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Matane

2008 Results

MATANE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		125/125 polls
PQ	Pascal Bérubé	9,589	57.98	Elected
LIB	Eric Plourde	5,503	33.27
ADQ	Denis Paquette	1,127	6.81
QS	Gilles Arteau	320	1.93

All results are unofficial until final ballot counts are verified by Elections Quebec.

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Riding profile: Matane riding is located on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River on the Gaspé Peninsula. It contains the following municipalities: 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 and Saint-Ulric. It also contains the village of Cap-Seize and the territories of Coulée-des-Adolphe, Mont-Albert and Rivière-Bonjour.

Riding map: From Elections Quebec: Matane (PDF) (Acrobat Reader required - download free Acrobat Reader.)

Riding history: The riding has existed since the 1890 election. In the 1992 redistribution, it gained St-Noël and St-Damase polls from Matapedia.

In the 2001 redistribution, it lost seven per cent from its most westerly corner to Matapédia. The area includes: Grand-Métis, Les Boules, Métis-sur-Mer, Padoue, Saint-Damase, Saint-Noël and Saint-Octave-de-Métis (2,012 electors). A small area with no electors was also added from Matapédia. Six per cent of Gaspé was added in the northeast corner, including Mont-Saint-Pierre, Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis and Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine (1,628 electors).

Political history: 1960-1973 inclusive - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ 2003 - LIB 2007 - PQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 62.46 per cent; No - 37.54 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 0.3 per cent French: 99.5 per cent Other: 0.1 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1973	Liberal Marc-Yvan Côté defeated Parti Québécois's Nestor Turcotte by 2,650 votes.
1976	Parti Québécois's Yves Bérubé defeated Liberal Côté by 2,684 votes. Bérubé was appointed minister of natural resources and minister of lands and forests, November 1976; minister of energy and resources, September 1979.
1981	Bérubé defeated Liberal Serge Vézina by 4,367 votes. Served as minister responsible for administration, president of Treasury Board, minister responsible for administrative reform, minister of education, interim minister of science and technology, minister of advanced studies, science and technology.
1985, 1989	Liberal Claire-Hélène Hovington won in 1985 and 1989.
1994	Parti Québécois's Matthias Rioux defeated Liberal incumbent Hovington by 4,230 votes. Served as minister of labour and minister responsible for the lower St. Lawrence region and Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region, Jan. 29, 1996 to Dec. 15, 1998; minister responsible for seniors, Sept. 23 to Dec. 15, 1998.
1998	Rioux defeated Liberal André Otis by 4,854 votes. In August 2002, he said he would not be running again.
2003	Liberal Nancy Charest defeated Parti Québécois's Pascal Bérubé by 33 votes.
2007	Bérubé defeated Charest by 213 votes.

MATANE
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	122/122 polls
PQ	Pascal Bérubé	7,830	39.10	Elected
LIB	Nancy Charest	7,617	38.04
ADQ	Donald Grenier	3,980	19.88
QS	Brigitte Michaud	358	1.79
GRN	François Vincent	240	1.20

Overall Results

Overall Election Results
Party	Elected	Leading	Total	Vote Share (%)
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008, 1:11 AM EST
LIB	66	0	66	42.06
PQ	51	0	51	35.15
ADQ	7	0	7	16.35
QS	1	0	1	3.80
GRN	0	0	0	2.19
OTH	0	0	0	0.45

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