Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj
Federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada
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Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj (formerly Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine) is a federal electoral district (riding) in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons since 2004.
 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 |
Bloc Québécois | ||
| District created | 2003 | ||
| First contested | 2004 | ||
| Last contested | 2025 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 75,850 | ||
| Electors (2021) | 65,501 | ||
| Area (km²)[1] | 17,145 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 4.4 | ||
| Census division(s) | Avignon, Bonaventure, Îles-de-la-Madeleine, La Côte-de-Gaspé, La Haute-Gaspésie, La Matanie, Le Rocher-Percé | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Gaspé, Matane, Les-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Chandler, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Carleton-sur-Mer, New Richmond, Grande-Rivière, Percé, Paspébiac | ||
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It was created by the Representation Order of 2003 from parts of Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok and Matapédia—Matane.
Since 2025, its member of Parliament (MP) has been Alexis Deschênes of the Bloc Québécois (BQ).
Geography
The riding occupies the eastern part of the Gaspé Peninsula, as well as the Magdalen Islands. The Magdalen Islands, being in the Atlantic time zone, report election results one hour earlier than the rest of the riding, which in the Eastern Time Zone with the rest of Quebec.
History
From 2004 to 2011 it consisted of:
(a) the regional county municipalities of Bonaventure, La Côte-de-Gaspé and Le Rocher-Percé; (b) the Regional County Municipality of Avignon, including Gesgapegiag and Listuguj Indian reserves; and (c) the Municipality of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
As per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, the former riding of Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine was dissolved, largely being replaced by Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, with the Avignon Regional County Municipality going to Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, and gaining La Haute-Gaspésie Regional County Municipality from Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia.
Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding was largely replaced by Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj. It gained the entirety of the La Matanie Regional County Municipality and Avignon Regional County Municipality from Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia.
Demographics
- According to the 2016 Canadian census
- Languages: (2016) 91.5% French, 8.1% English, 0.1% Spanish[2]
Riding associations
Riding associations are the local branches of political parties:
| Party | Association name | CEO | HQ city | |
| Conservative | Association du Parti conservateur Gaspésie--Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine-Listuguj | Jean-Pierre Pigeon | Sainte-Anne-des-Monts | |
| Liberal | Association libérale fédérale Gaspésie--Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine--Listuguj | Gabriel Bourget | Grande-Rivière | |
| New Democratic | NPD Gaspésie--Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Duncan Viktor Salvain | Montréal | |
Member of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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| Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine Riding created from Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok and Matapédia—Matane |
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| 38th | 2004–2006 | Raynald Blais | Bloc Québécois | |
| 39th | 2006–2008 | |||
| 40th | 2008–2011 | |||
| 41st | 2011–2015 | Philip Toone | New Democratic | |
| Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine | ||||
| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Diane Lebouthillier | Liberal | |
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | |||
| 44th | 2021–2025 | |||
| Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj | ||||
| 45th | 2025–present | Alexis Deschênes | Bloc Québécois | |
Election results
Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj, 2023 representation order
| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Alexis Deschênes | 26,091 | 45.79 | +1.45 | $29,098.29 | |||
| Liberal | Diane Lebouthillier | 21,817 | 38.29 | –1.47 | $90,115.33 | |||
| Conservative | Jean-Pierre Pigeon | 7,047 | 12.37 | +4.11 | $1,850.29 | |||
| New Democratic | Denise Giroux | 1,005 | 1.76 | –2.51 | $0.00 | |||
| Rhinoceros | Shawn Grenier | 572 | 1.00 | N/A | $0.00 | |||
| People's | Christian Rioux | 452 | 0.79 | –1.22 | $1,566.13 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 56,984 | 98.54 | – | $153,917.81 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 845 | 1.46 | ||||||
| Turnout | 57,829 | 60.48 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 95,615 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois notional hold | Swing | +1.46 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[3][4] | ||||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. | ||||||||
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Bloc Québécois | 23,743 | 44.34 | |
| Liberal | 21,289 | 39.76 | |
| Conservative | 4,421 | 8.26 | |
| New Democratic | 2,288 | 4.27 | |
| People's | 1,074 | 2.01 | |
| Others | 731 | 1.37 | |
Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, 2013 representation order
| 2021 Canadian federal election: Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Diane Lebouthillier | 17,099 | 46.4 | +3.9 | $82,566.31 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Guy Bernatchez | 14,481 | 39.3 | -1.5 | $12,869.61 | |||
