Deux-Montagnes (provincial electoral district)

Deux-Montagnes

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Benoît Charette Independent
District created	1853
Demographics
Population
Electors (2007)	45,231 [1]
Area (km²)
Census divisions
Census subdivisions

Deux-Montagnes is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It was created in 1853. The riding includes the cities of Deux-Montagnes and Saint-Eustache.

Members of Legislative Assembly

• Gédéon Ouimet, Conservative Party (1867-1876)
• Charles Laplante dit Champagne, Conservative Party (1876-1882)
• Benjamin Beauchamp, Conservative Party - Conservative Independent (1882-1897)
• Hector Champagne, Liberal (1897-1908)
• Arthur Sauvé, Conservative Party (1908-1930)
• Paul Sauvé, Conservative Party (1930-1935)
• Jean-Léo Rochon, Liberal (1935-1936)
• Paul Sauvé, Union Nationale (1936-1959)
• Gaston Binette, Liberal (1960-1966)

Members of the National Assembly

• Gaston Binette, Liberal (1966-1970)
• Jean-Paul L'Allier, Liberal (1970-1976)
• Pierre de Bellefeuille, Parti Québécois (1976-1984) then Parti indépendantiste (1984-1985)
• Yolande Legault, Liberal (1985-1989)
• Jean-Guy Bergeron, Liberal (1989-1994)
• Hélène Robert, Parti Québécois (1994-2007)
• Lucie Leblanc, Action démocratique du Québec (2007-2008)
• Benoît Charette, Parti Québécois (2008-Present)

Geography

It consists of the municipalities of:

• Deux-Montagnes
• Saint-Eustache

Linguistic demographics

• Francophone: 89.7%
• Anglophone: 8.3%
• Allophone: 2%

Electoral results

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Benoit Charette	11 932	43.09
	Liberal	Marie-France D'Aoust	8 979	32.42
	Action démocratique	Lucie Leblanc	4 983	17.99
	Green	Guy Rainville	1 168	4.22
	Québec Solidaire	Julien Demers	632	2.28

Quebec general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	Lucie Leblanc	12 415	36.32	+14.63
	Parti Québécois	Daniel Goyer	11 283	33.01	-6.03
	Liberal	Paule Fortier	8 183	23.94	-14.05
	Green	Guy Rainville	1 448	4.24	+4.24
	Québec Solidaire	Julien Demers	740	2.16	+0.88
	Independent	Manon Bissonnette	114	0.33	+0.33

QS vote compared to UFP vote 2003

2003 Quebec provincial election : Deux-Montagnes edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Parti Québécois	(x)Hélène Robert	12,432	39.04
	Liberal	Marc Lauzon	12,099	37.99
	Action démocratique	Éric Duhaime	6,907	21.69
	UFP	Julien Demers	408	1.28
Total valid votes			31,846	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			557
Turnout			32,403	74.37
Electors on the lists			43,571

1998 Quebec provincial election : Deux-Montagnes edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Parti Québécois	(x)Hélène Robert	21,831	47.03
	Liberal	Robert Fragasso	14,378	30.97
	Action démocratique	Jacques Hébert	9,628	20.74
	Bloc pot	Marc-André Roy	324	0.70
	Socialist Democracy	Luc Charlebois	141	0.30
	Equality	Ovid da Silva	121	0.26
Total valid votes			46,423	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			529
Turnout			46,952	81.08
Electors on the lists			57,907

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	29,831	58.94
	Non	20,780	41.06

1994 Quebec provincial election : Deux-Montagnes edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Parti Québécois	Hélène Robert	20,742	48.34
	Liberal	Francine Labelle	15,053	35.08
	Action démocratique	Sylvie Allaire	6,523	15.20
	Development	Georges Robert	305	0.71
	Natural Law	Alain Gerard Antinori	286	0.67
Total valid votes			42,909	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			932
Turnout			43,841	83.28
Electors on the lists			52,644

1989 Quebec provincial election : Deux-Montagnes edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal	Jean-Guy Bergeron	15,656	46.48
	Parti Québécois	Hélène Robert	15,141	44.95
	Equality	Rudolf Neumayer	2,449	7.27
	United Social Credit	Georges Vaudrin	435	1.29
Total valid votes			33,681	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			1,061
Turnout			34,742	75.98
Electors on the lists			45,723

References

• Quebec Votes 2007, Riding Profiles Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 25 February 2007
• Information on the Electoral Divisions Holding Elections Directeur Général des Élections du Québec, retrieved 25 February 2007
• Référendum du 30 octobre 1995 Directeur Général des Élections du Québec, retrieved 25 February 2007
• Deux-Montagnes election results
• Map of Deux-Montagnes
• Quebec electoral map

Neighbouring electoral districts