Rivière-Blanche District
Municipal electoral division in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
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Rivière-Blanche District (District 17) is a municipal electoral division in Gatineau, Quebec. It is represented by Jean Lessard on Gatineau City Council. The district is named after the Blanche River, which flows through it.
| District 17 - Rivière-Blanche | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency for the Gatineau City Council | |||
Location of Rivière-Blanche District in Gatineau | |||
| City | Gatineau | ||
| Population | 11,600 (2019)[1] | ||
| Area | 46.26 km² | ||
| Current constituency | |||
| Created | 2000 | ||
| Councillor | Équipe Mario Aubé | ||
| Sector(s) | Gatineau | ||
| First contested | 2001 election | ||
| Last contested | 2021 election | ||
The district is centred on the historic Templeton Village in the east end of the city. The District also includes the neighbourhoods of Sainte-Rose, La Soblimière and much of Templeton-Est, including all of rural Templeton-Est north of Quebec Route 148 and east of the Blanche River.
City councillors
| Council term | Party | Member | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–2005 | Independent | Yvon Boucher | |
| 2005–2009 | |||
| 2009–2013 | |||
| 2013–2017 | Independent | Jean Lessard | |
| 2017–2021 | |||
| 2021–2025 | Independent | ||
| Équipe Mario Aubé | |||
Election results
2021
| Party | Candidate | Vote | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Jean Lessard | 2,833 | 73.36 | |
| Action Gatineau | Tanya Desforges | 1,029 | 26.64 | |
2017
| Party | Candidate | Vote | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Jean Lessard | 2,184 | 47.46 | |
| Action Gatineau | Nathalie Lepage | 1,294 | 28.12 | |
| Independent | Eric Bourgeau | 1,124 | 24.42 | |
2013
| Party[2] | Candidate | Vote | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Jean Lessard | 1,296 | 29.20 | |
| Independent | Eric Bourgeau | 1,295 | 29.17 | |
| Action Gatineau | Francine Parent-Stuart | 1,278 | 28.78 | |
| Independent | Jason S. Noble | 570 | 12.84 | |
2009
| Candidate | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| Yvon Boucher | 3,396 | 76.4 |
| Normand Dessureault | 1,047 | 23.6 |
2005
| Candidate | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| Yvon Boucher | 3,943 | 65.9 |
| Pierre Naud | 2,083 | 34.1 |
2001
| Party | Candidate | Popular vote | Expenditures | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | ||||||||||
| Independent | Yvon Boucher | 3,215 | 50.03 | – | none listed | |||||||
| Independent | Jean-Pierre Charrette | 3,211 | 49.97 | – | none listed | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 6,426 | 98.48 | ||||||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | 99 | 1.52 | – | |||||||||
| Turnout | 6,525 | 58.24 | – | |||||||||
| Eligible voters | 11,204 | |||||||||||
| Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, may be based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. | ||||||||||||
| Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau[3] | ||||||||||||