Matane is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine regions of Quebec, Canada, that elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec.
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | National Assembly of Quebec |
District created | 1890 |
District abolished | 2011 |
First contested | 1890 |
Last contested | 2008 |
Demographics | |
Electors (2008)[1] | 27,977 |
Area (km²)[2] | 8,415.6 |
Census division(s) | La Haute-Gaspésie (all), Matane (all) |
Census subdivision(s) | Baie-des-Sables, Cap-Chat, Grosses-Roches, La Martre, Les Méchins, Marsoui, Matane, Mont-Saint-Pierre, Rivière-à-Claude, Saint-Adelme, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Sainte-Félicité, Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg, Saint-Léandre, Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine, Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, Sainte-Paule, Saint-René-de-Matane, Saint-Ulric; Coulée-des-Adolphe, Mont-Albert, Rivière-Bonjour |
It was created for the 1890 election from parts of Rimouski. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and its successor electoral districts were Matane-Matapédia and Gaspé.[3]
It is located at the western end of the Gaspé Peninsula, along the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
It consists of the municipalities of:
It also consists of the unorganized territories of:
Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
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7th | 1890–1892 | Louis-Félix Pinault | Liberal | |
8th | 1892 | Edmund James Flynn | Conservative | |
1892–1897 | Louis-Félix Pinault | Liberal | ||
9th | 1897–1898 | |||
1899–1900 | Donat Caron | Liberal | ||
10th | 1900–1904 | |||
11th | 1904–1908 | |||
12th | 1908–1912 | |||
13th | 1912–1916 | |||
14th | 1916–1918 | |||
1918–1919 | Octave Fortin | Liberal | ||
15th | 1919–1923 | Joseph Dufour | Liberal | |
16th | 1923–1927 | Joseph-Arthur Bergeron | Liberal | |
17th | 1927–1931 | |||
18th | 1931–1935 | |||
19th | 1935–1936 | |||
20th | 1936–1939 | Onésime Gagnon | Union nationale | |
21st | 1936–1939 | |||
22nd | 1944–1948 | |||
23rd | 1948–1952 | |||
24th | 1952–1956 | |||
25th | 1956–1958 | |||
1958–1960 | Benoît Gaboury | Union nationale | ||
26th | 1960–1962 | Philippe Castonguay | Liberal | |
27th | 1962–1963 | |||
1964–1966 | Jacques Bernier | Liberal | ||
28th | 1966–1970 | Jean Bienvenue | Liberal | |
29th | 1970–1973 | |||
30th | 1973–1976 | Marc-Yvan Côté | Liberal | |
31st | 1976–1981 | Yves Bérubé | Parti Québécois | |
32nd | 1981–1985 | |||
33rd | 1985–1989 | Claire-Hélène Hovington | Liberal | |
34th | 1989–1994 | |||
35th | 1994–1998 | Matthias Rioux | Parti Québécois | |
36th | 1998–2003 | |||
37th | 2003–2007 | Nancy Charest | Liberal | |
38th | 2007–2008 | Pascal Bérubé | Parti Québécois | |
39th | 2008–2012 | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Liberal | Nancy Charest | 7,602 | 40.84 | |||||
Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 7,569 | 40.67 | |||||
Action démocratique | Raynald Bernier | 3,005 | 16.14 | |||||
Independent | Nelson Gauthier | 178 | 0.96 | |||||
Independent | Nestor Turcotte | 135 | 0.73 | |||||
Green | David Lejeune | 124 | 0.67 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 7,830 | 39.10 | |||||
Liberal | Nancy Charest | 7,617 | 38.04 | |||||
Action démocratique | Donald Grenier | 3,980 | 19.88 | |||||
Québec solidaire | Brigitte Michaud | 358 | 1.79 | |||||
Green | François Vincent | 240 | 1.20 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 9,589 | 58.01 | |||||
Liberal | Eric Plourde | 5,503 | 33.29 | |||||
Action démocratique | Denis Paquette | 1,117 | 6.76 | |||||
Québec solidaire | Gilles Arteau | 320 | 1.94 |
1995 Quebec referendum | |||
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Side | Votes | % | |
Oui | 15,611 | 62.46 | |
Non | 9,381 | 37.54 | |
1980 Quebec referendum | |||
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Side | Votes | % | |
Non | 12,285 | 52,41 | |
Oui | 11,154 | 47,59 | |
Neighbouring electoral districts | ||||||||||||||||
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Quebec provincial electoral districts | |
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Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine | |
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Côte-Nord | |
Capitale-Nationale | |
Mauricie | |
Chaudière-Appalaches and Centre-du-Québec | |
Estrie (Eastern Townships) | |
Eastern Montérégie | |
South Shore | |
East Montreal | |
West Montreal | |
Laval | |
Lanaudière | |
Laurentides | |
Outaouais | |
Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec | |
Eliminated in the 2012 election: | |
1Côte-du-Sud is split between Bas-Saint-Laurent and Chaudière-Appalaches
2Johnson is split between Centre-du-Québec and Montérégie
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