| Conservative | Jean-Pierre Pigeon | 3,010 | 8.2 | +0.3 | $9,458.03 | |||
| New Democratic | Lisa Phung | 1,358 | 3.7 | -0.8 | $744.35 | |||
| People's | Christian Rioux | 621 | 1.7 | +1.2 | $995.81 | |||
| Free | Monique Leduc | 289 | 0.8 | N/A | $1,116.77 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 36,858 | 97.9 | – | $112,788.79 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 778 | 2.1 | ||||||
| Turnout | 37,636 | 57.5 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 65,501 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +2.7 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[6] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Diane Lebouthillier | 16,296 | 42.5 | +3.8 | $53,469.21 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Guy Bernatchez | 15,659 | 40.8 | +19.9 | none listed | |||
| Conservative | Jean-Pierre Pigeon | 3,022 | 7.9 | +1.8 | $9,786.76 | |||
| New Democratic | Lynn Beaulieu | 1,722 | 4.5 | -28.0 | none listed | |||
| Green | Dennis Drainville | 1,130 | 2.9 | +1.9 | none listed | |||
| Rhinoceros | Jay Cowboy | 353 | 0.9 | +0.1 | $0.00 | |||
| People's | Eric Hébert | 198 | 0.5 | $2,821.16 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 38,380 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 783 | |||||||
| Turnout | 39,163 | 60.5 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 64,748 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -8.05 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] and CBC[9] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Diane Lebouthillier | 15,345 | 38.73 | +21.69 | $34,217.07 | |||
| New Democratic | Philip Toone | 12,885 | 32.52 | +3.69 | $45,644.59 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Nicholas Roussy | 8,289 | 20.92 | -12.15 | $51,177.09 | |||
| Conservative | Jean-Pierre Pigeon | 2,398 | 6.05 | -13.02 | $9,215.28 | |||
| Green | Jim Morrison | 400 | 1.01 | -0.98 | – | |||
| Rhinoceros | Max Boudreau | 300 | 0.76 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 39,617 | 100.0 | $215,809.52 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 395 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 40,012 | 60.97 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 65,623 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[10][11] | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[12] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Bloc Québécois | 11,684 | 33.07 | |
| New Democratic | 10,186 | 28.83 | |
| Conservative | 6,739 | 19.07 | |
| Liberal | 6,020 | 17.04 | |
| Green | 702 | 1.99 | |
Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine, 2003 representation order
| 2011 Canadian federal election: Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Philip Toone | 12,427 | 33.76 | +26.78 | none listed | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Daniel Côté | 11,650 | 31.64 | −8.46 | $39,768.78 | |||
| Conservative | Régent Bastien | 6,292 | 17.09 | −5.75 | $48,704.71 | |||
| Liberal | Jules Duguay | 5,533 | 15.03 | −11.93 | none listed | |||
| Green | Julien Leblanc | 913 | 2.48 | −0.63 | $328.10 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 36,815 | 100.0 | $90,208.08 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 571 | 1.53 | +0.33 | |||||
| Turnout | 37,386 | 53.85 | −0.26 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 69,429 | |||||||
| New Democratic gain from Bloc Québécois | Swing | +17.62 | ||||||
| Sources:[13][14] | ||||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Raynald Blais | 14,636 | 40.10 | -2.59 | $35,057.79 | |||
| Liberal | Denis Gauvreau | 9,840 | 26.96 | +7.70 | $75,736.95 | |||
| Conservative | Darryl Gray | 8,334 | 22.84 | -9.39 | $61,592.38 | |||
| New Democratic | Gaston Langlais | 2,549 | 6.98 | +4.02 | $1,775.37 | |||
| Green | Julien Leblanc | 1,136 | 3.11 | +0.25 | $157.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 36,495 | 100.0 | $86,955 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 445 | 1.20 | +0.07 | |||||
| Turnout | 36,940 | 54.11 | -7.04 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 68,270 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois hold | Swing | -5.14 | ||||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Raynald Blais | 17,678 | 42.69 | -12.98 | $39,804.88 | |||
| Conservative | Gaston Langlais | 13,347 | 32.23 | +25.39 | $16,170.29 | |||
| Liberal | Mario Levesque | 7,977 | 19.26 | -13.39 | $27,785.44 | |||
| New Democratic | Sophie Dauphinais | 1,225 | 2.96 | +0.87 | $1,237.16 | |||
| Green | Bob Eichenberger | 1,183 | 2.86 | +0.11 | $325.71 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 41,410 | 100.0 | $80,993 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 474 | 1.13 | -0.30 | |||||
| Turnout | 41,884 | 61.15 | +4.58 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 68,494 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois hold | Swing | -19.18 | ||||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election: Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Raynald Blais | 21,446 | 55.67 | +13.10 | $44,886.71 | |||
| Liberal | Georges Farrah | 12,579 | 32.65 | −20.15 | $44,503.86 | |||
| Conservative | Guy De Coste | 2,636 | 6.84 | +4.17 | $12,110.72 | |||
| Green | Bob Eichenberger | 1,060 | 2.75 | – | none listed | |||
| New Democratic | Philip Toone | 805 | 2.09 | +0.13 | $1,695.37 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 38,526 | 100.00 | $79,194 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 559 | 1.43 | ||||||
| Turnout | 39,085 | 56.57 | −5.93 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 69,089 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois notional gain from Liberal | Swing | +16.62 | ||||||
| 2000 federal election redistributed results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 22,302 | 52.80 | |
| Bloc Québécois | 17,981 | 42.57 | |
| New Democratic | 827 | 1.96 | |
| Alliance | 741 | 1.75 | |
| Progressive Conservative | 388 | 0.92 | |