Chicoutimi—Le Fjord

Chicoutimi—Le Fjord (formerly known as Chicoutimi) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1925. The riding consists of the northern part of the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, as well as the La Baie borough and the municipalities of Ferland-et-Boilleau, L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Petit-Saguenay, Rivière-Éternité and Saint-Félix-d'Otis and the unorganized territory of Lalemant.

Chicoutimi—Le Fjord

Quebec electoral district
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Richard Martel Conservative
District created	1924
First contested	1925
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	81,639
Electors (2019)	65,618
Area (km²)[2]	2,819
Pop. density (per km²)	29
Census division(s)	Le Fjord-du-Saguenay RCM, Saguenay
Census subdivision(s)	Saguenay (part), L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Saint-Félix-d'Otis, Ferland-et-Boilleau, Petit-Saguenay, Rivière-Éternité

It was created as "Chicoutimi" riding in 1924 from Chicoutimi—Saguenay. It was renamed "Chicoutimi—Le Fjord" in 2000.

The neighbouring ridings are Manicouagan, Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix, and Jonquière.

Richard Martel won the 2018 by-election.

Geography

The riding has always been centred on the city (now borough) of Chicoutimi, Quebec. When it was created, the riding consisted of Chicoutimi County until 1947, when the western half of the riding became the new riding of Lapointe. The 1976 redistribution removed all of the riding's territory north of the Saguenay River. This territory was added back to the riding in the 2003 redistribution. This riding lost some territory to Jonquière during the 2012 electoral redistribution, including much of the area north of the Saguenay River again.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census

Ethnocultural groups: 93.8% European, 3.7% Indigenous, 2.5% Other
Languages: 96.9% French, 0.9% English
Religion: 77.9%% Christian (71.4% Catholic), 0.8% Muslim, 21.0% None
Median income: $32,291 (2015) Average income: $40,803 (2015)

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Chicoutimi Riding created from Chicoutimi—Saguenay
15th	1925–1926		Alfred Dubuc	Liberal
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949		Paul-Edmond Gagnon	Independent
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958		Rosaire Gauthier	Liberal
24th	1958–1962		Vincent Brassard	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963		Maurice Côté	Social Credit
26th	1963–1963
	1963–1965			Ralliement créditiste
27th	1965–1968		Paul Langlois	Liberal
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980		Marcel Dionne
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		André Harvey	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997		Gilbert Fillion	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000		André Harvey	Progressive Conservative
	2000–2000			Independent
	2000–2000			Liberal
Chicoutimi—Le Fjord
37th	2000–2004		André Harvey	Liberal
38th	2004–2006		Robert Bouchard	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015		Dany Morin	New Democratic
42nd	2015–2017		Denis Lemieux	Liberal
	2018–2019		Richard Martel	Conservative
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

The riding followed the typical path of most nationalist Quebec ridings, except for an independent being elected (1945–1957), and former MP André Harvey narrowly defeating incumbent Gilbert Fillion in 1997, one of only a few PC seats in Quebec that year.

Election results

Graph of election results in Chicoutmi—Le Fjord (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Richard Martel	17,291	40.95	+4.14	$49,214.19
	Bloc Québécois	Julie Bouchard	14,096	33.38	-1.53	$13,745.50
	Liberal	Jean Duplain	7,746	18.35	+1.24	$0.00
	New Democratic	Ismaël Raymond	1,952	4.62	-1.88	$2,095.41
	People's	Jimmy Voyer	650	1.54	+0.72	none listed
	Green	Yves Laporte	489	1.16	-2.00	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			42,224	–	–	$104,807.38
Total rejected ballots
Turnout				64.47	-3.68
Registered voters			65,498
	Conservative hold		Swing		+2.83
Source: Elections Canada[3]

2021 federal election redistributed results[4]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	19,175	40.37
	Bloc Québécois	16,181	34.07
	Liberal	8,653	18.22
	New Democratic	2,234	4.70
	People's	649	1.37
	Green	557	1.17
	Others	44	0.09

