Verchères (provincial electoral district)

Verchères
Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature National Assembly of Quebec
MNA
 
 
 

Stéphane Bergeron
Parti Québécois

District created 1867
District abolished 1939
District re-created 1944
First contested 1867
Last contested 2014
Demographics
Population (2006) 57,095
Electors (2012)[1] 56,094
Area (km²)[2] 404.4
Pop. density (per km²) 141.2
Census divisions Lajemmerais (Marguerite-D'Youville)
Census subdivisions Calixa-Lavallée, Contrecoeur, Saint-Amable, Sainte-Julie, Varennes, Verchères

Verchères is a provincial riding in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It corresponds exactly to the territory of Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality.

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). It disappeared in the 1939 election and its successor electoral district was Richelieu-Verchères; however, it was re-created for the 1944 election.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu to the riding of Richelieu, La Présentation to the riding of Saint-Hyacinthe, and several municipalities to the riding of Borduas, but gained Sainte-Julie from the defunct riding of Marguerite-D'Youville.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Election results

Quebec general election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti QuébécoisStéphane Bergeron 15,664 55.42 +14.17
     Liberal Vincent Sabourin 6,464 22.87 +8.68
Action démocratiqueDaniel Castonguay 4,377 15.49 -21.83
GreenChristine Hayes 845 2.99 -1.21
Québec solidaireLynda Gadoury 749 2.65 -0.40
Parti indépendantisteYvon Sylva Aubé 164 0.58
Quebec general election, 2007
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti QuébécoisStéphane Bergeron 13,811 41.25 -27.95
Action démocratiqueLuc Robitaille 12,495 37.32 +27.20
     Liberal Paul Verret 4,751 14.19 -3.45
GreenGeneviève Ménard 1,407 4.20 -
Québec solidaireMichelle Hudon-David 1,020 3.05 +0.01*

* Increase is from UFP

Verchères by-election, December 12, 2005
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti QuébécoisStéphane Bergeron 13,118 69.20 +14.42
     Liberal Jean Robert 3,344 17.64 -10.52
Action démocratiqueDenise Graveline 1,919 10.12 -4.69
UFPJean-François Lessard 576 3.04 +2.41
Quebec general election, 2003
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti QuébécoisBernard Landry 16,963 54.78 -5.86
     Liberal Mario Lebrun 8,720 28.16 +4.97
Action démocratiqueFrançois Pratte 4,585 14.81 -0.30
Bloc PotSébastien Drouin 505 1.63 -
UFPMarc-André Morvan 195 0.63 -

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Neighbouring electoral districts

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