Rimouski (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal district. For the provincial district, see Rimouski (provincial electoral district). For the pre-Confederation district, see Rimouski (Province of Canada electoral district). For homonymy, see Rimouski (disambiguation).

Rimouski (French pronunciation: [ʁimuski] ^ⓘ; also known as Rimouski—Témiscouata, Rimouski—Mitis and Rimouski-Neigette-et-la Mitis) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 2003.

Rimouski

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	2003
First contested	1867
Last contested	2000

It was created by the British North America Act, 1867 as "Rimouski" riding.

After the 1980 federal election, it was renamed "Rimouski—Témiscouata". In 1996, it was renamed "Rimouski", and before the 1997 election, it was renamed "Rimouski—Mitis". Before the 2000 election, it was renamed "Rimouski-Neigette-et-la Mitis".

It was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed into Rimouski—Témiscouata and Matapédia—Matane ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Rimouski
1st	1867–1872		George Sylvain	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874		Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887		Louis Adolphe Billy	Conservative
6th	1887–1891		Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal
7th	1891–1896		Adolph-Philippe Caron	Conservative
8th	1896–1897		Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal
	1897–1900		Jean Auguste Ross
9th	1900–1904
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917		Herménégilde Boulay	Conservative
13th	1917–1921		Émmanuel d'Anjou	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1924			Liberal
	1924–1925		Eugène Fiset
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1944		Émmanuel d'Anjou
	1944–1945			Bloc populaire
	1945–1945			Independent
20th	1945–1949		Gleason Belzile	Liberal
21st	1949–1950
	1950–1953		Joseph Hervé Rousseau	Independent Liberal
22nd	1953–1957		Gérard Légaré	Liberal
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Émilien Morissette	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963		Gérard Légaré	Liberal
26th	1963–1964		Gérard Ouellet	Social Credit
	1964–1965			Progressive Conservative
27th	1965–1968		Louis Guy LeBlanc	Liberal
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974		Eudore Allard	Social Credit
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984		Eva Côté	Liberal
Rimouski—Témiscouata
33rd	1984–1988		Monique Vézina	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997		Suzanne Tremblay	Bloc Québécois
Rimouski—Mitis
36th	1997–2000		Suzanne Tremblay	Bloc Québécois
Rimouski—Neigette-et-la Mitis
37th	2000–2004		Suzanne Tremblay	Bloc Québécois
Riding dissolved into Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia and Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques

Election results

Rimouski

1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	George Sylvain	1,152
	Unknown	A. Michaud	697
Eligible voters			2,753
Source: Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1871[1]

1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	1,381
	Conservative	Georges Sylvain	1,150

1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	1,728
	Unknown	A.P. Letendre	354

1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	2,003
	Conservative	Hector-Louis Langevin	1,554

1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Louis Adolphe Billy	1,648
	Liberal	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	1,540

1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	2,228
	Conservative	Louis Taché	1,660

1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Adolph-Philippe Caron	2,061
	Liberal	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	1,799

1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	2,443
	Conservative	Louis Taché	2,177

By-election on 6 November 1897 On Fiset being summoned to the Senate, 20 October 1897
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jean Auguste Ross	acclaimed

1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jean Auguste Ross	2,794
	Conservative	Louis Taché	2,525

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jean Auguste Ross	3,272
	Conservative	William Price	3,006

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jean Auguste Ross	3,737
	Conservative	Herménégilde Boulay	3,148

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Herménégilde Boulay	4,179
	Liberal	Jean Auguste Ross	3,747

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Joseph-Émile-Stanislas-Émmanuel D'Anjou	acclaimed

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Émile-Stanislas-Émmanuel D'Anjou	6,363
	Progressive	Alfred Lavoie	1,247

By-election on 2 September 1924 On D'Anjou's acceptance of the Registrar of Deeds for the County of Rimouski, 19 July 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eugène Fiset	5,701
	Conservative	Jean-Marie Joseph Elzéar Sasseville	3,876

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eugène Fiset	5,142
	Conservative	Gérard Simard	3,167

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eugène Fiset	5,623
	Conservative	Alphonse Garon	2,926
	Independent	Alphonse Aubin	417

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eugène Fiset	6,257
	Conservative	Herménégilde Boulay	4,722

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eugène Fiset	9,238
	Conservative	René-Édouard Asselin	4,495
	Reconstruction	Georges-Arthur Morin	732

