Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean

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.

Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean
Quebec electoral district
Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean in relation to other Quebec federal electoral districts
Defunct federal electoral district
LegislatureHouse of Commons
District created1947
District abolished2013
First contested1949
Last contested2011
District webpageprofile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]78,765
Electors (2011)63,240
Area (km²)[2]57,155.64
Census division(s)Le Domaine-du-Roy, Maria-Chapdelaine, Lac-Saint-Jean-Est
Census subdivision(s)Dolbeau-Mistassini, Roberval, Saint-Félicien, Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix, Normandin, Saint-Prime, Hébertville, Saint-Bruno, Albanel

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%)[3] and of people with French as their home language (also 99.4%).[4]

Members of Parliament

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This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament Years Member Party
Roberval
Riding created from Lake St-John—Roberval
21st  1949–1952     Joseph-Alfred Dion Liberal
 1952–1953     Paul-Henri Spence Progressive Conservative
22nd  1953–1957     Georges Villeneuve Liberal
23rd  1957–1958
24th  1958–1962     Jean-Noël Tremblay Progressive Conservative
25th  1962–1963     Charles-Arthur Gauthier Social Credit
26th  1963–1963
 1963–1965     Ralliement créditiste
27th  1965–1968
28th  1968–1971
 1971–1972     Social Credit
29th  1972–1974
30th  1974–1979
31st  1979–1980
32nd  1980–1984     Suzanne Beauchamp-Niquet Liberal
33rd  1984–1988     Benoît Bouchard Progressive Conservative
34th  1988–1993
35th  1993–1997     Michel Gauthier Bloc Québécois
36th  1997–2000
37th  2000–2004
38th  2004–2006
Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean
39th  2006–2007     Michel Gauthier Bloc Québécois
 2007–2008     Denis Lebel Conservative
40th  2008–2011
41st  2011–2015
Riding dissolved into Lac-Saint-Jean and Jonquière

Election results

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Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean, 2004 – 2015

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2011 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Conservative Denis Lebel 18,438 45.68 +2.13 $99,662
New Democratic Yvon Guay 11,182 27.70 +22.99 $1,983
Bloc Québécois Claude Pilote 8,577 21.25 -18.40 $70,809
Liberal Bernard Garneau 1,615 4.00 -6.09 $5,913
Green Steeve Simard 553 1.37 -0.63
Total valid votes/expense limit 40,365 98.79   $102,172
Total rejected ballots 494 1.21 +0.04
Turnout 40,859 64.20 +5.21
Eligible voters 63,645
Conservative hold Swing -10.43
2008 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Conservative Denis Lebel 16,055 43.54 -16.13 $88,243
Bloc Québécois Claude Pilote 14,619 39.65 +12.89 $79,101
Liberal Bernard Garneau 3,721 10.09 +0.54 $9,041
New Democratic Catherine Forbes 1,738 4.71 +2.41
Green Jocelyn Tremblay 737 2.00 +0.29
Total valid votes/expense limit 36,870 98.83   $98,690
Total rejected ballots 437 1.17 +0.27
Turnout 37,307 58.99 +12.16
Eligible voters 63,240
Conservative hold Swing -14.51

Change is from by-election

Canadian federal by-election, 17 September 2007
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Conservative Denis Lebel 17,463 59.68 +22.50 $95,449
Bloc Québécois Céline Houde 7,830 26.76 -18.45 $93,915
Liberal Louise Boulanger 2,795 9.55 +1.80 $51,293
New Democratic Éric Dubois 675 2.31 -3.22 $3,123
Green Jean-Luc Boily 499 1.71 -2.64
Total valid votes/expense limit 29,262 99.10   $95,677
Total rejected ballots 265 0.90 -0.11
Turnout 29,527 46.83 -15.32
Eligible voters 63,050
Conservative gain from Bloc Québécois Swing +20.47
2006 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Bloc Québécois Michel Gauthier 17,586 45.20 -14.21 $57,312
Conservative Ghislain Lavoie 14,463 37.18 +28.52 $12,647
Liberal Luc Chiasson 3,014 7.75 -15.45 $9,150
New Democratic François Privé 2,151 5.53 +0.42 $936
Green Sébastien Girard 1,689 4.34 +0.72 $719
Total valid votes/expense limit 38,903 98.99   $91,857
Total rejected ballots 397 1.01 -0.93
Turnout 39,300 62.15 +6.31
Eligible voters 63,236
Bloc Québécois hold Swing -21.36

