Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière
Federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada
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Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière (formerly Mégantic—L'Érable) 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 |
Conservative | ||
| District created | 2003 | ||
| First contested | 2004 | ||
| Last contested | 2021 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 87,233 | ||
| Electors (2019) | 70,683 | ||
| Area (km²)[1] | 6,278 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 13.9 | ||
| Census division(s) | L'Érable, Le Granit, Les Appalaches, Lotbinière | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Thetford-Mines, Plessisville, Princeville, Lac-Mégantic, Adstock, Laurier-Station, Sainte-Croix, Disraeli, East-Broughton, Saint-Ferdinand | ||
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Its member of Parliament (MP) has been Luc Berthold of the Conservative Party since 2015.
Geography
Straddling the Quebec regions of Centre-du-Québec, Chaudière-Appalaches and Estrie, it consists of the regional county municipalities of Les Appalaches, L'Érable, Le Granit, as well as the territory of the former municipality of Courcelles. Notable towns include Thetford Mines, Plessisville and Lac-Mégantic.
The neighbouring ridings are Compton—Stanstead, Richmond—Arthabaska—des-Sources, Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel—Alnôbak, Saint-Augustin—Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, Lévis—Lotbinière, and Beauce.
Its population is 87,078, including 69,617 voters, and it covers an area of 5,912 km2.
History
The riding was created as Mégantic—L'Érable in 2003 from parts of Frontenac—Mégantic and Lotbinière—L'Érable ridings.
The 2012 electoral redistribution saw this riding gain territory from Beauce and lose a small fraction of territory to Lévis—Lotbinière.
The riding was renamed Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière by the 2023 representation order for Quebec, which came into effect before the 2025 federal election.[2] In the process, it gained the municipalities of Dosquet, Laurier-Station, Leclercville, Lotbinière, Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur-d'Issoudun, Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Sainte-Croix, Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Saint-Flavien, Saint-Janvier-de-Joly and Val-Alain from Lévis—Lotbinière.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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| Mégantic—L'Érable Riding created from Frontenac—Mégantic and Lotbinière—L'Érable |
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| 38th | 2004–2006 | Marc Boulianne | Bloc Québécois | |
| 39th | 2006–2008 | Christian Paradis | Conservative | |
| 40th | 2008–2011 | |||
| 41st | 2011–2015 | |||
| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Luc Berthold | ||
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | |||
| 44th | 2021–2025 | |||
| Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière | ||||
| 45th | 2025–present | Luc Berthold | Conservative | |
Election results
Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière
| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Luc Berthold | 34,418 | 58.73 | +2.47 | $50,857.75 | |||
| Liberal | Charles McKaig | 12,585 | 21.47 | +7.84 | $8,715.31 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Réjean Hurteau | 9,579 | 16.34 | –3.73 | $11,025.52 | |||
| New Democratic | Gabriel D'Astous | 1,086 | 1.85 | –0.97 | $0.00 | |||
| People's | Marek Spacek | 716 | 1.22 | –2.39 | $1,204.34 | |||
| Christian Heritage | Yves Gilbert | 224 | 0.38 | N/A | $300.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | – | – | – | $131,204.27 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | – | – | ||||||
| Turnout | 58,608 | 69.06 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 84,864 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –2.69 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[3][4] | ||||||||
Mégantic—L'Érable
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 30,416 | 56.71 | |
| Bloc Québécois | 10,518 | 19.61 | |
| Liberal | 7,240 | 13.50 | |
| People's | 1,888 | 3.52 | |
| New Democratic | 1,675 | 3.12 | |
| Green | 703 | 1.31 | |
| Others | 1,199 | 2.24 | |
| 2021 Canadian federal election: Mégantic—L'Érable | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Luc Berthold | 26,121 | 56.3 | +7.1 | $54,323.16 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Éric Labonté | 9,318 | 20.1 | -5.7 | $15,275.53 | |||
| Liberal | Adam Lukofsky | 6,329 | 13.6 | -2.0 | $13,729.57 | |||
| People's | Jonathan Gagnon | 1,677 | 3.6 | +1.9 | $0.00 | |||
| New Democratic | Mathieu Boisvert | 1,308 | 2.8 | -1.3 | $0.48 | |||
| Free | Real Pepin | 680 | 1.5 | N/A | $1,772.40 | |||
| Green | Emilie Hamel | 592 | 1.3 | -1.3 | $0.00 | |||
