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Matapédia (electoral district)

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District created
  
1922

Last contested
  
2008

Area (km²)
  
7,753.94

District abolished
  
2011

First contested
  
1923

Electors (2008)
  
29,909

Province
  
Québec

Elector
  
29,909

Legislature
  
National Assembly of Quebec

Matapédia is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, which elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is at the western edge of the Gaspé Peninsula.

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Map of Matap%C3%A9dia, QC, Canada

It was created for the 1923 election from a portion of the electoral district of Matane. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election by merging all of its territory with part of Matane, and the successor electoral district was Matane-Matapédia.

Linguistic demographics

  • Francophone: 99.4%
  • Anglophone: 0.5%
  • Allophone: 0.1%

    • Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

  • Joseph Dufour, Liberal (1923–1936)
  • Fernand Paradis, Union Nationale (1936–1939)
  • Joseph Dufour, Liberal (1939–1944)
  • Philippe Cossette, Union Nationale (1944–1952)
  • Clovis Gagnon, Union Nationale (1953–1960)
  • Bona Arsenault, Liberal (1960–1976)
  • Léopold Marquis, Parti Québécois (1976–1985)
  • Henri Paradis, Liberal (1985–1994)
  • Danielle Doyer, Parti Québécois (1994–2012)

    • References

    Matapédia (electoral district) Wikipedia
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