Hull (provincial electoral district)

Hull

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Maryse Gaudreault Liberal
District created	1919
First contested	1919
Last contested	2008
Demographics
Population (2006)	68,374
Electors (2008)	48,290
Area (km²)	40.74
Pop. density (per km²)	1,678.3
Census divisions	Gatineau
Census subdivisions	Gatineau

Hull is provincial electoral riding located in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in the Outaouais region, the district includes the entire Hull sector of the city of Gatineau. It was created in 1919 and was previously part of the riding of Ottawa from 1887 to 1919 and Ottawa (Outaouais) from 1867 to 1887. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1841 and in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1867. It had been created from York.

Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Ottawa (County of)

This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada:

• Philemon Wright (1830-1834)
• Theodore Davis (1832-1834) (second member added)
• James Blackburn & Baxter Bowman (1834-1838)

Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

Ottawa (County of)

This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada:

• Charles Dewey Day, (1841-1842)
• Denis-Benjamin Papineau, (1842-1848)
• John Egan, {1848-1854)
• Alanson Cooke, (1854-1858)
• Denis-Émery Papineau, (1858-1861)
• William McDonell Dawson, (1861-1863}
• Alonzo Wright, (1863-1867)

Members of Legislative Assembly

Ottawa/Outaouais

• Levi Ruggles Church, Conservative Party (1867-1871)
• Ezra Butler Eddy, Conservative Party (1871-1875)
• Louis Duhamel, Conservative Party (1875-1886)
• Narcisse-Édouard Cormier, Conservative Party (1886-1887)
• Alfred Rochon, Liberal (1887-1892)
• Nérée Tétreau, Conservative Party (1892-1897)
• Charles Beautron Major, Liberal (1897-1904)
• Ferdinand-Ambroise Gendron, Liberal (1904-1917)
• Joseph Caron, Liberal (1917-1919)

Hull

• Joseph Caron, Liberal (1919-1923)
• Joseph-Roméo Lafond, Liberal (1923-1927)
• Aimé Guertin, Conservative Party (1927-1935)
• Alexis Caron, Liberal (1935-1936)
• Alexandre Taché, Union Nationale (1936-1939)
• Alexis Caron, Liberal (1939-1944)
• Alexandre Taché, Union Nationale (1944-1956)
• Oswald Parent, Liberal (1956-1966)

Members of National Assembly

• Oswald Parent, Liberal (1966-1976)
• Jocelyne Ouellette, Parti Québécois (1976-1981)
• Gilles Rocheleau, Liberal (1981-1988)
• Robert LeSage, Liberal (1989-1998)
• Roch Cholette, Liberal (1998-2008)
• Maryse Gaudreault, Liberal (2008-)

Election results

2008 Quebec provincial election : Hull
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal	(x)Maryse Gaudreault	11,651	51.27
	Parti Québécois	Gilles Aubé	7,541	33.18
	Québec Solidaire	Bill Clennett	1,994	8.77
	Action démocratique	Renée Gagné	1,309	5.76
	Parti indépendantiste	Jean-Roch Villemaire	134	0.59
	Marxist-Leninist	Gabriel Girard-Bernier	97	0.43
Total valid votes			22,726	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			317
Turnout			23,043	47.72
Electors on the lists			48,290

Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec

Hull by-election, May 12, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Maryse Gaudreault	7,403	45.21	+2.68
	Parti Québécois	Gilles Aubé	5,559	33.95	+10.02
	Québec solidaire	Bill Clennett	1,589	9.70	+1.77
	Green	Brian Gibb	1,185	7.24	-1.09
	Action démocratique	Jean-Philip Ruel	529	3.23	-13.83
	Parti indépendantiste	Jean-Roch Villemaire	111	0.68	-

2007 Quebec provincial election : Hull
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal	(x)Roch Cholette	12,643	42.53
	Parti Québécois	Marcel Painchaud	7,115	23.93
	Action démocratique	François Lizotte	5,071	17.06
	Green	Mélanie Perreault	2,476	8.33
	Québec Solidaire	Bill Clennett	2,358	7.93
	Marxist-Leninist	Gabriel Girard-Bernier	67	0.23
Total valid votes			29,730	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			237
Turnout			29,967	61.26
Electors on the lists			48,915

Quebec general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roch Cholette	16262	57.25	-2.05
	Parti Québécois	Raphael J. Dery	7,234	25.47	-6.55
	Action démocratique	Jean-Francois Larue	3,663	12.90	+6.22
	UFP	Denise Veilleux	677	2.38	-
	Bloc Pot	Stephane Salko	305	1.07	-
	Independent	Maxime Gauld	155	0.55	-
	Marxist-Leninist	Benoit Legros	72	0.25	0.00
	Independent	Gheorghe Irimia	37	0.13	-

Quebec general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roch Cholette	18,873	59.30	+2.74
	Parti Québécois	Jacques Dupont	10,191	32.02	-9.10
	Action démocratique	Mark Buzan	2,126	6.68	-
	Socialist Democracy	Marc Bonhomme	291	0.91	-
	Natural Law	Rita Bouchard	266	0.84	-
	Marxist-Leninist	Mathieu-Henri Jetté	78	0.25	-0.02
	Independent	Gheorghe Irimia	37	0.13	-

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	28,553	69.73
	Oui	12,394	30.27

1994 Quebec provincial election : Hull
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal	(x)Robert LeSage	19,184	56.56
	Parti Québécois	Michel Légère	13,947	41.12
	Lemon	Denis Patenaude	452	1.33
	Natural Law	Michel Dubois	231	0.68
	Commonwealth	Harold Quesnel	56	0.17
	Marxist-Leninist	Françoise Roy	46	0.14
Total valid votes			33,916	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			291
Turnout			34,207	78.33
Electors on the lists			43,670

1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	18,979	56.44
	Non	14,649	43.56

1989 Quebec provincial election : Hull
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal	(x)Robert LeSage	13,980	55.25
	Parti Québécois	Marcel Villeneuve	9,434	37.29
	Unity	Glen E.P. Kealey	751	2.97
	New Democratic	Charles Rheault	673	2.66
	Lemon	Denis Patenaude	391	1.55
	Marxist-Leninist	Pierre Soublière	72	0.28
Total valid votes			25,301	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			279
Turnout			25,580	62.23
Electors on the lists			41,107

Quebec provincial by-election, May 29, 1989 : Hull
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal	Robert LeSage	9,223	67.16
	Parti Québécois	Paul Lemaire	4,510	32.84
Total valid votes			13,733	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			291
Turnout			14,024	35.46
Electors on the lists			39,544

Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec

1981 Quebec provincial election : Hull
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal	Gilles Rocheleau	15,572	49.76
	Parti Québécois	(x)Jocelyne Ouellette	15,116	48.30
	Union Nationale	Jos McGovern	263	0.84
	Workers	Gilles Bourque	153	0.49
	Independent	Gilles Bégin	96	0.31
	Communist	Marc Bonhomme	59	0.19
	Marxist-Leninist	Pierre Soublière	35	0.11
Total valid votes			31,294	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			530
Turnout			31,824	80.19
Electors on the lists			39,686

References

• Hull and Ottawa/Outaouais election results, Quebec Politique
• Map of Hull provincial electoral district
• Quebec electoral map
• Hull general information