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Verchères (provincial electoral district)

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District created
  
1867

First contested
  
1867

Province
  
Québec

Elector
  
56,094

District re-created
  
1944

Last contested
  
2014

District abolished
  
1939

Legislature
  
National Assembly of Quebec

MNA
  
Stéphane Bergeron Parti Québécois

Census divisions
  
Calixa-Lavallée, Quebec, Saint-Amable, Quebec, Sainte-Julie, Varennes, Verchères

Verchères is a provincial riding in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It corresponds exactly to the territory of Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality.

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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). It disappeared in the 1939 election and its successor electoral district was Richelieu-Verchères; however, it was re-created for the 1944 election.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu to the riding of Richelieu, La Présentation to the riding of Saint-Hyacinthe, and several municipalities to the riding of Borduas, but gained Sainte-Julie from the defunct riding of Marguerite-D'Youville.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

  • André-Boniface Craig, Conservative Party (1867–1871)
  • Joseph Daigle, Liberal (1871–1878)
  • Jean-Baptiste Brousseau, Liberal (1878–1879)
  • Achille Larose, Liberal (1879–1881)
  • Abraham Bernard, Liberal (1881–1886)
  • Albert-Alexandre Lussier, Liberal (1886–1897)
  • Étienne Blanchard, Liberal (1897–1908)
  • Amédée Geoffrion, Liberal (1908–1912)
  • Joseph-Léonide Perron, Liberal (1912–1916)
  • Adrien Beaudry, Liberal (1916–1921)
  • Jean-Marie Richard, Liberal (1921–1927)
  • Felix Messier, Liberal (1927–1939)
  • did not exist (1939–1944), see Richelieu-Verchères
  • Arthur Dupré, Liberal (1944–1956)
  • Clodomir Ladouceur, Union Nationale (1956–1960)
  • Guy Lechasseur, Liberal (1960–1970)
  • Guy Saint-Pierre, Liberal (1970–1973)
  • Marcel Ostiguy, Liberal (1973–1976)
  • Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, Parti Québécois (1976–1989)
  • Luce Dupuis, Parti Québécois (1989–1994)
  • Bernard Landry, Parti Québécois (1994–2005)
  • Stéphane Bergeron, Parti Québécois (2005–present)

    • Election results

    * Increase is from UFP

    References

    Verchères (provincial electoral district) Wikipedia
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