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Richard Martel	16,155	36.82	-15.85	$88,278.98
	Bloc Québécois	Valérie Tremblay	15,321	34.91	+29.31	none listed
	Liberal	Dajana Dautovic	7,504	17.10	-12.40	$9,048.24
	New Democratic	Stéphane Girard	2,855	6.51	-2.14	$1,181.55
	Green	Lynda Youde	1,388	3.16	+0.07	$2,988.37
	People's	Jimmy Voyer	359	0.82	–	$1,360.01
	Rhinoceros	Line Bélanger	299	0.68	–	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			43,881	97.94
Total rejected ballots			925	2.06	+0.42
Turnout			44,806	68.15	+1.48
Eligible voters			65,747
	Conservative hold		Swing		-21.09
Source: Elections Canada[5][6]

Main article: 2018 Chicoutimi—Le Fjord federal by-election

v t e Canadian federal by-election, June 18, 2018 Resignation of Denis Lemieux
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Martel	12,600	52.76	+36.16
	Liberal	Lina Boivin	7,044	29.50	-1.60
	New Democratic	Éric Dubois	2,065	8.65	-21.07
	Bloc Québécois	Catherine Bouchard-Tremblay	1,337	5.60	-14.92
	Green	Lynda Youde	738	3.09	+1.02
	Independent	John Turmel	98	0.41
Total valid votes/expense limit			23,882	98.67
Total rejected ballots			322	1.33	-0.34
Turnout			24,294	36.52	-30.15
Eligible voters			66,267
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+18.88
Source:Elections Canada: Official Voting Results

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Denis Lemieux	13,619	31.09	+25.34	$15,757.95
	New Democratic	Dany Morin	13,019	29.72	-7.96	$61,908.19
	Bloc Québécois	Élise Gauthier	8,990	20.52	-8.29	$34,879.59
	Conservative	Caroline Ste-Marie	7,270	16.60	-8.97	$33,846.47
	Green	Dany St-Gelais	907	2.07	+0.55	$64.43
Total valid votes/Expense limit			43,805	98.33		$201,130.77
Total rejected ballots			745	1.67	–
Turnout			44,550	66.67	–
Eligible voters			66,821
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+16.65
Source: Elections Canada[7][8]

2011 federal election redistributed results[9]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	16,238	37.68
	Bloc Québécois	12,418	28.81
	Conservative	11,017	25.56
	Liberal	2,479	5.75
	Green	655	1.52
	Others	289	0.67

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Dany Morin	19,430	38.13	+30.30
	Bloc Québécois	Robert Bouchard	14,675	28.80	-12.51
	Conservative	Carol Néron	12,881	25.28	-9.63
	Liberal	Marc Pettersen	2,852	5.60	-7.85
	Green	Charles-Olivier Bolduc-Tremblay	780	1.53	-0.97
	Rhinoceros	Marielle Couture	340	0.67	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,958	98.69
Total rejected ballots			678	1.31	-0.24
Turnout			51,636	65.06	+2.82
Eligible voters			79,369	–
	New Democratic gain from Bloc Québécois		Swing		+21.40

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Robert Bouchard	19,737	41.31	+2.82	$87,392
	Conservative	Jean-Guy Maltais	16,680	34.91	+10.19	$73,050
	Liberal	Marc Pettersen	6,425	13.45	-15.74	$11,593
	New Democratic	Stéphane Girard	3,742	7.83	+2.69	$2,101
	Green	Jean-François Veilleux	1,193	2.50	+0.04
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,777	98.44	$100,545
Total rejected ballots			756	1.56	+0.42
Turnout			48,533	62.25	-2.47
Eligible voters			77,959	–
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		-3.68

