Compton—Stanstead

Compton—Stanstead is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

Compton—Stanstead

Quebec electoral district
From the 2015 federal election to 2025 From the 2025 federal election Interactive map of riding boundaries
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Marianne Dandurand Liberal
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	105,459
Electors (2019)	84,383
Area (km²)[2]	4,815
Pop. density (per km²)	21.9
Census division(s)	Coaticook RCM, Le Haut-Saint-François RCM, Memphrémagog RCM, Sherbrooke, Le Val-Saint-François RCM
Census subdivision(s)	Sherbrooke (part), Coaticook, Cookshire-Eaton, East-Angus, Ascot-Corner, Compton, Stanstead, Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, Weedon, Waterville

It was created in 1996 from Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead and Richmond—Wolfe ridings.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census, 2023 representation order^[3]

Race: 94.6% White, 2.0% Indigenous
Languages: 87.4% French, 11.5% English
Religions: 68.3% Christian (58.3% Catholic, 1.5% Anglican, 1.0% United Church, 7.5% Other) 30.3% None
Median income: $41,200 (2020)
Average income: $48,960 (2020)

Geography

The southern Quebec riding on the US border southeast of Sherbrooke is located in the Quebec region of Estrie. It consists of the RCMs of Coaticook and Le Haut-Saint-François, the eastern half of Memphrémagog, and parts of Le Val-Saint-François and the city of Sherbrooke.

Main towns include Coaticook, Lennoxville (now part of Sherbrooke), North Hatley, Stanstead, and Ayer's Cliff.

Neighbouring ridings are Brome—Missisquoi, Richmond—Arthabaska, Sherbrooke, and Mégantic—L'Érable.

The 2012 electoral redistribution saw this riding lose and gain territories with Sherbrooke.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding gained the Parc-Belvédère area from Sherbrooke.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Compton—Stanstead Riding created from Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead and Richmond—Wolfe
36th	1997–2000		David Price	Progressive Conservative
37th	2000–2004			Liberal
38th	2004–2006		France Bonsant	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015		Jean Rousseau	New Democratic
42nd	2015–2019		Marie-Claude Bibeau	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present		Marianne Dandurand

Election results

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marianne Dandurand	29,951	45.64	+8.98
	Bloc Québécois	Nathalie Bresse	17,305	26.37	-4.14
	Conservative	Jacques Painchaud	14,292	21.78	+4.37
	New Democratic	Valérie Laliberté	2,124	3.24	-4.30
	Green	Sébastien Tremblay	1,161	1.77	-1.04
	People's	Paul Lehmann	787	1.20	-2.56
Total valid votes			65,620	98.72
Total rejected ballots			849	1.28	-0.45
Turnout			66,469	71.82	+4.57
Eligible voters			92,551
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+6.56
Source: Elections Canada[4][5]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

2021 federal election redistributed results[6]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	21,556	36.66
	Bloc Québécois	17,941	30.51
	Conservative	10,239	17.41
	New Democratic	4,431	7.54
	People's	2,212	3.76
	Green	1,650	2.81
	Free	585	0.99
	Independent	186	0.32
Total valid votes		58,800	98.27
Rejected ballots		1,036	1.73
Registered voters/ estimated turnout		88,975	67.25

