Mégantic (provincial electoral district)

This article is about the provincial electoral district. For the former federal electoral district, see Mégantic (electoral district). For the pre-Confederation election district, see Megantick (Province of Canada electoral district). For other uses, see Mégantic.

Mégantic is a provincial electoral district in the Estrie and Chaudière-Appalaches regions of Quebec, Canada. It notably includes the municipalities of Lac-Mégantic, Cookshire-Eaton, East Angus, Ascot Corner, Stoke, Weedon and Disraeli.

Mégantic

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	François Jacques Coalition Avenir Québec
District created	1867
District abolished	1972
District re-created	2011
First contested	1867, 2012
Last contested	1970, 2022
Demographics
Population (2011)	49,055
Electors (2014)[1]	38,589
Area (km²)[2]	5,266.8
Pop. density (per km²)	9.3
Census division(s)	Coaticook (part), Le Granit (part), Le Val-Saint-François (part), Les Appalaches (part)
Census subdivision(s)	Ascot Corner, Audet, Beaulac-Garthby, Bury, Chartierville, Cookshire-Eaton, Disraeli (parish), Disraeli (city), Dudswell, East Angus, Frontenac, Hampden, Lac-Drolet, Lac-Mégantic, Lambton, La Patrie, Lingwick, Marston, Milan, Nantes, Newport, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Piopolis, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton, Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton, Sainte-Praxède, Saint-Romain, Saint-Sébastien, Scotstown, Stoke, Stornoway, Stratford, Val-Racine, Weedon, Westbury

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). It was abolished before the 1973 election and its territory was mostly divided between Lotbinière and Frontenac; a small part also went to Arthabaska. Despite the name, none of the territory of Mégantic went into the newly created Mégantic-Compton. However, Mégantic-Compton was abolished before the 2012 election and its successor electoral district was the recreated Mégantic,^[3] which contains most of the former area Mégantic-Compton, as well as parts of Johnson, Richmond, and Frontenac as they existed prior to the 2012 election.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
1st	1867–1871		George Irvine	Conservative
2nd	1871–1874
	1874–1875			Independent
3rd	1875–1876			Liberal
	1876–1878		Andrew Kennedy	Conservative
4th	1878–1881		George Irvine	Liberal
5th	1881–1884
	1884–1886		John Whyte
6th	1886–1888		Andrew Stuart Johnson	Conservative
	1888–1890		William Rhodes	Liberal
7th	1890–1892		Andrew Stuart Johnson	Conservative
8th	1892–1897		James King
9th	1897–1900		George Robert Smith	Liberal
10th	1900–1904
11th	1904–1908
12th	1908–1912		David Henry Pennington	Conservative
13th	1912–1916		Joseph Demers	Liberal
14th	1916–1919		Lauréat Lapierre
15th	1919–1923
16th	1923–1927
17th	1927–1931
18th	1931–1935
19th	1935–1936		Tancrède Labbé	Action liberale nationale
20th	1936–1939			Union Nationale
21st	1939–1940		Louis Houde	Liberal
	1940–1944		Tancrède Labbé	Union Nationale
22nd	1944–1948
23rd	1948–1952
24th	1952–1956
25th	1956–1956†
	1957–1960		Joseph-Émile Fortin
26th	1960–1962		Émilien Maheux	Liberal
27th	1962–1966
28th	1966–1970		Marc Bergeron	Union Nationale
29th	1970–1973		Bernard Dumont	Ralliement créditiste
Riding dissolved into Lotbinière, Frontenac and Arthabaska
Riding re-created from Mégantic-Compton, Johnson, Richmond and Frontenac
40th	2012–2014		Ghislain Bolduc	Liberal
41st	2014–2018
42nd	2018–2022		François Jacques	Coalition Avenir Québec
43rd	2022–Present

