Saint-Hyacinthe (provincial electoral district)

Saint-Hyacinthe

Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Émilien Pelletier Parti Québécois
District created	1867
First contested	1867
Last contested	2012
Demographics
Population
Electors (2012)	56,870
Area (km²)	833.2
Census divisions	Les Maskoutains (part)
Census subdivisions	La Présentation, Saint-Barnabé-Sud, Saint-Damase, Saint-Dominique, Saint-Hugues, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Liboire, Saint-Pie, Saint-Simon

Saint-Hyacinthe is a provincial electoral riding in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It includes the city of Saint-Hyacinthe and various other municipalities.

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).

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained La Présentation from Verchères electoral district and Saint-Pie from Iberville electoral district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

• Pierre Bachand, Liberal (1867–1878)
• Honoré Mercier, Liberal (1879–1890)
• Odilon Desmarais, Liberal (1890–1892)
• Antoine-Paul Cartier, Conservative Party (1892–1897)
• Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Liberal (1897–1900)
• Joseph Morin, Liberal (1900–1908)
• Henri Bourassa, Ligue nationaliste canadienne (1908–1912)
• Télesphore-Damien Bouchard, Liberal (1912–1919)
• Armand Boisseau, Liberal (1919–1923)
• Télesphore-Damien Bouchard, Liberal (1923–1944)
• Ernest-Joseph Chartier, Union Nationale (1944–1954)
• Pierre-Jacques-François Bousquet, Union Nationale (1955–1956)
• René Saint-Pierre, Liberal (1956–1966)
• Denis Bousquet, Union Nationale (1966–1970)
• Fernand Cornellier, Liberal (1970–1976)
• Fabien Cordeau, Union Nationale (1976–1981)
• Maurice Dupré, Parti Québécois (1981–1985)
• Charles Messier, Liberal (1985–1994)
• Léandre Dion, Parti Québécois (1994–2007)
• Claude L'Écuyer, Action démocratique du Québec (2007–2008)
• Émilien Pelletier, Parti Québécois (2008–present)

Election results

Quebec general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti québécois	Emilien Pelletier	11,822	38.07
	Liberal	Claude Corbeil	11,609	37.38
	Action démocratique	Claude L'Ecuyer	5,690	18.32
	Green	Louis-Pierre Beaudry	975	3.14	–
	Québec solidaire	Richard Gingras	957	3.08

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)

Maps

• 2011 map (PDF)
• 2001 map (Flash)

  2001–2011 changes (Flash)

  1992–2001 changes (Flash)

• Electoral map of Montérégie region
• Quebec electoral map, 2011