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Marie-Claude Bibeau	21,188	36.66	-0.65	$63,618.47
	Bloc Québécois	Nathalie Bresse	17,688	30.60	-1.28	$19,787.30
	Conservative	Pierre Tremblay	10,087	17.45	+2.95	$42,471.76
	New Democratic	Geneva Allen	4,277	7.40	-2.23	$0.48
	People's	Yves Bourassa	2,167	3.75	+2.74	$0.00
	Green	Sylvain Dodier	1,626	2.81	-2.41	$3,785.22
	Free	Déitane Gendron	576	1.00	–	$296.27
	Independent	Sylvain Longpré	187	0.32	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			57,796	–	–	$116,073.80
Total rejected ballots
Turnout				66.49	-3.26
Registered voters			86,926
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.31
Source: Elections Canada[7]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Marie-Claude Bibeau	21,731	37.31	+0.43	$58,382.52
	Bloc Québécois	David Benoît	18,571	31.89	+11.19	none listed
	Conservative	Jessy Mc Neil	8,446	14.50	+2.00	$12,725.62
	New Democratic	Naomie Mathieu Chauvette	5,607	9.63	-17.78	$1,786.21
	Green	Jean Rousseau	3,044	5.23	+3.29	none listed
	People's	Paul Reed	586	1.01		$677.99
	Rhinoceros	Jonathan Therrien	252	0.43	-0.13	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,237	98.33
Total rejected ballots			988	1.67
Turnout			59,225	69.75
Eligible voters			84,913
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.39
Source: Elections Canada[8][9]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Marie-Claude Bibeau	20,582	36.88	+24.89	$30,817.38
	New Democratic	Jean Rousseau	15,300	27.41	-19.86	$22,398.05
	Bloc Québécois	France Bonsant	11,551	20.70	-5.73	$41,452.44
	Conservative	Gustavo Labrador	6,978	12.50	+0.65	$24,135.57
	Green	Korie Marshall	1,085	1.94	-0.49	–
	Rhinoceros	Kévin Côté	315	0.56	–	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			55,811	100.00		$218,288.13
Total rejected ballots			748	1.32	–
Turnout			56,559	69.09	–
Eligible voters			81,867
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+22.37
Source: Elections Canada[10][11]

2011 federal election redistributed results[12]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	23,529	47.27
	Bloc Québécois	13,155	26.43
	Liberal	5,970	11.99
	Conservative	5,901	11.86
	Green	1,211	2.43
	Others	5	0.01

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jean Rousseau	24,097	47.59	+36.31
	Bloc Québécois	France Bonsant	13,179	26.03	- 15.82
	Liberal	William Hogg	6,132	12.09	-10.44
	Conservative	Sandrine Gressard Bélanger	5,982	11.72	-7.72
	Green	Gary Caldwell	1,241	2.57	-2.30
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,631	100.00
Total rejected ballots			580	1.13	-0.03
Turnout			51,211	64.59	+2.61
Eligible voters			80,382	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	France Bonsant	20,332	41.85	-0.9	$42,534
	Liberal	William Hogg	10,946	22.53	+0.2	$17,476
	Conservative	Michel Gagné	9,445	19.44	-4.9	$57,862
	New Democratic	Jean Rousseau	5,483	11.28	+5.1	$1,820
	Green	Gary Caldwell	2,368	4.87	+0.5	$11,114
Total valid votes/expense limit			48,574	100.00	$84,153
Total rejected ballots			572	1.16
Turnout			49,146	62.97

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	France Bonsant	21,316	42.8	-3.9	$38,909
	Conservative	Gary Caldwell	12,131	24.3	+13.9	$44,452
	Liberal	David Price	11,126	22.3	-13.7	$56,653
	New Democratic	Stéphane Bürgi	3,099	6.2	+2.9	$1,674
	Green	Gaétan Perreault	2,171	4.4	+0.8	$310
Total valid votes/Expense limit			49,843	100.0	$77,428

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	France Bonsant	20,450	46.7	+7.8	$36,450
	Liberal	David Price	15,752	36.0	-10.6	$55,575
	Conservative	Gary Caldwell	4,589	10.5	-1.3	$13,713
	Green	Laurier Busque	1,546	3.5		$540
	New Democratic	Martin Baller	1,451	3.3	+1.8
Total valid votes/expense limit			43,788	100.0	$75,354

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Price	17,729	46.6	+26.6
	Bloc Québécois	Gaston Leroux	14,808	38.9	+6.0
	Progressive Conservative	Mary Ann Dewey-Plante	2,422	6.4	-38.2
	Alliance	Marc Carrier	2,061	5.4
	New Democratic	Christine Moore	580	1.5	+0.1
	Natural Law	Marc Roy	476	1.3	+0.2
Total valid votes			38,076	100.0

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	David Price	18,125	44.6
	Bloc Québécois	Maurice Bernier	13,367	32.9
	Liberal	Gaétan Grenier	8,119	20.0
	New Democratic	Christine Moore	587	1.4
	Natural Law	Lisette Proulx	439	1.1
Total valid votes			40,637	100.0

See also

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