Election results

2012 - present

v t e 2022 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	François Jacques	12,973	46.17	-1.36
	Conservative	Mathieu Chenard	6,252	22.25	–
	Québec solidaire	Marilyn Ouellet	3,592	12.78	-3.18
	Parti Québécois	André Duncan	3,588	12.77	+0.22
	Liberal	Eloïse Gagné	1,604	5.71	-15.13
	Parti 51	André Giguère	89	0.32	–
Total valid votes			28,098	98.61	–
Total rejected ballots			397	1.39	–
Turnout			28,495	70.39
Electors on the lists			40,481

v t e 2018 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	François Jacques	12,593	47.53	+24.66
	Liberal	Robert G. Roy	5,257	19.84	-20.95
	Québec solidaire	Andrée Larrivée	4,228	15.96	+10.16
	Parti Québécois	Gloriane Blais	3,325	12.55	-17.1
	Green	Sylvain Dodier	809	3.05
	Citoyens au pouvoir	Richard Veilleux	281	1.06
Total valid votes			26,493	98.60
Total rejected ballots			377	1.40
Turnout			26,870	69.15
Eligible voters			38,856
	Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Liberal		Swing		+22.81
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

2014 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ghislain Bolduc	10,840	40.79	+5.70
	Parti Québécois	Isabelle Hallé	7,879	29.65	-1.57
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Pierre-Luc Boulanger	6,078	22.87	-2.75
	Québec solidaire	Ludovick Nadeau	1,541	5.80	+0.40
	Option nationale	Évelyne Beaudin	236	0.89	-0.78
Total valid votes			26,574	98.59	–
Total rejected ballots			381	1.41	–
Turnout			26,955	69.85	-4.59
Electors on the lists			38,589	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		+3.64

2012 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ghislain Bolduc	9,946	35.09	-9.32
	Parti Québécois	Gloriane Blais	8,847	31.22	-4.35
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Raymonde Lapointe	7,260	25.62	+9.49
	Québec solidaire	William Leclerc Bellavance	1,531	5.40	+1.74
	Option nationale	Jasmin Roy-Rouleau	473	1.67	–
	Independent	Jacques Audet	178	0.63	–
	Independent	Jean-Luc Perron	106	0.37	–
Total valid votes			28,341	98.76	–
Total rejected ballots			355	1.24	–
Turnout			28,696	74.44
Electors on the lists			38,548	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.49

^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ.

1867 - 1970

1970 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ralliement créditiste	Bernard Dumont	8,201	28.79	–
	Union Nationale	Marc Bergeron	7,700	27.04	-19.34
	Liberal	Paul-E. Giguère	6,954	24.42	-19.67
	Parti Québécois	Guy Lebel	5,626	19.75	+10.22*
Total valid votes			28,481	96.02	–
Total rejected ballots			1,181	3.98	–
Turnout			29,662	88.09	+4.01
Electors on the lists			33,674	–	–

* Result compared to Ralliement national

1966 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Union Nationale	Marc Bergeron	11,894	46.38
	Liberal	Pierre-Émilien Maheux	11,306	44.09
	Ralliement national	Harold Vachon	2,443	9.53
Total valid votes			25,643	98.59
Total rejected ballots			367	1.41
Turnout			26,010	84.08
Electors on the lists			30,936	–

1962 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Pierre-Émilien Maheux	13,182	55.05
	Union Nationale	Joseph-Henri Paquet	10,762	44.95
Total valid votes			23,944	99.28
Total rejected ballots			173	0.72
Turnout			24,117	88.95
Electors on the lists			27,114	–

1960 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Pierre-Émilien Maheux	14,221	59.22
	Union Nationale	Joseph-Émile Fortin	9,794	40.78
Total valid votes			24,015	98.56
Total rejected ballots			351	1.44
Turnout			24,366	88.95
Electors on the lists			26,520	–

Quebec provincial by-election, 1957
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Union Nationale	Joseph-Émile Fortin	13,799	64.77
	Liberal	Pierre-Émilien Maheux	7,504	35.23
Total valid votes			21,303	99.11
Total rejected ballots			191	0.89
Turnout			21,494	84.10
Electors on the lists			25,559	–