Louis-Saint-Laurent (electoral district)

Louis-Saint-Laurent is a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons, and located in the province of Quebec. It is named after former prime minister Louis St. Laurent. It is notable for being one of the few places in Quebec where any party besides the Liberals or the Bloc Quebecois has any realistic chance of an election victory. In the 2004 federal election, Conservative candidate Josée Verner won an impressive 31% of the vote and finished second. If Verner wins here in the coming election, it will be the first ever Quebec victory for the newly merged Conservative Party of Canada.

History

Results

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Canadian federal election, 2004: Louis—Saint-Laurent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Bloc Québécois	Bernard Cleary	17,248	38.4	+1.4	Conservative	Josée Verner	13,967	31.1	+7.6	Liberal	Michel Fragasso	10,025	22.3	-15.6
N.D.P.	Christopher Bojanowski	1,369	3.1	+1.3	Green	Yonnel Bonaventure	1,243	2.8	+2.8	Independent	Jean-Guy Carignan	563	1.3	+1.3	Independent	Henri Gauvin	332	0.7	+0.7	Communist	Dominique Théberge	119	0.3	+0.3
Majority			3,281	7.3
Rejected Ballots			985	2.1
Turnout			45,851	59.4
Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal.		Swing	-3.1

Change from 2000 is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

External links

• Web page of this electoral district at Elections Canada (includes district map, info on the candidates, population stats)
• Web site of the Parliament of Canada