Kamouraska-Témiscouata

Kamouraska-Témiscouata

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	André Simard PQ
District created	1972
First contested	1973
Last contested	2010 (by-election)
Demographics
Population (2006)	44,307
Electors (2008)	34,426
Area (km²)	6,153.87
Pop. density (per km²)	7.2
Census divisions	Kamouraska, Témiscouata
Census subdivisions	Cabano, Degelis, Kamouraska, La Pocatière, Packington, Saint-Athanase

Kamouraska-Témiscouata is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The riding was created in 1972 from Kamouraska and parts of L'Islet and Témiscouata. It includes the municipalities of Kamouraska, La Pocatière, Saint-Athanase, Packington, Degelis and Cabano.

Members of the National Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
30th	1973-1976		Jean-Marie Pelletier	Liberal
31st	1976-1981		Léonard Lévesque	Parti Québécois
32nd	1981-1985
33rd	1985-1989		France Dionne	Liberal
34th	1989-1994
35th	1994-1997
	1997-1998		Claude Béchard	Liberal
36th	1998-2003
37th	2003-2007
38th	2007-2008
39th	2008-2010
	2010-present		André Simard	Parti Québécois

Electoral results

Kamouraska-Témiscouata by-election, November 29, 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	André Simard	7,213	36.85	+15.70
	Liberal	France Dionne	7,017	35.85	-17.85
	Action démocratique	Gérald Beaulieu	4,509	23.03	+1.47
	Québec solidaire	Serge Proulx	522	2.67	-0.27
	Green	Frédéric Brophy Nolan	314	1.60	-

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Claude Béchard	11,048	53.70	+13.98
	Action démocratique	Ian Sénéchal	4,436	21.56	-15.12
	Parti Québécois	Michel Forget	4,351	21.15	+1.73
	Québec solidaire	Manon Côté	604	2.94	+0.83
	Independent	Alexis Plourde	134	0.65	-

Quebec general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Claude Béchard	9,826	39.72	-6.03
	Action démocratique	Gérald Beaulieu	9,074	36.68	+10.27
	Parti Québécois	Nancy Gagnon	4,804	19.42	-6.27
	Québec solidaire	Céline Tremblay	521	2.11	-
	Green	Louise Lebel	515	2.08	+0.89

Quebec general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Claude Béchard	11,266	45.75	+2.26
	Action démocratique	Pierre Lévesque	6,504	26.41	+14.25
	Parti Québécois	Harold LeBel	6,326	25.69	-17.37
	Green	Guy Duguay	293	1.19	-
	Independent	Raymond Robert	238	0.97	-

Quebec general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Claude Béchard	11,259	43.49	-8.46
	Parti Québécois	Denis Simard	11,149	43.06	+5.45
	Action démocratique	Arsène Gendron	3,149	12.16	+2.95
	Socialist Democracy	Jérôme Frédéric Bouchard	334	1.29	+0.06

Kamouraska-Témiscouata by-election, October 6, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Claude Béchard	9,946	51.95	+9.26
	Parti Québécois	Denis Simard	7,201	37.61	-3.49
	Action démocratique	Carl Raymond	1,762	9.21	-4.05
	Socialist Democracy	Jérôme Frédéric Bouchard	236	1.23	-1.72

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	15,632	52.66
	Non	14 055	47.34

Quebec general election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	France Dionne	10,373	42.69	-12.98
	Parti Québécois	Hélène Alarie	9,987	41.10	+4.00
	Action démocratique	Yvan Ouellet	3,223	13.26	-
	New Democrat	André Bourgoin	717	2.95	-

1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	14,734	62.12
	Oui	8,985	37.88

Quebec general election, 1989
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	France Dionne	12,354	55.67	-1.72
	Parti Québécois	Claudette Dorval	8,233	37.10	+0.92
	Green	Marie-Hélène Lemieux	1,605	7.23	+4.35

1980 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	13,920	56.03
	Oui	10,922	43.97

References

• Election results
• Map of Kamouraska-Temiscouata
• Quebec electoral map
• Kamouraska-Témiscouata general information