independent	Jean-Luc Perron	233	1.15
	No Designation	Patricia Métivier	156	0.77

Quebec general election, 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Fabien Bélanger	11,795	51.73
	Parti Québécois	Noël Landry	9,468	41.52
	Union Nationale	Jacques Labranche	1,539	6.75	–

Mégantic-Compton by-election November 17, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Fabien Bélanger	9,259	46.95
	Parti Québécois	Richard Labelle	7,135	36.18
	Union Nationale	Fernand Grenier	233	1.15	–
	United Social Credit	Jean-Paul Poulin	156	0.77

1980 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	15,202	65.23
	Oui	8,102	34.77

Quebec general election, 1976
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Union Nationale	Fernand Grenier	8,539	39.58	–
	Liberal	J. Omer Dionne	6,037	27.99
	Parti Québécois	Richard Labelle	4,809	22.29
	Ralliement créditiste	Robert Leroux	2,188	10.14

Quebec general election, 1973
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. Omer Dionne	9,815	47.96
	Ralliement créditiste	Paul-André Latulippe	5,385	26.31
	Parti Québécois	Gérald Ouellette	2,819	13.78
	Union Nationale	Octave Grenier	2,445	11.95	–

References

1. http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=102&section=population
2. http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=102&section=superficie
3. Commission de la représentation électorale (January 2012). "The electoral map of Québec 2011: Final Report" (PDF). Retrieved March 21, 2012.

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

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 Estrie region (as of 2001)
• Quebec electoral map, 2001

Neighbouring electoral districts