| Independent | Gloriane Blais | 403 | 0.9 | N/A | $8,124.07 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 46,428 | 98.3 | – | $107,531.72 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 785 | 1.7 | ||||||
| Turnout | 47,213 | 65.4 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 72,179 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +6.4 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[6] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Mégantic—L'Érable | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Luc Berthold | 23,392 | 49.2 | +13.78 | $46,958.47 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Priscilla Corbeil | 12,249 | 25.8 | +13.45 | $4,851.59 | |||
| Liberal | Isabelle Grégoire | 7,388 | 15.6 | -12.54 | $15,319.47 | |||
| New Democratic | Mathieu Boisvert | 1,936 | 4.1 | -17.86 | none listed | |||
| Green | Nicole Charette | 1,258 | 2.6 | +0.47 | $0.00 | |||
| People's | Marie Claude Lauzier | 812 | 1.7 | $1,571.93 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Damien Roy | 256 | 0.5 | none listed | ||||
| Independent | Jean Paradis | 217 | 0.5 | $15,319.47 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,508 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 898 | |||||||
| Turnout | 48,406 | 68.5 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 70,683 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +0.17 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Mégantic—L'Érable | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Luc Berthold | 16,749 | 35.42 | -13.72 | $80,017.18 | |||
| Liberal | David Berthiaume | 13,308 | 28.14 | +22.17 | $15,610.11 | |||
| New Democratic | Jean-François Delisle | 10,386 | 21.96 | -4.30 | $59,606.77 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Virginie Provost | 5,838 | 12.35 | -4.26 | $4,049.48 | |||
| Green | Justin Gervais | 1,006 | 2.13 | +0.65 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,287 | 100.0 | $204,975.86 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 941 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 48,228 | 67.4% | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 71,469 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -17.94 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[11] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 22,321 | 49.14 | |
| New Democratic | 11,929 | 26.26 | |
| Bloc Québécois | 7,542 | 16.61 | |
| Liberal | 2,711 | 5.97 | |
| Green | 667 | 1.47 | |
| Others | 250 | 0.55 | |
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Christian Paradis | 21,931 | 49.14 | +2.44 | ||||
| New Democratic | Cheryl Voisine | 11,716 | 26.25 | +16.79 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Pierre Turcotte | 7,481 | 16.76 | -10.96 | ||||
| Liberal | René Roy | 2,601 | 5.83 | -8.13 | ||||
| Green | Wyatt Tessari | 655 | 1.47 | -0.69 | ||||
| Canadian Action | Alain Bergeron | 250 | 0.56 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 44,634 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 733 | 1.62 | ||||||
| Turnout | 45,367 | 64.61 | ||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Christian Paradis | 20,697 | 46.70 | -3.15 | $60,593 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Pierre Turcotte | 12,283 | 27.72 | -4.90 | $49,764 | |||
| Liberal | Nicole Champagne | 6,185 | 13.96 | +3.56 | $7,283 | |||
| New Democratic | Bruno Vézina | 4,191 | 9.46 | +5.57 | $1,755 | |||
| Green | Jean-R. Guernon | 959 | 2.16 | -1.09 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 44,315 | 100.00 | $81,095 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 688 | 1.53 | ||||||
| Turnout | 45,003 | 64.42 | ||||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election: Mégantic—L'Érable | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Christian Paradis | 23,550 | 49.85 | +38.43 | $51,309 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Marc Boulianne (incumbent) | 15,410 | 32.62 | -12.12 | $48,632 | |||
| Liberal | Yvan Corriveau | 4,912 | 10.40 | -26.25 | $19,371 | |||
| New Democratic | Isabelle Tremblay | 1,836 | 3.89 | +0.16 | $0.00 | |||
| Green | Jean François Hamel | 1,534 | 3.25 | -0.21 | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,242 | 100.00 | $75,377 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 543 | 1.14 | ||||||
| Turnout | 47,785 | 68.64 | +5.63 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 69,617 | |||||||
| Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada. | ||||||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Marc Boulianne | 19,264 | 44.74 | – | $44,288 | |||
| Liberal | Gérard Binet | 15,778 | 36.65 | – | $67,467 | |||
| Conservative | Yves Mailly | 4,916 | 11.42 | – | $14,915 | |||
| New Democratic | Alexandre Côté | 1,608 | 3.73 | – | $970 | |||
| Green | Bruno Vézina | 1,489 | 3.46 | – | $0 | |||
| Total valid votes | 43,055 | 100.00 | – | $73,642 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 868 | 1.98 | ||||||
| Turnout | 43,923 | 63.01 | ||||||