Lotbinière (provincial electoral district)

Lotbinière
Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1867
District abolished	2011
First contested	1867
Last contested	2008
Demographics
Population (2001)	43,648
Electors (2008)	34,347
Area (km²)	3,464.1
Census division(s)	Arthabaska (part), Bécancour (part), L'Érable (part), Lotbinière (all)
Census subdivision(s)	Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent, Dosquet, Fortierville, Inverness, Laurier-Station, Laurierville, Leclercville, Lemieux, Lotbinière, Lyster, Manseau, Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur-d'Issoudun, Parisville, Saint-Agapit, Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Saint-Apollinaire, Sainte-Cécile-de-Lévrard, Sainte-Croix, Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Saint-Ferdinand, Saint-Flavien, Sainte-Françoise, Saint-Gilles, Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Sainte-Marie-de-Blandford, Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage, Saint-Pierre-Baptiste, Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, Sainte-Sophie-de-Lévrard, Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax, Saint-Sylvestre, Val-Alain, Villeroy

Lotbinière (French pronunciation: [lɔtbinjɛʁ]) is a former provincial electoral district in the Centre-du-Québec and Chaudière-Appalaches regions of Quebec, Canada. As of its final election, it included the municipalities of Lotbinière, Saint-Flavien, Lemieux, Laurierville, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Sainte-Croix and Laurier-Station.

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). Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and the successor electoral districts were Lotbinière-Frontenac, Nicolet-Bécancour, and Arthabaska.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, Liberal (1867–1885)
Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté, Liberal (1886–1900)
Napoleon Lemay, Conservative – Liberal (1900–1908)
Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur, Liberal (1908–1936)
Maurice Pelletier, Union Nationale (1936–1939)
René Chaloult, Liberal (1939–1944)
Guy Roberge, Liberal (1944–1948)
René Bernatchez, Union Nationale (1948–1970)
Jean-Louis Béland, Ralliement creditiste (1970–1973)
Georges Massicotte, Liberal (1973–1976)
Rodrigue Biron, Union Nationale (1976–1980), Parti Québécois (1980–1985)
Lewis Camden, Liberal (1985–1994)
Jean-Guy Paré, Parti Québécois (1994–2003)
Sylvie Roy, Action démocratique (2003–2012), CAQ (2012)

2008 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Action démocratique	Sylvie Roy	9,659	43.98	-15.24
Liberal	Julie Champagne	7,577	34.50	+12.61
Parti Québécois	Guy St-Pierre	4,238	19.30	+2.82
Québec solidaire	Guillaume Dorval	488	2.22	-0.19

2007 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Action démocratique	Sylvie Roy	15,472	59.22	+21.77
Liberal	Laurent Boissonneault	5,720	21.89	-12.61
Parti Québécois	Annie Thériault	4,305	16.48	-9.09
Québec solidaire	Catherine Drolet	630	2.41	+1.72*

* Increase is from UFP

v t e 2003 Quebec general election: Lotbinière
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	Sylvie Roy	9,522	37.45	+23.00
	Liberal	Monique Drolet Glazier	8,773	34.50	-3.41
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Guy Paré	6,502	25.57	-22.07
	Green	Marc Allard	306	1.20	–
	UFP	Étienne Hallé	175	0.69	–
	Christian Democracy	Paul Biron	150	0.59	–
Total valid votes			25,428	98.85
Rejected and declined votes			296	1.15	-0.14
Turnout			25,724	77.57	-3.89
Electors on the lists			33,161
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
	Action démocratique gain from Parti Québécois		Swing		+22.54

v t e 1998 Quebec general election: Lotbinière
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Guy Paré	11,496	47.64	+2.08
	Liberal	Christian Lessard	9,148	37.91	-6.41
	Action démocratique	Claude Carignan	3,486	14.45	–
Total valid votes			24,130	98.71
Rejected and declined votes			315	1.29	-1.10
Turnout			24,445	81.46	+0.58
Electors on the lists			30,007
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
	Parti Québécois hold		Swing		+4.25

v t e 1994 Quebec general election: Lotbinière
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Guy Paré	10,398	45.56	+10.81
	Liberal	Lewis Camden	10,115	44.32	-15.53
	Independent	Denis Cameron	2,308	10.11	–
Total valid votes			22,821	97.61
Rejected and declined votes			558	2.39	+0.40
Turnout			23,379	80.88	+2.62
Electors on the lists			28,906
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec
	Parti Québécois gain from Liberal		Swing		+13.17

1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Non	14,165	60.77
	Oui	9,145	39.23

1989 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Lewis Camden	13,335	59.85	+6.33
Parti Québécois	Alonzo Le Blanc	7,742	34.75	-10.36
New Democrat	Allen Guilbert	616	2.76	-
Lemon	Martin Bussières	589	2.64	-

1985 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Lewis Camden	12,382	53.52	+10.32
Parti Québécois	Rodrigue Biron	10,437	45.11	-3.83
Christian Socialist	Guy Martin	317	1.37	-

1981 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Parti Québécois	Rodrigue Biron	11,653	48.94	+29.47
Liberal	Jean Tremblay	10,288	43.20	+19.35
Union Nationale	Denis Lacasse	1,872	7.86	-44.36

1976 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Union Nationale	Rodrigue Biron	12,355	52.22	+41.52
Liberal	Georges-J.-P. Massicotte	5,642	23.85	-24.26
Parti Québécois	Ghyslain Théberge	4,605	19.47	+8.21
Ralliement créditiste	Gaston Judd	1,055	4.46	-25.47

1973 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Georges-J.-P. Massicotte	9,907	48.11	+15.02
Parti créditiste	Jean-Louis Béland	6,163	29.93	-5.91
Parti Québécois	Robert Bergeron	2,318	11.26	+7.52
Union Nationale	Fernand Grenier	2,204	10.70	-16.63