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Matane (provincial electoral district)

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District created
  
1890

Last contested
  
2008

Area (km²)
  
8,415.6

District abolished
  
2011

First contested
  
1890

Electors (2008)
  
27,977

Province
  
Québec

Legislature
  
National Assembly of Quebec

Matane is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine regions of Quebec, Canada, that elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec.

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It was created for the 1890 election from parts of Rimouski. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and its successor electoral districts were Matane-Matapédia and Gaspé.

Geography

It is located at the western end of the Gaspé Peninsula, along the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River.

It consists of the municipalities of:

  • Baie-des-Sables
  • Cap-Chat
  • Grosses-Roches
  • La Martre
  • Les Méchins
  • Marsoui
  • Matane
  • Mont-Saint-Pierre
  • Rivière-à-Claude
  • Saint-Adelme
  • Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg
  • Saint-Léandre
  • Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis
  • Saint-René-de-Matane
  • Saint-Ulric
  • Sainte-Anne-des-Monts
  • Sainte-Félicité
  • Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine
  • Sainte-Paule

    • It also consists of the unorganized territories of:

  • Coulée-des-Adolphe
  • Mont-Albert
  • Rivière-Bonjour

    • Linguistic demographics

  • Francophone: 99.5%
  • Anglophone: 0.3%
  • Allophone: 0.1%

    • References

    Matane (provincial electoral district) Wikipedia
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