Charlevoix (federal electoral district)

This article is about the former federal district. For the former provincial district, see Charlevoix (provincial electoral district).

Charlevoix (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁləvwa] ^ⓘ) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917 and from 1949 to 2004.

Charlevoix

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1947
District abolished	2003
First contested	1949
Last contested	2000

The district was created in the British North America Act 1867. It was abolished in 1914 when it was merged into Charlevoix—Montmorency. The district was created again in 1947 from Charlevoix—Saguenay. It was abolished again in 2003 when it was redistributed into Charlevoix—Montmorency and Manicouagan ridings.

The best-known person to represent this riding is Brian Mulroney who was Member of Parliament for the riding, for part of his term as Prime Minister of Canada, from 1988 to 1993.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Charlevoix
1st	1867–1872		Simon-Xavier Cimon	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874		Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	Liberal
3rd	1874–1876
	1876–1877		Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative
	1877–1878
4th	1878–1879		Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	Liberal
	1879–1881		Joseph-Stanislas Perrault	Conservative
	1881–1882		Simon-Xavier Cimon
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1887			Independent Liberal
	1887–1891		Simon Cimon	Conservative
7th	1891–1895		Henry Simard	Liberal
	1896–1896		Louis-Charles-Alphonse Angers
8th	1896–1900
9th	1900–1904
10th	1904–1908		Rodolphe Forget	Conservative
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917
Riding dissolved into Charlevoix—Montmorency
Riding re-created from Charlevoix—Saguenay
21st	1949–1953		Auguste Maltais	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Martial Asselin	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963		Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger	Social Credit
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968		Martial Asselin	Progressive Conservative
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974		Gilles Caouette	Social Credit
30th	1974–1979		Charles Lapointe	Liberal
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		Charles-André Hamelin	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993		Brian Mulroney
35th	1993–1997		Gérard Asselin	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
Riding dissolved into Charlevoix—Montmorency and Manicouagan

Election results

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon	999
	Unknown	Adolphe Gagnon	911
Source: Canadian Elections Database[1]

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	1,485
	Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon	779
Source: Canadian Elections Database[2]

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	1,377
	Conservative	Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau	1,104
Source: Canadian Elections Database[3]

By-election on 22 January 1876 Election declared void
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Hector-Louis Langevin	952
	Liberal	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	741

By-election on 23 March 1877 By-election declared void
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Hector-Louis Langevin	1,185
	Liberal	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	1,129

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election: Charlevoix
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	1,052
	Unknown	Joseph-Stanislas Perrault	936
Source: Canadian Elections Database[4]

By-election on 13 February 1879 Tremblay's death, 5 January 1879
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph-Stanislas Perrault	1,077
	Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon	898

By-election on 19 March 1881 By-election declared void
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon	929
	Conservative	Joseph-Stanislas Perrault	854

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon	954
	Unknown	J.A.J. Kane	601

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Independent Liberal	Simon-Xavier Cimon	903
	Nationalist	J.A. Tremblay	819
	Unknown	C.H.A. Clement	688
	Unknown	J.A. Hamel	309

By-election on 28 September 1887 Cimon's death, 26 June 1887
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon Jr.	1,436
	Unknown	J.A. Tremblay	1,025

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Henry Simard	1,542
	Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon Jr.	1,235

By-election on 27 January 1896 Simard's death, 6 November 1895
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis Charles Alphonse Angers	acclaimed

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis Charles Alphonse Angers	1,403
	Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon Jr.	1,273

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis Charles Alphonse Angers	1,517
	Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon Jr.	1,342

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rodolphe Forget	1,684
	Liberal	Louis Charles Alphonse Angers	1,601

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rodolphe Forget	1,934
	Liberal	Joseph Camille Pouliot	1,725

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rodolphe Forget	2,020
	Liberal	Lucien Cannon	1,358

v t e 1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Auguste Maltais	9,543
	Independent	Emile Boiteau	4,402
	Progressive Conservative	Joseph-Hidas-Aimé Dufour	1,608
	Union des électeurs	Pierre Simard	940
	Independent Liberal	Donat Lacroix	217

v t e 1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Auguste Maltais	10,742
	Progressive Conservative	Frédéric Dorion	7,259

v t e 1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Auguste Maltais	10,182
	Progressive Conservative	Guy Dorion	7,532
	Social Credit	Jean-Louis Hudon	246
	Independent Liberal	Jos. Gignac	213

v t e 1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Martial Asselin	12,315
	Liberal	Auguste Maltais	7,918

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger	8,645
	Progressive Conservative	Martial Asselin	6,341
	Liberal	Auguste Maltais	5,408

v t e 1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger	7,390
	Progressive Conservative	Martial Asselin	6,843
	Liberal	Meredy Bouchard	5,787

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Martial Asselin	6,844
	Liberal	Aimé Racine	6,676
	Ralliement créditiste	J.-Adélard Froment	5,556
	New Democratic	Paul-Henri Dufresne	556

v t e 1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Martial Asselin	9,487
	Liberal	Aimé Racine	8,282
	Ralliement créditiste	Raymond Poulin	3,831
	New Democratic	Reginald Boulay	1,070

v t e 1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Gilles Caouette	10,264
	Liberal	Jean-Guy Alain	10,105
	Progressive Conservative	Pierre-Paul Savard	5,747

v t e 1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Lapointe	10,372
	Social Credit	Gilles Caouette	8,905
	Progressive Conservative	Gualbert Tremblay	4,942
	New Democratic	Gaétan Tremblay	692

v t e 1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Lapointe	18,031
	Social Credit	Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon	8,004
	Progressive Conservative	Paul-André Tremblay	4,503
	New Democratic	Normand Laforce	613
	Union populaire	Margot Kaszap	251

v t e 1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Lapointe	22,130
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Pierre Dufour	5,679
	New Democratic	Normand Laforce	1,273
	Social Credit	Angelo Emond	1,021
	Rhinoceros	Guy "Pantouffe" Laliberté	945
	Union populaire	Lise Brodeur	232
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v t e 1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Charles-André Hamelin	23,661
	Liberal	Charles Lapointe	11,906
	New Democratic	Jocelyn Toulouse	1,022
	Parti nationaliste	Victorien Pilote	610

v t e 1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Mulroney	33,730
	Liberal	Martin Cauchon	5,994
	New Democratic	Kenneth Choquette	1,819
	Rhinoceros	François Yo Gourd	600

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Bloc Québécois	Gérard Asselin	23,615
	Liberal	André Desgagnés	7,140
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Guy	6,781
	New Democratic	Audrey Carpentier	552

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Bloc Québécois	Gérard Asselin	19,792
	Liberal	Ghislain Maltais	9,838
	Progressive Conservative	Nicole Massicotte	6,443
	New Democratic	François Dumoutier	454

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Gérard Asselin	20,479	61.44		$74,392
	Liberal	Marjolaine Gagnon	9,308	27.93	–	$36,028
	Alliance	Pierre Paradis	1,905	5.72		$10,782
	Progressive Conservative	Doris Grondin	1,154	3.46		$91
	New Democratic	Joss Duhaime	484	1.45		$180
Total valid votes			33,330	100.00
Total rejected ballots			923
Turnout			34,253	58.32
Electors on the lists			58,737
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

See also

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