Matane (provincial electoral district)

Matane
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)	27,977
Area (km²)	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

Matane 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.

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:

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		Party
7th	1890–1892	Louis-Félix Pinault	Liberal
8th	1892	Edmund James Flynn	Conservative
8th	1892–1897	Louis-Félix Pinault	Liberal
9th	1897–1898	Louis-Félix Pinault	Liberal
9th	1899–1900	Donat Caron	Liberal
10th	1900–1904
11th	1904–1908
12th	1908–1912
13th	1912–1916
14th	1916–1918
14th	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	1936–1939
22nd	1944–1948
23rd	1948–1952
24th	1952–1956
25th	1956–1958
25th	1958–1960	Benoît Gaboury	Union nationale
26th	1960–1962	Philippe Castonguay	Liberal
27th	1962–1963	Philippe Castonguay	Liberal
27th	1964–1966	Jacques Bernier	Liberal
28th	1966–1970	Jean Bienvenue	Liberal
29th	1970–1973	Jean Bienvenue	Liberal
30th	1973–1976	Marc-Yvan Côté	Liberal
31st	1976–1981	Yves Bérubé	Parti Québécois
32nd	1981–1985	Yves Bérubé	Parti Québécois
33rd	1985–1989	Claire-Hélène Hovington	Liberal
34th	1989–1994	Claire-Hélène Hovington	Liberal
35th	1994–1998	Matthias Rioux	Parti Québécois
36th	1998–2003	Matthias Rioux	Parti Québécois
37th	2003–2007	Nancy Charest	Liberal
38th	2007–2008	Pascal Bérubé	Parti Québécois
39th	2008–2012	Pascal Bérubé	Parti Québécois

Electoral results

v t e 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

v t e 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

v t e 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

References

^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=724&section=population ^{[dead link‍]}
^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=724&section=superficie ^{[dead link‍]}
^ Commission de la représentation électorale (January 2012). "The electoral map of Québec 2011: Final Report" (PDF). Retrieved March 21, 2012.

External links

Information

Elections Quebec

Election results

Election results (National Assembly)
Election results (Elections Quebec)

Maps

2001 map (Flash)
2001–2011 changes (Flash)

1992–2001 changes (Flash)
Electoral map of Bas-Saint-Laurent region (as of 2001)
Electoral map of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region (as of 2001)
Quebec electoral map, 2001

[electors-1] ttp://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=724&section=population ^{[dead link‍]}

[area-2] ttp://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=724&section=superficie ^{[dead link‍]}

[3] Commission de la représentation électorale (January 2012). "The electoral map of Québec 2011: Final Report" (PDF). Retrieved March 21, 2012.

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v t e Quebec provincial electoral districts
Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine	Bonaventure Côte-du-Sud¹ Gaspé Îles-de-la-Madeleine Matane-Matapédia Rimouski Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Côte-Nord	Chicoutimi Dubuc Duplessis Jonquière Lac-Saint-Jean René-Lévesque Roberval
Capitale-Nationale	Charlesbourg Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré Chauveau Jean-Lesage Jean-Talon La Peltrie Louis-Hébert Montmorency Portneuf Taschereau Vanier-Les Rivières
Mauricie	Champlain Laviolette–Saint-Maurice Maskinongé Trois-Rivières
Chaudière-Appalaches and Centre-du-Québec	Arthabaska Beauce-Nord Beauce-Sud Bellechasse Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Côte-du-Sud¹ Drummond–Bois-Francs Johnson² Lévis Lotbinière-Frontenac Nicolet-Bécancour
Estrie (Eastern Townships)	Brome-Missisquoi Granby Mégantic Orford Richmond Saint-François Sherbrooke
Eastern Montérégie	Borduas Chambly Iberville Johnson² Richelieu Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Jean Verchères
South Shore	Beauharnois Châteauguay Huntingdon La Pinière Laporte La Prairie Marie-Victorin Montarville Sanguinet Soulanges Taillon Vachon Vaudreuil
East Montreal	Anjou–Louis-Riel Bourassa-Sauvé Camille-Laurin Gouin Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Jeanne-Mance–Viger LaFontaine Laurier-Dorion Maurice-Richard Mercier Pointe-aux-Trembles Rosemont Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques Viau
West Montreal	Acadie D'Arcy-McGee Jacques-Cartier Marguerite-Bourgeoys Marquette Mont-Royal–Outremont Nelligan Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Robert-Baldwin Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne Saint-Laurent Verdun Westmount–Saint-Louis
Laval	Chomedey Fabre Laval-des-Rapides Mille-Îles Sainte-Rose Vimont
Lanaudière	Berthier Joliette L'Assomption Masson Repentigny Rousseau Terrebonne
Laurentides	Argenteuil Bertrand Blainville Deux-Montagnes Groulx Labelle Les Plaines Mirabel Saint-Jérôme Prévost
Outaouais	Chapleau Gatineau Hull Papineau Pontiac
Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec	Abitibi-Est Abitibi-Ouest Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue Ungava
Eliminated in the 2012 election:	Anjou Kamouraska-Témiscouata Matane Matapédia Rivière-du-Loup Charlevoix Vanier Drummond Frontenac Lotbinière Montmagny-L'Islet Nicolet-Yamaska Mégantic-Compton Shefford Marguerite-D'Youville Prévost
¹Côte-du-Sud is split between Bas-Saint-Laurent and Chaudière-Appalaches ²Johnson is split between Centre-du-Québec and Montérégie See also: 2014 election List of elections Politics of Quebec Federal electoral ridings in Quebec