Madawaska-les-Lacs

Madawaska-les-Lacs is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. Its MLA is Jeannot Volpé, a Progressive Conservative.

The district was established in 1973 when New Brunswick moved from a system of bloc voting to the first past the post electoral system. It had previously been a part of the Madawaska county electoral district which returned three members.

It the 1994 electoral redistribution, it added parts of the old district of Madawaska Centre and it under went only very minor boundary changes in 2006.

It is one of, if not the, safest francophone seats in New Brunswick for the Progressive Conservatives. It has been held by the PCs in every election since it was created except for the 1987 election (in which the Liberals won every seat) and the 1991 election (in which the PCs won only 3 seats and the main opposition was the conservative Confederation of Regions Party which opposed official status for the French language).

Results

1974

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Progressive Conservative
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
align="right"|1976
align="right"|49.9%
align="right"|*
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Liberal
Laurier Lévesque
align="right"|1881
align="right"|47.5%
align="right"|*
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Parti acadien
Jean-Marie Nadeau
align="right"|99
align="right"|2.5%
align="right"|*
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align="left"|P.C. gain*.
align="right"|Majority
align="right"|95
align="right"|2.4%

* The riding was first used for the 1974 election, it was created from the Madawaska district which had returned three Liberals in the previous election.

1978

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Progressive Conservative
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
align="right"|2876
align="right"|57.1%
align="right"|+7.2%
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Liberal
Nelson Bellefleur
align="right"|2071
align="right"|41.1%
align="right"|-6.4%
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Parti acadien
Yves C. LeClerc
align="right"|90
align="right"|1.8%
align="right"|-0.7%
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colspan=6|
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align="left"|P.C. hold.
align="right"|Majority
align="right"|805
align="right"|16.0%

1982

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Progressive Conservative
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
align="right"|3071
align="right"|53.0%
align="right"|-4.1%
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Liberal
Luc Daigle
align="right"|2545
align="right"|43.9%
align="right"|+2.8%
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New Democratic
Rino Pelletier
align="right"|176
align="right"|3.0%
align="right"|*
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align="left"|P.C. hold.
align="right"|Majority
align="right"|526
align="right"|9.1%

*The NDP did not contest the seat in the previous election.

1987

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Liberal
Georges Corriveau
align="right"|3839
align="right"|62.5%
align="right"|+18.6%
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Progressive Conservative
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
align="right"|1933
align="right"|31.5%
align="right"|-21.5%
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New Democratic
Maurice Clavette
align="right"|368
align="right"|6.0%
align="right"|+3.0%
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align="left"|Liberal gain.
align="right"|Majority
align="right"|1906
align="right"|31.0%

1991

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Liberal
Georges Corriveau
align="right"|2906
align="right"|50.8%
align="right"|-11.7%
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Progressive Conservative
Raoul Cyr
align="right"|2211
align="right"|38.7%
align="right"|+7.2%
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New Democratic
Gérard Caron
align="right"|601
align="right"|10.5%
align="right"|+4.5%
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align="left"|Liberal hold.
align="right"|Majority
align="right"|695
align="right"|12.2%

1995

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Progressive Conservative
Jeannot Volpé
align="right"|4060
align="right"|56.0%
align="right"|+17.3%
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Liberal
Georges Corriveau
align="right"|3085
align="right"|42.6%
align="right"|-8.2%
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New Democratic
John Nowlan
align="right"|103
align="right"|1.4%
align="right"|-9.1%
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align="left"|P.C. gain.
align="right"|Majority
align="right"|975
align="right"|13.5%

1999

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Progressive Conservative
Jeannot Volpé
align="right"|4289
align="right"|65.2%
align="right"|+9.2%
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Liberal
Georges Corriveau
align="right"|2138
align="right"|32.5%
align="right"|-10.1%
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New Democratic
Marie-Pierre Valay-Nadeau
align="right"|154
align="right"|2.3%
align="right"|+0.9%
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colspan=6|
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align="left"|P.C. hold.
align="right"|Majority
align="right"|2151
align="right"|32.7%

2003

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Progressive Conservative
Jeannot Volpé
align="right"|3965
align="right"|60.6%
align="right"|-4.6%
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Liberal
Louis Labrie
align="right"|2391
align="right"|36.5%
align="right"|+4.0%
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New Democratic
Jason Carney
align="right"|187
align="right"|2.9%
align="right"|+0.6%
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colspan=6|
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align="left"|P.C. hold.
align="right"|Majority
align="right"|1574
align="right"|24.1%

2006

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Progressive Conservative
Jeannot Volpé
align="right"|4268
align="right"|63.3%
align="right"|+2.7%
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Liberal
Elaine Albert
align="right"|2297
align="right"|34.0%
align="right"|-2.5%
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New Democratic
Jeff Thibodeau
align="right"|183
align="right"|2.7%
align="right"|-0.2%
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colspan=6|
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align="left"|P.C. hold.
align="right"|Majority
align="right"|1971
align="right"|29.2%

External links

* [http://www.gnb.ca/legis/ Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick]