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%

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