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Robert Bouchard	19,226	38.49	-6.8	$72,889
	Liberal	André Harvey	14,581	29.19	-14.2	$52,235
	Conservative	Alcide Boudreault	12,350	24.72	+19.4	$7,792
	New Democratic	Éric Dubois	2,571	5.15	+1.4	$4,812
	Green	Jean-Martin Gauthier	1,226	2.45	+0.2
Total valid votes/Expense limit			49,954	98.86	$94,498
Total rejected ballots			575	1.14
Turnout			50,529	64.72	-2.11
Eligible voters			78,073	–

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Robert Bouchard	20,650	45.3	+9.2	$63,059
	Liberal	André Harvey	19,787	43.4	-4.8	$69,076
	Conservative	Alcide Boudreault	2,385	5.2	+0.4	$17,677
	New Democratic	Éric Dubois	1,699	3.7	+2.1	$7,418
	Green	Paul Tremblay	1,038	2.3	>
Total valid votes/Expense limit			45,559	100.0	$93,636

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the Canadian Alliance vote in the 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	André Harvey	20,105	48.2	+36.9
	Bloc Québécois	Noel Tremblay	15,073	36.2	-6.8
	Independent	Mauril Desbiens	3,797	9.1
	Alliance	Douglas Schroeder-Tabah	2,001	4.8
	New Democratic	Alain Ranger	698	1.7	-0.3
Total valid votes			41,674	100.0

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	André Harvey	18,598	43.7	+19.7
	Bloc Québécois	Gilbert Fillion	18,281	42.9	-21.1
	Liberal	Eric Delisle	4,839	11.4	+0.6
	New Democratic	Anne-Marie Buck	853	2.0	+0.8
Total valid votes			42,571	100.0

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Gilbert Fillion	29,392	64.0
	Progressive Conservative	André Harvey	11,038	24.0	-46.4
	Liberal	Georges Frenette	4,958	10.8	-7.7
	New Democratic	Christine Moore	541	1.2	-10.0
Total valid votes			45,929	100.0

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	André Harvey	30,699	70.4	+9.6
	Liberal	Laval Gauthier	8,047	18.4	-10.8
	New Democratic	Mustapha Elayoubi	4,870	11.2	+5.1
Total valid votes			43,616	100.0

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	André Harvey	22,304	60.8	+42.6
	Liberal	Marcel Dionne	10,736	29.3	-38.2
	New Democratic	Denise Coté	2,211	6.0	-3.5
	Rhinoceros	Réjean Fou Fournier	801	2.2
	Parti nationaliste	Marie-Claude Desloges	626	1.7
Total valid votes			36,678	100.0

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marcel Dionne	20,821	67.5	+18.1
	Progressive Conservative	Rodrigue Begin	5,607	18.2	-5.3
	New Democratic	Marc St-Hilaire	2,926	9.5	+5.2
	Social Credit	Hilaire Vézina	1,110	3.6	-16.5
	Union populaire	Carol Lavoie	375	1.2
Total valid votes			30,839	100.0

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marcel Dionne	16,605	49.5	-1.4
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Marc Lavoie	7,897	23.5	-5.7
	Social Credit	Magella Tremblay	6,763	20.1	+3.4
	New Democratic	Marc St-Hilaire	1,435	4.3	+1.7
	Rhinoceros	Eric Blackburn	872	2.6
Total valid votes			33,572	100.0

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Langlois	17,096	50.9	+7.2
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Marc Lavoie	9,817	29.2	-6.2
	Social Credit	Maurice Côté	5,618	16.7	-1.6
	New Democratic	Colette Richard	882	2.6	0.0
	Marxist–Leninist	Robert Laporte	202	0.6
Total valid votes			33,615	100.0

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Langlois	15,655	43.6	-6.7
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Marc Lavoie	12,712	35.4	+0.3
	Social Credit	Maurice Côté	6,572	18.3	+7.0
	New Democratic	Serge Morin	935	2.6	-0.5
Total valid votes			35,874	100.0

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

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Langlois	14,054	50.4	+12.9
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Marc Lavoie	9,811	35.2	+18.0
	Ralliement créditiste	Antonio Simard	3,151	11.3	-15.4
	New Democratic	Jean-Baptiste Gauthier	879	3.2	-0.7
Total valid votes			27,895	100.0

