Vaudreuil-Soulanges (provincial electoral district)

Vaudreuil-Soulanges
Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureNational Assembly of Quebec
District created1939
District abolished1988
First contested1939
Last contested1985

Vaudreuil-Soulanges was a provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.

It was created for the 1939 election from parts of Vaudreuil and Soulanges electoral districts. Its final election was in 1985. It disappeared in the 1989 election and its successor electoral districts were the re-created Vaudreuil and the newly created Salaberry-Soulanges.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Legislature Years Member Party
Riding created from Vaudreuil and Soulanges
21st  1939–1944     Alphide Sabourin Liberal
22nd  1944–1948
23rd  1948–1952     Joseph-Édouard Jeannotte Union Nationale
24th  1952–1956
25th  1956–1957
 1957–1960 Loyola Schmidt
26th  1960–1962     Paul Gérin-Lajoie Liberal
27th  1962–1966
28th  1966–1969
 1969–1970     François-Edouard Belliveau Union Nationale
29th  1970–1973     Paul Phaneuf Liberal
30th  1973–1976
31st  1976–1981     Louise Sauvé Cuerrier Parti Québécois
32nd  1981–1985     Daniel Johnson Jr. Liberal
33rd  1985–1989
Dissolved into Vaudreuil and Salaberry-Soulanges

Election results

1970 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Paul Phaneuf 11,841 50.12 −3.05
Union Nationale François-Édouard Belliveau 6,389 27.04 −13.56
Parti Québécois A.-Léo Bédard 4,183 17.71 –
Ralliement créditiste André Dussault 1,158 4.90 –
Crédit social uni Joseph Ranger 53 0.22 –
Total valid votes 23,624 98.61 –
Rejected and declined votes 333 1.39 –
Turnout 23,957 84.88 +2.98
Electors on the lists 28,224 – –
Liberal hold Swing +5.26
Source: Rapport du président général des élections, Élections 1970.
Quebec provincial by-election, October 8, 1969
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Union Nationale François-Édouard Belliveau 8,075 68.51 +27.91
Ralliement créditiste Marcel Lessard 3,111 26.39
Crédit social uni Joseph Ranger 601 5.10
Total valid votes 11,787 93.41 –
Rejected and declined votes 831 6.59 –
Turnout 12,618 46.66 -33.24
Electors on the lists 27,044 – –
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
1966 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Paul Gérin-Lajoie 11,120 53.17
Union Nationale Aimé Grandmaison 8,490 40.60
Independent Jean-Paul Laflèche 713 3.41
RIN Louis Gravel 494 2.36
Ralliement national Régent Millette 96 0.46
Total valid votes 20,913 100.00
Rejected and declined ballots 280
Turnout 21,193 81.90
Electors on the lists 25,878

References

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