Canadian federal election results in the Eastern Townships

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Canadian federal elections have provided the following results in the Eastern Townships.

Contents 1 Regional Profile 2 2006 - 39th General Election 3 2004 - 38th General Election 4 2000 - 37th General Election

[edit] Regional Profile

The Eastern Townships are a somewhat federalist area of Quebec. In 1988 and 1984 this area was nearly swept by the Progressive Conservatives under Brian Mulroney, winning all but one seat in 1988 (Shefford) and two in 1984 (Shefford and Richmond-Wolfe). Previously, the Tories only had one riding won in either 1979 or 1980, and that was in Missisquoi in 1979. The Social Credit party also won a seat here in 1979, in Beauce. By the following election in 1993, Mulroney had left office and support for the Tories all across Quebec moved to the Bloc Québécois. Locally, the Bloc won all but two seats; the exceptions were in Beauce, which was won by former Conservative Gilles Bernier who ran as an independent, and in Sherbrooke, where Jean Charest was one of only two PC candidates to win in all of Canada. By 1997, he was PC leader and local candidates running on his coattails did well, resulting in a split between the Progressive Conservatives (four seats) the Bloc Québécois (three seats) and the Liberals (two seats). However in 1998, Charest moved to provincial politics as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party (which is independent of the federal Liberals, despite the similarity of names), and without him local support for the PCs declined. By the 2000 election two of the PC members, David Price and Diane St-Jacques, had left the party and joined the federal Liberals. André Bachand remained with the PCs in 2000 and was re-elected, but declined to join the newly merged Conservatives and retired from politics in 2004. Traditional Bloc support in this region is concentrated in the northwest part, and in the Frontenac-Megantic region. Nonetheless, Bloc support weakened across the board here in 2006, primarily to the Conservatives.

[edit] 2006 - 39th General Election

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Electoral district	Candidates													Incumbent
		BQ		Liberal		Conservative		NDP		Green		Other
Beauce		Patrice Moore 10,997		Jacques Lussier 4,364		Maxime Bernier 36,915		Cleo Chartier 1,405		Jean-Claude Roy 1,397				Claude Drouin†
Brome— Missisquoi		Christian Ouellet 18,596		Denis Paradis 13,569		David Marler 9,874		Josianne Jetté 2,839		Michel Champagne 1,721		Heward Grafftey (P.C.) 1,921		Denis Paradis
Compton— Stanstead		France Bonsant 21,316		David Price 11,126		Gary Caldwell 12,131		Stéphane Bürgi 3,099		Gaétan Perreault 2,171				France Bonsant
Drummond		Pauline Picard 22,575		Éric Cardinal 7,437		Jean-Marie Pineault 10,134		François Choquette 2,870		Jean-Benjamin Milot 2,418				Pauline Picard
Mégantic— L'Érable		Marc Boulianne 15,410		Yvan Corriveau 4,912		Christian Paradis 23,550		Isabelle Tremblay 1,836		Jean-François Hamel 1,534				Marc Boulianne
Richmond— Arthabaska		André Bellavance 24,466		Louis Mercier 5,294		Jean Landry 16,465		Isabelle Maguire 2,507		Laurier Busque 2,355				André Bellavance
Saint- Hyacinthe— Bagot		Yvan Loubier 27,838		Stéphane Deschênes 4,884		Huguette Guilhaumon 12,323		Joelle Chevrier 2,723		Jacques Tétreault 1,925				Yvan Loubier
Shefford		Robert Vincent 22,159		Diane St-Jacques 12,043		Jean Lambert 12,734		Paula Maundcote 2,431		Francine Brière 2,061				Robert Vincent
Sherbrooke		Serge Cardin 27,112		Robert Pouliot 6,863		Marc Nadeau 10,763		Martin Plaisance 4,646		Michel Quirion 2,238		Claudia Laroche-Martel (Ind.) 315		Serge Cardin

