Lac-Saint-Jean

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the lake, see Lac Saint-Jean. For the current provincial district, see Lac-Saint-Jean (provincial electoral district).

Lac-Saint-Jean (French: [lak sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃], Quebec French pronunciation: [lak sẽ ʒã]) is a federal electoral district in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, northeast Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 2004, and has been represented since 2015.

Lac-Saint-Jean

Quebec electoral district
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe Bloc Québécois
District created	1924
First contested	1925
Last contested	2025
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2021)[1]	103,886
Electors (2021)	84,695
Area (km²)[1]	555,366.57
Pop. density (per km²)	0.19
Census division(s)	Le Domaine-du-Roy, Lac-Saint-Jean-Est, Maria-Chapdelaine
Census subdivision(s)	Alma, Dolbeau-Mistassini, Saint-Félicien, Roberval, Métabetchouan-Lac-à-la-Croix, Normandin, Saint-Prime, Albanel, Saint-Gédéon, Mashteuiatsh

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census

Ethnocultural groups: 92% White, 6.9% Indigenous
Languages: 98.5% French
Religions: 83.3% Christian (76.3% Catholic), 16.2% No Religion
Median income: $38,800 (2020)

History

This riding was created in 1924 form parts of Chicoutimi—Saguenay riding and was originally named in English Lake St. John. It originally consisted of the counties of Lake St. John East and Lake St. John West. It was renamed Lake St-John—Roberval in 1935.

The 1947 redistribution created a new riding with the name Lac-Saint-Jean (in English and French), created from parts of the Lake St-John—Roberval riding. It was initially defined to consist of the county of Lake St. John East and the towns of Riverbend, Ile Maligne and St. Joseph-d'Alma; and parts of the county of Lake St. John West.

In 1966, it was redefined to consist of the City of Alma, the Town of Desbiens, the County of Lac-Saint-Jean East, and parts of the Counties of Lac-Saint-Jean West and Chicoutimi.

In 1976, it was redefined to consist of the Cities of Alma and Chicoutimi North, and parts of the Counties of Chicoutimi and Lac-Saint-Jean East.

In 1987, it was redefined to consist of the towns of Alma, Desbiens and Métabetchouan; the County of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est; and parts of the Counties of Chicoutimi, Charlevoix-Ouest, Lac-Saint-Jean-Ouest and Montmorency.

In 1996, it was redefined to consist of the towns of Alma, Desbiens and Métabetchouan; the County Regional Municipality of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est; and parts of in the County Regional Municipality of Le Fjord-du-Saguenay.

Its name was changed in 2000 to "Lac-Saint-Jean—Saguenay".

In 2003, it was abolished when it was redistributed into Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, Jonquière—Alma and Roberval ridings.

The 2012 electoral redistribution saw this riding re-created from parts of Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean and Jonquière—Alma.

A by-election was held on October 23, 2017, due to the resignation of Denis Lebel on August 9, 2017. The riding was subsequently won by Liberal Richard Hébert.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding lost the municipalities of Hébertville, Hébertville-Station, L'Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur, Saint-Augustin, Saint-Bruno, Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, Saint-Eugène-d'Argentenay, Saint-Ludger-de-Milot and Saint-Stanislas as well as the Passes-Dangereuses unorganized area to Jonquière.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Lake St. John Riding created from Chicoutimi—Saguenay
15th	1925–1926		Armand Sylvestre	Liberal
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935		Joseph-Léonard Duguay	Conservative
Lake St-John—Roberval
18th	1935–1940		Armand Sylvestre	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949		Joseph-Alfred Dion	Independent Liberal
Lac-Saint-Jean
21st	1949–1953		André Gauthier	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Roger Parizeau	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963		Marcel Lessard	Social Credit
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968		Alcide Simard	Ralliement créditiste
28th	1968–1972		Marcel Lessard	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984		Pierre Gimaïel
33rd	1984–1988		Clément M. Côté	Progressive Conservative
	1988–1988		Lucien Bouchard
34th	1988–1990
	1990–1991			Independent
	1991–1993			Bloc Québécois
35th	1993–1996
	1996–1997		Stéphan Tremblay
36th	1997–2000
Lac-Saint-Jean—Saguenay
37th	2000–2002		Stéphan Tremblay	Bloc Québécois
	2002–2004		Sébastien Gagnon
Riding dissolved into Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, Jonquière—Alma, and Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean
Lac-Saint-Jean Riding re-created from Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean and Jonquière—Alma
42nd	2015–2017		Denis Lebel	Conservative
	2017–2019		Richard Hébert	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021		Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe	Bloc Québécois
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present

Election results

Lac-Saint-Jean, 2015–present

Graph of election results in Lac-Saint-Jean since 2011 (parties that never received 2% of the vote are omitted)

