Compton—Stanstead
Federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada
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Compton—Stanstead is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.
 Quebec electoral district | |||
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Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 1996 | ||
| First contested | 1997 | ||
| Last contested | 2025 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 105,459 | ||
| Electors (2019) | 84,383 | ||
| Area (km²)[2] | 4,815 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 21.9 | ||
| Census division(s) | Coaticook RCM, Le Haut-Saint-François RCM, Memphrémagog RCM, Sherbrooke, Le Val-Saint-François RCM | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Sherbrooke (part), Coaticook, Cookshire-Eaton, East-Angus, Ascot-Corner, Compton, Stanstead, Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, Weedon, Waterville | ||
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It was created in 1996 from Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead and Richmond—Wolfe ridings.
Demographics
According to the 2021 Canadian census, 2023 representation order[3]
Race: 94.6% White, 2.0% Indigenous
Languages: 87.4% French, 11.5% English
Religions: 68.3% Christian (58.3% Catholic, 1.5% Anglican, 1.0% United Church, 7.5% Other) 30.3% None
Median income: $41,200 (2020)
Average income: $48,960 (2020)
Geography
The southern Quebec riding on the US border southeast of Sherbrooke is located in the Quebec region of Estrie. It consists of the RCMs of Coaticook and Le Haut-Saint-François, the eastern half of Memphrémagog, and parts of Le Val-Saint-François and the city of Sherbrooke.
Main towns include Coaticook, Lennoxville (now part of Sherbrooke), North Hatley, Stanstead, and Ayer's Cliff.
Neighbouring ridings are Brome—Missisquoi, Richmond—Arthabaska, Sherbrooke, and Mégantic—L'Érable.
The 2012 electoral redistribution saw this riding lose and gain territories with Sherbrooke.
Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding gained the Parc-Belvédère area from Sherbrooke.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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| Compton—Stanstead Riding created from Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead and Richmond—Wolfe |
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| 36th | 1997–2000 | David Price | Progressive Conservative | |
| 37th | 2000–2004 | Liberal | ||
| 38th | 2004–2006 | France Bonsant | Bloc Québécois | |
| 39th | 2006–2008 | |||
| 40th | 2008–2011 | |||
| 41st | 2011–2015 | Jean Rousseau | New Democratic | |
| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Marie-Claude Bibeau | Liberal | |
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | |||
| 44th | 2021–2025 | |||
| 45th | 2025–present | Marianne Dandurand | ||
Election results
| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Marianne Dandurand | 29,951 | 45.64 | +8.98 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Nathalie Bresse | 17,305 | 26.37 | -4.14 | ||||
| Conservative | Jacques Painchaud | 14,292 | 21.78 | +4.37 | ||||
| New Democratic | Valérie Laliberté | 2,124 | 3.24 | -4.30 | ||||
| Green | Sébastien Tremblay | 1,161 | 1.77 | -1.04 | ||||
| People's | Paul Lehmann | 787 | 1.20 | -2.56 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 65,620 | 98.72 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 849 | 1.28 | -0.45 | |||||
| Turnout | 66,469 | 71.82 | +4.57 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 92,551 | |||||||
| Liberal notional hold | Swing | +6.56 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[4][5] | ||||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. | ||||||||
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[6] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 21,556 | 36.66 | |
| Bloc Québécois | 17,941 | 30.51 | |
| Conservative | 10,239 | 17.41 | |
| New Democratic | 4,431 | 7.54 | |
| People's | 2,212 | 3.76 | |
| Green | 1,650 | 2.81 | |
| Free | 585 | 0.99 | |
| Independent | 186 | 0.32 | |
| Total valid votes | 58,800 | 98.27 | |
| Rejected ballots | 1,036 | 1.73 | |
| Registered voters/ estimated turnout | 88,975 | 67.25 | |
| 2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Marie-Claude Bibeau | 21,188 | 36.66 | -0.65 | $63,618.47 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Nathalie Bresse | 17,688 | 30.60 | -1.28 | $19,787.30 | |||
| Conservative | Pierre Tremblay | 10,087 | 17.45 | +2.95 | $42,471.76 | |||
| New Democratic | Geneva Allen | 4,277 | 7.40 | -2.23 | $0.48 | |||
| People's | Yves Bourassa | 2,167 | 3.75 | +2.74 | $0.00 | |||
| Green | Sylvain Dodier | 1,626 | 2.81 | -2.41 | $3,785.22 | |||
| Free | Déitane Gendron | 576 | 1.00 | – | $296.27 | |||
| Independent | Sylvain Longpré | 187 | 0.32 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 57,796 | – | – | $116,073.80 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 66.49 | -3.26 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 86,926 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.31 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Marie-Claude Bibeau | 21,731 | 37.31 | +0.43 | $58,382.52 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | David Benoît | 18,571 | 31.89 | +11.19 | none listed | |||
