Québec Centre

For historical electoral districts with similar names, see Québec-Centre.

Québec Centre (formerly Québec and Langelier) is a federal electoral district that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. It is located in Quebec City in the province of Quebec, Canada.

Québec Centre

Quebec electoral district
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Jean-Yves Duclos Liberal
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2025
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	96,525
Electors (2015)	79,277
Area (km²)[1]	36
Pop. density (per km²)	2,681.3
Census division(s)	Quebec City
Census subdivision(s)	Quebec City (part), Notre-Dame-des-Anges

Since its creation, the riding has been a provincial bellwether in federal elections. No party has ever carried this riding without winning the most seats in Quebec.

History

This riding was created as "Langelier" riding in 1966 from parts of Quebec East, Quebec South and Quebec West ridings. It was renamed "Québec" in 1990. Since its inception, this riding has always been represented by the party with the most support in Quebec.

Former boundaries

• 
  2004 to 2011 election

Geography

The riding, in the Quebec region of Capitale-Nationale, consists of the central part of Quebec City, including the borough of La Cité and the southern part of the borough of Les Rivières, as well as the parish municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges.

The neighbouring ridings are Louis-Hébert, Louis-Saint-Laurent, Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, Beauport—Limoilou, and Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis.

The riding gained a small fraction of territory from Louis-Hébert as a result of the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Following the 2022 federal electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed Québec Centre. It will also gain gain the area east of Av. Maguire from Louis-Hébert.^[2]

Demographics

According to the 2011 Canadian census^[3]

Ethnic groups: 91.4% White, 3.2% Indigenous, 1.6% Latino, 1.5% Black, 2.3% other
Languages: 92.7% French, 1.9% English, 1.6% Spanish, 3.8% other
Religions: 79.6% Christian, 1.4% Muslim, 0.8% other, 18.2% none
Median income: $28,603 (2010)
Average income: $35,961 (2010)

Riding associations

Riding associations are the local branches of political parties:

Party		Association name	CEO	HQ City
	Conservative	Association du Parti conservateur Québec-Centre	Mario Lapointe	Quebec City
	Liberal	Association Libérale Fédérale de Québec Centre	Marc-Etienne Vien	Quebec City
	Marijuana	Parti Marijuana de Québec (PMQ)	Danny Légaré	Saint-Félix-de-Valois
	New Democratic	Association NPD Québec Centre	Victoria I. Venet	Quebec City

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Quebec-Centre
1st	1867–1872		Georges-Honoré Simard	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874		Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Independent
3rd	1874–1875			Liberal
	1875–1877
	1877–1878		Jacques Malouin	Independent
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887		Joseph-Guillaume Bossé	Conservative
6th	1887–1891		François Langelier	Liberal
7th	1891–1896
8th	1896–1898
	1898–1900		Albert Malouin
9th	1900–1904
10th	1904–1905
	1905–1908		Arthur Lachance
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917
Riding dissolved into Quebec East and Quebec South
Langelier Riding created from Quebec East, Quebec South and Quebec West
28th	1968–1972		Jean Marchand	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1976
	1977–1979		Gilles Lamontagne
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		Michel Côté	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993		Gilles Loiselle
Québec
35th	1993–1997		Christiane Gagnon	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015		Annick Papillon	New Democratic
42nd	2015–2019		Jean-Yves Duclos	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025
Québec Centre
45th	2025–present		Jean-Yves Duclos	Liberal

Election results

Québec Centre

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jean-Yves Duclos	27,879	49.50	+13.78
	Bloc Québécois	Simon Bérubé	20,199	35.87	+6.84
	New Democratic	Tommy Bureau	4,400	7.81	–4.89
	People's	Daniel Brisson	2,818	5.00	+3.42
	Independent	Patrick Kerr	1,020	1.81	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			56,316	68.22
Eligible voters			82,553
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+3.47
Source: Elections Canada[4][5]

2021 federal election redistributed results[6]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	19,361	35.72
	Bloc Québécois	15,734	29.03
	Conservative	9,766	18.02
	New Democratic	6,882	12.70
	Green	1,277	2.36
	People's	855	1.58
	Others	320	0.59

