Berthier (provincial electoral district)

This article is about the provincial electoral district. For the federal electoral district, see Berthier (federal electoral district). For the pre-Confederation electoral district, see Berthier (Province of Canada electoral district).

Berthier (French pronunciation: [bɛʁtje] ^ⓘ) is a provincial electoral district in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the municipalities of Lavaltrie, Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Lanoraie, Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Berthierville, Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Saint-Gabriel and Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon.

Berthier

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Caroline Proulx Coalition Avenir Québec
District created	1867
First contested	1867
Last contested	2018
Demographics
Population (2006)	68,669
Electors (2012)[1]	55,819
Area (km²)[2]	10,354.1
Pop. density (per km²)	6.6
Census division(s)	D'Autray (all), Matawinie (part)
Census subdivision(s)	Berthierville, La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Lanoraie, Lavaltrie, Mandeville, Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Saint-Barthélemy, Sainte-Béatrix, Saint-Cléophas-de-Brandon, Saint-Côme, Saint-Cuthbert, Saint-Damien, Saint-Didace, Sainte-Élisabeth, Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Saint-Gabriel, Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola, Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare, Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Saint-Norbert, Saint-Zénon; Manawan; Baie-Atibenne, Baie-de-la-Bouteille, Baie-Obaoca, Lac-Cabasta, Lac-Devenyns, Lac-du-Taureau, Lac-Legendre, Lac-Matawin, Lac-Minaki, Lac-Santé, Saint-Guillaume-Nord

It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada).

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Sainte-Mélanie to the Joliette electoral district but gained Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare from that same electoral district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
1st	1867–1871		Louis-Joseph Moll	Conservative
2nd	1871–1875		Louis Sylvestre	Liberal
3rd	1875–1878
4th	1878–1881		Joseph Robillard	Conservative
5th	1881–1886
6th	1886–1889		Louis Sylvestre	Liberal
	1890–1890		Omer Dostaler
7th	1890–1892		Cuthbert-Alphonse Chênevert
8th	1892–1897		Victor Allard	Conservative
9th	1897–1900		Cuthbert-Alphonse Chênevert	Liberal
10th	1900–1903
	1904–1904		Joseph Lafontaine
11th	1904–1908
12th	1908–1912
13th	1912–1916		Joseph-Olivier Gadoury	Conservative
14th	1916–1919		Joseph Lafontaine	Liberal
15th	1919–1923		Simeon Lafrenière
16th	1923–1925
	1925–1927		Amédée Sylvestre
17th	1927–1931		Cléophas Bastien
18th	1931–1935
19th	1935–1936
20th	1936–1939
21st	1939–1944
22nd	1944–1948		Armand Sylvestre
23rd	1948–1952		Azellus Lavallée	Union Nationale
24th	1952–1956
25th	1956–1960
26th	1960–1962
27th	1962–1966		Lucien McGuire	Liberal
28th	1966–1970		Guy Gauthier	Union Nationale
29th	1970–1973
30th	1973–1976		Michel Denis	Liberal
31st	1976–1981		Jean-Guy Mercier	Parti Québécois
32nd	1981–1985		Albert Houde	Liberal
33rd	1985–1989
34th	1989–1994
35th	1994–1998		Gilles Baril	Parti Québécois
36th	1998–2002
	2002–2003		Marie Grégoire	Action démocratique
37th	2003–2007		Alexandre Bourdeau	Parti Québécois
38th	2007–2008		François Benjamin	Action démocratique
39th	2008–2012		André Villeneuve	Parti Québécois
40th	2012–2014
41st	2014–2018
42nd	2018–2022		Caroline Proulx	Coalition Avenir Québec
43rd	2022–Present

Election results

v t e 2022 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Caroline Proulx	21,256	50.97	+5.84
	Parti Québécois	Julie Boucher	8,682	20.82	–8.10
	Québec solidaire	Amélie Drainville	5,877	14.09	–1.34
	Conservative	Benoit Primeau	4,585	10.99	–
	Liberal	Hassan Abdallah	1,064	2.55	–5.08
	Climat Québec	Claire Aubin	242	0.58	–
Total valid votes			41,706	98.55	+0.40
Total rejected ballots			613	1.45	–0.40
Turnout			42,319	67.85	–1.99
Electors on the lists			62,369	–	–

v t e 2018 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Caroline Proulx	18,048	45.13	+14.09
	Parti Québécois	André Villeneuve	11,567	28.92	-10.68
	Québec solidaire	Louise Beaudry	6,169	15.43	+4.42
	Liberal	Robert Magnan	3,052	7.63	-12.26
	Green	Jérôme St-Jean	687	1.72	+0.45
	Citoyens au pouvoir	Rémi Bourdon	467	1.17
Total valid votes			39,990	98.15
Total rejected ballots			752	1.85
Turnout			40,742	69.84
Eligible voters			58,335
	Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois		Swing		+12.39
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

