Madawaska-les-Lacs
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Madawaska-les-Lacs is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. Its MLA is Jeannot Volpé, a Progressive Conservative.
The district was established in 1973 when New Brunswick moved from a system of bloc voting to the first past the post electoral system. It had previously been a part of the Madawaska county electoral district which returned three members.
It the 1994 electoral redistribution, it added parts of the old district of Madawaska Centre and it under went only very minor boundary changes in 2006.
It is one of, if not the, safest francophone seats in New Brunswick for the Progressive Conservatives. It has been held by the PCs in every election since it was created except for the 1987 election (in which the Liberals won every seat) and the 1991 election (in which the PCs won only 3 seats and the main opposition was the conservative Confederation of Regions Party which opposed official status for the French language).
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[edit] Results
[edit] 1974
| 1974 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jean-Pierre Ouellet | 1976 | 49.9% | * | |
| Liberal | Laurier Lévesque | 1881 | 47.5% | * | |
| Parti acadien | Jean-Marie Nadeau | 99 | 2.5% | * | |
| P.C. gain*. | Majority | 95 | 2.4% | ||
* The riding was first used for the 1974 election, it was created from the Madawaska district which had returned three Liberals in the previous election.
[edit] 1978
| 1978 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jean-Pierre Ouellet | 2876 | 57.1% | +7.2% | |
| Liberal | Nelson Bellefleur | 2071 | 41.1% | -6.4% | |
| Parti acadien | Yves C. LeClerc | 90 | 1.8% | -0.7% | |
| P.C. hold. | Majority | 805 | 16.0% | ||
[edit] 1982
| 1982 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jean-Pierre Ouellet | 3071 | 53.0% | -4.1% | |
| Liberal | Luc Daigle | 2545 | 43.9% | +2.8% | |
| New Democratic | Rino Pelletier | 176 | 3.0% | * | |
| P.C. hold. | Majority | 526 | 9.1% | ||
*The NDP did not contest the seat in the previous election.
[edit] 1987
| 1987 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Georges Corriveau | 3839 | 62.5% | +18.6% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jean-Pierre Ouellet | 1933 | 31.5% | -21.5% | |
| New Democratic | Maurice Clavette | 368 | 6.0% | +3.0% | |
| Liberal gain. | Majority | 1906 | 31.0% | ||
[edit] 1991
| 1991 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Georges Corriveau | 2906 | 50.8% | -11.7% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Raoul Cyr | 2211 | 38.7% | +7.2% | |
| New Democratic | Gérard Caron | 601 | 10.5% | +4.5% | |
| Liberal hold. | Majority | 695 | 12.2% | ||
[edit] 1995
| 1995 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jeannot Volpé | 4060 | 56.0% | +17.3% | |
| Liberal | Georges Corriveau | 3085 | 42.6% | -8.2% | |
| New Democratic | John Nowlan | 103 | 1.4% | -9.1% | |
| P.C. gain. | Majority | 975 | 13.5% | ||
[edit] 1999
| 1999 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jeannot Volpé | 4289 | 65.2% | +9.2% | |
| Liberal | Georges Corriveau | 2138 | 32.5% | -10.1% | |
| New Democratic | Marie-Pierre Valay-Nadeau | 154 | 2.3% | +0.9% | |
| P.C. hold. | Majority | 2151 | 32.7% | ||
[edit] 2003
| 2003 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jeannot Volpé | 3965 | 60.6% | -4.6% | |
| Liberal | Louis Labrie | 2391 | 36.5% | +4.0% | |
| New Democratic | Jason Carney | 187 | 2.9% | +0.6% | |
| P.C. hold. | Majority | 1574 | 24.1% | ||
[edit] 2006
| 2006 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jeannot Volpé | 4268 | 63.3% | +2.7% | |
| Liberal | Elaine Albert | 2297 | 34.0% | -2.5% | |
| New Democratic | Jeff Thibodeau | 183 | 2.7% | -0.2% | |
| P.C. hold. | Majority | 1971 | 29.2% | ||
