Matane (provincial electoral district)

Matane (French pronunciation: [matan] ^ⓘ) is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine regions of Quebec, Canada, that elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec.

Matane

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1890
District abolished	2011
First contested	1890
Last contested	2008
Demographics
Electors (2008)[1]	27,977
Area (km²)[2]	8,415.6
Census division(s)	La Haute-Gaspésie (all), Matane (all)
Census subdivision(s)	Baie-des-Sables, Cap-Chat, Grosses-Roches, La Martre, Les Méchins, Marsoui, Matane, Mont-Saint-Pierre, Rivière-à-Claude, Saint-Adelme, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Sainte-Félicité, Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg, Saint-Léandre, Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine, Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, Sainte-Paule, Saint-René-de-Matane, Saint-Ulric; Coulée-des-Adolphe, Mont-Albert, Rivière-Bonjour

It was created for the 1890 election from parts of Rimouski. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and its successor electoral districts were Matane-Matapédia and Gaspé.^[3]

Geography

It is located at the western end of the Gaspé Peninsula, along the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River.

It consists of the municipalities of:

• Baie-des-Sables
• Cap-Chat
• Grosses-Roches
• La Martre
• Les Méchins
• Marsoui
• Matane
• Mont-Saint-Pierre
• Rivière-à-Claude
• Saint-Adelme
• Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg
• Saint-Léandre
• Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis
• Saint-René-de-Matane
• Saint-Ulric
• Sainte-Anne-des-Monts
• Sainte-Félicité
• Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine
• Sainte-Paule

It also consists of the unorganized territories of:

• Coulée-des-Adolphe
• Mont-Albert
• Rivière-Bonjour

Linguistic demographics

• Francophone: 99.5%
• Anglophone: 0.3%
• Allophone: 0.1%

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
7th	1890–1892		Louis-Félix Pinault	Liberal
8th	1892		Edmund James Flynn	Conservative
	1892–1897		Louis-Félix Pinault	Liberal
9th	1897–1898
	1899–1900		Donat Caron	Liberal
10th	1900–1904
11th	1904–1908
12th	1908–1912
13th	1912–1916
14th	1916–1918
	1918–1919		Octave Fortin	Liberal
15th	1919–1923		Joseph Dufour	Liberal
16th	1923–1927		Joseph-Arthur Bergeron	Liberal
17th	1927–1931
18th	1931–1935
19th	1935–1936
20th	1936–1939		Onésime Gagnon	Union nationale
21st	1936–1939
22nd	1944–1948
23rd	1948–1952
24th	1952–1956
25th	1956–1958
	1958–1960		Benoît Gaboury	Union nationale
26th	1960–1962		Philippe Castonguay	Liberal
27th	1962–1963
	1964–1966		Jacques Bernier	Liberal
28th	1966–1970		Jean Bienvenue	Liberal
29th	1970–1973
30th	1973–1976		Marc-Yvan Côté	Liberal
31st	1976–1981		Yves Bérubé	Parti Québécois
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1989		Claire-Hélène Hovington	Liberal
34th	1989–1994
35th	1994–1998		Matthias Rioux	Parti Québécois
36th	1998–2003
37th	2003–2007		Nancy Charest	Liberal
38th	2007–2008		Pascal Bérubé	Parti Québécois
39th	2008–2012

Electoral results

v t e 2003 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Nancy Charest	7,602	40.84
	Parti Québécois	Pascal Bérubé	7,569	40.67
	Action démocratique	Raynald Bernier	3,005	16.14
	Independent	Nelson Gauthier	178	0.96
	Independent	Nestor Turcotte	135	0.73
	Green	David Lejeune	124	0.67

v t e 2007 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	Pascal Bérubé	7,830	39.10
	Liberal	Nancy Charest	7,617	38.04
	Action démocratique	Donald Grenier	3,980	19.88
	Québec solidaire	Brigitte Michaud	358	1.79
	Green	François Vincent	240	1.20

v t e 2008 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	Pascal Bérubé	9,589	58.01
	Liberal	Eric Plourde	5,503	33.29
	Action démocratique	Denis Paquette	1,117	6.76
	Québec solidaire	Gilles Arteau	320	1.94

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	15,611	62.46
	Non	9,381	37.54

1980 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	12,285	52,41
	Oui	11,154	47,59