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Rivière du Loup (electoral district)

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District created
  
1930

District re-abolished
  
2011

Last contested
  
2009 (by-election)

Census division
  
Les Basques RCM

Elector
  
33,981

District re-created
  
1944

First contested
  
1931

Province
  
Québec

District abolished
  
1939

Legislature
  
National Assembly of Quebec

Rivière-du-Loup is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, which elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec.

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It was created for the 1931 election from a portion of the electoral district of Témiscouata. It disappeared in the 1939 election and its successor electoral district was Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup; however, it was re-created for the 1944 election.

Its final general election was in 2008; there was a by-election in 2009. It disappeared in the 2012 election and the successor electoral district was Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

  1. Léon Casgrain, Liberal (1931–1939)
  2. did not exist (1939–1944), see Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup
  3. Léon Casgrain, Liberal (1944–1948)
  4. Roméo Gagné, Union Nationale (1948–1956)
  5. Alphonse Couturier, Liberal (1956–1966)
  6. Gérard Lebel, Union Nationale (1966–1970)
  7. Paul Lafrance, Liberal (1970–1976)
  8. Jules Boucher, Parti Québécois (1976–1985)
  9. Albert Côté, Liberal (1985–1994)
  10. Mario Dumont, Action démocratique (1994-2009)
  11. Jean D'Amour, Liberal (2009, 2009–2012), Independent (2009)

Linguistic demographics

  • Francophone: 99.5%
  • Anglophone: 0.4%
  • Allophone: 0.2%
  • References

    Rivière-du-Loup (electoral district) Wikipedia