Mégantic-Compton

Megantic-Compton is a former provincial electoral district in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. As of its final election, it included the municipalities of East Angus, Cookshire-Eaton, Lac-Mégantic, Weedon, Lac-Drolet and Chartierville.

Mégantic-Compton

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1972
First contested	1973
Last contested	2008
Demographics
Population (2006)	44,624
Electors (2008)[1]	34,153
Area (km²)[2]	5,322.14
Census division(s)	Coaticook (part), Le Granit (part), Le Haut-Saint-François (all)
Census subdivision(s)	Ascot Corner, Audet, Bury, Chartierville, Cookshire-Eaton, Dixville, Dudswell, East Angus, East Hereford, Frontenac, Hampden, Lac-Drolet, Lac-Mégantic, Lambton, La Patrie, Lingwick, Marston, Martinville, Milan, Nantes, Newport, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Piopolis, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton, Sainte-Edwidge-de-Clifton, Saint-Herménégilde, Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton, Saint-Malo, Saint-Romain, Saint-Sébastien, Saint-Venant-de-Paquette, Scotstown, Stornoway, Stratford, Val-Racine, Weedon, Westbury

It was created for the 1973 election from parts of Frontenac, Compton, and Wolfe electoral districts; despite the name, it did not include any part of the territory of the former Mégantic electoral district. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and the successor electoral district was the recreated Mégantic.^[3]

Members of National Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Frontenac, Compton, and Wolfe
30th	1973–1976		Omer Dionne	Liberal
31st	1976–1980		Fernand Grenier	Union Nationale
	1980–1981		Fabien Bélanger	Liberal
32nd	1981–1983
	1983–1985		Madeleine Bélanger
33rd	1985–1989
34th	1989–1994
35th	1994–1998
36th	1998–2003
37th	2003–2004		Daniel Bouchard
	2004–2007			Independent
38th	2007–2008		Johanne Gonthier	Liberal
39th	2008–2012
Riding dissolved into Mégantic

Election results

2008 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Johanne Gonthier	9,204	45.09
	Parti Québécois	Gloriane Blais	7,170	35.13
	Action démocratique	Samuel Therrien	3,268	16.01
	Québec solidaire	Julie Dionne	769	3.77

2007 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Johanne Gonthier	8,701	32.98
	Action démocratique	Jocelyn Brouillette	7,861	32.12
	Parti Québécois	Gloriane Blais	7,095	28.99
	Green	Sébastien Lanctôt	904	3.69	–
	Québec solidaire	Ludovick Nadeau	544	2.22

2003 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Daniel Bouchard	11,135	47.09
	Parti Québécois	Suzanne Durivage	7,347	31.07
	Action démocratique	Alain Boisvert	4,901	20.73
	UFP	Christian Poulin	193	0.82
	Equality	Frank Moller	71	0.30

v t e 1998 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	12,675	50.49	-3.46
	Parti Québécois	Suzanne Durivage	10,339	41.18	-1.18
	Action démocratique	Olivier Chalifoux	1,835	7.31	–
	Socialist Democracy	Yves Couturier	174	0.69	–
	Equality	Frank Moller	81	0.32	-1.50
Total valid votes			25,104	99.01
Rejected and declined votes			250	0.99	-1.07
Turnout			25,354	79.89	-1.14
Electors on the lists			31,736
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.32

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	14,535	52.71
	Oui	13,042	47.29

v t e 1994 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	12,799	53.95	-6.44
	Parti Québécois	Jacques Blais	10,051	42.36	+12.44
	Natural Law	Christian Simard	444	1.87	–
	Equality	Matthew Begbie	432	1.82	-3.16
Total valid votes			23,725	97.94
Rejected and declined votes			500	2.06	+0.55
Turnout			24,225	81.03	+4.32
Electors on the lists			29,896
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
	Liberal hold		Swing		-9.44

v t e 1989 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	12,608	60.39	+0.91
	Parti Québécois	Léon Ducharme	6,246	29.92	-7.43
	Equality	Frank Moller	1,039	4.98	–
	Green	Pierre Gilbert	740	3.54	–
	Parti 51	Edmond Trudeau	245	1.17	–
Total valid votes			20,878	98.49
Rejected and declined votes			320	1.51	+0.41
Turnout			21,198	76.71	-0.68
Electors on the lists			27,634
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
	Liberal hold		Swing		+4.17

v t e 1985 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	12,865	59.48	-8.12
	Parti Québécois	Maurice Bernier	8,708	37.35	+6.87
	New Democratic	Joseph Lemoine	594	2.75	–
	Christian Socialist	Steeve Stratford	91	0.42	–
Total valid votes			21,628	98.90
Rejected and declined votes			241	1.10	+0.15
Turnout			21,869	77.39	+4.96
Electors on the lists			28,257
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
	Liberal hold		Swing		-7.50

v t e Quebec provincial by-election, December 5, 1983
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Madeleine Bélanger	13,711	67.60	+15.87
	Parti Québécois	Noël Landry	6,182	30.48	-11.04
	Independent	Jean-Luc Perron	233	1.15	–
	No Affiliation	Patricia Métivier	156	0.77	–
Total valid votes			20,282	99.05
Total rejected ballots			194	0.95	+0.23
Turnout			20,476	72.43	-9.61
Electors on the lists			28,270
	Liberal hold		Swing		+13.50
By-election due to the death of Fabien Bélanger
Source(s) "December 5, 1983 By-election". Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec. December 5, 1983. Retrieved February 24, 2017.

1981 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Fabien Bélanger	11,795	51.73
	Parti Québécois	Noël Landry	9,468	41.52
	Union Nationale	Jacques Labranche	1,539	6.75	–

Mégantic-Compton by-election November 17, 1980

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Fabien Bélanger	9,259	46.95
	Parti Québécois	Richard Labelle	7,135	36.18
	Union Nationale	Fernand Grenier	233	1.15	–
	United Social Credit	Jean-Paul Poulin	156	0.77

1980 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	15,202	65.23
	Oui	8,102	34.77

1976 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Union Nationale	Fernand Grenier	8,539	39.58	–
	Liberal	J. Omer Dionne	6,037	27.99
	Parti Québécois	Richard Labelle	4,809	22.29
	Ralliement créditiste	Robert Leroux	2,188	10.14

1973 Quebec general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. Omer Dionne	9,815	47.96
	Ralliement créditiste	Paul-André Latulippe	5,385	26.31
	Parti Québécois	Gérald Ouellette	2,819	13.78
	Union Nationale	Octave Grenier	2,445	11.95	–