Matane (provincial electoral district)
Provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada
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Matane (French pronunciation: [matan] ⓘ) is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine regions of Quebec, Canada, that elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec.
 Quebec electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | National Assembly of Quebec |
| District created | 1890 |
| District abolished | 2011 |
| First contested | 1890 |
| Last contested | 2008 |
| Demographics | |
| Electors (2008)[1] | 27,977 |
| Area (km²)[2] | 8,415.6 |
| Census division(s) | La Haute-Gaspésie (all), Matane (all) |
| Census subdivision(s) | Baie-des-Sables, Cap-Chat, Grosses-Roches, La Martre, Les Méchins, Marsoui, Matane, Mont-Saint-Pierre, Rivière-à-Claude, Saint-Adelme, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Sainte-Félicité, Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg, Saint-Léandre, Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine, Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, Sainte-Paule, Saint-René-de-Matane, Saint-Ulric; Coulée-des-Adolphe, Mont-Albert, Rivière-Bonjour |
It was created for the 1890 election from parts of Rimouski. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and its successor electoral districts were Matane-Matapédia and Gaspé.[3]
Geography
It is located at the western end of the Gaspé Peninsula, along the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
It consists of the municipalities of:
- Baie-des-Sables
- Cap-Chat
- Grosses-Roches
- La Martre
- Les Méchins
- Marsoui
- Matane
- Mont-Saint-Pierre
- Rivière-à-Claude
- Saint-Adelme
- Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg
- Saint-Léandre
- Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis
- Saint-René-de-Matane
- Saint-Ulric
- Sainte-Anne-des-Monts
- Sainte-Félicité
- Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine
- Sainte-Paule
It also consists of the unorganized territories of:
Linguistic demographics
- Francophone: 99.5%
- Anglophone: 0.3%
- Allophone: 0.1%
Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7th | 1890–1892 | Louis-Félix Pinault | Liberal | |
| 8th | 1892 | Edmund James Flynn | Conservative | |
| 1892–1897 | Louis-Félix Pinault | Liberal | ||
| 9th | 1897–1898 | |||
| 1899–1900 | Donat Caron | Liberal | ||
| 10th | 1900–1904 | |||
| 11th | 1904–1908 | |||
| 12th | 1908–1912 | |||
| 13th | 1912–1916 | |||
| 14th | 1916–1918 | |||
| 1918–1919 | Octave Fortin | Liberal | ||
| 15th | 1919–1923 | Joseph Dufour | Liberal | |
| 16th | 1923–1927 | Joseph-Arthur Bergeron | Liberal | |
| 17th | 1927–1931 | |||
| 18th | 1931–1935 | |||
| 19th | 1935–1936 | |||
| 20th | 1936–1939 | Onésime Gagnon | Union nationale | |
| 21st | 1939–1944 | |||
| 22nd | 1944–1948 | |||
| 23rd | 1948–1952 | |||
| 24th | 1952–1956 | |||
| 25th | 1956–1958 | |||
| 1958–1960 | Benoît Gaboury | Union nationale | ||
| 26th | 1960–1962 | Philippe Castonguay | Liberal | |
| 27th | 1962–1963 | |||
| 1964–1966 | Jacques Bernier | Liberal | ||
| 28th | 1966–1970 | Jean Bienvenue | Liberal | |
| 29th | 1970–1973 | |||
| 30th | 1973–1976 | Marc-Yvan Côté | Liberal | |
| 31st | 1976–1981 | Yves Bérubé | Parti Québécois | |
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | |||
| 33rd | 1985–1989 | Claire-Hélène Hovington | Liberal | |
| 34th | 1989–1994 | |||
| 35th | 1994–1998 | Matthias Rioux | Parti Québécois | |
| 36th | 1998–2003 | |||
| 37th | 2003–2007 | Nancy Charest | Liberal | |
| 38th | 2007–2008 | Pascal Bérubé | Parti Québécois | |
| 39th | 2008–2012 | |||
Electoral results
| 2003 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Nancy Charest | 7,602 | 40.84 | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 7,569 | 40.67 | |||||
| Action démocratique | Raynald Bernier | 3,005 | 16.14 | |||||
| Independent | Nelson Gauthier | 178 | 0.96 | |||||
| Independent | Nestor Turcotte | 135 | 0.73 | |||||
| Green | David Lejeune | 124 | 0.67 | |||||
| 2007 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 7,830 | 39.10 | |||||
| Liberal | Nancy Charest | 7,617 | 38.04 | |||||
| Action démocratique | Donald Grenier | 3,980 | 19.88 | |||||
| Québec solidaire | Brigitte Michaud | 358 | 1.79 | |||||
| Green | François Vincent | 240 | 1.20 | |||||
| 2008 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 9,589 | 58.01 | |||||
| Liberal | Eric Plourde | 5,503 | 33.29 | |||||
| Action démocratique | Denis Paquette | 1,117 | 6.76 | |||||
| Québec solidaire | Gilles Arteau | 320 | 1.94 | |||||
| 1995 Quebec referendum | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Side | Votes | % | |
| Oui | 15,611 | 62.46 | |
| Non | 9,381 | 37.54 | |
| 1980 Quebec referendum | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Side | Votes | % | |
| Non | 12,285 | 52,41 | |
| Oui | 11,154 | 47,59 | |