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Émile-Stanislas-Émmanuel D'Anjou	9,766
	Conservative	Jean Blanchet	5,928

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gleason Belzile	10,730
	Independent	Joseph-Émile-Stanislas-Émmanuel D'Anjou	8,084
	Social Credit	Joseph-Arthur Couture	834

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gleason Belzile	11,708
	Progressive Conservative	Adrien Gagné	7,389
	Independent Liberal	J.-E.-S.-Emmanuel D'Anjou	3,614
	Union des électeurs	Aurélien Gagné	1,491

By-election on 16 October 1950 On Belzile's death, 25 July 1950
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent Liberal	Joseph Hervé Rousseau	9,976
	Liberal	Maurice Tessier	9,431
	Independent	Lucien Robitaille	1,124

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gérard Légaré	8,554
	Progressive Conservative	Dérome Asselin	8,201
	Independent Liberal	Joseph-Hervé Rousseau	5,478
	Independent Liberal	Blaise Lavoie	1,668

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gérard Légaré	14,642
	Progressive Conservative	Dérome Asselin	9,754

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Émilien Morissette	16,426
	Liberal	Gérard Légaré	11,503
	Social Credit	Jean-Nil Jean	534

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gérard Légaré	9,955
	Social Credit	Gérard Ouellet	9,171
	Progressive Conservative	Émilien Morissette	8,956
	New Democratic	Maurice Loyer	393

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Gérard Ouellet	12,414
	Liberal	Gérard Légaré	12,274
	Progressive Conservative	Fernand Dionne	3,192
	New Democratic	Raymond D'Auteuil	1,297

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Guy Leblanc	11,372
	Ralliement créditiste	J.A. Young	7,245
	New Democratic	Raymond D'Auteuil	6,783
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Ouellet	1,477

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Guy Leblanc	12,073
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Carle	9,445
	Ralliement créditiste	Félix Gagnon	2,937

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Eudore Allard	13,241
	Liberal	Guy Leblanc	11,097
	Progressive Conservative	Blondin Laplante	5,657
	New Democratic	J.-Adalbert Beaulieu	732

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Eudore Allard	15,085
	Liberal	Sandy Burgess	13,698
	Progressive Conservative	Henri-Paul Lepage	893
	New Democratic	Serge Bernier	528
	Independent	Robert Corneau	410
	Marxist–Leninist	Jules Painchaud	89

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Eudore Allard	16,821
	Liberal	Eva Côté	16,716
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Brisson	2,556
	New Democratic	Guy Poulin	492
	Rhinoceros	Renaud Guénette	455
	Union populaire	Nicolas Lavoie	80

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eva Côté	21,482
	Social Credit	Eudore Allard	10,839
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Blanchard	3,999
	New Democratic	René Mcdonald	1,155
	Rhinoceros	Jacques Saintonge	627
	Independent	Régine Valois	166
	Marxist–Leninist	Normand Fournier	74

Rimouski—Témiscouata

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Monique Vézina	25,516
	Liberal	Eva Côté	14,234
	New Democratic	Guy Poulin	1,250
	Parti nationaliste	Pierre Bouchard	840
	Rhinoceros	Jacques St-Onge	752
	Commonwealth of Canada	Marc Carrier	64

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Monique Vézina	23,789
	Liberal	Eva Côté	10,561
	New Democratic	Pierre Boisjoli	2,417
	Independent	Eudore Allard	1,210

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Bloc Québécois	Suzanne Tremblay	23,118
	Liberal	André Reid	9,454
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Morin	4,622
	Independent	François-Michel Denis	598
	Natural Law	Gilles Roussel	400
	New Democratic	Alex En Hwa Ng	335

Rimouski—Mitis

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Suzanne Tremblay	17,282	47.00		$53,089
	Liberal	Réal Marmen	11,112	30.22	–	$47,800
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Roy	7,901	21.49		$32,225
	New Democratic	Elizabeth Clark	479	1.30		$0
Total valid votes			36,774	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,211
Turnout			37,985	68.24
Electors on the lists			55,665
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

Rimouski—Neigette-et-la Mitis

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Bloc Québécois	Suzanne Tremblay	19,759
	Liberal	Réal Marmen	9,795
	Alliance	Gerard Gosselin	1,280
	Progressive Conservative	Réal Blais	1,150
	Natural Law	Lyse Beauchemin	673
	New Democratic	René Lemieux	525

See also

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