Canadian federal election results in the Eastern Townships

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Canadian federal elections have provided the following results in the Eastern Townships.

1 Regional Profile
2 2006 - 39th General Election
3 2004 - 38th General Election
4 2000 - 37th General Election

[edit] Regional Profile

The Eastern Townships are a somewhat federalist area of Quebec. In 1988 and 1984 this area was nearly swept by the Progressive Conservatives under Brian Mulroney, winning all but one seat in 1988 (Shefford) and two in 1984 (Shefford and Richmond-Wolfe). Previously, the Tories only had one riding won in either 1979 or 1980, and that was in Missisquoi in 1979. The Social Credit party also won a seat here in 1979, in Beauce. By the following election in 1993, Mulroney had left office and support for the Tories all across Quebec moved to the Bloc Québécois. Locally, the Bloc won all but two seats; the exceptions were in Beauce, which was won by former Conservative Gilles Bernier who ran as an independent, and in Sherbrooke, where Jean Charest was one of only two PC candidates to win in all of Canada. By 1997, he was PC leader and local candidates running on his coattails did well, resulting in a split between the Progressive Conservatives (four seats) the Bloc Québécois (three seats) and the Liberals (two seats). However in 1998, Charest moved to provincial politics as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party (which is independent of the federal Liberals, despite the similarity of names), and without him local support for the PCs declined. By the 2000 election two of the PC members, David Price and Diane St-Jacques, had left the party and joined the federal Liberals. André Bachand remained with the PCs in 2000 and was re-elected, but declined to join the newly merged Conservatives and retired from politics in 2004. Traditional Bloc support in this region is concentrated in the northwest part, and in the Frontenac-Megantic region. Nonetheless, Bloc support weakened across the board here in 2006, primarily to the Conservatives.

[edit] 2006 - 39th General Election

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Electoral district							Incumbent
Electoral district	BQ	Liberal	Conservative	NDP	Green	Other	Incumbent
Beauce	Patrice Moore 10,997	Jacques Lussier 4,364	Maxime Bernier 36,915	Cleo Chartier 1,405	Jean-Claude Roy 1,397		Claude Drouin†
Brome— Missisquoi	Christian Ouellet 18,596	Denis Paradis 13,569	David Marler 9,874	Josianne Jetté 2,839	Michel Champagne 1,721	Heward Grafftey (P.C.) 1,921	Denis Paradis
Compton— Stanstead	France Bonsant 21,316	David Price 11,126	Gary Caldwell 12,131	Stéphane Bürgi 3,099	Gaétan Perreault 2,171		France Bonsant
Drummond	Pauline Picard 22,575	Éric Cardinal 7,437	Jean-Marie Pineault 10,134	François Choquette 2,870	Jean-Benjamin Milot 2,418		Pauline Picard
Mégantic— L'Érable	Marc Boulianne 15,410	Yvan Corriveau 4,912	Christian Paradis 23,550	Isabelle Tremblay 1,836	Jean-François Hamel 1,534		Marc Boulianne
Richmond— Arthabaska	André Bellavance 24,466	Louis Mercier 5,294	Jean Landry 16,465	Isabelle Maguire 2,507	Laurier Busque 2,355		André Bellavance
Saint- Hyacinthe— Bagot	Yvan Loubier 27,838	Stéphane Deschênes 4,884	Huguette Guilhaumon 12,323	Joelle Chevrier 2,723	Jacques Tétreault 1,925		Yvan Loubier
Shefford	Robert Vincent 22,159	Diane St-Jacques 12,043	Jean Lambert 12,734	Paula Maundcote 2,431	Francine Brière 2,061		Robert Vincent
Sherbrooke	Serge Cardin 27,112	Robert Pouliot 6,863	Marc Nadeau 10,763	Martin Plaisance 4,646	Michel Quirion 2,238	Claudia Laroche-Martel (Ind.) 315	Serge Cardin

