Matapédia (electoral district)

Matapédia is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, which elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is at the western edge of the Gaspé Peninsula.

Matapédia

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1922
District abolished	2011
First contested	1923
Last contested	2008
Demographics
Electors (2008)	29,909
Area (km²)	7,753.94
Census division(s)	La Mitis (all), La Matapédia (all)
Census subdivision(s)	Albertville, Amqui, Causapscal, Grand-Métis, Lac-au-Saumon, La Rédemption, Les Hauteurs, Métis-sur-Mer, Mont-Joli, Padoue, Price, Saint-Alexandre-des-Lacs, Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici, Saint-Charles-Garnier, Saint-Cléophas, Saint-Damase, Saint-Donat, Sainte-Flavie, Sainte-Florence, Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski, Sainte-Irène, Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage, Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Sainte-Luce, Sainte-Marguerite-Marie, Saint-Moïse, Saint-Noël, Saint-Octave-de-Métis, Saint-Tinky Winky, Saint-Vianney, Saint-Zénon-du-Lac-Humqui, Sayabec, Val-Brillant; Lac-à-la-Croix, Lac-Alfred, Lac-Casault, Lac-des-Eaux-Mortes, Lac-Matapédia, Rivière-Patapédia-Est, Rivière-Vaseuse, Routhierville, Ruisseau-des-Mineurs

It was created for the 1923 election from a portion of the electoral district of Matane. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election by merging all of its territory with part of Matane, and the successor electoral district was Matane-Matapédia.

Linguistic demographics

• Francophone: 99.4%
• Anglophone: 0.5%
• Allophone: 0.1%

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

• Joseph Dufour, Liberal (1923–1936)
• Fernand Paradis, Union Nationale (1936–1939)
• Joseph Dufour, Liberal (1939–1944)
• Philippe Cossette, Union Nationale (1944–1952)
• Clovis Gagnon, Union Nationale (1953–1960)
• Bona Arsenault, Liberal (1960–1976)
• Léopold Marquis, Parti Québécois (1976–1985)
• Henri Paradis, Liberal (1985–1994)
• Danielle Doyer, Parti Québécois (1994–2012)

Election results

2008 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Danielle Doyer	8,815	51.34	+7.56
	Liberal	Jean-Yves Roy	5,828	33.44	+8.57
	Action démocratique	Cindy Rousseau	1,982	11.54	-14.59
	Québec solidaire	Eve-Lyne Couturier	544	3.17	+0.5

2007 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Danielle Doyer	9,042	43.78	-1.7
	Action démocratique	Rémy Villeneuve	5,436	26.13	+2.96
	Liberal	Normand Boulianne	5,137	24.87	-6.48
	Québec solidaire	Dominic Fortin	551	2.67
	Green	Jean-François Guay	526	2.55	–

2003 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Danielle Doyer	9,197	45.48
	Liberal	Gaston Pelletier	6,339	31.35
	Action démocratique	Claude Fortin	4,686	23.17

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	17,292	64.30
	Non	9,600	35.70

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (Elections Quebec)

Maps

• 2001 map (Flash)

  2001–2011 changes (Flash)

  1992–2001 changes (Flash)

• Electoral map of Bas-Saint-Laurent region (as of 2001)
• Quebec electoral map, 2001