Québec, 1993–2021

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Québec
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jean-Yves Duclos	18,132	35.4	+2.1	$92,776.01
	Bloc Québécois	Louis Sansfaçon	14,824	29.0	-3.7	$32,198.69
	Conservative	Bianca Boutin	9,239	18.0	+3.0	$29,033.90
	New Democratic	Tommy Bureau	6,652	13.0	+1.5	$3,937.02
	Green	Patrick Kerr	1,182	2.3	-3.1	$1,000.50
	People's	Daniel Brisson	855	1.7	+0.5	$1,276.16
	Free	Karine Simard	307	0.6	N/A	$421.51
Total valid votes/expense limit			51,191	98.0	–	$109,641.82
Total rejected ballots			1,026	2.0
Turnout			52,217	67.6
Eligible voters			77,298
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.9
Source: Elections Canada[7]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Québec
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jean-Yves Duclos	18,047	33.3	+4.4	$80,667.63
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	17,722	32.7	+13.85	none listed
	Conservative	Bianca Boutin	8,118	15.0	-6.79	$38,447.35
	New Democratic	Tommy Bureau	6,220	11.5	-15.54	$6,381.41
	Green	Luc Joli-Coeur	2,949	5.4	+2.49	$9,773.82
	People's	Bruno Dabiré	674	1.2	–	none listed
	Rhinoceros	Sébastien CoRhino	347	0.6	–	none listed
	Pour l'Indépendance du Québec	Luc Paquin	119	0.2	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			54,198	100.0
Total rejected ballots			1,051
Turnout			55,249	70.0
Eligible voters			78,950
	Liberal hold		Swing		-1.3
Source: Elections Canada[8][9]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jean-Yves Duclos	15,566	28.90	+19.88	$45,987.20
	New Democratic	Annick Papillon	14,566	27.04	-15.60	$33,392.85
	Conservative	Pierre-Thomas Asselin	11,737	21.79	+4.02	$17,402.72
	Bloc Québécois	Charles Mordret	10,153	18.85	-9.11	$41,425.08
	Green	Philippe Riboty	1,570	2.91	+0.74	$1,006.90
	Marxist–Leninist	Normand Fournier	153	0.28	–	–
	Strength in Democracy	Danielle Provost	122	0.23	–	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,867	100.00		$214,308.69
Total rejected ballots			820	1.50	–
Turnout			54,687	69.09	–
Eligible voters			79,157
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+17.74
Source: Elections Canada[10][11]

2011 federal election redistributed results[12]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	22,394	42.64
	Bloc Québécois	14,685	27.96
	Conservative	9,331	17.77
	Liberal	4,736	9.02
	Green	1,144	2.18
	Others	228	0.43

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Annick Papillon	22,393	42.6	+30.8
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	14,684	28.0	-13.8
	Conservative	Pierre Morasse	9,330	17.8	-7.9
	Liberal	François Payeur	4,735	9.0	-8.5
	Green	Yvan Dutil	1,144	2.2	-1.1
	Christian Heritage	Stefan Jetchick	228	0.4	-
Total valid votes/expense limit			52,514	100.0
Total rejected ballots			801	1.5	–
Turnout			53,315	66.3	+3.6
Eligible voters			80,402	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	21,064	41.8	+0.2	$59,021
	Conservative	Myriam Taschereau	12,943	25.7	-4.1	$70,315
	Liberal	Damien Rousseau	8,845	17.5	+6.1	$13,132
	New Democratic	Catheryn Roy-Goyette	5,933	11.8	+2.5	$6,186
	Green	Yonnel Bonaventure	1,650	3.3	-1.6
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,435	100.00	$85,897
Total rejected ballots			632	1.2
Turnout			51,067	62.7

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	20,845	41.5	-9.1	$52,012
	Conservative	Frédérik Boisvert	14,943	29.8	+18.7	$67,922
	Liberal	Caroline Drolet	5,743	11.4	-15.5	$23,986
	New Democratic	Michaël Lessard	4,629	9.2	+3.7	$5,287
	Green	Yonnel Bonaventure	2,372	4.7	+0.5
	Independent	Dan Aubut	813	1.6	–	$100
	Progressive Canadian	Alexandre Raymond-Labrie	520	1.0		$77
	Libertarian	Francis Bedard	325	0.6	–	$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,190	100.0	$80,394

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election: Québec
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	24,373	50.63	$51,839
	Liberal	Jean-Philippe Côté	12,982	26.97	$72,065
	Conservative	Pierre Gaudreault	5,330	11.07	$13,725
	New Democratic	Jean-Marie Fiset	2,670	5.55	$518
	Green	Antonine Yaccarini	2,046	4.25	$2,723
	Marijuana	Pierre-Etienne Paradis	512	1.06	not listed
	Marxist–Leninist	Jean Bédard	223	0.46	not listed
Total valid votes			48,136	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,040
Turnout			49,176	60.77
Electors on the lists			80,916
Percentage change figures are factored for redistribution. Conservative Party percentages are contrasted with the combined Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative percentages from 2000. Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	22,793	43.4	-1.1
	Liberal	Claudette Tessier Couture	18,619	35.5	+3.1
	Alliance	Michel Rivard	3,980	7.6
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Jalbert	3,171	6.0	-12.5
	New Democratic	Jean-Marie Fiset	1,714	3.3	-1.3
	Marijuana	Pierre-E. Paradis	1,480	2.8
	Natural Law	Gilles Rochette	482	0.9
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Moreau	255	0.5
Total valid votes			52,494	100.0

