Québec (electoral district)

Québec electoral district (formerly known as Langelier) is a federal electoral district that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988. It is located in Quebec City in the province of Quebec.

The main employer in the district is the provincial Government of Quebec.

1 Statistical overview
2 Geography
3 History
- 3.1 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
- 4.1 Québec, 1993 - present
- 4.2 Langelier, 1968 - 1993
5 See also
6 Sources

Statistical overview

Population: 93,811
Average family income: $52,443
Unemployment: 9.3%
Linguistic groups:
- Francophone population: 92%
- Anglophone population: 2%
- Other: 6%

Geography

The riding, in the Quebec region of Capitale-Nationale, consists of the central part of Quebec City, including the borough of La Cité and the southern part of the borough of Les Rivières, as well as the parish municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges.

The neighbouring ridings are Louis-Hébert, Louis-Saint-Laurent, Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, Beauport—Limoilou, and Lévis—Bellechasse.

History

This riding was created as "Langelier" riding in 1966 from parts of Quebec East, Quebec South and Quebec West ridings. It was renamed "Québec" in 1990.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Quebec East, Quebec South and Quebec West prior to 1966
28th	1968–1972	Jean Marchand	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1976
30th	1977–1979	Gilles Lamontagne	Liberal
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988	Michel Côté	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993	Gilles Loiselle	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Christiane Gagnon	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present	Annick Papillon	New Democratic

Election results

Québec, 1993 - present

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Annick Papillon	22,393	42.6	+30.8
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	14,684	28.0	-13.8
	Conservative	Pierre Morasse	9,330	17.8	-7.9
	Liberal	François Payeur	4,735	9.0	-8.5
	Green	Yvan Dutil	1,144	2.2	-1.1
	Christian Heritage	Stefan Jetchick	228	0.4	-
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,514	100.0
Total rejected ballots			801	1.5
Turnout			53,315	66.3	+3.6
Eligible voters			80,402

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	21,064	41.8	+0.2	$59,021
	Conservative	Myriam Taschereau	12,943	25.7	-4.1	$70,315
	Liberal	Damien Rousseau	8,845	17.5	+6.1	$13,132
	New Democrat	Catheryn Roy-Goyette	5,933	11.8	+2.5	$6,186
	Green	Yonnel Bonaventure	1,650	3.3	-1.6
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,435	100.00		$85,897
Total rejected ballots			632	1.2
Turnout			51,067	62.7

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	20,845	41.5	-9.1	$52,012
	Conservative	Frédérik Boisvert	14,943	29.8	+18.7	$67,922
	Liberal	Caroline Drolet	5,743	11.4	-15.5	$23,986
	New Democrat	Michaël Lessard	4,629	9.2	+3.7	$5,287
	Green	Yonnel Bonaventure	2,372	4.7	+0.5
	Independent	Dan Aubut	813	1.6		$100
	Progressive Canadian	Alexandre Raymond-Labrie	520	1.0		$77
	Libertarian	Francis Bedard	325	0.6		$0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,190	100.0		$80,394

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	24,373	50.6	+7.2	$52,105
	Liberal	Jean-Philippe Côté	12,982	27.0	-8.5	$73,723
	Conservative	Pierre Gaudreault	5,330	11.1	-2.5	$13,725
	New Democrat	Jean-Marie Fiset	2,670	5.5	+2.3	$518
	Green	Antonine Yaccarini	2,046	4.3		$2,723
	Marijuana	Pierre-E. Paradis	512	1.1	-1.8
	Marxist–Leninist	Jean Bédard	223	0.5	0.0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			48,136	100.0		$80,031

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	22,793	43.4	-1.1
	Liberal	Claudette Tessier Couture	18,619	35.5	+3.1
	Canadian Alliance	Michel Rivard	3,980	7.6
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Jalbert	3,171	6.0	-12.5
	New Democrat	Jean-Marie Fiset	1,714	3.3	-1.3
	Marijuana	Pierre-E. Paradis	1,480	2.8
	Natural Law	Gilles Rochette	482	0.9
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Moreau	255	0.5
Total valid votes			52,494	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	24,817	44.5	-9.2
	Liberal	Claudette Tessier-Couture	18,062	32.4	+5.4
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Jalbert	10,309	18.5	+4.8
	New Democrat	Jean-Marie Fiset	2,556	4.6	+2.5
Total valid votes			55,744	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	27,788	53.7
	Liberal	Jean Pelletier	13,965	27.0	-1.2
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Loiselle	7,077	13.7	-33.0
	New Democrat	Majella Desmeules	1,067	2.1	-18.0
	Natural Law	Danielle Charland	883	1.7
	Green	Richard Domm	786	1.5	-2.1
	Abolitionist	Ernst Fernandez	158	0.3
Total valid votes			51,724	100.0

