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Papineau

2008 Results

PAPINEAU
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		223/223 polls
LIB	Norman MacMillan	13,786	51.11	Elected
PQ	Gilles Hébert	8,674	32.16
ADQ	Bruno Lemieux	2,825	10.47
QS	Françoise Breault	805	2.98
GRN	Patrick Mailloux	790	2.93
ML	Christian-Simon Ferlatte	92	0.34

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

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Candidates	Party
Breault, Françoise	Québec Solidaire
Ferlatte, Christian-Simon	Parti Marxiste-Léniniste du Québec
Hébert, Gilles	Parti Québécois
Lemieux, Bruno	Action Démocratique du Québec
MacMillan, Norman	Quebec Liberal Party
Mailloux, Patrick	Green Party of Québec

Riding profile: Riding stretches from Buckingham to just beyond Montebello and into the cottage-and-lake hinterland north of the Ottawa River.

Papineau riding contains the following municipalities: Boileau, Bowman, Buckingham, Chénéville, Duhamel, Fassett, Lac-des-Plages, Lac-Simon, L'Ange-Gardien, Lochaber, Lochaber-Partie-Ouest, Mayo, Montebello, Montpellier, Mulgrave-et-Derry, Namur, Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-Partie-Nord, Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Papineauville, Plaisance, Ripon, Saint-André-Avellin, Saint-émile-de-Suffolk, Saint-Sixte, Thurso, Val-des-Bois and Val-des-Monts.

It also contains the part of Gatineau bounded by: Outaouais Highway (50), Montée Mineault, the boundary of the City of Gatineau with L'Ange-Gardien and Lochaber-Partie-Ouest, the Outaouais River, Lac Street, the extension of Lac Street so as to include 785 Hurtubise Boulevard and 756 Notre-Dame Street, Maloney Boulevard East, Lorrain Boulevard, the CP railway line and the Blanche River.

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

Riding history: Riding first existed in the 1923 election.

In the 1992 redistribution, Papineau lost three Amherst polls to Labelle riding (about 600 electors). From Chapleau, a portion of Gatineau bounded by the Outaouais Highway, the border of Gatineau and Masson-Angers, Maloney Boulevard East, Lorrain Boulevard, the CP railway line and the Blanche River (8,077 electors) was added in the southwest corner of the riding.

Political history: 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976 - PQ Since 1981 - LIB

1995 sovereignty referendum: No - 63.49 per cent; Yes - 36.51 per cent

Language breakdown: English: 7.2 per cent French: 91.8 per cent Other: 1.1 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970, 1973	Liberal Mark Assad won in 1970 and 1973.
1976	Parti Québécois's Jean Alfred defeated Liberal Normand Racicot by 67 votes. Alfred, a Haitian and the first black to be elected to the National Assembly, resigned from the PQ on Aug 29, 1980 after a dispute over support for the Duvalier regime in Haiti. Returned to PQ caucus on March 10, 1981. Alfred ran in Chapleau in 1981.
1985	Liberal Assad returned and won in 1981 and 1985. Assad resigned to run federally in 1988.
May 29, 1989 byelection	Liberal Norman MacMillan defeated Parti Québécois's Paul André David by 1,025 votes.
1989	MacMillan again defeated David, this time by 612 votes.
1994	MacMillan defeated David by 3,381 votes.
1998	MacMillan defeated Parti Québécois's Benoit Campeau by 4,848 votes.
2003	MacMillan defeated Parti Québécois's Gilles Hébert by 9,658 votes.
2007	MacMillan defeated Hébert by 4,206 votes. Action Démocratique du Québec's Serge Charette finished third, 238 votes behind Hébert.

PAPINEAU
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	225/225 polls
LIB	Norman MacMillan	13,530	39.09	Elected
PQ	Gilles Hébert	9,317	26.92
ADQ	Serge Charette	9,087	26.26
GRN	Patrick Mailloux	1,643	4.75
QS	Marie-Élaine Rouleau	1,033	2.98

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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