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	24,817	44.5	-9.2
	Liberal	Claudette Tessier-Couture	18,062	32.4	+5.4
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Jalbert	10,309	18.5	+4.8
	New Democratic	Jean-Marie Fiset	2,556	4.6	+2.5
Total valid votes			55,744	100.0

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Christiane Gagnon	27,788	53.7
	Liberal	Jean Pelletier	13,965	27.0	-1.2
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Loiselle	7,077	13.7	-33.0
	New Democratic	Majella Desmeules	1,067	2.1	-18.0
	Natural Law	Danielle Charland	883	1.7
	Green	Richard Domm	786	1.5	-2.1
	Abolitionist	Ernst Fernandez	158	0.3
Total valid votes			51,724	100.0

Langelier, 1968–1993

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Loiselle	24,555	46.7	+3.6
	Liberal	Marielle Guay-Mineault	14,843	28.2	-7.6
	New Democratic	Pauline Gingras	10,586	20.1	+8.4
	Green	Gilles Fontaine	1,931	3.7
	Independent	France Tremblay	402	0.8
	Independent	Alexandre Roy	319	0.6
Total valid votes			52,636	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+5.6

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Côté	16,872	43.1	+35.5
	Liberal	Florence Ievers	14,004	35.8	-35.7
	New Democratic	Majella Desmeules	4,597	11.7	+3.6
	Rhinoceros	Jean Obélix Lefebvre	2,576	6.6	-1.6
	Parti nationaliste	André Binette	919	2.3
	Social Credit	Christian Landry	189	0.5	-3.0
Total valid votes			39,157	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+35.6

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. Gilles Lamontagne	24,714	71.5	+4.9
	Rhinoceros	Jean Obelix Lefebvre	2,813	8.1	+3.5
	New Democratic	Edith Frankel	2,811	8.1	-1.6
	Progressive Conservative	Pierre Linteau	2,606	7.5	+1.9
	Social Credit	André Bergeron	1,191	3.4	-8.7
	Union populaire	Brigitte Fortier	252	0.7	+0.2
	Marxist–Leninist	Jacques Goulet	115	0.3	-0.1
	Communist	Claude Demers	68	0.2	-0.2
Total valid votes			34,570	100.0

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. Gilles Lamontagne	25,931	66.6	0.0
	Social Credit	André Simoneau	4,748	12.2	+8.8
	New Democratic	Raymond Lavoie	3,773	9.7	+3.7
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Michaud	2,186	5.6	-16.0
	Rhinoceros	Jean Lefebvre	1,824	4.7
	Union populaire	Maurice Gagnon	195	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Jacques Goulet	156	0.4
	Communist	Claude Demers	140	0.4	0.0
Total valid votes			38,953	100.0

Canadian federal by-election, 24 May 1977
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
On Mr. Marchand's resignation, 26 October 1976
	Liberal	Gilles Lamontagne	12,171	66.5	+3.0
	Progressive Conservative	Maurice Hamel	3,952	21.6	+9.7
	New Democratic	Jean Daoust	1,104	6.0	+0.8
	Social Credit	Sauveur Fradette	618	3.4	-12.3
	Independent	Jean Marie Béland	213	1.2
	Communist	Jeannette Walsh	166	0.9
	Independent	Gérard Langlois	67	0.4
Total valid votes			18,291	100.0

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jean Marchand	13,557	63.6	+6.3
	Social Credit	Sauveur Fradette	3,344	15.7	-8.1
	Progressive Conservative	Normand Robidoux	2,530	11.9	-0.6
	New Democratic	Clément Gilbert	1,110	5.2
	Independent	Albert Lemoine	337	1.6
	Independent	Micheline Roberge	184	0.9
	Marxist–Leninist	Michel Papayre	161	0.8	-0.6
	Independent	Lionel Larocque	97	0.5
Total valid votes			21,320	100.0

Note: Mr. Papayre's result as a Marxist–Leninist candidate is compared to his result in the 1972 general election as an independent candidate.

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jean Marchand	14,725	57.3	+18.3
	Social Credit	J.-Wilfrid Dufresne	6,101	23.7	-7.2
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Lemoine	3,206	12.5	-15.3
	Independent	Guy Jean	1,313	5.1
	Independent	Michel Parayre	349	1.4
Total valid votes			25,694	100.0

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jean Marchand	11,439	39.0
	Ralliement créditiste	Guy Jean	8,770	29.9
	Progressive Conservative	Rodrigue Pageau	8,150	27.8
	New Democratic	Pierre Pourtier	658	2.2
	Ralliement créditiste	Michel Roy	308	1.1
Total valid votes			29,325	100.0

See also

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