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Mégantic-Compton
Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureNational Assembly of Quebec
District created1972
First contested1973
Last contested2008
Demographics
Population (2006)44,624
Electors (2008)[1]34,153
Area (km²)[2]5,322.14
Census division(s)Coaticook (part), Le Granit (part), Le Haut-Saint-François (all)
Census subdivision(s)Ascot Corner, Audet, Bury, Chartierville, Cookshire-Eaton, Dixville, Dudswell, East Angus, East Hereford, Frontenac, Hampden, Lac-Drolet, Lac-Mégantic, Lambton, La Patrie, Lingwick, Marston, Martinville, Milan, Nantes, Newport, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Piopolis, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton, Sainte-Edwidge-de-Clifton, Saint-Herménégilde, Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton, Saint-Malo, Saint-Romain, Saint-Sébastien, Saint-Venant-de-Paquette, Scotstown, Stornoway, Stratford, Val-Racine, Weedon, Westbury

Megantic-Compton is a former provincial electoral district in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. As of its final election, it included the municipalities of East Angus, Cookshire-Eaton, Lac-Mégantic, Weedon, Lac-Drolet and Chartierville.

It was created for the 1973 election from parts of Frontenac, Compton, and Wolfe electoral districts; despite the name, it did not include any part of the territory of the former Mégantic electoral district. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and the successor electoral district was the recreated Mégantic.[3]

Members of National Assembly

Legislature Years Member Party
Riding created from Frontenac, Compton, and Wolfe
30th  1973–1976     Omer Dionne Liberal
31st  1976–1980     Fernand Grenier Union Nationale
 1980–1981     Fabien Bélanger Liberal
32nd  1981–1983
 1983–1985 Madeleine Bélanger
33rd  1985–1989
34th  1989–1994
35th  1994–1998
36th  1998–2003
37th  2003–2004 Daniel Bouchard
 2004–2007     Independent
38th  2007–2008     Johanne Gonthier Liberal
39th  2008–2012
Riding dissolved into Mégantic

Election results

2008 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  Liberal Johanne Gonthier 9,204 45.09
Parti Québécois Gloriane Blais 7,170 35.13
Action démocratique Samuel Therrien 3,268 16.01
Québec solidaire Julie Dionne 769 3.77
2007 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  Liberal Johanne Gonthier 8,701 32.98
Action démocratique Jocelyn Brouillette 7,861 32.12
Parti Québécois Gloriane Blais 7,095 28.99
Green Sébastien Lanctôt 904 3.69 –
Québec solidaire Ludovick Nadeau 544 2.22
2003 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes %
  Liberal Daniel Bouchard 11,135 47.09
Parti Québécois Suzanne Durivage 7,347 31.07
Action démocratique Alain Boisvert 4,901 20.73
UFP Christian Poulin 193 0.82
Equality Frank Moller 71 0.30
1998 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Madeleine Bélanger 12,675 50.49 -3.46
Parti Québécois Suzanne Durivage 10,339 41.18 -1.18
Action démocratique Olivier Chalifoux 1,835 7.31 –
Socialist Democracy Yves Couturier 174 0.69 –
Equality Frank Moller 81 0.32 -1.50
Total valid votes 25,104 99.01
Rejected and declined votes 250 0.99 -1.07
Turnout 25,354 79.89 -1.14
Electors on the lists 31,736
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
Liberal hold Swing -2.32
1995 Quebec referendum
Side Votes %
Non 14,535 52.71
Oui 13,042 47.29


1994 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Madeleine Bélanger 12,799 53.95 -6.44
Parti Québécois Jacques Blais 10,051 42.36 +12.44
Natural Law Christian Simard 444 1.87 –
Equality Matthew Begbie 432 1.82 -3.16
Total valid votes 23,725 97.94
Rejected and declined votes 500 2.06 +0.55
Turnout 24,225 81.03 +4.32
Electors on the lists 29,896
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
Liberal hold Swing -9.44
1989 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Madeleine Bélanger 12,608 60.39 +0.91
Parti Québécois Léon Ducharme 6,246 29.92 -7.43
Equality Frank Moller 1,039 4.98 –
Green Pierre Gilbert 740 3.54 –
Parti 51 Edmond Trudeau 245 1.17 –
Total valid votes 20,878 98.49
Rejected and declined votes 320 1.51 +0.41
Turnout 21,198 76.71 -0.68
Electors on the lists 27,634
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
Liberal hold Swing +4.17
1985 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Madeleine Bélanger 12,865 59.48 -8.12
Parti Québécois Maurice Bernier 8,708 37.35 +6.87
New Democratic Joseph Lemoine 594 2.75 –
Christian Socialist Steeve Stratford 91 0.42 –
Total valid votes 21,628 98.90
Rejected and declined votes 241 1.10 +0.15
Turnout 21,869 77.39 +4.96
Electors on the lists 28,257
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
Liberal hold Swing -7.50
Quebec provincial by-election, December 5, 1983
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Madeleine Bélanger 13,711 67.60 +15.87
Parti Québécois Noël Landry 6,182 30.48 -11.04
Independent Jean-Luc Perron 233 1.15 –
No Affiliation Patricia Métivier 156 0.77 –
Total valid votes 20,282 99.05  
Total rejected ballots 194 0.95 +0.23
Turnout 20,476 72.43 -9.61
Electors on the lists 28,270
Liberal hold Swing +13.50
By-election due to the death of Fabien Bélanger
Source(s)
"December 5, 1983 By-election". Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec. December 5, 1983. Retrieved February 24, 2017.


1981 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  Liberal Fabien Bélanger 11,795 51.73
Parti Québécois Noël Landry 9,468 41.52
Union Nationale Jacques Labranche 1,539 6.75 –
Mégantic-Compton by-election November 17, 1980
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  Liberal Fabien Bélanger 9,259 46.95
Parti Québécois Richard Labelle 7,135 36.18
Union Nationale Fernand Grenier 233 1.15 –
  United Social Credit Jean-Paul Poulin 156 0.77
1980 Quebec referendum
Side Votes %
Non 15,202 65.23
Oui 8,102 34.77
1976 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Union Nationale Fernand Grenier 8,539 39.58 –
  Liberal J. Omer Dionne 6,037 27.99
Parti Québécois Richard Labelle 4,809 22.29
  Ralliement créditiste Robert Leroux 2,188 10.14
1973 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  Liberal J. Omer Dionne 9,815 47.96
  Ralliement créditiste Paul-André Latulippe 5,385 26.31
Parti Québécois Gérald Ouellette 2,819 13.78
Union Nationale Octave Grenier 2,445 11.95 –

References

  1. ^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=102&section=population [dead link]
  2. ^ http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/provincial/electoral-map/general-information-on-the-provincial-electoral-divisions.php?bsq=102&section=superficie [dead link]
  3. ^ Commission de la représentation électorale (January 2012). "The electoral map of Québec 2011: Final Report" (PDF). Retrieved March 21, 2012.
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