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe	22,069	46.21	−4.69
	Liberal	Denis Lemieux	12,536	26.25	+7.28
	Conservative	Dave Blackburn	11,792	24.69	−0.58
	New Democratic	Hugues Boily-Maltais	819	1.71	−1.56
	People's	Lorie Bouchard	540	1.13	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,756	98.58
Total rejected ballots			689	1.42
Turnout			48,445	64.14
Eligible voters			75,528
	Bloc Québécois notional hold		Swing		−5.99
Source: Elections Canada[2][3]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

2021 federal election redistributed results[4]
Party		Vote	%
	Bloc Québécois	22,662	50.90
	Conservative	11,249	25.27
	Liberal	8,444	18.97
	New Democratic	1,454	3.27
	Green	712	1.60

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe	25,466	50.7	+6.7	$38,464.04
	Conservative	Serge Bergeron	12,899	25.7	+2.6	$32,221.37
	Liberal	Marjolaine Étienne	9,371	18.7	-6.4	$6,716.26
	New Democratic	Mathieu Chambers	1,637	3.3	-1.8	$0.48
	Green	Annie Thibault	824	1.6	-0.3	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,197	97.6	–	$142,430.64
Total rejected ballots			1,215	2.4
Turnout			51,412	60.7
Registered voters			84,695
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		+2.1
Source: Elections Canada[5]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe	23,839	43.96	+20.59	$33,354.37
	Liberal	Richard Hébert	13,633	25.14	-13.45	$83,673.06
	Conservative	Jocelyn Fradette	12,544	23.13	-1.88	$41,607.93
	New Democratic	Jean-Simon Fortin	2,753	5.08	-6.63	none listed
	Green	Julie Gagnon-Bond	1,010	1.86	+0.55	$0.00
	People's	Dany Boudreault	448	0.9	New	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,971	97.87
Total rejected ballots			1,155	2.13
Turnout			55,382	63.9
Eligible voters			84,456
	Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal		Swing		+17.02
Source: Elections Canada[6]

Canadian federal by-election, October 23, 2017 Resignation of Denis Lebel
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Richard Hébert	13,442	38.59	+20.15
	Conservative	Rémy Leclerc	8,710	25.01	-8.26
	Bloc Québécois	Marc Maltais	8,141	23.37	+5.00
	New Democratic	Gisèle Dallaire	4,079	11.71	-16.75
	Green	Yves Laporte	457	1.31	-0.15
Total valid votes/Expense limit			34,829	98.67		$133,786.71
Total rejected ballots			469	1.33
Turnout			35,298	41.61
Eligible voters			84,829
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+14.20
Source: Elections Canada

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Denis Lebel	18,393	33.27	-8.99	$144,196.85
	New Democratic	Gisèle Dallaire	15,735	28.46	-3.67	$90,827.25
	Liberal	Sabin Simard	10,193	18.44	+15.19	$8,743.01
	Bloc Québécois	Sabin Gaudreault	10,152	18.37	-2.64	$31,823.52
	Green	Laurence Requilé	806	1.46	+0.12	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			55,279	98.35		$278,724.96
Total rejected ballots			925	1.65	–
Turnout			56,204	65.78	–
Eligible voters			85,445
	Conservative notional hold		Swing		-2.66
Source: Elections Canada[7][8]

2011 federal election redistributed results[9]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	22,945	42.26
	New Democratic	17,446	32.14
	Bloc Québécois	11,403	21.00
	Liberal	1,766	3.25
	Green	729	1.34

Lac-Saint-Jean—Saguenay, 2000–2004

Canadian federal by-election, 9 December 2002 On the resignation of Stéphan Tremblay, 7 May 2002
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Sébastien Gagnon	8,912	48.18	-17.99
	Liberal	Gilbert Tremblay	7,594	41.06	+17.75
	Independent	Gilles Lavoie	532	2.88	+0.06
	Independent	Richard Harvey	467	2.52
	Progressive Conservative	Clermont Gauthier	434	2.35	+0.69
	Alliance	Alcide Boudreault	290	1.57	-3.18
	New Democratic	Yanick Auer	267	1.44	+0.15
Total valid votes			18,831	98.22
Total rejected ballots			335	1.78	-0.90
Turnout			18,831	35.56	-27.24
Eligible voters			52,963
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		-17.87
Source: Elections Canada

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Stéphan Tremblay	21,391	66.17	+2.64
	Liberal	Jérôme Tremblay	7,536	23.31	+2.31
	Alliance	Yannick Caron	1,536	4.75
	Independent	Gilles Lavoie	912	2.82
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Gagnon	535	1.65	-12.66
	New Democratic	Linda Proulx	417	1.29	+0.13
Total valid votes			32,237	97.32
Total rejected ballots			890	2.68	+0.01
Turnout			33,217	62.80	-5.15
Eligible voters			52,895
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		+0.16
Source: Elections Canada

Lac-Saint-Jean, 1949–2000

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Bloc Québécois	Stéphan Tremblay	21,506	63.53
	Liberal	Clément Lajoie	7,109	21.00
	Progressive Conservative	Sabin Simard	4,845	14.31
	New Democratic	Jean-François Morval	391	1.16
Total valid votes/Expense limit			33,851	97.33
Total rejected ballots			929	2.67
Turnout			34,780	67.95
Eligible voters			51,184

