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Richelieu (provincial electoral district)

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District created
  
1867

First contested
  
1867

Province
  
Québec

Elector
  
44,201

District re-created
  
1944

Last contested
  
2015 (by-election)

District abolished
  
1939

Legislature
  
National Assembly of Quebec

MNA
  
Sylvain Rochon Parti Québécois

Census divisions
  
Le Bas-Richelieu Regional County Municipality

Richelieu is a provincial electoral riding in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada, which elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes the city of Sorel-Tracy and various other municipalities.

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It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada). Its final election was in 1936. It disappeared in the 1939 election and its successor electoral district was Richelieu-Verchères.

However, Richelieu-Verchères disappeared in the 1944 election and its successor electoral district was the re-created Richelieu.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained territory from Nicolet-Yamaska and from Verchères electoral districts.

It is named after former French Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

  • Joseph Beaudreau, Conservative Party (1867–1869)
  • Pierre Gélinas, Conservative Party (1869–1871)
  • Joseph Adolphe Dorion, Conservative Party (1871–1875)
  • Michel Mathieu, Conservative Party (1875–1881)
  • Léon Leduc, Conservative Party (1881–1886)
  • Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin, Liberal (1886–1892)
  • Louis Lacouture, Conservative Party (1892–1897)
  • Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin, Liberal (1897–1912)
  • Maurice-Louis Péloquin, Liberal (1912–1923)
  • Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière, Liberal (1923–1929)
  • Avila Turcotte, Liberal (1929–1939)
  • did not exist (1939–1944), see Richelieu-Verchères
  • Joseph-Willie Robidoux, Liberal (1944–1948)
  • Bernard Gagné, Union Nationale (1948–1952)
  • Gérard Cournoyer, Liberal (1952–1956)
  • Bernard Gagné, Union Nationale (1956–1960)
  • Gérard Cournoyer, Liberal (1960–1966)
  • Maurice Martel, Union Nationale (1966–1970)
  • Claude Simard, Liberal (1970–1976)
  • Maurice Martel, Parti Québécois (1976–1985)
  • Albert Khelfa, Liberal (1985–1994)
  • Sylvain Simard, Parti Québécois (1994–2012)
  • Élaine Zakaïb, Parti Québécois (2012–2014)
  • Sylvain Rochon, Parti Québécois (2015–present)

    • Election results

    ^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ.

    References

    Richelieu (provincial electoral district) Wikipedia
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