Trois-Rivières (provincial electoral district)

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Trois-Rivières
National Assembly Member Sébastien Proulx
ADQ
Electors, 2007 37,887 [1]
Electoral district created 1792
Region Mauricie

Trois-Rivières is a provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in the Mauricie region and including a large portion of the city of Trois-Rivières west of Saint-Maurice River, the riding was created in 1792 as the Ville-des-Trois-Rivières riding.

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[edit] Members of the Legislative Assembly (1867-1968) and the National Assembly of Quebec (since 1968)

  Name Assignments [1] Party Election [2] Popular Vote [3]
     Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville [4] Government MLA Conservative 1867 55%
     Sévère Dumoulin [5] Government MLA Conservative 1868 unopposed
     Charles-Borromée Genest [6] Government MLA Conservative 1869 56%
     Henri-Gédéon Malhiot [7] Government MLA Conservative 1871 58%
     Henri-Gédéon Malhiot Cabinet Member Conservative 1874 unopposed
     Henri-Gédéon Malhiot [8] Cabinet Member Conservative 1875 55%
     Arthur Turcotte Independent MLA Independent Conservative 1876 60%
     Arthur Turcotte [9] Independent MLA
Speaker		 Independent Conservative 1878 unopposed
     Sévère Dumoulin [10] Government MLA Conservative 1881 53%
     Arthur Turcotte Independent MLA Independent Conservative 1884 61%
     Arthur Turcotte [11] Official Opposition MLA Parti National 1886 51%
     Arthur Turcotte [12] Cabinet Member Parti National 1888 59%
     Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand Official Opposition MLA (until 1891)
Government MLA (after 1891)		 Conservative 1890 52%
     Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand [13] Government MLA Conservative 1892 50%
     Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand Government MLA Conservative 1892 51%
     Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand Official Opposition MLA Conservative 1897 59%
     Richard-Stanislas Cooke Government MLA Liberal 1900 unopposed
     Joseph-Adolphe Tessier Government MLA Liberal 1904 unopposed
     Joseph-Adolphe Tessier Government MLA
Deputy Speaker (after 1912)		 Liberal 1908 57%
     Joseph-Adolphe Tessier Government MLA
Deputy Speaker		 Liberal 1912 56%
     Joseph-Adolphe Tessier Cabinet Member Liberal 1914 54%
     Joseph-Adolphe Tessier Cabinet Member Liberal 1916 66%
     Joseph-Adolphe Tessier [14] Cabinet Member Liberal 1919 unopposed
     Louis-Philippe Mercier Government MLA Liberal 1921 unopposed
     Louis-Philippe Mercier [15] Government MLA Liberal 1923 55%
     Maurice Duplessis Official Opposition MLA Conservative 1927 51%
     Maurice Duplessis Official Opposition MLA
Leader of the Official Opposition (after 1932)		 Conservative 1931 50%
     Maurice Duplessis Leader of the Official Opposition Conservative 1935 57%
     Maurice Duplessis Premier Union Nationale 1936 69%
     Maurice Duplessis Leader of the Official Opposition Union Nationale 1939 60%
     Maurice Duplessis Premier Union Nationale 1944 67%
     Maurice Duplessis Premier Union Nationale 1948 77%
     Maurice Duplessis Premier Union Nationale 1952 61%
     Maurice Duplessis [16] Premier Union Nationale 1956 62%
     Yves Gabias Official Opposition MLA Union Nationale 1960 47%
     Yves Gabias Official Opposition MLA Union Nationale 1962 52%
     Yves Gabias [17] Cabinet Member Union Nationale 1966 49%
     Gilles Gauthier [18] Government MNA Union Nationale 1969 53%
     Guy Bacon Government MNA
Parliamentary Secretary (after 1973)		 Liberal 1970 40%
     Guy Bacon [19] Parliamentary Secretary Liberal 1973 58%
     Denis Vaugeois Parliamentary Secretary (until 1978)
Cabinet Member (after 1978)		 Parti Québécois 1976 44%
     Denis Vaugeois [20] Parliamentary Secretary (until 1984)
Government MNA		 Parti Québécois 1981 51%
     Paul Philibert Official Opposition MNA Liberal 1985 67%
     Paul Philibert Parliamentary Secretary Liberal 1985 59%
     Paul Philibert [21] Parliamentary Secretary Liberal 1989 55%
     Guy Julien Government MNA
Cabinet Member (after 1996)		 Parti Québécois 1994 43%
     Guy Julien Cabinet Member Parti Québécois 1998 46%
     André Gabias [22] Parliamentary Secretary Liberal 2003 41%
     Sébastien Proulx Official Opposition House Leader Action démocratique du Québec 2007 37%

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Cabinet assignments are indicated with a bold font.
  2. ^ By-elections are indicated with an Italic font.
  3. ^ Elections par circonscriptions - Trois-Rivières
  4. ^ Boucher resigned to become sheriff in 1868.
  5. ^ Dumoulin resigned to become sheriff in 1869.
  6. ^ Genest lost the 1871 election.
  7. ^ Malhiot resigned to become a member of the Cabinet in 1874.
  8. ^ Malhiot resigned in 1876.
  9. ^ Turcotte lost the 1881 election.
  10. ^ The election was cancelled in 1883. Dumoulin lost the 1884 by-election.
  11. ^ Turcotte resigned to become a member of the Cabinet in 1887.
  12. ^ Turcotte lost the 1890 election.
  13. ^ The election was cancelled in 1892.
  14. ^ Tessier resigned in 1921.
  15. ^ Mercier lost the 1927 election.
  16. ^ Duplessis died in office in 1959.
  17. ^ Yves Gabias resigned to become judge in 1969.
  18. ^ Gauthier lost the 1970 election.
  19. ^ Bacon lost the 1976 election.
  20. ^ Vaugeois resigned in 1985.
  21. ^ Philibert lost the 1994 election.
  22. ^ André Gabias lost the 2007 election.

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[edit] Neighbouring electoral districts

Saint-Maurice, Champlain
v • d • e
 
Maskinongé North Nicolet-Yamaska
West   Trois-Rivières    East
South
Maskinongé, Nicolet-Yamaska
v • d • e
Quebec provincial electoral districts
Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
and Côte-Nord
Capitale-Nationale
Mauricie
Champlain • Laviolette • Maskinongé • Saint-Maurice • Trois-Rivières
Chaudière-Appalaches
and Centre-du-Québec
Estrie (Eastern Townships)
Eastern Montérégie
South Shore
East Montreal
                          Central Montreal
West Montreal
North Montreal
Laval
Lanaudière
Laurentians
Outaouais
Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec
See also: 2007 election • List of elections • Politics of Quebec
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