Canadian federal by-election, 25 March 1996 On the resignation of Lucien Bouchard, 15 January 1996
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Stéphan Tremblay	20,777	76.56	+1.04
	Liberal	Clément Lajoie	5,846	21.54	+6.93
	Progressive Conservative	Philippe Harris	205	0.76	-7.89
	Reform	Denis Simard	175	0.64	New
	New Democratic	Karl Bélanger	136	0.50	-0.73
Total valid votes			27,139	99.47
Total rejected ballots			144	0.53
Turnout			27,283	54.87
Eligible voters			49,726
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		-2.95
Source: Elections Canada[10]

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Bloc Québécois	Lucien Bouchard	27,209	75.52
	Liberal	Noël Girard	5,263	14.61
	Progressive Conservative	Denise Falardeau	3,115	8.65
	New Democratic	Marie D. Jalbert	444	1.23
Total valid votes			36,031	99.47

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Lucien Bouchard	23,112
	New Democratic	Jean Paradis	6,348
	Liberal	Bertrand Bouchard	5,390

Canadian federal by-election, 20 June 1988 On the resignation of Clément Côté, 28 April 1988
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Lucien Bouchard	16,951
	Liberal	Pierre Gimaïel	10,746
	New Democratic	Jean Paradis	2,903
	Independent	Jolly Taylor	113

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Clément Coté	25,270
	Liberal	Pierre Gimaïel	12,683
	New Democratic	Claude Gagnon	2,132
	Parti nationaliste	Yves Courville	813

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Pierre Gimaïel	21,267
	Progressive Conservative	Lucien Fortin	4,608
	New Democratic	Jean-Denis Bérubé	3,465
	Social Credit	Paul-Henri Tremblay	2,821
	Rhinoceros	Béru Louis Briand	1,159
	Union populaire	Richard Fecteau	252

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Marcel Lessard	18,978
	Social Credit	Ph.-Aug. Bouchard	11,048
	Progressive Conservative	Oswald Fleury	3,251
	New Democratic	Jean-Denis Bérubé	1,589
	Rhinoceros	Marc Harvey	802
	Union populaire	Guy Tremblay	421

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Marcel Lessard	11,162
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Guay	6,129
	Social Credit	Maurice Brodeur	5,372
	New Democratic	Jacqueline Simard	625

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Marcel Lessard	11,165
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Guay	7,074
	Social Credit	Claude Gauthier	5,203
	Independent	Claude Gagnon	362

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Marcel Lessard	9,325
	Ralliement créditiste	J.-Alcide Simard	8,430
	New Democratic	Jean-Jacques Tremblay	1,330
	Progressive Conservative	Raoul Savard	1,034

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Ralliement créditiste	Alcide Simard	5,642
	Liberal	Réal Harvey	5,337
	Independent	Marcel Lessard	4,736
	New Democratic	Fernand Coté	1,477
	Progressive Conservative	Vianney Guilmette	532

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Marcel Lessard	9,318
	Liberal	Réal Harvey	6,219
	New Democratic	Rachel Ouellet	1,524
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles De Beaumont	1,373

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Marcel Lessard	10,743
	Liberal	Benoît Caron	4,018
	Progressive Conservative	Roger Parizeau	3,341
	New Democratic	Jean-Claude Lebel	935

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Roger Parizeau	8,255
	Liberal	André Gauthier	7,353
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gérard Larouche	2,120

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	André Gauthier	10,129
	Progressive Conservative	Aimé-Roger Parizeau	6,374

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	André Gauthier	8,697
	Progressive Conservative	Dominique Lapointe	6,756

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	André Gauthier	7,084
	Nationalist	Paul-Emile Harvey	4,994
	Union des électeurs	Delphis Larouche	824
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Charles Gosselin	138

Lake St-John—Roberval, 1935–1949

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Independent Liberal	Joseph-Alfred Dion	9,744
	Independent	Joseph-Léonard Duguay	8,984
	Bloc populaire	Paul-Emile Harvey	4,588
	Social Credit	Delphis Larouche	1,134

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Armand Sylvestre	10,057
	National Government	Joseph-Léonard Duguay	6,895
	New Democracy	Louis Even	3,698
	Independent Liberal	Joseph-O. Dumoulin	717

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Armand Sylvestre	9,231
	Conservative	Joseph-Léonard Duguay	9,069
	Reconstruction	Joseph-Ladislas Bolduc	661
	Independent Liberal	Joseph-Arthur Hamel	544

Lake St. John, 1925–1935

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph-Léonard Duguay	8,387
	Liberal	Armand Sylvestre	8,211

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Armand Sylvestre	8,090
	Conservative	Joseph-Sylvio-Narcisse Turcotte	5,733

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Armand Sylvestre	7,579
	Conservative	Joseph-Sylvio-Narcisse Turcotte	5,502

See also

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