Sainte-Marie (provincial electoral district)

Sainte-Marie

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1965
District abolished	1988
First contested	1966
Last contested	1985
Demographics
Census divisions	Montreal (part)
Census subdivisions	Montreal (part)

Sainte-Marie was a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada.

It corresponded to the Sainte-Marie neighbourhood and eastern Ville-Marie in Montreal.

It was created for the 1966 election from parts of Montréal–Sainte-Marie, Montréal–Saint-Jacques and Maisonneuve electoral districts. Its final election was in 1985. It disappeared in the 1989 election and its successor electoral district was Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

• Edgar Charbonneau, Union Nationale (1966–1969)
• Jean-Jacques Crôteau, Union Nationale (1969–1970)
• Charles-Henri Tremblay, Parti Québécois (1970–1973)
• Jean-Claude Malépart, Liberal (1973–1976)
• Guy Bisaillon, Parti Québécois (1976–1982); Independent (1982–1985)
• Michel Laporte, Liberal (1985–1989)

Election results

Quebec general election, 1985
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Michel Laporte	8,855	47.03
	Parti Québécois	Yves Dufour	8,400	44.61
	New Democratic	Louise Boucher	711	3.78
	Union Nationale	Pierre Desrochers	213	1.13
	Parti indépendantiste	Christian Dupuy	212	1.13
	Humanist	Anne Farrell	169	0.90
	Socialist Movement	Bertrand Des Aulniers	88	0.47
	Non-Affiliated	Luc Proulx	74	0.39
	Commonwealth of Canada	Daniel Côté	68	0.36
	Christian Socialist	Serge Belzile	39	0.21
Total valid votes			18,829
Rejected and declined votes			444
Turnout			19,273	67.12
Electors on the lists			28,715
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Quebec general election, 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Guy Bisaillon (incumbent)	13,667	61.35
	Liberal	Jacques Dion	7,600	34.12
	Union Nationale	Paul-Émile Gélinas	493	2.21
	Workers Communist	Lorraine Rondeau	147	0.66
	Independent	Jacques Lavoie	101	0.45
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Brunelle	85	0.38
	Workers	Maurice Gohier	63	0.28
	United Social Credit	René Paré	43	0.19
	Communist	Gaétan Trudel	43	0.19
	Independent	Stéphane Verdier	34	0.15
Total valid votes			22,276	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			322
Turnout			22,598	75.11
Electors on the lists			30,087
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

References

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (QuebecPolitique.com)