Groulx is a provincial electoral district in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the city of Boisbriand as well as a few other small cities.

Groulx
Quebec electoral district
Location in Thérèse-De Blainville
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureNational Assembly of Quebec
MNA
 
 
 
Eric Girard
Coalition Avenir Québec
District created1980
First contested1981
Last contested2018
Demographics
Population (2011)74,165
Electors (2012)[1]56,154
Area (km²)[2]53.9
Pop. density (per km²)1,376
Census division(s)Thérèse-De Blainville (part)
Census subdivision(s)Boisbriand, Rosemère, Sainte-Thérèse

It was created for the 1981 election from a part of the Terrebonne electoral district.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained a small part of the city of Blainville from the Blainville electoral district; it did not previously include any part of that city.

In the change from the 2011 to 2017 electoral map, the riding will lose the Saint-Rédempteur neighbourhood of Blainville to the riding of Blainville.

From its creation in 1981 until 2007, Groulx was a bellwether riding always sending a member from the governing party to the National Assembly. Since the ADQ breakthrough in the suburbs of Montreal in 2007, the riding has been targeted by all major parties and is part of a collection of ridings that determine Quebec elections. The riding is overwhelmingly francophone and white, and has a strong nationalist undercurrent, making it a battleground riding between the Parti Québécois, ADQ/CAQ, and the Quebec Liberals.

In 2014, the PQ nominated Martine Desjardins, former leader of the FEUQ during the 2012 student strike. She was seen as a star candidate. While the PQ began the campaign with a strong lead among francophones and heavily targeted CAQ-held ridings such as Groulx, the fall of the PQ and rise of the CAQ during the last two weeks of the campaign kept this riding in the hands of the CAQ, albeit in a tight 3-way split with no candidate receiving more than 31% of the vote.

Members of the National Assembly

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Legislature Years Member Party
Riding created from Terrebonne
32nd  1981–1985     Élie Fallu Parti Québécois
33rd  1985–1989     Madeleine Bleau Liberal
34th  1989–1994
35th  1994–1998     Robert Kieffer Parti Québécois
36th  1998–2003
37th  2003–2007     Pierre Descoteaux Liberal
38th  2007–2008     Linda Lapointe Action démocratique
39th  2008–2011     René Gauvreau Parti Québécois
 2011–2012     Independent
 2012–2012     Parti Québécois
40th  2012–2014     Hélène Daneault Coalition Avenir Québec
41st  2014–2017 Claude Surprenant
 2017–2018     Independent
42nd  2018–2022     Eric Girard Coalition Avenir Québec
43rd  2022–Present

Election results

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2022 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Eric Girard 17,431 47.75% +7.14%
Québec solidaire Marie-Noëlle Aubertin 5,919 16.21% -1.02%
Parti Québécois Jeanne Craig-Larouche 5,588 15.31% -0.49%
Liberal Audrey Medaino-Tardif 4,024 11.02% -9.24%
Conservative Valerie Messore 3,177 8.70% +7.69%
Green Victoria Shahsavar-Arshad 368 1.01% -1.20%
Total valid votes 36,507
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Electors on the lists
2018 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Eric Girard 14,771 40.61 +9.76
Liberal Sabrina Chartrand 7,369 20.26 -9.98
Québec solidaire Fabien Torres 6,268 17.23 +10.44
Parti Québécois Jean-Philippe Meloche 5,745 15.8 -14.2
Independent Claude Surprenant 812 2.23
Green Robin Dick 802 2.21
Conservative Vincent Aubé 368 1.01
Citoyens au pouvoir Chantal Lavoie 235 0.65
Total valid votes 36,370 98.37
Total rejected ballots 604 1.63
Turnout 36,974 70.25
Eligible voters 52,633
Coalition Avenir Québec hold Swing +9.87
Source(s)
"Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.
2014 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Claude Surprenant 12,776 30.85 -7.17
Liberal Vicki Emard 12,520 30.24 +10.27
Parti Québécois Martine Desjardins 12,424 30.00 -4.00
Québec solidaire Sylvie Giguère 2,810 6.79 +2.49
Parti nul Jonathan Davis 493 1.19
Option nationale Alain Marginean 384 0.93 -1.11
Total valid votes 41,407 98.49
Total rejected ballots 635 1.51 +0.36
Turnout 42,042 73.48 -5.60
Electors on the lists 57,216
Coalition Avenir Québec hold Swing -8.72
2012 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Hélène Daneault 16,711 38.02 +17.57
Parti Québécois Raymond Archambault 14,948 34.01 -4.05
Liberal Linda Lapointe 8,776 19.97 -15.70
Québec solidaire Sylvie Giguère 1,892 4.30 +1.92
Option nationale Alain Marginean 895 2.04
Green Alec Ware 591 1.34 -1.80
Independent Alex Munteanu 140 0.32
Total valid votes 43,953 98.85
Total rejected ballots 511 1.15
Turnout 44,464 79.08  
Electors on the lists 56,228
Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois Swing +10.81

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

2008 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti Québécois René Gauvreau 11,226 37.62 +8.73
Liberal Monique Laurin 10,823 36.27 +9.07
Action démocratique Linda Lapointe 6,036 20.23 -17.22
Green Carmen Brisebois 955 3.20 -0.93
Québec solidaire Adam Veilleux 701 2.35 +0.01
Parti indépendantiste Sébastien Hotte 102 0.34
Total valid votes 29,843 98.41
Total rejected ballots 481 1.59
Turnout 30,324 61.33 -14.02
Electors on the lists 49,441
2007 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Action démocratique Linda Lapointe 13,630 37.45 +18.07
Parti Québécois Rachel Gagnon 10,513 28.89 -9.78
Liberal Pierre Descoteaux 9,898 27.20 -12.34
Green Robert Harenclak 1,503 4.13
Québec solidaire Adam Veilleux 850 2.34 +1.09*
Total valid votes 36,394 99.15
Total rejected ballots 311 0.85
Turnout 36,705 75.35 +1.83
Electors on the lists 48,715

* Result compared to UFP

References

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Maps

45°37′40″N 73°49′09″W / 45.6277°N 73.8192°W / 45.6277; -73.8192