Roberval, 1947 – 2004

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2004 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Bloc Québécois Michel Gauthier (incumbent) 20,655 59.41 +1.78 $54,905
Liberal Michel Mallette 8,064 23.19 -9.20 $52,574
Conservative Ghislain Lavoie 3,011 8.66 +0.77 $10,049
New Democratic Isabelle Tremblay 1,777 5.11 +3.77 $895
Green Marc-André Gauthier 1,260 3.62   $0
Total valid votes/expense limit 34,767 100.00    
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots 687 1.94    
Turnout 35,454 55.84    
Electors on the lists 63,497      
Bloc Québécois notional hold Swing +5.49
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Change for the Conservative Party is based on the combined Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative totals from 2000.
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.
2000 federal election redistributed results[5]
Party Vote %
  Bloc Québécois 21,095 57.63
  Liberal 11,857 32.39
  Canadian Alliance 2,021 5.52
  Progressive Conservative 869 2.37
  New Democratic 489 1.34
  Independents 271 0.74
2000 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Bloc Québécois Michel Gauthier 16,928 55.1 +3.0
Liberal Jean-Pierre Boivin 10,680 34.7 +8.5
Alliance Raymond A. Brideau 1,829 5.9
Progressive Conservative Marie-Christine Huot 870 2.8 -17.5
New Democratic Alain Giguère 437 1.4 +0.1
Total valid votes 30,744 100.0
1997 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Bloc Québécois Michel Gauthier 16,207 52.1 -7.6
Liberal Jean-Pierre Boivin 8,176 26.3 +5.9
Progressive Conservative France Tanguay 6,312 20.3 +2.0
New Democratic Alain Giguère 412 1.3 -0.2
Total valid votes 31,107 100.0
1993 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Bloc Québécois Michel Gauthier 18,869 59.7
Liberal Aurélien Gill 6,443 20.4 +8.3
Progressive Conservative Henri-Paul Brassard 5,793 18.3 -58.0
New Democratic Alain Giguère 485 1.5 -8.0
Total valid votes 31,590 100.0
1988 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Benoît Bouchard 26,717 76.4 +14.5
Liberal Martin Cauvier 4,219 12.1 -22.7
New Democratic Réjean Lalancette 3,318 9.5 +7.2
Rhinoceros Mémile Michel Simard 723 2.1
Total valid votes 34,977 100.0
1984 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Benoît Bouchard 22,981 61.8 +60.4
Liberal Suzanne Beauchamp-Niquet 12,917 34.8 -17.2
New Democratic Marius Tremblay 837 2.3 +0.6
Parti nationaliste Candide Simard 422 1.1
Total valid votes 37,157 100.0
1980 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Suzanne Beauchamp-Niquet 17,724 51.9 +11.6
Social Credit Charles Arthur Gauthier 14,832 43.5 -2.5
New Democratic Carol André Simard 569 1.7 +0.5
Progressive Conservative Paul Desbiens 507 1.5 -9.4
Rhinoceros Donald Bobette Simard 503 1.5 +0.3
Total valid votes 34,135 100.0
1979 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Charles-Arthur Gauthier 15,582 45.9 -10.4
Liberal Georges-Henri Bouchard 13,677 40.3 +2.5
Progressive Conservative Jacques Brunet 3,705 10.9 +6.1
Rhinoceros Pierre Marion 405 1.2
New Democratic Jacques Ouellet 385 1.1 +0.1
Union populaire Raymond Archambault 183 0.5
Total valid votes 33,937 100.0
1974 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Charles-Arthur Gauthier 12,877 56.4 +5.2
Liberal Louis-Ovide Bouchard 8,636 37.8 -0.5
Progressive Conservative Louis-Georges Gagnon 1,096 4.8 -5.8
New Democratic Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt 240 1.1
Total valid votes 22,849 100.0
1972 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Charles-Arthur Gauthier 11,316 51.1 +4.1
Liberal Julien Mongeon 8,472 38.3 -3.0
Progressive Conservative Marcel Vallée 2,347 10.6 +0.2
Total valid votes 22,135 100.0

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

1968 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ralliement créditiste Charles-Arthur Gauthier 8,811 47.0 +2.5
Liberal Lucien Larouche 7,727 41.3 +1.9
Progressive Conservative Fernand Bouchard 1,951 10.4 -0.7
New Democratic Pierre Cajolais 241 1.3 -3.7
Total valid votes 18,730 100.0
1965 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ralliement créditiste Charles-Arthur Gauthier 8,736 44.6 -7.3
Liberal Georges Villeneuve 7,712 39.3 +4.7
Progressive Conservative Aurélien Talbot 2,189 11.2 +2.8
New Democratic Robert Gaulin 968 4.9 -0.2
Total valid votes 19,605 100.0

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

1963 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Charles-Arthur Gauthier 10,345 51.9 -1.6
Liberal Albert Garant 6,908 34.6 +8.3
Progressive Conservative J.-Eugène Perron 1,667 8.4 -11.8
New Democratic Robert Gaulin 1,025 5.1
Total valid votes 19,945 100.0
1962 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Charles-Arthur Gauthier 11,180 53.5
Liberal Georges Villeneuve 5,510 26.4 -19.7
Progressive Conservative Jean-Noël Tremblay 4,216 20.2 -33.8
Total valid votes 20,906 100.0
1958 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Jean-Noël Tremblay 10,696 53.9 +14.0
Liberal Georges Villeneuve 9,130 46.1 -14.0
Total valid votes 19,826 100.0
1957 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Georges Villeneuve 10,860 60.0 +9.5
Progressive Conservative Jean Lindsay 7,236 40.0 -9.5
Total valid votes 18,096 100.0
1953 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Georges Villeneuve 8,646 50.5 +14.5
Progressive Conservative Paul-Henri Spence 8,477 49.5 +8.3
Total valid votes 17,123 100.0
Canadian federal by-election, 26 May 1952
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Paul-Henri Spence 6,703 41.2
Liberal Cyrille Potvin 5,854 36.0 -13.7
Independent Liberal Adjutor Boulanger 3,703 22.8
Total valid votes 16,260 100.0
Called on Mr. Dion's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 8 April 1952
1949 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Joseph-Alfred Dion 8,103 49.7
Independent J.-Augustin Fortin 6,078 37.3
Union des électeurs Louis-Joseph-Xavier Dallaire 2,135 13.1
Total valid votes 16,316 100.0

See also

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References

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  • "Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean (Code 24060) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
  • Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
  • Riding history from the Library of Parliament
  • Riding history since 2004
  • 2011 Results from Elections Canada

Notes

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49°22′N 73°42′W / 49.37°N 73.70°W / 49.37; -73.70