Langelier, 1968 - 1993

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Loiselle	24,555	46.7	+3.6
	Liberal	Marielle Guay-Mineault	14,843	28.2	-7.6
	New Democrat	Pauline Gingras	10,586	20.1	+8.4
	Green	Gilles Fontaine	1,931	3.7
	Not affiliated	France Tremblay	402	0.8
	Independent	Alexandre Roy	319	0.6
Total valid votes			52,636	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Coté	16,872	43.1	+35.5
	Liberal	Florence Ievers	14,004	35.8	-35.7
	New Democrat	Majella Desmeules	4,597	11.7	+3.6
	Rhino	Jean Obélix Lefebvre	2,576	6.6	-1.6
	Nationaliste	André Binette	919	2.3
	Social Credit	Christian Landry	189	0.5	-3.0
Total valid votes			39,157	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. Gilles Lamontagne	24,714	71.5	+4.9
	Rhino	Jean Obelix Lefebvre	2,813	8.1	+3.5
	New Democrat	Edith Frankel	2,811}	8.1	-1.6
	Progressive Conservative	Pierre Linteau	2,606	7.5	+1.9
	Social Credit	André Bergeron	1,191	3.4	-8.7
	Union Populaire	Brigitte Fortier	252	0.7	+0.2
	Marxist–Leninist	Jacques Goulet	115	0.3	-0.1
	Communist	Claude Demers	68	0.2	-0.2
Total valid votes			34,570	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. Gilles Lamontagne	25,931	66.6	0.0
	Social Credit	André Simoneau	4,748	12.2	+8.8
	New Democrat	Raymond Lavoie	3,773	9.7	+3.7
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Michaud	2,186	5.6	-16.0
	Rhino	Jean Lefebvre	1,824	4.7
	Union Populaire	Maurice Gagnon	195	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Jacques Goulet	156	0.4
	Communist	Claude Demers	140	0.4	0.0
Total valid votes			38,953	100.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
By-election on 24 May 1977 On Mr. Marchand's resignation, 26 October 1976
	Liberal	Gilles Lamontagne	12,171	66.5	+3.0
	Progressive Conservative	Maurice Hamel	3,952	21.6	+9.7
	New Democrat	Jean Daoust	1,104	6.0	+0.8
	Social Credit	Sauveur Fradette	618	3.4	-12.3
	Independent	Jean Marie Béland	213	1.2
	Communist	Jeannette Walsh	166	0.9
	Independent	Gérard Langlois	67	0.4
Total valid votes			18,291	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jean Marchand	13,557	63.6	+6.3
	Social Credit	Sauveur Fradette	3,344	15.7	-8.1
	Progressive Conservative	Normand Robidoux	2,530	11.9	-0.6
	New Democrat	Clément Gilbert	1,110	5.2
	Independent	Albert Lemoine	337	1.6
	Not affiliated	Micheline Roberge	184	0.9
	Marxist–Leninist	Michel Papayre	161	0.8	-0.6
	Independent	Lionel Larocque	97	0.5
Total valid votes			21,320	100.0

Note: Mr. Papayre's result as a Marixst-Leninist candidate is compared to his result in the 1972 general election as an independent candidate.

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jean Marchand	14,725	57.3	+18.3
	Social Credit	J.-Wilfrid Dufresne	6,101	23.7	-7.2
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Lemoine	3,206	12.5	-15.3
	Independent	Guy Jean	1,313	5.1
	Not affiliated	Michel Parayre	349	1.4
Total valid votes			25,694	100.0

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jean Marchand	11,439	39.0
	Ralliement créditiste	Guy Jean	8,770	29.9
	Progressive Conservative	Rodrigue Pageau	8,150	27.8
	New Democrat	Pierre Pourtier	658	2.2
	Ralliement créditiste	Michel Roy	308	1.1
Total valid votes			29,325	100.0

Sources

Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
2011 Results from Elections Canada
Website of the Parliament of Canada

Federal ridings in Quebec City

New Democratic	Beauport—Limoilou • Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles • Louis-Hébert • Louis-Saint-Laurent • Québec

Federal ridings in Quebec

Central Quebec	Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour • Berthier—Maskinongé • Joliette • Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière • Montcalm • Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier • Repentigny • Saint-Maurice—Champlain • Trois-Rivières

Côte-Nord and Saguenay	Chicoutimi—Le Fjord • Jonquière—Alma • Manicouagan • Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord • Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean

Eastern Quebec	Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine • Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia • Lévis—Bellechasse • Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup • Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques

The Eastern Townships	Beauce • Brome—Missisquoi • Compton—Stanstead • Drummond • Mégantic—L'Érable • Richmond—Arthabaska • Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot • Shefford • Sherbrooke

The Laurentides, Outaouais and Northern Quebec	Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou • Abitibi—Témiscamingue • Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel • Gatineau • Hull—Aylmer • Laurentides—Labelle • Pontiac • Rivière-des-Mille-Îles • Rivière-du-Nord • Terrebonne—Blainville

Montreal (East, West, North & Laval)	Ahuntsic • Alfred-Pellan • Bourassa • Hochelaga • Honoré-Mercier • Jeanne-Le Ber • Lac-Saint-Louis • La Pointe-de-l'Île • LaSalle—Émard • Laurier—Sainte-Marie • Laval • Laval—Les Îles • Marc-Aurèle-Fortin • Mount Royal • Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine • Outremont • Papineau • Pierrefonds—Dollard • Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie • Saint-Laurent—Cartierville • Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel • Westmount—Ville-Marie

Montérégie	Beauharnois—Salaberry • Brossard—La Prairie • Chambly—Borduas • Châteauguay—Saint-Constant • Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher • Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert • Saint-Jean • Saint-Lambert • Vaudreuil-Soulanges • Verchères—Les Patriotes

Quebec City	Beauport—Limoilou • Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles • Louis-Hébert • Louis-Saint-Laurent • Québec

See also: Quebec provincial electoral districts