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Abitibi-Ouest is a provincial electoral district in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the municipalities of Amos, La Sarre, Macamic, Barraute, Palmarolle, Trécesson, Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier and Sainte-Germaine-Boulé

Abitibi-Ouest

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Suzanne Blais Coalition Avenir Québec
District created	1944
First contested	1944
Last contested	2018
Demographics
Electors (2012)[1]	35,082
Area (km²)[2]	11,528.1
Census division(s)	Abitibi (all), Abitibi-Ouest (all)
Census subdivision(s)	Amos, Authier, Authier-Nord, Barraute, Berry, Champneuf, Chazel, Clermont, Clerval, Duparquet, Dupuy, Gallichan, La Corne, La Morandière, La Motte, La Reine, La Sarre, Landrienne, Launay, Macamic, Normétal, Palmarolle, Poularies, Preissac, Rapide-Danseur, Rochebaucourt, Roquemaure, Saint-Dominique-du-Rosaire, Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier, Sainte-Germaine-Boulé, Sainte-Gertrude-Manneville, Sainte-Hélène-de-Mancebourg, Saint-Lambert, Saint-Marc-de-Figuery, Saint-Mathieu-d'Harricana, Taschereau, Trécesson, Val-Saint-Gilles; Pikogan; Lac-Chicobi, Lac-Despinassy, Lac-Duparquet, Rivière-Ojima

The riding was created for the 1944 election from a part of Abitibi.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, Abitibi-Ouest gained the municipality of Barraute, as well as the part of the unorganized territory of Lac-Despinassy that it did not already have, from Abitibi-Est.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Abitibi
22nd	1944–1948		Émile Lesage	Union Nationale
23rd	1948–1952
24th	1952–1956
25th	1956–1960		Alcide Courcy	Liberal
26th	1960–1962
27th	1962–1966
28th	1966–1970
29th	1970–1973		Aurèle Audet	Ralliement créditiste
30th	1973–1976		Jean-Hugues Boutin	Liberal
31st	1976–1981		François Gendron	Parti Québécois
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1989
34th	1989–1994
35th	1994–1998
36th	1998–2003
37th	2003–2007
38th	2007–2008
39th	2008–2012
40th	2012–2014
41st	2014–2018
42nd	2018–2022		Suzanne Blais	Coalition Avenir Québec
43rd	2022–Present

Election results

2022 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Suzanne Blais
	Parti Québécois	Samuel Doré
	Québec solidaire	Alexis Lapierre
	Conservative	François Vigneault
	Liberal	Guy Bourgeois
	Union Nationale	Jonathan Blanchette			–
Total valid votes				–
Total rejected ballots				–
Turnout
Electors on the lists				–	–

2018 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Suzanne Blais	7,680	34.12	+20.02
	Parti Québécois	Sylvain Vachon	7,486	33.26	-8.94
	Québec solidaire	Rose Marquis	3,735	16.59	+10.4
	Liberal	Martin Veilleux	2,546	11.31	-8.94
	Citoyens au pouvoir	Stéphane Lévesque	388	1.72
	Green	Yan-Dominic Couture	254	1.13
	Conservative	Eric Lacroix	248	1.1
	Independent	Maxim Sylvestre	172	0.76
Total valid votes			22,509	98.37
Total rejected ballots			372	1.63
Turnout			22,881	64.75
Eligible voters			35,339
	Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois		Swing		+14.48
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

2014 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	François Gendron	9,267	42.2
	Liberal	Serge Bastien	7,615	34.7
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Nadia Racine	3,084	14.1
	Québec solidaire	Ghislaine Camirand	1,354	6.2
	Option nationale	Grégory Vézeau	627	2.9

2012 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	François Gendron	12,066	51.36
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Sébastien D'Astous	4,579	20.26
	Liberal	Claude Nelson Morin	4,399	18.73
	Québec solidaire	Ghislaine Camirand	1,260	5.36
	Option nationale	Grégory Vézeau	1,007	4.29

2008 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	François Gendron	10,597	57.32
	Liberal	Claude Nelson Morin	5,317	28.76
	Action démocratique	Sébastien D'Astous	2,198	11.89
	Parti indépendantiste	Grégory Vézeau	375	2.03

2007 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	François Gendron	10,983	48.38
	Action démocratique	Eric Mathieu	5,529	24.36
	Liberal	Jean-Louis Carignan	5,376	23.68
	Québec solidaire	Caroline Sigouin	814	3.59

2003 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	François Gendron	9,677	45.44
	Liberal	Jean-Louis Carignan	7,960	37.37
	Action démocratique	Claude Morin	3,661	17.19

1998 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	François Gendron	14,733	59.48
	Liberal	Martin Veilleux	7,333	29.60
	Action démocratique	Michelle Melançon	2,430	9.81
	Independent	René Lacroix	274	1.11

1994 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	François Gendron	17,391	74.37
	Liberal	Rudolphe Corriveau	5,993	25.63

1989 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	François Gendron	15,588	67.40
	Liberal	Marcel Lesyk	7,541	32.60

References

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)
• (Radio-Canada)
• (La Presse)

Maps

• 2011 map (PDF)
• 2001 map (Flash)

  2001–2011 changes (Flash)

  1992–2001 changes (Flash)

• Electoral map of Abitibi-Témiscamingue region
• Quebec electoral map, 2011

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