[edit] 2004 - 38th General Election

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Electoral district							Incumbent
Electoral district	Liberal	BQ	Conservative	NDP	Green	Other	Incumbent
Beauce	Claude Drouin 19,592	Jean-François Barbe 17,168	Alain Guay 8,091	Philippe Giguère 1,443	Michel Binette 1,054		Claude Drouin
Brome—Missisquoi	Denis Paradis 18,609	Christian Ouellet 17,537	Peter Stastny 4,888	Piper Huggins 1,177	Louise Martineau 2,011		Denis Paradis
Compton—Stanstead	David Price 15,752	France Bonsant 20,450	Gary Caldwell 4,589	Martin Baller 1,451	Laurier Busque 1,546		David Price
Drummond	Roger Gougeon 9,591	Pauline Picard 23,670	Lyne Boisvert 7,123	Blake Evans 745	Louis Lacroix 921		Pauline Picard
Mégantic—L'Érable	Gérard Binet 15,778	Marc Boulianne 19,264	Yves Mailly 4,916	Alexandre Côté 1,608	Bruno Vézina 1,489		Gérard Binet
Richmond—Arthabaska	Christine St-Pierre 12,809	André Bellavance 26,211	Pierre Poissant 4,925	Jason Noble 1,540	Lucie LaForest 1,699		André Bachand† ^[1]
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot	Michel Gaudette 10,558	Yvan Loubier 29,789	Andrée Champagne 5,240	Joëlle Chevrier 1,204	Bruno Godbout 948		Yvan Loubier
Shefford	Diane St-Jacques 18,725	Robert Vincent 21,968	Jacques Parenteau 3,732	Sonia Bisson 1,146	Francine Brière 1,571		Diane St-Jacques
Sherbrooke	Bruno-Marie Béchard 15,482	Serge Cardin 29,323	Réal Leblanc 2,142	Philippe Dion 1,463	Jeffrey Champagne 1,509		Serge Cardin

^ Bachand was former PC

Beauce Brome-Mississquoi Compton-Stanstead Drummond Mégantic-L'Érable Richmond-Arthabaska Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot Shefford Sherbrooke
Key map	Bloc Québécois
Conservative Party of Canada	Green Party of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada	New Democratic Party

[edit] 2000 - 37th General Election

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Electoral district							Incumbent
Electoral district	BQ	Liberal	Alliance	NDP	PC	Other	Incumbent
Beauce	Gary Morin 12,323	Claude Drouin 26,033	Alain Guay 5,452	Pierre Malano 436	Gérard Parent 1,628	Louis Girard (NL) 611	Claude Drouin
Brome—Missisquoi	André Leroux 13,363	Denis Paradis 21,545	Jacques Loyer 1,977	Jeff Itcush 480	Heward Grafftey 5,502		Denis Paradis
Compton—Stanstead	Gaston Leroux 14,808	David Price 17,729	Marc Carrier 2,061	Christine Moore 580	Mary Ann Dewey-Plante 2,422	Marc Roy (NL) 476	David Price
Drummond	Pauline Picard 18,843	André Beliveau 14,285	Jacques Laurin 1,606	Julie Philion 424	Lyne Boisvert 6,593		Pauline Picard
Frontenac—Mégantic	Jean-Guy Chrétien 15,703	Gérard Binet 17,069	Stéphane Musial 1,751	Olivier Chalifoux 427	Nicole Massicotte 1,497	Pierre Luc Fournier (Mar.) 698	Jean-Guy Chrétien
Richmond—Arthabaska	André Bellavance 18,067	Aldéi Beaudoin 10,416	Phillippe Ardilliez 1,930	Vincent Bernier 319	André Bachand 18,430	Christian Simard (NL) 375	André Bachand
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot	Yvan Loubier 25,916	Michel Gaudette 16,265	Jacques Bousquet 2,161	Rachel Dicaire 499	Frédéric Mantha 1,932		Yvan Loubier
Shefford	Michel Benoit 19,816	Diane St-Jacques 20,707	Jean-Jacques Treyvaud 1,867	Elizabeth Morey 380	Audrey Castonguay 1,498	Nicholas Cousineau (Mar.) 819	Diane St-Jacques
Sherbrooke	Serge Cardin 23,559	Jean-François Rouleau 21,182	Mark Quinlan 2,284	Craig Wright 677	Eric L'Heureux 1,955	Daniel Jolicoeur (NL) 495 Joseph Bourassa-Lacombe (Ind.) 294 Serge Lachapelle (M-L) 186	Serge Cardin

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