| Conservative | Jessy Mc Neil | 8,446 | 14.50 | +2.00 | $12,725.62 | |||
| New Democratic | Naomie Mathieu Chauvette | 5,607 | 9.63 | -17.78 | $1,786.21 | |||
| Green | Jean Rousseau | 3,044 | 5.23 | +3.29 | none listed | |||
| People's | Paul Reed | 586 | 1.01 | $677.99 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Jonathan Therrien | 252 | 0.43 | -0.13 | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 58,237 | 98.33 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 988 | 1.67 | ||||||
| Turnout | 59,225 | 69.75 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 84,913 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -5.39 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[8][9] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Marie-Claude Bibeau | 20,582 | 36.88 | +24.89 | $30,817.38 | |||
| New Democratic | Jean Rousseau | 15,300 | 27.41 | -19.86 | $22,398.05 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | France Bonsant | 11,551 | 20.70 | -5.73 | $41,452.44 | |||
| Conservative | Gustavo Labrador | 6,978 | 12.50 | +0.65 | $24,135.57 | |||
| Green | Korie Marshall | 1,085 | 1.94 | -0.49 | – | |||
| Rhinoceros | Kévin Côté | 315 | 0.56 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 55,811 | 100.00 | $218,288.13 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 748 | 1.32 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 56,559 | 69.09 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 81,867 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from New Democratic | Swing | +22.37 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[10][11] | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[12] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| New Democratic | 23,529 | 47.27 | |
| Bloc Québécois | 13,155 | 26.43 | |
| Liberal | 5,970 | 11.99 | |
| Conservative | 5,901 | 11.86 | |
| Green | 1,211 | 2.43 | |
| Others | 5 | 0.01 | |
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Jean Rousseau | 24,097 | 47.59 | +36.31 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | France Bonsant | 13,179 | 26.03 | - 15.82 | ||||
| Liberal | William Hogg | 6,132 | 12.09 | -10.44 | ||||
| Conservative | Sandrine Gressard Bélanger | 5,982 | 11.72 | -7.72 | ||||
| Green | Gary Caldwell | 1,241 | 2.57 | -2.30 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 50,631 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 580 | 1.13 | -0.03 | |||||
| Turnout | 51,211 | 64.59 | +2.61 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 80,382 | – | – | |||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | France Bonsant | 20,332 | 41.85 | -0.9 | $42,534 | |||
| Liberal | William Hogg | 10,946 | 22.53 | +0.2 | $17,476 | |||
| Conservative | Michel Gagné | 9,445 | 19.44 | -4.9 | $57,862 | |||
| New Democratic | Jean Rousseau | 5,483 | 11.28 | +5.1 | $1,820 | |||
| Green | Gary Caldwell | 2,368 | 4.87 | +0.5 | $11,114 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 48,574 | 100.00 | $84,153 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 572 | 1.16 | ||||||
| Turnout | 49,146 | 62.97 | ||||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | France Bonsant | 21,316 | 42.8 | -3.9 | $38,909 | |||
| Conservative | Gary Caldwell | 12,131 | 24.3 | +13.9 | $44,452 | |||
| Liberal | David Price | 11,126 | 22.3 | -13.7 | $56,653 | |||
| New Democratic | Stéphane Bürgi | 3,099 | 6.2 | +2.9 | $1,674 | |||
| Green | Gaétan Perreault | 2,171 | 4.4 | +0.8 | $310 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 49,843 | 100.0 | $77,428 | |||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | France Bonsant | 20,450 | 46.7 | +7.8 | $36,450 | |||
| Liberal | David Price | 15,752 | 36.0 | -10.6 | $55,575 | |||
| Conservative | Gary Caldwell | 4,589 | 10.5 | -1.3 | $13,713 | |||
| Green | Laurier Busque | 1,546 | 3.5 | $540 | ||||
| New Democratic | Martin Baller | 1,451 | 3.3 | +1.8 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 43,788 | 100.0 | $75,354 | |||||
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election.
| 2000 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | David Price | 17,729 | 46.6 | +26.6 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Gaston Leroux | 14,808 | 38.9 | +6.0 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Mary Ann Dewey-Plante | 2,422 | 6.4 | -38.2 | ||||
| Alliance | Marc Carrier | 2,061 | 5.4 | |||||
| New Democratic | Christine Moore | 580 | 1.5 | +0.1 | ||||
| Natural Law | Marc Roy | 476 | 1.3 | +0.2 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 38,076 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1997 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | David Price | 18,125 | 44.6 | |||||
| Bloc Québécois | Maurice Bernier | 13,367 | 32.9 | |||||
| Liberal | Gaétan Grenier | 8,119 | 20.0 | |||||
| New Democratic | Christine Moore | 587 | 1.4 | |||||
| Natural Law | Lisette Proulx | 439 | 1.1 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 40,637 | 100.0 | ||||||