Verchères (provincial electoral district)

This article is about the provincial electoral district. For the federal electoral district, see Verchères (federal electoral district). For the pre-Confederation electoral district, see Verchères (Province of Canada electoral district).

Verchères
Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureNational Assembly of Quebec
MNA
 
 		 
Suzanne Roy
Coalition Avenir Québec
District created1867
District abolished1939
District re-created1944
First contested1867
Last contested2022
Demographics
Population (2006)57,095
Electors (2012)[1]56,094
Area (km²)[1]404.4
Pop. density (per km²)141.2
Census division(s)Lajemmerais (Marguerite-D'Youville)
Census subdivision(s)Calixa-Lavallée, Contrecoeur, Saint-Amable, Sainte-Julie, Varennes, Verchères

Verchères (French pronunciation: [vɛʁʃɛʁ]) 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. Sainte-Julie is now the biggest municipality in the district

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Legislature Years Member Party
1st  1867–1871     André-Boniface Craig Conservative
2nd  1871–1875     Joseph Daigle Liberal
3rd  1875–1878
4th  1878–1879 Jean-Baptiste Brousseau
 1879–1881 Achille Larose
5th  1881–1886 Abraham Bernard
6th  1886–1890 Albert-Alexandre Lussier
7th  1890–1892
8th  1892–1897
9th  1897–1900 Étienne Blanchard
10th  1900–1904
11th  1904–1908
12th  1908–1912 Amédée Geoffrion
13th  1912–1916 Joseph-Léonide Perron
14th  1916–1919 Adrien Beaudry
15th  1919–1921
 1921–1923 Jean-Marie Richard
16th  1923–1927
17th  1927–1931 Felix Messier
18th  1931–1935
19th  1935–1936
20th  1936–1939
Riding dissolved into Richelieu-Verchères
Riding re-created from Richelieu-Verchères
22nd  1944–1948     Arthur Dupré Liberal
23rd  1948–1952
24th  1952–1956
25th  1956–1960     Clodomir Ladouceur Union Nationale
26th  1960–1962     Guy Lechasseur Liberal
27th  1962–1966
28th  1966–1970
29th  1970–1973 Guy Saint-Pierre
30th  1973–1976 Marcel Ostiguy
31st  1976–1981     Jean-Pierre Charbonneau Parti Québécois
32nd  1981–1985
33rd  1985–1989
34th  1989–1994 Luce Dupuis
35th  1994–1998 Bernard Landry
36th  1998–2003
37th  2003–2005
 2005–2007 Stéphane Bergeron
38th  2007–2008
39th  2008–2012
40th  2012–2014
41st  2014–2018
42nd  2018–2022     Suzanne Dansereau Coalition Avenir Québec
43rd  2022–Present Suzanne Roy

Election results

2022 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Suzanne Roy
Parti Québécois Cédric Gagnon-Ducharme
Québec solidaire Manon Harvey
Conservative Pascal Déry
Liberal Gabriel Lévesque
Green Nadim Saikali
Climat Québec Germain Dallaire –
Independent Lucien Beauregard –
Démocratie directe Pauline Boisvert –
Total valid votes –
Total rejected ballots –
Turnout
Electors on the lists – –
2018 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Suzanne Dansereau 17,073 37.49 +7.14
Parti Québécois Stéphane Bergeron 16,246 35.67 -6.92
Québec solidaire Jean-René Péloquin 6,723 14.76 +7.67
Liberal Agnieszka Wnorowska 4,017 8.82 -10.12
Green Pierre-Olivier Downey 701 1.54
New Democratic Vincent Hillel 403 0.88
Conservative Lisette Benoit 380 0.83
Total valid votes 45,543 98.47
Total rejected ballots 708 1.53
Turnout 46,251 77.38
Eligible voters 59,769
Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois Swing +7.03
Source(s)
"Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.
2014 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti Québécois Stéphane Bergeron 18,467 42.59 -4.68
Coalition Avenir Québec Yves Renaud 13,160 30.35 -1.12
Liberal Simon Rocheleau 8,213 18.94 +5.18
Québec solidaire Céline Jarrousse 3,074 7.09 +3.02
Option nationale Mathieu Coulombe 450 1.04 -1.18
Total valid votes 43,364 98.08
Total rejected ballots 850 1.92
Turnout 44,214 76.96
Electors on the lists 57,448
Liberal hold Swing -1.78

2014 results reference:[2]

2012 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti Québécois Stéphane Bergeron 22,052 47.27 -8.15
Coalition Avenir Québec Chantal Soucy 14,682 31.47 +15.98
Liberal Maxime St-Onge 6,419 13.76 -9.11
Québec solidaire Marie-Thérèse Toutant 1,900 4.07 +1.42
Option nationale Diane Massicotte 1,035 2.22 –
Independent Steven Terranova 297 0.64 –
CC Mario Geoffrion 269 0.58 –
Total valid votes 46,654 98.71
Total rejected ballots 608 1.29
Turnout 47,262 84.14
Electors on the lists 56,169
Liberal hold Swing -12.06

* Coalition Avenir Québec change is from the Action démocratique.

2012 results reference:[3]

2008 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti Québécois Stéphane Bergeron 15,664 55.42 +14.17
  Liberal Vincent Sabourin 6,464 22.87 +8.68
Action démocratique Daniel Castonguay 4,377 15.49 -21.83
Green Christine Hayes 845 2.99 -1.21
Québec solidaire Lynda Gadoury 749 2.65 -0.40
Parti indépendantiste Yvon Sylva Aubé 164 0.58 –
2007 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti Québécois Stéphane Bergeron 13,811 41.25 -27.95
Action démocratique Luc Robitaille 12,495 37.32 +27.20
  Liberal Paul Verret 4,751 14.19 -3.45
Green Geneviève Ménard 1,407 4.20 -
Québec solidaire Michelle Hudon-David 1,020 3.05 +0.01*

* Increase is from UFP

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

References

  1. ^ a b "General information on the provincial electoral divisions". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  2. ^ "General Elections: 2014, Verchères". electionsquebec.qc.ca. Elections Quebec. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  3. ^ "General Elections: 2012, Verchères". electionsquebec.qc.ca. Elections Quebec. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
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