2014 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	André Villeneuve	15,070	39.60	-7.34
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Élizabeth Leclerc	11,814	31.04	-1.20
	Liberal	Pierre-Luc Bellerose	7,570	19.89	+6.76
	Québec solidaire	Louise Beaudry	2,666	7.01	+2.18
	Green	Pierre Baril	483	1.27	+0.03
	Option nationale	Francis Lamarre	261	0.69	-0.40
	Mon pays le Québec	Claude Dupré	193	0.51	–
Total valid votes			38,057	98.15	–
Total rejected ballots			718	1.85	+0.38
Turnout			38,775	68.86	-6.83
Electors on the lists			56,312	–	–
	Parti Québécois hold		Swing		-3.07

2012 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	André Villeneuve	19,584	46.94	+4.33
	Coalition Avenir Québec	François Benjamin	13,454	32.25	+6.54
	Liberal	Catherine Haulard	5,477	13.13	-12.88
	Québec solidaire	Louise Beaudry	2,015	4.83	+1.90
	Green	Dany Ouellet	518	1.24	-1.48
	Option nationale	Raymond Guay	452	1.08	–
	Coalition pour la constituante	Pierre Baril	221	0.53	–
Total valid votes			41,721	98.53	–
Total rejected ballots			624	1.47	–
Turnout			42,345	75.69	+15.26
Electors on the lists			55,944	–	–

^ Change is based on redistributed results. Coalition Avenir change is from Action démocratique.

2008 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	André Villeneuve	13,776	42.50	+7.77
	Liberal	Norman Blackburn	8,435	26.02	+8.63
	Action démocratique	François Benjamin	8,358	25.79	-16.45
	Québec solidaire	Jocelyne Dupuis	934	2.88	+0.05
	Green	Yan Beaudry	911	2.81	-0.01
Total valid votes			32,414	98.16	–
Total rejected ballots			608	1.84	–
Turnout			33,022	60.43	-12.30
Electors on the lists			54,647	–	–

2007 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	François Benjamin	16,242	42.24	+10.38
	Parti Québécois	Alexandre Bourdeau	13,354	34.73	-0.27
	Liberal	Carole Majeau	6,687	17.39	-13.93
	Québec solidaire	Jocelyne Dupuis	1,087	2.83	+1.00*
	Green	André Chauvette	1,084	2.82	–
Total valid votes			38,454	98.89	–
Total rejected ballots			432	1.11	–
Turnout			38,886	72.73	+3.36
Electors on the lists			53,464	–	–

* Result compared to UFP

2003 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Alexandre Bourdeau	12,101	35.00	+7.08
	Action démocratique	Marie Grégoire	11,014	31.86	-19.14
	Liberal	Carole Majeau	10,828	31.32	+10.25
	UFP	Pierre Gravel	632	1.83	–
Total valid votes			34,575	98.45	–
Total rejected ballots			546	1.55	–
Turnout			35,121	69.37	+4.00
Electors on the lists			50,631	–	–

Quebec provincial by-election, June 17, 2002
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	Marie Grégoire	16,389	51.00	+37.35
	Parti Québécois	David Levine	8,973	27.92	-25.66
	Liberal	Carole Majeau	6,771	21.07	-10.19
Total valid votes			32,133	98.42	–
Total rejected ballots			515	1.58	–
Turnout			32,648	65.37	-14.14
Electors on the lists			49,941	–	–

v t e 1998 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Gilles Baril	20,074	53.58	−0.08
	Liberal	Sylvie Thouin	11,710	31.26	−5.04
	Action démocratique	Robert Robitaille	5,113	13.65	+5.31
	Socialist Democracy	François Rivest	297	0.79	–
	Natural Law	Louise Roy	268	0.72	+0.01
Total valid votes			37,462	98.59	–
Rejected and declined votes			535	1.41	–
Turnout			37,997	79.51	−2.51
Electors on the lists			47,790	–	–
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	25,986	63.02
	Non	15,249	36.98