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Roberval—Lac Saint Jean

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Legislature
  
House of Commons

First contested
  
1949

District webpage
  
profile, map

Province
  
Québec

Elector
  
63,240

District created
  
1947

Last contested
  
2011

Population (2011)
  
78,765

District abolished
  
2013

Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean

Census divisions
  
Le Domaine-du-Roy, Maria-Chapdelaine

Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean (formerly known as Roberval) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 until 2015.

Contents

The riding was created in 1947 from parts of Lake St-John—Roberval riding. It was dissolved into Lac-Saint-Jean and Jonquière during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

The neighbouring ridings are Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, Jonquière—Alma, Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, and Saint-Maurice—Champlain.

This is the riding with the highest percentage of non-immigrants (99.4%) and of people with French as their home language (also 99.4%).

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Roberval, 1947 – 2004

Note: Vote change is based on redistributed votes. Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

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

Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.

References

Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean Wikipedia