[edit] 2004 - 38th General Election

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Electoral district	Candidates													Incumbent
		Liberal		BQ		Conservative		NDP		Green		Other
Beauce		Claude Drouin 19,592		Jean-François Barbe 17,168		Alain Guay 8,091		Philippe Giguère 1,443		Michel Binette 1,054				Claude Drouin
Brome—Missisquoi		Denis Paradis 18,609		Christian Ouellet 17,537		Peter Stastny 4,888		Piper Huggins 1,177		Louise Martineau 2,011				Denis Paradis
Compton—Stanstead		David Price 15,752		France Bonsant 20,450		Gary Caldwell 4,589		Martin Baller 1,451		Laurier Busque 1,546				David Price
Drummond		Roger Gougeon 9,591		Pauline Picard 23,670		Lyne Boisvert 7,123		Blake Evans 745		Louis Lacroix 921				Pauline Picard
Mégantic—L'Érable		Gérard Binet 15,778		Marc Boulianne 19,264		Yves Mailly 4,916		Alexandre Côté 1,608		Bruno Vézina 1,489				Gérard Binet
Richmond—Arthabaska		Christine St-Pierre 12,809		André Bellavance 26,211		Pierre Poissant 4,925		Jason Noble 1,540		Lucie LaForest 1,699				André Bachand† [1]
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot		Michel Gaudette 10,558		Yvan Loubier 29,789		Andrée Champagne 5,240		Joëlle Chevrier 1,204		Bruno Godbout 948				Yvan Loubier
Shefford		Diane St-Jacques 18,725		Robert Vincent 21,968		Jacques Parenteau 3,732		Sonia Bisson 1,146		Francine Brière 1,571				Diane St-Jacques
Sherbrooke		Bruno-Marie Béchard 15,482		Serge Cardin 29,323		Réal Leblanc 2,142		Philippe Dion 1,463		Jeffrey Champagne 1,509				Serge Cardin

1. ↑  Bachand was former PC

Beauce Brome-Mississquoi Compton-Stanstead Drummond Mégantic-L'Érable Richmond-Arthabaska Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot Shefford Sherbrooke
Key map	Bloc Québécois
Conservative Party of Canada	Green Party of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada	New Democratic Party

[edit] 2000 - 37th General Election

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Electoral district	Candidates													Incumbent
		BQ		Liberal		Alliance		NDP		Prog. Cons.		Other
Beauce		Gary Morin 12,323		Claude Drouin 26,033		Alain Guay 5,452		Pierre Malano 436		Gérard Parent 1,628		Louis Girard (NL) 611		Claude Drouin
Brome—Missisquoi		André Leroux 13,363		Denis Paradis 21,545		Jacques Loyer 1,977		Jeff Itcush 480		Heward Grafftey 5,502				Denis Paradis
Compton—Stanstead		Gaston Leroux 14,808		David Price 17,729		Marc Carrier 2,061		Christine Moore 580		Mary Ann Dewey-Plante 2,422		Marc Roy (NL) 476		David Price
Drummond		Pauline Picard 18,843		André Beliveau 14,285		Jacques Laurin 1,606		Julie Philion 424		Lyne Boisvert 6,593				Pauline Picard
Frontenac—Mégantic		Jean-Guy Chrétien 15,703		Gérard Binet 17,069		Stéphane Musial 1,751		Olivier Chalifoux 427		Nicole Massicotte 1,497		Pierre Luc Fournier (Mar.) 698		Jean-Guy Chrétien
Richmond—Arthabaska		André Bellavance 18,067		Aldéi Beaudoin 10,416		Phillippe Ardilliez 1,930		Vincent Bernier 319		André Bachand 18,430		Christian Simard (NL) 375		André Bachand
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot		Yvan Loubier 25,916		Michel Gaudette 16,265		Jacques Bousquet 2,161		Rachel Dicaire 499		Frédéric Mantha 1,932				Yvan Loubier
Shefford		Michel Benoit 19,816		Diane St-Jacques 20,707		Jean-Jacques Treyvaud 1,867		Elizabeth Morey 380		Audrey Castonguay 1,498		Nicholas Cousineau (Mar.) 819		Diane St-Jacques
Sherbrooke		Serge Cardin 23,559		Jean-François Rouleau 21,182		Mark Quinlan 2,284		Craig Wright 677		Eric L'Heureux 1,955		Daniel Jolicoeur (NL) 495 Joseph Bourassa-Lacombe (Ind.) 294 Serge Lachapelle (M-L) 186		Serge Cardin