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Langlois	11,092	37.4	+4.4
	Ralliement créditiste	Majella Tremblay	7,894	26.6	-20.0
	Progressive Conservative	Vincent Brassard	5,087	17.2	+5.4
	Independent	Maurice Côté	4,419	14.9
	New Democratic	Denis Beaudoin	1,131	3.8	-4.8
Total valid votes			29,623	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	Maurice Côté	14,581	46.6	-4.0
	Liberal	Gérard Tremblay	10,334	33.1
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Bouchard	3,670	11.7	-6.0
	New Democratic	Maurice Villeneuve	2,687	8.6	+5.3
Total valid votes			31,272	100.0

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Maurice Côté	16,566	50.6
	Liberal	Gérard Tremblay	9,310	28.4	-12.2
	Progressive Conservative	Vincent Brassard	5,803	17.7	-32.9
	New Democratic	Maurice Villeneuve	1,071	3.3	-5.5
Total valid votes			32,750	100.0

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Vincent Brassard	15,407	50.6
	Liberal	Rosaire Gauthier	12,348	40.6	-11.8
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Victor Gladu	2,666	8.8
Total valid votes			30,421	100.0

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rosaire Gauthier	15,124	52.4	+18.0
	Independent	Paul-Edmond Gagnon	13,733	47.6	-18.0
Total valid votes			28,857	100.0

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Paul-Edmond Gagnon	16,046	65.6	18.5
	Liberal	Roland Angers	8,408	34.4	-10.5
Total valid votes			24,454	100.0

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Paul-Edmond Gagnon	10,252	47.1	+14.8
	Liberal	Charles-Henri Desbiens	9,763	44.8	+20.8
	Union des électeurs	Charles-David Jean	1,757	8.1	-0.1
Total valid votes			21,772	100.0

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Paul-Edmond Gagnon	10,796	32.3
	Bloc populaire	Rolland Angers	10,215	30.6
	Liberal	Joseph-Arthur Hamel	8,027	24.0	-14.8
	Social Credit	David Maltais	2,713	8.1
	Independent	Jules Landry	1,282	3.8
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Antoine Brisson	371	1.1
Total valid votes			33,404	100.0

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alfred Dubuc	8,693	38.8	-8.5
	National Government	François-Albert Dumas	8,330	37.2	-0.5
	Independent Liberal	Eudore Boivin	5,390	24.0
Total valid votes			22,413	100.0

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alfred Dubuc	9,685	47.3	-4.9
	Conservative	Joseph-Adam Lavergne	7,719	37.7	-10.1
	Independent Liberal	Georges-Aimé Gagnon	2,373	11.6
	Unknown	Donat Demers	690	3.4
Total valid votes			20,467	100.0

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alfred Dubuc	10,641	52.2	-28.0
	Conservative	Joseph-Adam Lavergne	9,744	47.8	+28.0
Total valid votes			20,385	100.0

Note: Alfred Dubuc's popular vote as a Liberal candidate is compared to his popular vote as an independent Liberal candidate in the 1926 general election.

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Alfred Dubuc	8,658	80.2	+26.0
	Conservative	Joseph Eugène Bergeron	2,142	19.8	+11.4
Total valid votes			10,800	100.0

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent Liberal	Alfred Dubuc	7,198	54.1
	Liberal	Louis-Joseph Levesque	4,981	37.5
	Conservative	Jean-Charles Gagne	1,120	8.4
Total valid votes			13,299	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References

• "Chicoutimi—Le Fjord (Code 24016) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada
• Riding history from the Library of Parliament

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. Statistics Canada: 2016
3. "Confirmed candidates — Chicoutimi—Le Fjord". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
4. "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
5. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
6. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
7. "Confirmed candidates for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, 30 September 2015". Elections Canada. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
8. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived August 15, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
9. Alice Funke. "Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections". Punditsguide.ca. Retrieved June 19, 2018.

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